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  2. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    In Georgia, near Vladosta, there is a lake which disappears every three or four years" and then comes back again, no matter what the weather ...

    Article : 125 words
  3. CRUEL OFFSPRING!

    Do you know that in your own body there are thousands of doting, unselfish parents who are being slowly done to death by the callous ...

    Article : 372 words
  4. FUDDLED FISH.

    A teetotal advocate, once said that alcohol is purely an acquired taste--that no living creature except man would willingly touch it. ...

    Article : 323 words
  5. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    When Little Bennie has a fit, His mother's very glad of it; It doesn't harm the child a bit; In fact, it is a Bennie-fit. ...

    Article : 150 words
  6. CARLTON AND THE CARD-SHARPER.

    Travelling to America on the Mauretania, I had a rather unusual experience. As most people are perfectly well aware, these crack ...

    Article : 1,588 words
  7. POTATO TIPS.

    The allotment-holder has discovered how to grow the potato, but he, like the rest of us, has something to learn as to its value as food and the ...

    Article : 453 words
  8. MEASURE' YOU FOR A CAR, SIR?

    The old chestnut about getting measured for an umbrella may sound absurd, but what would you say to a friend who told you he had just ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. APPRECIATIVE CRITICISM.

    Mr. Winston Churchill told a good story concerning a conversation he overheard between a couple of artists at one of the sea power exhibitions ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. THEY TRAP THIEVES.

    By means of an ingenious instrument known as the detectaphone, some burglars were cleverly trapped in New York recently. ...

    Article : 119 words
  11. SPOILED THE EFFECT.

    They had been dining in state in the dining-car. Husband, who is a teacher of English, was glad that little daughter had behaved so ...

    Article : 115 words
  12. FEATHERED FORTRESSES.

    Not all birds make nests. The guillemot lays her eggs on a bare ledge of rock, the night jar in a small open space among the bracken ...

    Article : 358 words
  13. LET THEM TALK.

    "She's got nothing to say for herself," was the unanimous verdict of the drawing-room as the door closed on a pretty but tongue-tied guest. ...

    Article : 294 words
  14. HOW BRIDGES BREATHE.

    Like us mortals, big steel bridges feel the changes in the weather, and must be built to withstand them or perish. ...

    Article : 132 words
  15. NO "JUGGLING."

    The scene was a humble cabin in a town in Alabama. An old negro standing at his gate "handed a couple of jugs to his son, who was about ...

    Article : 493 words
  16. THE STRENGTH OF HAIR.

    The fair-haired girl who combs her tresses, or piles them in glittering coils on her dainty head, knows well their value as part of her armoury ...

    Article : 195 words
  17. GASSING FATHER NEPTUNE.

    Two hundred thousand poison gas shells and some hundreds of containers full of the deadly stuff have been sent to Davy Jones's Locker. They ...

    Article : 126 words
  18. WORLD S LARGEST CITY.

    According to statistics published in the United States, New York is bigger in population than London by a quarter of a million, the figures ...

    Article : 227 words
  19. ALWAYS IN THE DARK.

    In the bad old days of coal mining the "tubs" in which the coal is conveyed from the "face" to the bottom of the shaft were pushed or ...

    Article : 332 words
  20. BEE-STINGS FOR HEADACHES.

    Nature, wonderful Nature, is a sweet, motherly person. She provides remedies for all sorts of invalids, whether human, animal, bird, ...

    Article : 283 words
  21. TREES AND LIGHTNING.

    The striking by lightning of four persons sheltering under a tree during a storm is a reminder that, with a little knowledge, such ...

    Article : 141 words
  22. COFFIN FILLED WITH WHISKY.

    The following comes from Portland, Oregon, a "prohibition" State. Four mourners, a supposed corpse, and a coffin laden with whisky and ...

    Article : 254 words
  23. WHERE DIVORCE IS EASY.

    In Norway, a husband and Wife who wish to part have first to apply to a magistrate, who sends them to a Conciliation Board, a sort of ...

    Article : 152 words
  24. WILLS ON WALLPAPER.

    Apropos the recent case of a will being written on a piece of wallpaper, it may be noted that, so long as the proper formalities required by ...

    Article : 147 words
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