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  2. The Seven Ages of Rubber

    Shakespeare's "Seven Ages has been brought up to date by a rubber expert in the following witty manner:— ...

    Article : 248 words
  3. Kept Alive 20 Days by Artificial Breathing.

    How long is it possible to keep a person alive by artificial respiration? The limit has never been tested, but what is probably a ...

    Article : 190 words
  4. What Brought Life on Earth?

    Some years have elapsed since the famous physicist, Svante Arrhenius, formulated his theory that life is transmitted from world to world ...

    Article : 431 words
  5. ORIGIN OF DANCING.

    At some critical time in the past dancing had n certain survivalship value. It was useful in determining which individuals or tribes ...

    Article : 1,010 words
  6. INTERESTING PUZZLES.

    Puzzles may come and go and be forgotten, but there are some "hardy annuals " which are as perplexing and brain-teasing to-day as when our ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 663 words
  7. A Journalist's "Scoop."

    It was at Tel-el-Kebir that Bennet Burleigh, whose death is so widely deplored in newspaperland. laid the foundation of his fame as ...

    Article : 548 words
  8. Adding 5,000 Words a Year to the Language.

    As long as a language continues to be living means of expression. so long will it continue to change. And every one, educated and ...

    Article : 530 words
  9. Sugar for Explorers.

    Sir Ernest Shackleton was among the guests at a dinner, in connection with the Tropical Producers Exhibition, at the Royal ...

    Article : 219 words
  10. A Man-Eating Crocodile.

    In "Man-eating Crocodiles and Their Ways," the author relates the following adventure which he had from the lips of the victim ...

    Article : 429 words
  11. Pusher or Puller.

    Sir Oliver Lodge claims that there is no such thing as pull applied in bodies; that is, that an engine, for instance, [?]er pulls a ...

    Article : 181 words
  12. Safety Train Bolt.

    Many inventors have sought to solve the problem of providing an automatic lock for railway carriage doors. ...

    Article : 366 words
  13. ADRIFT AT SEA.

    It is difficult to imagine the sufferings of the boat's crew of the Columbian, who drifted about the Atlantic for fourteen days before ...

    Article : 777 words
  14. Irving at the Poll.

    An amusing episode of the Middlesex elections of 1868 was the error that the supporters of Labouchere made in taking Henry ...

    Article : 333 words
  15. SETTING OUT WEST.

    The Judge or a Western Court decided a point adversely to a certain lawyer. The lawyer was stubborn, and insisted that the Judge ...

    Article : 163 words
  16. HUMAN HAIR TELLS RACIAL ORIGIN.

    Scientists are able, by the use of the microscope, to tell from a single human hair to what great racial division the original wearer ...

    Article : 137 words
  17. ETERNAL YOUTH.

    Evidently the fountain of eternal youth bubbles near Mrs. Flinn's cottage. That worthy woman, engaged to wash. for Mrs. Gibbs, ...

    Article : 99 words
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