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  2. PRESENCE OF MIND.

    An Englishman in travelling through Ceylon was the guest of a dockyard official at Trincomalie "The dinner was excellent," he ...

    Article : 197 words
  3. MECHANICAL EYE-LIDS.

    A portable binocular stroboscope, or mechanical eye-lids, which are compact and as easily carried as a pair of held glasses, has made it ...

    Article : 148 words
  4. SECRETS OF DYEING.

    There was a kind of mystery in the Highlands about the old art of dyeing. The secret of the obtaining of certain particular dyes lay with ...

    Article : 294 words
  5. THE SECRET OF THE PHIALS.

    In the gallery of the world's greatest criminals there is no figure more sinister than that of Count O'Brien de Lacy, with whose infamies the ...

    Article : 2,000 words
  6. A NEAR THING.

    One of the most extraordinary incidents in a fairly long hunting career happened on the banks of the Lisassewari River in Portuguese ...

    Article : 988 words
  7. THE LAKE OF GOLD.

    There is a lake in a silent fold of the Colombian Andes, 10,000 feet above sea level, which is paved with gold, or very nearly so. ...

    Article : 297 words
  8. WHAT WE KNOW.

    "The most entertaining function of modern scientific discovery in the departments of applied physiology, domestic science, and the like is to ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. REMARKABLE COINCIDENCE.

    How's this for a coincidence? I was in a den of iniquity in the City the other day, when a man standing near me pulled out his Watch. "I ...

    Article : 146 words
  10. HELPS FOR ADAMS.

    One thing leads to another. A chat that took a literary turn led me to admit to my train companion that I was of the fraternity of ...

    Article : 687 words
  11. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "I'll never ask another woman to marry me as long as I live." "Refused again?" "No—accepted." ...

    Article : 438 words
  12. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    There are many little points of economy over which the young housewife puzzles as she reads directions in her cookery books. For instance ...

    Article : 622 words
  13. FROZEN ALIVE.

    It seems a shocking thing to freeze fish alive to keep them fresh for the market at their journey's end, but it has been found that when they are ...

    Article : 138 words
  14. THE SMUGGLER SPY.

    Everybody is a smuggler at heart, according to the veteran American Customs officer, who recently talked shop to a writer. Ordinary ...

    Article : 418 words
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