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  2. WHENCE CAME THE HALO.

    The halos, which now commonly surround the heads of religious statues, originated at least as early as the most ancient Egyptians. The ...

    Article : 132 words
  3. 15,000 YEARS AGO.

    Recent excavations in a cave site at Creswell Crags have yielded astonishing results. The cave is a passage barely two feet wide, but at a ...

    Article : 172 words
  4. BUSH-FIRE PANIC.

    Owing probably to many generations of their Cold-land ancestors knowing nothing of the danger of bush-fires, imported animals behave ...

    Article : 214 words
  5. BLACK NED.

    The driver and guard of the Magnet Mail Coach spread their hands to the comfortable fire in the old posting house at Farnham, blew out ...

    Article : 1,858 words
  6. TRAMCAR CHASERS.

    Running after a tramcar is a business that puts most people in a bad temper, especially if they fail to catch up with it. ...

    Article : 654 words
  7. 'WARE THE SNEEZE?

    After certain contagious diseases the Law compels special precautions, including the disinfection of clothes and rooms, to he taken. ...

    Article : 108 words
  8. NOVEL METAL MIXTURE.

    Metallurgical experts claim to have produced a metal alloy nearly as hard as the diamond. The difference in the scale of hardness is merely ...

    Article : 87 words
  9. WOMEN AND TEARS.

    Of the many powerful weapons in the armoury of women, that of tears ranks first and it is the more powerful as the act of weeping, although ...

    Article : 836 words
  10. DRAMAS OF HIDDEN GENIUS.

    A firm of music publishers recently "discovered" a bricklayer's labourer, formerly a rat-catcher, who has a genius for writing jazz music. ...

    Article : 606 words
  11. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    "I gave you," said he, "the best five years of my life." "Were those your best?" she asked in surprise. ...

    Article : 566 words
  12. WHAT MAKES US HUNGRY?

    Real hunger is caused partly by the brain and partly by the blood. The blood passes through the brain, and if it has used up all the food ...

    Article : 106 words
  13. ACROBATIC ADVENTURES

    Stage accidents are so infrequent that spectators rarely realise all the dangers that may befall the acrobat. Often it is the apparently dangerous ...

    Article : 571 words
  14. A SUCCESSFUL DETECTIVE.

    "I suppose the joke is on me," said the detective, "and if it wasn't for the fact that others are telling the story I would say nothing about ...

    Article : 350 words
  15. LIFE'S FAIR AND FORTY.

    Viscountess Rhondda recently confessed that, when she was in her teens, she looked upon anyone who had reached the age of forty as one ...

    Article : 138 words
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