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  2. MILK FROM TREES.

    It is generally supposed that only animals give milk, but in tropical countries the dairyman. has competition from the vegetable kingdom. ...

    Article : 135 words
  3. TANKS FOR DIVERS.

    Modern salvage enterprises demand greater and greater ranges in deepsea diving, and as the depth to which a diver can descend is limited by the ...

    Article : 246 words
  4. MILLIONAIRE'S SPECIAL DIETARY.

    An amazing metamorphosis has come into the life of John D. Rockefeller. The richest man in the world is better physically, in some respects, ...

    Article : 980 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    A: "Don't you think music is soothing?" B: "Music, you know, covers a multitude of dins." ...

    Article : 725 words
  6. FROM GOAL TO OIL.

    The great oil-burning ships of today are sort of stoker's paradise. The old dirt and raging heat of the coal-burning days have gone; and ...

    Article : 160 words
  7. VANDALISM IN VENICE.

    The gondola, beloved by poets and painters, is doomed. Signor Giordano, nead of the city administration of Venice, has signed ...

    Article : 126 words
  8. ALBATROSS, SEA-ROVER.

    Little is known of the habits of the albatross, although most of us are familiar with this bird as it is depicted in "The Ancient Mariner," ...

    Article : 819 words
  9. BRITAIN'S BACKWOODS.

    A man from St. Kilda recently visited, the, mainland for the first time in his life, and was terrified at the sight of trains and motor-cars. And ...

    Article : 462 words
  10. "PULLMANS" OF THE AIR.

    Not more than a dozen years ago an aeroplane was a great curiosity, and people would go miles to see one. It is a far cry from the crude ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Sea-bathing is now forbidden to Turkish women living in Constantinople. Berlin's young men of fashion are ...

    Article : 334 words
  12. LAUGHING AT THE LAW.

    "There are = many criminals who cannot be rounded up by the authorities," said a Scotland Yard man to the writer recently. ...

    Article : 159 words
  13. THE GREAT SILENCE.

    Who originated the idea of the Great Silence, that mute tribute to the fallen which has taken so profound a hold of the imagination of ...

    Article : 164 words
  14. MOTOR MASCOTS.

    Women may not have had very much to do with the actual planning and Resigning of the modern motorcar, but there is certainly at least ...

    Article : 245 words
  15. A MEAL OF MOTHS.

    Moths hardly appeal to the average man as an article of diet. Yet there abounds in certain parts of Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand a moth ...

    Article : 253 words
  16. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Pickles are more crisp if a piece of alum is added to the vinegar used for pickling. To avoid the flat taste peculiar to ...

    Article : 393 words
  17. LAUGHTER'S "LAST LEGS."

    According to an American authority, Professor Charles Gray Shaw, there is little genuine laughter to be heard to-day, and the time is ...

    Article : 178 words
  18. CANADA'S TOBAGCO HARVEST.

    Canada is rapidly assuming an important place among the tobaccogrowing countries of the world, and that Dominion now produces a great ...

    Article : 220 words
  19. THE HANDIEST NUMBER.

    There is a peculiarity in connection with the figure nine which is frequently turned to account in banks, where nine is consequently regarded ...

    Article : 159 words
  20. WALLACE AT WESTMINSTER.

    A memorial to Sir William Wallace has been placed on the wall of Westminister Hall. Over six centuries have passed since ...

    Article : 137 words
  21. WHAT IS SHAGREEN?

    A product of Ancient Persia which was almost lost sight of until a year or two ago now threatens to be. come all the rage. This is the ...

    Article : 114 words
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