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  3. PAINTERS IN HIGH PLACES.

    Fifty-five men are employed all the year round painting the famous Forth Bridge, but it is only during summer that the topmost, girders of the ...

    Article : 248 words
  4. ECCENTRIC TREES.

    Sometimes trees have peculiarities for which it is by no means easy to account. There is the "praying" tree, found ...

    Article : 179 words
  5. HOPKINS THE WITCHFINDER.

    Prosecutions for fortune telling and for extracting money from ignorant people by means of witchcraft are still common enough to show how ...

    Article : 1,076 words
  6. THE RITES OF THE BATH.

    When, a few weeks after my arrival in Japan, a missionary friend offered to accompany me to the village public baths, I was naturally ...

    Article : 1,185 words
  7. JACK'S KNACKS.

    The British Navy makes the proud boast for itself that it possesses more men who would have made a name for themselves in the world of art ...

    Article : 117 words
  8. "LEST WE FORGET."

    Have you ever lost your luggage while buying your ticket at a railway booking-office? It is easy. to put down a bag or ...

    Article : 139 words
  9. DEADLY DUNES.

    If the sea begins to break in upon a resort it can be stemmed by groynes; if a river threatens a town it can be diverted into a new channel; ...

    Article : 312 words
  10. HINTS FOR EVERY HOME.

    To darken the skin for fancy-dress purposes, etc., I have found that Parisian browning (the kind used for gravy) is very successful used in the ...

    Article : 386 words
  11. STRANGE YET TRUE.

    Red Indians are increasing in number in Canada. In the three provinces of Saskatchewan, Manitoba, and Alberta, there is now an estimated ...

    Article : 275 words
  12. TALES WORTH TELLING.

    Cupid is a great court favourite. A pessimist is a man who believes that every raspberry has a worm in it. ...

    Article : 575 words
  13. TEN GUINEAS FOR A PIPE.

    Thirty years ago a Cambridge undergraduate asked his tobacconist to procure for him a pipe the grain of which ran uniformly in the same ...

    Article : 243 words
  14. WATER INTO MONEY.

    Despite the fact that water is one of the cheapest substances known, large fortunes have already been made out of it and, in the near ...

    Article : 461 words
  15. YOUR UMBRELLA'S HISTORY,

    Umbrellas and parasols can be seen on the paintings and sculptures of ancient Egypt, and discoveries in Nineveh show that it was usual to ...

    Article : 207 words
  16. "TOOTLE WITH VIGOUR."

    Some interesting new rules of the road for Japanese motorists, thoughtfully couched in English, have been discovered pinned up in the ...

    Article : 183 words
  17. THE BABOON BOY.

    A strange story of South Africa has just come to light. About twenty-five years ago two troopers of the old Cape Police came upon a ...

    Article : 356 words
  18. GLASS MADE BY LIGHTNING

    Following a severe thunderstorm near Hainholz, two scientists came across a remarkably fine specimen of a "lightning tube," which they were ...

    Article : 199 words
  19. FAMOUS CRIPPLES.

    There are many striking examples of men who, deprived of a limb, have yet achieved fame. London has even had a one-legged Lord Mayor; he ...

    Article : 175 words
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