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  3. TRY A WHALE STEAK.

    "Is your steak as you like it?" "Delicious!" "Well, it's whale, not beef." From one end of America to the ...

    Article : 284 words
  4. A GADGET THAT FAILED.

    The political folk wanted some propaganda distributed over the city of the Sultan of Lahez, and approached the Plying Corps with the request to ...

    Article : 1,125 words
  5. BENEFICENT PAIN.

    To many people the existence of pain is one of the riddles of the universe. Seeing a vast and apparently unnecessary amount of human and ...

    Article : 324 words
  6. "SIGN, PLEASE."

    "Sign, please." For the hundredth time that day Mr. William Skinner wearily scribbled his signature across the foot of ...

    Article : 939 words
  7. WORLD'S DIRTIEST PLACE.

    "Which is the dirtiest place in the world? This unenviable distinction belongs to Pharijong, a village built some 500 years ago among the ...

    Article : 64 words
  8. MODERN BAKING.

    Our grandmothers used to let their bread, rise overnight. Modern bakeries, however, have speeded up the process, and now the invention of a ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    Vinegar and honey mixed in equal parts are a great relief for a cough, and very pleasant to take. Dissolve a small lump of soda in ...

    Article : 489 words
  10. SHOULD GIRLS PROPOSE?

    A young woman said to me the other day, "I am twenty-five years old, and for the first time in my life I have met a man who really ...

    Article : 627 words
  11. WHEAT'S FIRST HOME.

    A strange experiment, which proves the amazing vitality of wheat, has just been carried out. A quantity of "mummy" wheat—that is, wheat ...

    Article : 332 words
  12. ANTISEPTICS NOT ALWAYS ANTISEPTIC.

    Shall we shortly be riding into the operating room for our appendicitis operation with our "tummies" painted pink or purple instead of with the ...

    Article : 266 words
  13. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    "What's George doing, now he has sown his wild oats?" "Growing sage!" "I go cold all over when I think of ...

    Article : 513 words
  14. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    In a Mexican home the sofa is the seat of honour. A guest does not take a seat upon it until requested to do so. ...

    Article : 468 words
  15. AVOID BEING A BORE.

    "I should prefer being called a hypocrite, a fool, or a knave rather than a bore. "I have tried, for my own guidance ...

    Article : 375 words
  16. AN UNEXPLORED KINGDOM.

    Some neglected weed, in the hands of a skilled botanist, may overturn a large part of our system of agriculture, according to statements ...

    Article : 338 words
  17. DEEPEST WELL IN THE WORLD.

    Temperatures which melt electric batteries have been encountered in the work of drilling a well in Orange County, California, already ...

    Article : 254 words
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