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  2. QUESTION TIME.

    If, during the holiday season, you put a question to a guard and his reply is a trifle "short," forgive him[?] You may be the first, or the ...

    Article : 620 words
  3. TESTING A TRADITION.

    Near Ullensaker, in Norway, is a grass and tree-grown tumulus, 60ft. high and over 300ft. in diameter. Dateless legends says it contains a ...

    Article : 88 words
  4. INSECT STING DANGEROUS.

    Insect stings, of which there has lately been an epidemic, prove fatal in some cases, and while inquiries in medical circles reveal no sovereign ...

    Article : 98 words
  5. GOLDEN ARGOSIES OF TO-DAY.

    Over one million pounds in gold was recently brought across the high seas in a single cargo and safely deposited in England without the ...

    Article : 1,192 words
  6. FROM OTHER WORLDS.

    While the idea of shooting to the moon is often considered by astronomers, the possibility of projectiles ever having been shot to the earth is ...

    Article : 201 words
  7. GIRLS MEN LIKE MOST.

    A girl asks what qualities men like best in women: Well, the first question a man asks about a strange girl is, "Is she ...

    Article : 616 words
  8. LOVE, LIFE—AND LODGINGS.

    People may live in the same house or flat for year's and know no more about their neighbours than their names. ...

    Article : 869 words
  9. LIQUID OXYGEN AS AN EXPLOSIVE.

    Germany, during the war, experimented with liquid oxygen as an explosive, but was unable to overcome the problems of transport and, ...

    Article : 225 words
  10. TAPPING THE KEYS.

    I have an invalid mother who cannot be left, and thus it is that I earn my living by doing typewriting at home. That, compared with office ...

    Article : 661 words
  11. IN THE FIRE FIEND'S GRIP.

    When a travelling menagerie caught fire. near Bedale recently, the only animal that could not he rescued was a kangaroo, which fought so ...

    Article : 349 words
  12. THE SMALLEST REPUBLIC.

    In these days of great republics the smallest is not without interest. This is Tavolara, a little island situated seven and a half miles from ...

    Article : 102 words
  13. MAKING MONKEYS WORK.

    In Pattani, a southern province of Siam, and in Kelantan, one of the unfederated Malay States, monkeys are trained by the natives to pick ...

    Article : 239 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    "Keep your feet fit if you want to be good-looking," says an American doctor. There are more cattle in England ...

    Article : 379 words
  15. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "What's your opinion of civilization?" "I think it's a good idea. Somebody ought to start it." ...

    Article : 263 words
  16. THE MILLS OF MEN.

    The mill is a necessary complement of man. It is pre-historic and has developed with humanity through the ages. ...

    Article : 361 words
  17. SNAKES ON THE STAIRS.

    Some people find "snakes and ladders" quite an exciting game, but "snakes and stairs" may be still more exciting, as the staff of a Paris ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. LABELLING LIVE WHALES.

    Visitors to seaside resorts who fail to find any of the bottles to be thrown into the sea, in connection with the drift experiments of the ...

    Article : 139 words
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