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  2. WISE MEN SAY--

    That it is better to fail, in a good cause than to succeed in a, bad one. That business is like a wheelbarrow —--t stands still unless someone ...

    Article : 267 words
  3. ECCENTRIC WILL-MAKING

    On condition that they agreed to hang the oil painting of his "dear old dog Callum with a dead rat" in a conspicuous' place in one of their ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  4. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "May I--er--kiss your hand, Dolly ?" "Oh, I suppose so. But it would be so much easier for me to remove ...

    Article : 331 words
  5. DAZZLE DESIGNS.

    Tricking German submarines by camouflage is a game England played very successfully during the war. Dazzle designs were evolved which ...

    Article : 203 words
  6. WORLD'S FATTEST FOLK.

    Jack Wilson, the forty-stone fat man of Coney Island, who recently died, was one of America's big things. But his avoirdupois is by no means ...

    Article : 248 words
  7. THE TRAMCAR TROT

    One wonders whether the London County Council really meant it, or whether, like Silas Wegg, it slipped into poetry unaware. Yet there it is ...

    Article : 353 words
  8. "THE RECEIVER."

    Mr. Justice Darling recently described a "fence," or receiver of stolen property, as "one of the most detestable and contemptible of ...

    Article : 779 words
  9. "IF I WERE YOUR FATHER."

    "I should counsel you, if you would be happy--and to be happy is to be wealthy beyond the dreams of avarice--to pay for everything as it ...

    Article : 758 words
  10. HAVE YOU ELEPHANT'S EARS ?

    You have no need to be ashamed of them if you have. For, though not beautiful to look on, large ears are always a sigh of intellect and ...

    Article : 256 words
  11. BIRD BELLRINGERS.

    It is worth-while going to Wells ! The swans on the moat surrounding the bishop's palace .;can still be seen ringing the bell for their dinner ...

    Article : 212 words
  12. "IF ONLY--"

    There had been a quarrel. Everybody could see that the minute they came into the tramcar. The woman sat .with tightly-pressed lips, her ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. EARTHQUAKES AT SEA.

    The "earthquake" shock recently experienced by the Pacific battleship fleet off the Mexican coast was so severe that the big . flagship,' New ...

    Article : 340 words
  14. PHANTOM SHIPS OF THE AIR.

    Imagine an aeroplane, sailing through space without pilot or observer, moving this way or that way ascending or descending, at the will ...

    Article : 256 words
  15. REVENGE !

    Careful observers have put on record some very extraordinary instances of dogs and other animals which have remembered injuries put ...

    Article : 265 words
  16. THE SPEAKER SAT DOWN.

    For the opening of their Thrift Society, the Muddleborough committee invited a successful local man to speak. Unfortunately, his business ...

    Article : 99 words
  17. THAT'S ALL !

    The fashionable physician had been giving instructions to the young man who was acting for him during a holiday. ...

    Article : 85 words
  18. TRAPPED BY OYSTERS.

    The inquisitive mouse which recently put his head into an open oyster shell, to find himself trapped and nearly decapitated by the ...

    Article : 171 words
  19. WOMAN AS BULLFIGHTER.

    One would have thought that to enter into combat with a bull demanded more courage than any member of the gentler sex possesses. But ...

    Article : 158 words
  20. MONEY IN SEAWEED.

    All along the coast of Norway seaweed is gathered and burned. This seaweed grows in veritable forests, and is not of the common grass ...

    Article : 143 words
  21. ONLY ONE.

    Followed by angry yells from drivers of vehicles the little old man, obviously up from the country dodged through the busy traffic until he ...

    Article : 140 words
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