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  2. EARTHQUAKE SECRETS.

    The French scientist, M. Belot, declares that the movement of the unstable sea bottom at great depths—such as those of the Pacific Ocean, ...

    Article : 134 words
  3. HIGH JINKS IN JUNGLE.

    Perhaps the most fascinating and adventurous method of earning one's living is to catch wild beasts and tame them down for menageries and ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    The man who is always bent on pleasure gets broken very soon. Sweeping assertions generally 'raise clouds of misunderstandings. ...

    Article : 665 words
  5. A HINDU MARRIAGE.

    A bright, cold night in a large northern Indian station. Though summer is our popular time for weddings, the Hindu chooses ...

    Article : 752 words
  6. BEAR AS PHOTOGRAPHER!

    A student of forestry was camping with two friends in the wildest part of Alleghany Park, in the United States. Taking his camera, he ...

    Article : 142 words
  7. THE TEST.

    For the third time in twenty minutes, the mate of the schooner Valiant heaved a deep sigh and, going to the rail, stood glaring absently at a ...

    Article : 466 words
  8. CAPTIVES OF THE FLESH.

    The recent proposal made in an Italian town that citizens should he taxed according to their weight has again exposed the fat men, as a ...

    Article : 885 words
  9. WHEN THUNDER THREATENS.

    When the air becomes close and oppressive, and we feel hot and unable to breathe with our usual comfort, we may be sure that thunder is ...

    Article : 207 words
  10. RECOVERED FROM OLD TEETH.

    It is often a matter of surprise to people not in the know that any sort of a profitable business can be made out of the buying of old false ...

    Article : 679 words
  11. WHY A CAT FALLS CN ITS FEET.

    Almost everybody probably has tried the experiment of turning a cat upside down and dropping it to the ground to see it right itself in ...

    Article : 153 words
  12. THREE MILES A MINUTE.

    A motor-car built recently is capable of developing a speed of more than three miles a minute. It will never be able to traverse any ...

    Article : 143 words
  13. LANGUAGE OF THE CHASE.

    To those unacquainted with it,the language of sport savours almost of a foreign tongue. Townsmen often speak of a flock of partridges, but ...

    Article : 197 words
  14. WHEN LAUGHTER KILLS.

    A man living in the Midlands died recently of laughing at a comic film play. To most people the news that laughter has more than once ...

    Article : 309 words
  15. GIFTS FROM THE SEA.

    Not a tree grows in Iceland except, a sort of willow no higher than a man's head. Yet the farmers on the south and west coasts sit over ...

    Article : 217 words
  16. WHERE PUSS IS TAILLESS.

    As everyone knows, Manx cats are tailless. They have just a tuft of fur, without any bone. Why some cats should be tailless ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. SEEING THROUGH STEEL.

    Everybody is more or less familiar with the many uses to which the Xrays is put in medicine and surgery, but of its use in detecting flaws in ...

    Article : 119 words
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