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  2. FIRES THAT NEVER GO OUT.

    In Siam is a fire that not only lasts for years, but has what have been aptly termed "lineal descenddants.” It is to be found in a ...

    Article : 393 words
  3. AT GRIPS WITH DEATH.

    "Pick-pick!” “Tap-tap!” The noise comes up intermittently from somewhere about sixty feet below the ground level. In a narrow aperture, ...

    Article : 649 words
  4. FACTS ABOUT RUSSIAN SABLE.

    The fur idealers of Irbit have decided to request the Prime Minister to prohibit the catching of sables for two years, being convinced that ...

    Article : 782 words
  5. LADIES’ COLUMN.

    Floar absorbs all odours, so keep it closely covered. Celery will keep crisp a long time if kept where it is perfectly dark. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 381 words
  6. WHO IS IT?

    Who is it, when the lights are low, Lies in a cot with eyes aglow, Listens to talcs of fairy wand, Of valiant lovers and maidens fond? ...

    Article : 167 words
  7. HER PIDGIN ENGLISH.

    A good story is going the round of diplomatic circles. It is told of a Chinese statesman who, in England, not so very long ago, was accorded ...

    Article : 263 words
  8. INCIDENTS IN KAFFIRLAND.

    Having served through the Boer War with the Imperial Yeomanry, my regiment (or what was left of it) returned to England in March. 1902, ...

    Article : 1,124 words
  9. HUMOURS OF EXCITEMENT.

    A comedy which was too near to becoming a tragedy to he very laughable, was enacted during the progress of a fire at a dwelling house at ...

    Article : 756 words
  10. THE CASTLES OF ITALY.

    The baronial castles which sprang up all over Italy about the ninth century have scarcely any plan; huge masses of masonry grew up as ...

    Article : 395 words
  11. MIDNIGHT GAIETY.

    The fun in Irutsk, in the wilds of Siberia, which has something like 120,000 of a population, starts at midnight. An hour before, the city ...

    Article : 306 words
  12. WIREWORK MEMORANDA FILES.

    The tiles illustrated in Figs. 1 to 6 are of the simplest form of wirework. Fig. 1 shows a small desk flie from 6in. to 8in. high. Fig. 2 ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 304 words
  13. HIS LUCK CHANGED.

    A butcher in a small way of business was in the habit of sending his son out with a small trap to deliver orders. ...

    Article : 146 words
  14. “KARMA."

    Gautama, the founder of Buddhism, held that after the death of any being, human, animal, or divine, "there survived nothing at all save a being’s ...

    Article : 257 words
  15. NOT FOR HER.

    The plumber had been called in to repair a leakage in the bathroom, and was doing his best to smash up the bath, while the housemaid looked ...

    Article : 238 words
  16. DISAPPOINTED.

    The tramcar contained about a dozen occupants, and as a shabbylooking man, with a red handkerchief round his neck, and his cap ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. EVEN A WAITER WILL TURN.

    Generally speaking, a waiter’s life is not a particularly happy one, and Mr. Browne has found it very difficult to please some of his customers. ...

    Article : 157 words
  18. ABOUT THE MOON.

    The moon goes around the earth each lunar month. The moon is a heavy body in motion, and cannot stop itself. There are however 12.4 ...

    Article : 104 words
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