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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Discretion is the better part of truthfulness. Women don't really like men who are wicked. They only like them to ...

    Article : 716 words
  3. IRON FROM THE SKY.

    Occasionally we hear of people seeing a meteorite fall, and these "messengers" from the sky have been known to cause extensive damage. ...

    Article : 177 words
  4. TOO MUCH SLEEP.

    Each day of twenty-four hours, like Caesar's ancient Gaul, is divided into three parts, whereby are given eight hours for work, eight hours for ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  5. LIGHTNING RISKS.

    The possibilities are that a man standing directly under a storm cloud would be struck by lightning fifteen times in one hundred strokes, while a ...

    Article : 98 words
  6. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    Houses erected at Southend, England, during 1924 average out at twenty-four a week. Only once had corporal punishment ...

    Article : 393 words
  7. SIGHT AT EVENTIDE.

    One of the most useful and deserving of the institutions which are at work in Britain trying to ameliorate the lot of the poor is the London ...

    Article : 224 words
  8. DURALUMIN.

    In duralumin, the new metal invented especially for aircraft, lies the secret of the far-flying exploits of the giant dirigibles. Trans-Atlantic flying ...

    Article : 392 words
  9. ACRE: BLACK-HEADS.

    One of the commonest and often most distressing maladies of adolescence is the disease called acne, better known to the public as pimples ...

    Article : 585 words
  10. HAMMERED!

    To the uninitiated the news that two members of the Stock Exchange have been "hammered" may seem startling. It must not be imagined ...

    Article : 309 words
  11. A JAPANESE IRON DISCOVERY.

    Discovery by a Japanese scientist of a method of extracting pure iron from iron dust and crude iron ore will enable Japan, it is claimed to ...

    Article : 330 words
  12. PAPER TEST FOR OVEN TEMPERATURE.

    An ordinary piece of white-paper may be made to serve as effectively as the most elaborate and, expensive thermometer in gauging the ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. VILLAGE VIOLIN MAKERS.

    Everyone has heard of Antonio Stradivari, the famous violin maker, who constructed some of the finest violins which have ever been made. ...

    Article : 156 words
  14. WHY BREAD BECOMES STALE.

    While everybody knows empirically what so-called "stale" bread is, it has remained for a Dutch scientist, Prof. J. R. Katz, of Amsterdam, to ...

    Article : 446 words
  15. HARNESSING A MIGHTY RIVER.

    One of the greatest engineering wonders of the world is the great Sennar Dam in Upper Egypt, where 126 white men and 19,000 natives are ...

    Article : 249 words
  16. THE BIBLE AND THE PRESS.

    One of the Italian newspapers recently printed the first chapter of Genesis in the column usually occupied by the leading article, This was ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. THE COLLAR CENTENARY.

    Some time in 1925 falls a centenary which should have a very special meaning for every one of us-the centenary of the detachable collar. ...

    Article : 136 words
  18. KNOWN BY THEIR NUMBER.

    When in 1914 paper money took the place of gold, a collector offered a considerable sum for the "British onepound or ten-shilling note numbered ...

    Article : 233 words
  19. CLOCK MADE OF STRAW.

    A clock which from the point of view of curiosity and ingenuity probably surpassed any other is being exhibited in Munich (Germany). It is ...

    Article : 192 words
  20. CRYSTAL BELIEFS.

    The two largest flawless crystal sphere's in the world were recently exhibited in New York. One of them measures nine inches in diameter and ...

    Article : 123 words
  21. SALT OBTAINED FROM THE SEA.

    One method of producing salt in Australia is through evaporation of sea water. A large bay is enclosed by a dam about a mile long. The rising ...

    Article : 135 words
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