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  2. PALATABLE POISONS.

    A man died recently, from acute poisoning said to have been caused by eating stewed rhubarb leaves. These leaves, when cooked as greens, ...

    Article : 164 words
  3. STREET SAUCE.

    The other evening, being particularly desirous of seeing if a certain item of news was in the papers, I bought two copies. Nothing doing ...

    Article : 351 words
  4. NEIGHBOURS NOT WANTED.

    The almost uncanny existence of Isaac Criddle, popularly known as the Hermit of Devil's Jumps, Churt, Surrey, who has lived for forty years ...

    Article : 476 words
  5. THE COLLECTOR.

    Bertie Wemyss had just settled down to a pint of brown ale and some bread and cheese in the parlour of the Three Tuns, when a car pulled ...

    Article : 1,673 words
  6. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    A species of rat found in New Guinea dangle their tails in the sea as bait for fish. According to a Swiss scientist, the ...

    Article : 340 words
  7. TRY SAWDUST SALAD!

    A well-known London specialist has been declaring that we might escape many ills if we ate more freely of foods that grow in Nature's larder. ...

    Article : 187 words
  8. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    One of the finest things to remember is what's best to forget. Many men make money, but the great majority have to earn it. ...

    Article : 553 words
  9. ANIMALS IN THE DOCK.

    A dog, condemned to death by a Midlands bench of magistrates on the ground of his being dangerous, was reprieved at the last-moment as a ...

    Article : 192 words
  10. SEA-WATER AND SUNKEN CANNON.

    Few of us would believe, on first thought, that cannon balls sunk in the sea for nearly 300 years would become red hot on exposure to the ...

    Article : 640 words
  11. THE ANCIENT "WEIGH."

    A treatise written by Al-Khazini more than 800 years ago contains tables of specific gravities differing little from the values accepted ...

    Article : 53 words
  12. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Books made of chamois leather will preserve the needles. Those made of flannel often have the effect of rusting them, as sulphur is often ...

    Article : 324 words
  13. ARE CHILDREN GREEDY?

    "All children are greedy!" One very often hears that accusation made against the great army of little people. Yet, the truth is, ...

    Article : 472 words
  14. TADPOLES BECOME FROGS.

    The change from a tadpole to a perfect frog is as wonderful as the change from a hairy, crawling caterpillar into a beautiful butterfly; but ...

    Article : 468 words
  15. PINK HENS AND ORANGE OAKS

    If when wafking through a wood you come upon a beech tree with lavender leaves, or an oak with orange-coloured foliage, you would ...

    Article : 199 words
  16. CAMERA-GUNS FOR POLICE.

    A camera-pistol that should be useful to the police in tracking criminals has been invented by Adelbert Szalardi, who describes his invention ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. PENCIL BAROMETERS.

    According to a bus conductor, an infallible portent of wet weather is the softening of the indelible pencils which he and his colleagues use in ...

    Article : 83 words
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