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  2. WOULD YOU BELIEVE IT?

    A chat with the superintendent of a big library reveals the strange fact that, although all the books issued are provided with a bookmarker ...

    Article : 403 words
  3. BULLS OF THE SEA.

    A gigantic timber raft has lately arrived in Ipswich harbour, says "Tit-Bits." It is 360ft long, 42ft wide and deep, and contains as much ...

    Article : 616 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Tommy Jones was always late for work, so his employer approached him one morning and inquired what had made him so late. ...

    Article : 411 words
  5. WHAT IS WEALTH?

    It will come as a shock to most people to be told that money, even in vast quantities is not wealth. "Oh," they say, "look at ...

    Article : 1,114 words
  6. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Banks employ 59,500 women in Great Britain. Canteens run by the Ministry of Munitions showed a loss of £155,075. ...

    Article : 496 words
  7. LONG LIFE SECRET.

    "Long neck, long life," is an .old saying It probably relates to the danger of apoplexy for those with short thick necks. ...

    Article : 268 words
  8. IS SCIENCE A CURSE?

    "If we could put into one scale the benefits received in a hundred years, and into the other the misery produced by scientific invention during ...

    Article : 755 words
  9. " NOTHING LIKE LEATHER !"

    The famine in leather continues, as every housewife knows to her cost, when she comes to buy boots and shoes for her children at three times ...

    Article : 646 words
  10. THE "JUMPER" CHAMPION.

    Knitting fifty-eight jumpers in eighty-eight working days is the record of a girl living at Esher. She used thirty-seven pounds of wool, ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. "WHAT'S IN A-NAME?"

    One by one the scholars had ploughed their way through their share of the reading lesson until it came to little Frankie's turn. He got on ...

    Article : 314 words
  12. CAN WOMEN SEE STRAIGHT ?

    There were two little groups of three buttons on a certain woman's coat. Four of the appendages became detached, so that she had to stitch ...

    Article : 391 words
  13. LUCKY "9" !

    A nugget, weighing one hundred and seventy-three ounces, has been dug out in the Belgian Congo. This is one of the largest nuggest ever ...

    Article : 316 words
  14. WHISTLING SPIDERS.

    Australia, it is said, can boast of whistling spiders, whistling snakes, and whistling moths. But has anybody ever heard of the "Whistling" ...

    Article : 260 words
  15. NOT A BAD SHOT.

    The lesson was on the subject of bullocks, and towards the end the teacher asked the class about the uses to which the parts of the dead ...

    Article : 159 words
  16. FROM ANOTHER ANGLE.

    "Do you think you can get me out of this scrape ?" the company promotor asked the lawyer. "How much would it be worth to ...

    Article : 111 words
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