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  2. PAPER IN THE GARDEN.

    Many uses may be found in the garden for ordinary paper. Perhaps its most useful property is that it is an exceedingly poor ...

    Article : 247 words
  3. THE WAY TO TEST SEEDS.

    England was the last of the seedgrowing countries to instal a Government seed-testing station. Yet of all the branches of agriculture, surely ...

    Article : 342 words
  4. THE SCHEMERS.

    For the third time within a month Angus had offered himself and all his worldly goods to Jean. After each proposal he had trailed homeward, ...

    Article : 1,821 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Man (to barber): "Don't cat my hair too short—people will take me tor my wife!" Magistrate: "Does., your wife do ...

    Article : 796 words
  6. A NAP THAT COST £4,000

    Of the millions who travel in the London Tubes perhaps few think of the engineering difficulties which, were surmounted, or of the methods used ...

    Article : 343 words
  7. BLACK CAT LUCK.

    There is no "good luck" potent more generally believed in than that connected with black cats. If one enters, the house it must not be ...

    Article : 168 words
  8. LORE OF THE KILT

    By many people the kilt is regarded as the national dress of Scotland, but this is not correct, for it is worn only in the Highlands and has never, ...

    Article : 204 words
  9. THOSE UNLUKY NUMBERS.

    Would you live in a house numbered thirteen? Some people refuse to do so, as a borough council reccently discovered through insisting on the ...

    Article : 451 words
  10. A BOX OF MYSTERIES.

    I know now what it feels like to be electrocuted, for the fearsome collection of electric wires round the innocent looking chair on which I sat a ...

    Article : 672 words
  11. MAH J0NGG'S SUCCESSOR.

    Mah Jongg, which so suddenly took possession of the lovers of games of chance, both in Britain and America, is already on the wane. It is ...

    Article : 97 words
  12. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    Canaries were first brought to Europe, in the early part of the sixteenth rentury. In its wild state the canary is green, or greenish yellow ...

    Article : 543 words
  13. LOOKING AFTER NUMBER ONE.

    The world is divided into givers and takers. And because of the generosity of the givers many of the takers, naturally good-hearted and ...

    Article : 520 words
  14. THE STRANGEST TRADE.

    The Census authorities periodically discover and catalogue some strange occupations, but it has-been left to the Leeds income-tax officials to ...

    Article : 224 words
  15. AS ELEPHANTINE HAILSTONE.

    We read now and again of. record hailstorms, and. we hear hailstones compared in size with marbles, pigeon's eggs, and. so on. ...

    Article : 179 words
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