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  2. LADY SKIPPERS.

    Is Jack to be supplanted in his fo'c's'le preserve by "Jill" ? Is the time approaching when ocean greyhounds will be skippered across the ...

    Article : 383 words
  3. SAVAGE RATS.

    Rats have been known to attack people on roads. A few years ago, a rat sprang on to a cyclist at Carlsbad. He threw ...

    Article : 279 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    It was their first trip alone in their new and expensive car, and they'd lost their way. "There's a signpost, dear," said ...

    Article : 94 words
  5. A PROFESSOR EXPLAINS.

    I must confess I am not a Tittle concerned about the welfare of the human race--homo sapiens, as Professor Conk calls us. In the first ...

    Article : 855 words
  6. NOT BANKRUPT VET !

    It is reassuring to learn, on the evidence of a great financial expert, that, in spite of the war's enormous drain on her exchequer, Europe still ...

    Article : 566 words
  7. A PALACE FOR A ROSE.

    The householder of today who has to pay an exhorbitant rent for his suburban villa will find little consolation in the knowledge that many ...

    Article : 292 words
  8. IN A WORSE PLIGHT.

    To save transport a certain landowner decided to float his timber down a river like he'd read about them doing in Canada. So he ...

    Article : 147 words
  9. A MATTER OF MORALS.

    "Goodmorning, sir!" said the landlady sweetly, as the disagreeable old bachelor entered the breakfast- room. ...

    Article : 156 words
  10. BOXING FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    What would bur grandfathers have thought if they read the accounts of the Carpentier-Beckett contest ?. Their amazement would be great to ...

    Article : 346 words
  11. CHALKING IT UP!

    It is a little-known fact, outside the coal mining industry itself, that chalk is a large factor in assessing the wages of the coal-miner. The ...

    Article : 240 words
  12. JUST A WASTE.

    As the waggonette from the village inn swung round a corner, with a deep drop on one side, the visitor involuntarily drew closer to the ...

    Article : 79 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The Salvation Army now has branches in sixty-six countries. The population of Petrograd has sunk from 3,000,000 to 750,000. ...

    Article : 462 words
  14. THE CALL OF THE BLOOD.

    Crash ! There was much excitement in the street when it was seen that a three-ton motor-lorry had "dashed into the little motor-car, ...

    Article : 118 words
  15. TREES HAVE NERVES.

    Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose, in a recent lecture at the India O--ce, showed some photographs of large, trees which he had successfully ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. WISE MEN SAY--

    That actions speak louder than some people talk. That if a man is obliging he is apt to be popular, because he can be ...

    Article : 149 words
  17. STEALING A PALACE!

    Recently two big guns were stolen from the Arsenal at Verona. It is not known what the thief wanted them for, or how he managed to get ...

    Article : 336 words
  18. TRAPPED.

    The shaded lights, music in the distance, sweet perfumes from the costly flowers about them--everything; was just right for a proposal, and ...

    Article : 291 words
  19. WRINKLES ON WRINKLES.

    Wrinkles are caused by worrying and laughing ; By eating and studying ; by fatigue and old age ; in fact almost any wrinkles may be ...

    Article : 266 words
  20. PEARLS TO ORDER.

    Some years ago considerable interest was taken in the discovery of a method of making real diamonds. There was no mistake about the ...

    Article : 189 words
  21. GOLD FROM BEETLES.

    In these days of gold shortage it is interesting to know that there are insects which are said to be gold producing ! ...

    Article : 129 words
  22. HEAT AND VENTILATION.

    The average house is frequently not a fit place to live in, so far as fresh air is concerned. The furniture cracks to pieces because we do ...

    Article : 986 words
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