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  3. ADVENTURE.

    Once I drove a quiet, shy young woman to a very famous house for a New Year party. As I had no chauffeur I ran the car straight into the ...

    Article : 269 words
  4. WEALTH FROM WASTE.

    Science is continually showing, us how wealth can be extracted from what our fathers would have considered merely waste matter. Wool ...

    Article : 102 words
  5. SNOWLEDGE.

    Snow is not white. It is really colourless, its apparent whiteness being produced by the reflection and refraction of light from the minute ...

    Article : 145 words
  6. STRAHCE YET TRUE.

    The tallest known ferns exist in the Hawaiian Islands, where they grow to a height of 30 feet or more. Fresh-water eels travel a distance ...

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  7. TIME TO RE-TYRE.

    Women have very funny ideas about some things, I think. Take Mary, for instance. The very thought of helping herself to a sample from the ...

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  8. SILVER ANCHORS.

    The Greek historian, Polybius, writing of the silver mines of New Carthage, states that they were situated about two miles from the city ...

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  9. SNAKES AND LIZARDS!

    When we find a lizard without legs we call it a snake. And when we find a snake with legs, we call it a lizard. Snakes are merely limbless ...

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  10. HOLDING ONE'S BREATH.

    Sit still for five minutes, breething normally, then take a deep breath. If you can hold it for forty-five seconds you have good vitality. Fair ...

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  11. THE BROOCH.

    Nature had laboured unceasingly for close on sixty years in a misguided attempt to make "Shag" Stevens at least presentable. And at the end ...

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  12. MOTHER EARTH'S FURNACES.

    The world-wide interest aroused by the recent announcement that excavation work on a massive scale is being resumed at the site of ...

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  13. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    No man succeeds long in being what he isn't." It is just as hard too pay back. money as it is to borrow it. ...

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  14. CZARS' PRICELESS TOYS.

    "Nothing gives such a dazzling impression of the incommensurable wealth of the Russian Czars as the display of their jewelled playthings" ...

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  15. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Eggs covered with boiling water and allowed to stand for five minutes are more nourishing and easily digested than those placed in boiling ...

    Article : 493 words
  16. A FIGHT WITH BANDICOOTS.

    It happened that at the time of certain religious festivities in a native village in Southern India, the authorities were warned that there ...

    Article : 469 words
  17. MONSTERS OF THE PAST.

    One of the world's largest dinosaurs, which died somewhere round about 36,000,000 years aga, is to be seen at the Natural History Museum, ...

    Article : 113 words
  18. MIRIE CORELLI'S VANITY.

    Marie Corelli could not help being a terrible disappointment to those who saw her for the first time, and who had imagined her to be ...

    Article : 151 words
  19. LISTEN TO YOUR EYES.

    If yon yearn to hear your eyelids click, you had better hasten along to the Royal Ear Hospital, London, where there is a room in which that ...

    Article : 120 words
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