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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Jones: "So you think smoking is good for a headache?" Smith: "Yes. My mother-in-law always leaves the room when I ...

    Article : 756 words
  3. NEW SEA THRILLS.

    It might be thought in this age, when every ocean is charted and crossed by ships in all directions, that there was nothing new to ...

    Article : 185 words
  4. THE HOME-MADE ROLLER.

    The Thompsons had been gone about a month and I was just beginning to realise my loss. Dear old Thompson He had a kindly, ...

    Article : 1,044 words
  5. THE LONGEST AIRWAY.

    How many people know in what country or between what points the longest regular passenger air route is maintained? And how many who ...

    Article : 102 words
  6. MURDERED BY MOSQUITOES.

    One would scarcely expect the Arctic dwellers to be plagued with mosquitoes. Yet these insects are a terrible pest during the short summer, ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  7. "PARTING BRASS RAGS."

    "parting brass rags," that expressive bit of slang, is generally supposed to be an Americanism, but it is really of British origin. Admiral ...

    Article : 109 words
  8. "CUSSING" BUILT A CLUB.

    A beautiful new club ball was recently built in a colliery village through the activities of an antiswearing club. ...

    Article : 525 words
  9. QUEER THINGS ABOUT BATS.

    Bats are more like human beings than any other creature This is the theory put forward by a French writer, M. Charles Derennes, in "The ...

    Article : 626 words
  10. THE MEDICINE CHEDT.

    Half the world goes to fill the medicine, chests of Britain. If they had none but home-grown products to apply to their aches and pains they ...

    Article : 326 words
  11. A BACKWOODS DOCTOR.

    My worst hardship, my greatest adventure and my narrowest escape was in the blizzard, one of the worst ever known on these plains, writes an ...

    Article : 687 words
  12. PROBLEM IN MATHEMATICS.

    Once upon a time there were two old- men who sat in the market early. every.moriung and sold apples. Each one had thirty apples, and one of ...

    Article : 270 words
  13. OLD CLOTHES COMEDIES

    About once a fortnight, a worriedlooking man corned to my shop and examines a small pile of clothing (writes a wardrobe dealer). ...

    Article : 193 words
  14. WHAT THE WAVES REVEAL.

    We come across so many references to the "blue waters of the sea" that we are rather disappointed when at the seaside the waves fail to live up ...

    Article : 244 words
  15. OLDEST MAN IN THE WORLD.

    A man who claims to be 140 years old and to be the only living person who saw Napoleon was described to the Royal Geographical Society by ...

    Article : 198 words
  16. LONG-DISTANCE PROPHECY.

    A mysterious volume, "The New Koran," published in London in 1861, is now exercising the attention of the School of Oriental Studies in ...

    Article : 136 words
  17. A FLOATING COLLEGE.

    Plans for the institution of a "seagoing college" have been made by the University of the State of New York. The first tour of the "college" will ...

    Article : 98 words
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