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  2. THE ZOO'S MENU.

    The odd point about ants' eggs, of which the London Zoological Society orders two hundredweight yearly, is that in themselves they contain no ...

    Article : 294 words
  3. PIGEON MUSIC.

    In China, native pigeon-fanciers attach whistles to the tails of birds so that when they fly the wind blowing through the whistles sets up ...

    Article : 141 words
  4. GEORGE S OVERTIME.

    You won't get the hang of this story unless you realise what a timid and entirely inoffensive person George Tomlinson was. ...

    Article : 2,269 words
  5. FIRST AID FOR DOLLS.

    A collection of dolls is travelling in a special car through the United States, demonstrating to mining communities the correct ways of ...

    Article : 91 words
  6. KING SOLOMON'S TREES.

    It appears from a recent report that Lebanon has been shorn of its former glories. Only a very few of the famous cedars, mentioned in the ...

    Article : 130 words
  7. THROUGH NATIVE EYES.

    The Central African native is always an amazing proposition, but the one thing that puzzled me, more than everything else, was his total ...

    Article : 645 words
  8. BATHS THAT SOOTHE NERVES.

    Every bath is not soothing to the fatigued, bat here is one recommended for the tired, nervous person who cannot sleep at night and is too ...

    Article : 128 words
  9. GOD THERMOS.

    Who would believe that a thermos flask would become a tribal god? And yet to this day is the story told amongst the Ekoyi people in ...

    Article : 408 words
  10. WHERE PRISON IS PLEASANT.

    The mere idea of "eighteen months' hard" is enough to make the libertyloving citizen shiver in his shoes. Naturally, he imagines grim gaols ...

    Article : 640 words
  11. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    She: "You should always make light of your troubles, dear." He: "I do. Whenever a tradesman sends me a bill I burn it." ...

    Article : 389 words
  12. FANTASTIC FEATS.

    A Canadian girl in Paris recently announced her intention of getting inside a barrel and allowing herself to be rolled down the long flight of ...

    Article : 599 words
  13. WIRELESS ON THE TRAINS.

    Experiments made with a view to demonstrating whether an efficient wireless service is practicable on moving trains, resulted as follows: ...

    Article : 132 words
  14. BACTERIA IN HAILSTONES.

    Ever since the discovery, a few years ago, that fog and rain are caused by the condensation of water vapour around nuclei consisting of ...

    Article : 183 words
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  16. WHEN HARES GO WOOING

    "As mad as a March hare" is one of many queer expressions which have gained currency, but which rest on no foundation of truth. Hares don't ...

    Article : 164 words
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