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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Barking dogs are always glad to get a bite of food. Peacocks keep their beauty without the help of cosmetics. ...

    Article : 767 words
  3. WHERE DEATH LUSKS.

    Recent Alpine tragedies serve as a reminder of the ever-present avalanch[?] menace, which is the greatest of mountaineering perils. ...

    Article : 184 words
  4. THE FIRST COMPASS.

    While on the slopes of Mount Ida,' in Asia Minor, more than two thousand years ago, a shepherd found that the iron-shod end of his staff ...

    Article : 126 words
  5. YOUR "SECOND WIND."

    A perfectly trained athlete does his work—running, boxing, or the likeon one "wind." But most of us, when we have to put forth any ...

    Article : 189 words
  6. PITCHES THAT PAY.

    While those who have gone to London expecting to find its streets,paved with gold have always been disappointed, London land is certainly ...

    Article : 183 words
  7. MYSTERY MEN OF CRIME.

    Judges are constantly telling juries that if there were no professional receivers of stolen property there would be no thieves. ...

    Article : 630 words
  8. TOPSY-TURVY PEOPLE.

    An attack of influenza recently left strange effects on a sixteen-year-old girl. Before her illness she was a normal child, hut now she falls into ...

    Article : 276 words
  9. MAP-MAKING IN-THE CLOUDS.

    Half-a-dozen aeroplanes are engaged in the task of producing 3, novel map of London. Observers are photographing the whole of the ...

    Article : 109 words
  10. AS SWIFT AS LIGHTNING.

    Here is a. selection, of instances of "cheek," can you beat them? During, a "rush job" a short time ago, some fellow workmen and I ...

    Article : 394 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    No doctor is supposed to have more than 2,500 patients on his panel. Baldness is stated to be increasing among civilised people who live in ...

    Article : 313 words
  12. MARVELS OF THE MOTOR BOAT

    A 17,000-ton motor-boat was launched a few months ago at Newcastleon Tyne. This vessel is the "Gripsholm," a Swedish-American liner. ...

    Article : 623 words
  13. "WHAT CHEEK!"

    When a golfer drives from the tee, he little realizes the terrific speed at which he has sent the ball on its journey. He would he astonished to ...

    Article : 557 words
  14. ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RAILWAYS.

    This year will be celebrated in Britain the centenary of railways, although it was not until 1829 that the famous tests were made to decide ...

    Article : 163 words
  15. CREATURES MAN CANNOT TAME.

    There are still wild cats in the Highlands of Scotland, for the writer saw one that had been killed by a keeper in Inverness. The British wild ...

    Article : 362 words
  16. THE BEST YET.

    When Tom Newman, the billiards professional, made his wonderful break of 1,370, he established a fresh world's record. For though George ...

    Article : 334 words
  17. AMAZING OCEAN FIND.

    A. humble sponge-diver has just made—by accident—one of the most thrilling discoveries in the history of archaeology. ...

    Article : 893 words
  18. A CITY OF SALT.

    Wieliczka, in Poland, is the scene of one of the world's largest salt mines. The bed of salt stretches for many hundreds of miles below the ...

    Article : 207 words
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