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  2. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    It is cheaper to send chilled meat from London to the Continent than by rail to Glasgow. Safety-razor blades bring one ...

    Article : 282 words
  3. TRAINS STOPPED BY BIRDS.

    Not long ago a bantam held up a train in a Yorkshire station. It had been strutting up and down the line, defying all efforts to catch it, and ...

    Article : 184 words
  4. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. THE NIGHT OF THE PARTY.

    Making the best of. things had become such a, habit with Miss Prudence Rayne that she could have given a dozen reasons, why she should ...

    Article : 2,031 words
  5. HOW WE GET OUR LIVING.

    It is more than three years since the last census of inhabitants was taken in England and Wales, yet the results are still being, tabulated. The ...

    Article : 231 words
  6. GOOD-BYE BLACK MARIA

    The last of the Black Marias has made its last; journey in Britain. The motor has finally supplanted the the horse in the police vans, and the ...

    Article : 174 words
  7. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    X.: "She says she'd like, to marry a chauffeur." Y.: "Yes; I know a taxi-driver who'd like to meter." ...

    Article : 644 words
  8. REWARD FOR CARELESSNESS.

    Thousands of reams of blotting paper are in Use daily, but few people know how this useful adjunct to writing came into existence. ...

    Article : 142 words
  9. TRICK TONGUES.

    Have you ever given a thought to the reason why your tongue is just as it is, and not like, say, the tongue of your favourite "tabby." ...

    Article : 419 words
  10. LETTERS TO THE NORTH POLE.

    It is one of the delightful illusions of childhood that -letters reach the "igloo" of Santa Claus if they are addressed "North Pole Villa, Arctic ...

    Article : 196 words
  11. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Fig pickle is a novelty. Wash 3½ pounds pulled figs thoroughly, and let soak overnight in water, to cover. Do not strain off this, water. Add ...

    Article : 608 words
  12. QUARTERDECK HERMITS.

    Custom imposes upon the captain of a British warship a daily routine that makes, his the most solitary life of any man at sea. There, may be ...

    Article : 589 words
  13. CATCHING CRIMINALS OUT.

    Criminals look like having a, pretty rough time in the near future, and it seems as if in a few years, there will not be many of these gentlemen left ...

    Article : 207 words
  14. CONVENIENT FOR CRASHES.

    The latest thing in guide-books is issued by the Air Ministry for the information of pilots and travellers by air. ...

    Article : 312 words
  15. WHERE THEY STORE VOICES.

    Unknown to many people, there is at the British Museum a collection of gramophone records of the voices of famous people, including theKing ...

    Article : 254 words
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