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  3. THE TOILER'S "BREATHER."

    Investigations by the Industrial Fatigue Research Board on fatigue and rest pauses in the course of industrial work have brought to light ...

    Article : 123 words
  4. THE AFFAIR OF RAVACHOL.

    William Melville went to Scotland Yard during a time of great stress. Things had not been going at all well there; slackness and corruption ...

    Article : 1,982 words
  5. A MINER'S STORY.

    A heavy rumbling, as of thunder, a crash and then—darkness! I shout and receive no answer. Taking my lamp, I walk cautiously towards the ...

    Article : 243 words
  6. TEN-TON DOORS.

    Lucky people who have precious possessions usually keep them in a safe-deposit. There are nineteen of these strange places in England, ...

    Article : 238 words
  7. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    To remove rusty or obstinate Screws, try holding a red-hot poker on top of the screw for a few mi[?]utes; the screwdriver should easily ...

    Article : 316 words
  8. EYES AND THE FILMS.

    Motion pictures do not tire the eyes even as much as reading a book does, according to experimental tests made on living subjects by two ...

    Article : 499 words
  9. "CONSEQUENCES."

    The parlour game of "Consequences" is often played out in real life when some action, often trifling in itself, sets going a whole sequence ...

    Article : 791 words
  10. FLOATING ISLANDS.

    Floating islands to most people sound altogether too fantastic to be true, and should, they think, be bracketed with sea-serpents, ...

    Article : 734 words
  11. TALIS WORTH TELLING.

    "I hear Hardupp's shop was burned to the ground last night. They say you could see the fire a long way off." ...

    Article : 571 words
  12. WILL MAN CUE ATE LIFE?

    Chemical droplets closely resembling the lowest of animal forms, the single-celled amoeba, have recently been created by a French chemist, ...

    Article : 142 words
  13. THE "CLOCK PLANT."

    There is a plant, a native of Borneo, which is known as the "clock plant." The name is derived from the action of the sun's rays on the ...

    Article : 113 words
  14. THE DUMAS TUNNEL HOAX.

    Glancing down at this quaint world from the slopes of Olympus, the portly wraith of Alexandre Dumas must he chuckling to hear the excited ...

    Article : 466 words
  15. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    The throwing of confetti at a bridal couple is the modern form of the custom of throwing rice. In Saxon days the happy pair walked ...

    Article : 309 words
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