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  2. WILY WHALES.

    Sir John Bland-Sutton, the famous surgeon, tells a striking story to demonstrate the cunning with which the "killer" whale chases its prey. ...

    Article : 124 words
  3. THE VEILED LADY.

    The following story relating to the death of the Princess Borghese, who was the daughter of Lord Shrewsbury, is told by Roma Lister in ...

    Article : 276 words
  4. GREAT GAMBLERS.

    It is possible for a gambler to be so successful that his very success in itself prevents him from profiting thereby. Of this type was the ...

    Article : 1,411 words
  5. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    Recent discoveries in Kashmir show that Cock-fighting took place in the 5th Century in India. While excatating at Monroe, U.S. ...

    Article : 321 words
  6. FASHIONS IN ART.

    An extraordinary instance of the way in which picture values change was afforded at a recent sale at Christie's. A portrait by Titan ...

    Article : 164 words
  7. MUSICAL MEMORIES.

    The wonderful memory of Sir Landon Ronald, who seldom requires printed music before him when playing even the most difficult ...

    Article : 310 words
  8. SEEING ROUND THE WORLD.

    Actually taking shape now are pieces of apparatus, inhumanly human, which will enable, operators not only to control pioletless aeroplanes ...

    Article : 508 words
  9. POWER FROM POTATOES.

    This is Henry Ford's solution for the world's worry about fuel in the future. We can grow our fuel, he said in a recent interview, and ...

    Article : 80 words
  10. WHERE GERMS ARE BRED.

    Many queer things are sent through the post, but none more peculiar than the oblong wooden boxes, continually being carried by British ...

    Article : 276 words
  11. DO YOU EVER HELP CROOKS?

    I don't think I am exaggerating when I assert, after an experience of twenty-six years in the Force, that of every ten crimes, ranging from ...

    Article : 548 words
  12. IN THE TOILS OF AN OCTOPUS.

    Vernier, the pearl-buyer, sat in the middle of the out-rigger-canoe with the writer. The paddling of the canoe was executed by Manu, a ...

    Article : 608 words
  13. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Family jars won't do for preserving peace. Small Boy: "Does m-i-r-a-g-e spell marriage, father?" ...

    Article : 403 words
  14. MIRACLES OF THE AIR.

    A side-slip from thousands of feet, a smashed machine, and a pilot alive to tell the tale. That, in a sentence, is the history ...

    Article : 482 words
  15. AMBER BEADS AS BIG AS A FIST.

    "Although amber and Danzig have been associated for centuries in popular opinion, the amber industry of the Free City of Danzig, which has ...

    Article : 337 words
  16. SPOILING THE BABY!

    Thousands of babies are being spoilt every day. Not by letting them have their own way, but by not letting them have their own ...

    Article : 293 words
  17. GROWTH OF TOBACCO HABITS.

    Tobacco is merely an Haytien word meaning "pipe." It was known in Spain, France and Portugal centuries before Sir Walter Raleigh ...

    Article : 125 words
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