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  2. INSECT "HOLD-UPS."

    The harmful and unnecessary cockroach is reported to have succeeded in doing something sensational. A brainy member of the clan climbed ...

    Article : 78 words
  3. WAR IN THE HOSPITAL.

    A new and marvellous way of fighting some of the deadliest diseases that afflict mankind has recently been perfected by a Bavarian ...

    Article : 271 words
  4. SAILORS DO CARE.

    Don't laugh at superstitions when you talk to a sailor. There was never yet a sailorman who scoffed at the ancient superstitions of the sea. ...

    Article : 304 words
  5. RIFLE-THIEVING.

    Rifle-thieving is, I imagine, the most hazardous trade in the world. It requires an iron nerve, a total disregard for life—either one's own ...

    Article : 983 words
  6. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Glass it cleaned, with salt and water will last longer clean and give a better polish. To prevent cotton from knotting, ...

    Article : 332 words
  7. MINT MEMOS.

    Most people know that mint is used to take away the insipidity of new potatoes and make them palatable, and is the basis of mint sauce. ...

    Article : 172 words
  8. A WHITE PEKINESE DOG.

    After twelve years of experimental breeding, a pure white Pekinese dog has been born in England. Its parents, the property of Mrs. C. Ashton ...

    Article : 98 words
  9. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    Explorers have found a species of mice in Africa so small that a whole family could fit comfortably into a matchbox. ...

    Article : 437 words
  10. WHY FAMOUS BACHELORS DON'T MARRY.

    When the thirty-eight bachelors of Parliament recently held their noted dinner in London as such, one or two of them were asked by friends ...

    Article : 742 words
  11. A CLOSE CALL.

    Generally speaking, the African native can hardly he credited with a vast amount of common sense, and even less of presence of mind, but ...

    Article : 1,046 words
  12. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Money may talk, but it never gives itself away. Sweeping assertions are liable to raise clouds of trouble. ...

    Article : 397 words
  13. CAN YOU UKULELE?

    Two travellers in sunny Hawaii about fifty years ago reported that professional musicians there are distinguished by a yellow or orange ...

    Article : 593 words
  14. THE WAYS OF A WINDOWCLEANER.

    I have cleaned 482,673 panes, big and little! I jot down the number every evening, and that's the total. I see, too, that I've broken 292 ...

    Article : 594 words
  15. BUILDING MATERIAL MADE OF STRAW.

    A new fireproof building material called solomite is a French invention. It is made of straw, and is cheap, light, durable, and ...

    Article : 120 words
  16. MAY WE CORRECT YOU?

    It is generally believed that when an explosion occurs outside a building, the windows are blown inwards. This however, is a mere fallacy, the ...

    Article : 122 words
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