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  2. ALL THROUGH A MOUSE.

    One of the results of the increasing complexity of things is that the merest trifle may disorganize a whole community. A recent fire, which ...

    Article : 464 words
  3. A MODERN SAMARITAN.

    There is a grey-haired man of 60 who for the last 25 years has been carrying out a labour of love in the sand-swept California desert. In ...

    Article : 193 words
  4. WHIRLING IN SPACE.

    There are still, it seems, a good many people who find existence an extremely dull and humdrum affair that only a jazz band or a revue can ...

    Article : 595 words
  5. HOW FAST CAN WE GO?

    First the human runner, then the horse, then mechanical devicescycle, auto, air-plane. "Have we reached the limit," asks Jean ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  6. AN ISLAND'S PRIDE.

    Every visitor to the Isle of Man. sooner or later goes to Laxey. He may go to see the famous Glen itself, or to have a look at the ancient ...

    Article : 419 words
  7. HIS OWN GRANDFATHER.

    How a man is his own grandfather is explained by Mr. C. J. Liebenberg in this manner:- I married a widow with a daughter. ...

    Article : 164 words
  8. OUR COTTAGE "CAMP."

    The town-dweller, who wants to get the full joy out of summer, will find that there is nothing to beat the week-end cottage. We have one this ...

    Article : 423 words
  9. THE CANALS OF UR.

    If the Pyramids of 3,000 B.C. be classed as architecture, then the canal was the first engineering achievement of the human race, according to ...

    Article : 185 words
  10. PEARL ISLAND.

    Apart from its world-wide reputation as one of the most scenically beautiful spots on the map, Ceylon ranks as the world's second largest ...

    Article : 544 words
  11. A WORLD WITHOUT WHEAT?

    At present two thousand new motor vehicles are being added weekly to the hundreds of thousands that already use the roads of Britain. This ...

    Article : 522 words
  12. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    A: "When would you expect, a man to suffer from a stitch in his side?" B: "When he had been hemmed in by a crowd." ...

    Article : 451 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Seventeen years' labour on the part of a Spanish peasant has resulted in his acquiring a house carved out of a solid rock. It possesses a ...

    Article : 372 words
  14. ENGLISH WOMAN WHO MAR. RIED A SULTAN.

    Most people will be surprised to know that, within comparatively recent times, an Englishwoman was the Sultan of Turkey. ...

    Article : 980 words
  15. WE EAT AIR!

    The very first thing you think of in connection with a soda fountain is ice—ice creams, ice-cold drinks, and great, solid blocks of ice to keep ...

    Article : 284 words
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