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  2. TEETOTAL WINE-TASTER.

    One of the strangest occupations for women is that of professional wine-taster, a post held by Mile. Collinere, a young French girl, who ...

    Article : 252 words
  3. WHY VIZ. AND OZ.?

    Do you know what these everyday signs mean, and their origin ? Viz. is from the first two letters of "videlicet," a Latin word ...

    Article : 180 words
  4. SPIDERS' THREADS FOR TELESCOPES.

    The threads of the garden spider are fixed by astronomers to their telescopes for the purpose of giving fine lines to the field of view, by ...

    Article : 198 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Like Tennyson's young person in the Moated Grange, he only knew he was very weary ; but still also had a faint suspicion that something to ...

    Article : 173 words
  6. ABOUT MOSQUITOES.

    How far can a mosquito fly ? It is a mighty important question, and until now nobody has been able to answer it. The answer is that ...

    Article : 1,286 words
  7. WHAT WOULD YOU DO?

    Supposing you bought a bit of land to make a garden, or to build a house upon; and suppose that, when you were double-trenching your ...

    Article : 748 words
  8. WISE MEN SAY--

    That Life is a duty, dare it ; a burden, bear it. That if you want to make light of trouble, keep it dark. ...

    Article : 384 words
  9. HIS FOND FAREWELL.

    A Frenchman, guest at a London hotel, had just been presented with his bill. Though he paid it without formal protest, he was most ...

    Article : 124 words
  10. PASS THE AIR ALONG.

    For many decades we have had it dinned into our ears that the chief danger of the impure air that we breathed in tuffy, ill-ventilated ...

    Article : 760 words
  11. SPORT OR SLAUGHTER.

    "What ! Take a punt and a young cannon, and let fly a pound or two of shot into a mass of floating birds? You call that sport ? I ...

    Article : 726 words
  12. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Spain is the sunniest country in Europe. During the war the navy used 54,000,000 tons of coal. ...

    Article : 370 words
  13. HARK, THE PISTOL!

    "Now, Jenkins," said the stagemanager, to a keen and ardent young amateur, "do you think you could manage to take on the part of ...

    Article : 203 words
  14. THE RETORT COURTEOUS.

    Professor Knowall, M.A., S.P.Q.R, stood upon the platform, explaining to the audience in that brilliant style of his the thousand-and-one ...

    Article : 157 words
  15. HOW FAST A BOWLER BOWLS.

    There has been much said in the papers about the speed at which a cricket ball travels. None of the writers quoted an electric test which ...

    Article : 182 words
  16. HELPING NATURE.

    As a rule, Nature can and does take good care of herself, but she can be helped, as agriculture shows. Left to themselves, the thousands ...

    Article : 277 words
  17. "CHINA'S SORROW."

    China's Sorrow is a river, the Hoang-Ho, or Yellow River, so called, doubtless, because it brings down such vast quantities of mud that its ...

    Article : 278 words
  18. HE WANTED FILLING, TOO!

    "Sit down, Mr. Stylo, said the eminent publisher to the tattered genius, who had just entered his elaborate sanctum. "I have read your ...

    Article : 235 words
  19. MICROBE METHUSELAHS.

    Is it possible that the latest scientific discovery may bring a return of the, Egyptian plagues or the Black Death--the most terrible epidemics in ...

    Article : 189 words
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