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  2. "SHINING" ALLIGATORS.

    A dark night—silence—a bull's-eye lantern and a handy rifle are the requisites for "shining" alligators in the swamps and creeks of the St. ...

    Article : 760 words
  3. ROMANCE OF RUBBER.

    Have you ever thought how much we rely on rubber to furnish us with both necessities and luxuries? The motor-car trade is the outstanding ...

    Article : 413 words
  4. C O D.

    Somehow the story leaked out, for it is still told with glee in the taprooms of Muddleton-on-Sea. It has been so exaggerated the codling has ...

    Article : 1,937 words
  5. NERVES AND BREATHING.

    The debutantes who learn their court curtsey are taught as one of the first essentials that deep breathing is necessary to complete poise ...

    Article : 180 words
  6. THE FIRST SANDWICH.

    People did not always eat sandwiches. Until the 17th century they were unknown, but at that time Edward Montagu is supposed to have ...

    Article : 174 words
  7. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    To get an uncommon lot is not the common lot. Men get pearls out of oysters; girls get them out of men. ...

    Article : 734 words
  8. SHRIEKS FROM A STATUE.

    On the plain of Thebes, Luxor, Egypt, stands a great statue of King Memnon, a relic of thousands of years ago. In the year 27 B.C. there ...

    Article : 152 words
  9. MISERS I HAVE MET.

    A newspaper editor once told me that misers are always first-class "news," because readers always tell themselves what they would have ...

    Article : 765 words
  10. THE MANGER.

    The stone houses of Palestine contained and still contain only one room which is a living room, bedroom and kitchen. The single room ...

    Article : 148 words
  11. POISONING FOR A LIVING.

    "Passengers are warned against purchasing sweetmeats or articles of food from any but licensed vendors owing to the danger of their ...

    Article : 466 words
  12. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    By the use of a fine platinum wire, heated by the passage of electricity through it, a number of French scientists have lately developed a new ...

    Article : 415 words
  13. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Water can be softened by sprinkling a little Fuller's earth into it. Obstinate mud stains can be removed from a black cloth skirt with ...

    Article : 190 words
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