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  2. 330,000 MILES IN LIFTS.

    London was the first great city to run railways just below the surface and the first to develop a system of rapid-transit electric railways driven ...

    Article : 145 words
  3. PHANTOMS OF THE SEA.

    Despite the rapid development of maritime transport and the very considerable improvement in sea-going conditions, there had not yet been ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The worse troubles are generally those that never happen. Be aggressive but don't forget to be agreeable at the same time. ...

    Article : 796 words
  5. WATER-POWER WONDER.

    Under the streets of London there are over one hundred and eighty miles of pipers devoted soley to carrying water for working artesian ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. BRITISH KANGAROOS.

    Fox-hunting is occasionally rather a complicated affair in Herts. At a recent meet of the Old Berkeley Hunt the hounds lost "owing to spectators ...

    Article : 212 words
  7. THE WONDERFUL WORM.

    The earthworm is a much-despised creature, against which war is waged by both man and birds. But the earthworm makes agriculture and its ...

    Article : 160 words
  8. LONDON'S DEBT TO A MISER.

    Recently was celebrated in London the two hundredth anniversary of the founding of Guy's Hospital, as well as that of the death of the man ...

    Article : 651 words
  9. MEETING DEATH HALF-WAY.

    My friend Jepson was a mine manager (writes a correspondent). He had often tried to persuade me to visit the mine over which he had ...

    Article : 649 words
  10. TOMBS OF DISTANT TIMES.

    The world's oldest stone buildings are-reported to have been discovered near the famous pyramids of Sakkara, about fifteen miles south of ...

    Article : 94 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Eskimos ate very fond of tea, to get which they will travel hundreds of miles. Japan has now adopted the metric ...

    Article : 358 words
  12. QUEER TOILETS.

    It is wrong to suppose that animals, upon waking up in the morning are ready for the day's work and play, Like human beings, they have ...

    Article : 410 words
  13. JEWELS FOR ALL.

    Nowadays every woman in the world, no matter how limited her means, can always wear one or two pieces of fashionable jewellery. Pearls ...

    Article : 258 words
  14. A CLOCK'S CRASH.

    When the new clock which is to adorn the interior of Westminster Cathedral, London, was being raised into position beneath the organ loft, ...

    Article : 111 words
  15. FISH THAT WEAR NIGHTGOWNS.

    Having no eyelids, fish do not appear to sleep. That they rest as regularly as human beings was the opinion of Aristotle over two ...

    Article : 336 words
  16. TAMING THE UNTAMED.

    The wonderful way in which a young woman is able to control and play with some of the biggest and fiercest inmates of the London Zoo ...

    Article : 336 words
  17. A MYSTERY OF THE SAHARA.

    Specimens of fish that swim beneath the sands of the Sahara Desset are being exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History. ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. EYES THAT BAFFLE.

    The new German banknotes now in circulation have been designed expressly to discourage the forger, whose uncanny skill in his illegal ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. BANK-NOTE SECRETS.

    Greater privacy surrounds the making of notes for the Bank of England than almost any other understanding connect with that great ...

    Article : 150 words
  20. EGYPT'S MONSTER PYRAMID.

    The Great Pyramid of Egypt was erected more than 5,000 years ago, and nothing more mechanically perfect has ever been built. In ...

    Article : 166 words
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