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  2. EARS THAT TELL AGES.

    To ascertain the age of a horse, if not too old, it is usual to examine its teeth. To tell the age of a fish, regardless of age, you look into its ...

    Article : 106 words
  3. FAG-END TREASURES.

    The great Cullinan diamond, the greatest diamond ever discovered, was found at the very end of the day, when the sun was setting and ...

    Article : 413 words
  4. WHY WE FEEL "BLUE."

    It may be assumed that during hot weather there will be many occasions when you will exclaim, "What a depressing day!" Your spirits ...

    Article : 204 words
  5. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Baldness may be due, to bad teeth, according to a new medical theory. If the poison fangs of a snake are taken out, a new pair of fangs will ...

    Article : 268 words
  6. FOUR MILES A MINUTE.

    When trains first came in one of the objections levelled against them was that no passenger could survive a speed of twenty miles an hour. ...

    Article : 331 words
  7. "CAVE OF THE WINDS."

    The old stairway leading down past the "Rock of Ages" into the "Cave of the Winds" at Niagara Falls is to be abandoned. A new ...

    Article : 127 words
  8. MAKING "MR. MAYOR."

    For many years the mayor of Leicester was elected with the help of a pig! The candidates for the office were assembled together and seated ...

    Article : 172 words
  9. THE MAN-EATING PANTHER.

    A man-eating tiger is supremely bad; but a man-eating panther, hardened in sin, is superlatively worse. A really bad man-eating ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Don't you think Smith romances a bit?" "Well, I think that last yarn of Si is, where he said he caught a ...

    Article : 544 words
  11. THEFTS THAT AMAZE.

    When two men were fined at Atherstone, in Warwickshire, for stealing the ring from the nose of a bull, it was stated that such a ...

    Article : 693 words
  12. MODERN WHALING.

    "Whale ho-o-o!" came a cry like the scream of a gull in the sky. It was young Cappelin in his crow's-nest. Of course, I rushed to ...

    Article : 668 words
  13. SWIM-AND BE WELL!

    Of all athletic exercises, says David Billington, the Champion swimmer, I consider swimming the greatest of them all. It differs from ...

    Article : 646 words
  14. DANCING TO PARADISE!

    It is the belief of the Ponapeans, a tribe of South Sea Islanders, that unless you are a good dancer you will never go to Heaven! ...

    Article : 109 words
  15. A BULL-FIGHT.

    The August sun shines brightly, with its golden splendour inundating immense plains and fertile acres. Away on the horizon the hazy sierra ...

    Article : 1,258 words
  16. A TALE OF A TEA-SHOP.

    Five people were seated in the teashop when he came in. One of them, a contented looking, man, sighed pityingly as he watched the ...

    Article : 510 words
  17. PRISON MEANS HONOUR.

    Prison life in tins country has lost many of the terrors, but the "prison taint" remains. We are still very far removed from the point of ...

    Article : 253 words
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