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  3. THE SILENT BARBER.

    I was being shaved, and the silence of the spheres lay over the saloon. You could have heard a wireless message. ...

    Article : 421 words
  4. MR. NUGENT OPENS HIS MAIL.

    A bank manager's bands should not tremble as he opens his morning mail. It might give the observer, as the French say, furiously to think. ...

    Article : 3,196 words
  5. CATCHING CROOKS BY SCIENCE.

    During the last twelve months the number of successful large-scale robberies has been remarkably small —thanks to science. For nowadays ...

    Article : 662 words
  6. THE AMERICAN PEDESTRIAN

    One of the most perplexing branches of traffic regulation and control has to do with the pedestrian. In crowded city areas the police are helpless ...

    Article : 351 words
  7. BOOMERANG SARCASM.

    Satire and sarcasm make delightful recreations, so long as they are distinctly labelled. But a judge was once taught a lesson in sarcasm which ...

    Article : 306 words
  8. MASTERS AND MEN.

    All men cannot be masters. So long as there are employers, there must be employees. Some men who would he quite useless as masters make ...

    Article : 270 words
  9. HOW CATS FALL.

    There are few questions that have puzzled human beings so consistently through the centuries as the question why cats always fall on their feet. ...

    Article : 252 words
  10. FINDING ORE WITH RADIO

    Prospecting by radio has been simplified by the introduction of improved apparatus which already has located veins of ore to a depth of 500 feet ...

    Article : 218 words
  11. CANNIBAL PLANTS.

    Just as man is plagued by noxious insects, so trees and plants are subject to many parasites, both vegetable and animal. ...

    Article : 233 words
  12. A PLAIN TALK.

    The Britons are justly proud of their adventurers. To scale Everest, to fly round the world, to seek the Poles—these are great adventures. They need ...

    Article : 186 words
  13. WHAT TO DO IN A STORM.

    If out of doors, trees should be avoided, and if, from the rapidity with which the explosion follows the flash, it should be evident that the electric ...

    Article : 340 words
  14. A GIANT TELESCOPE.

    If a lighted candle could be placed 41,000 miles from the earth, about onesixth the distance to the moon, its flame would still be visible through ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. CAREFUL.

    A youngster, who had just joined the staff of a newspaper and had been warned by the editer of the awful consequences of making ill-founded ...

    Article : 180 words
  16. KEEP YOUR EYES FIT.

    Every person, who reads continuously is putting a strain upon his eyesight which, in the course of time, naturally tends to weaken it; hut a medical ...

    Article : 166 words
  17. WHY ARE YOU WATERPROOF?

    The human skin, which forms a protective covering over the whole of the body, consists of two layers, an outer one and an inner one. ...

    Article : 139 words
  18. LOST FOR WORDS.

    It was the first time the shy young roan had been to a big dance, and when his partner decided she did not want to dance the next, he was at a ...

    Article : 79 words
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