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  2. BREVITIES.

    London was the first city to use eoal. The thread of a silkworm is 1-1,000th of an inch t[?]ck. A nightingale's song can be heard at a ...

    Article : 1,316 words
  3. WHEN PERKINS BURGLARISED A STATE PRISON.

    The recently published articles in the "World Magazine" on famous prison escapes recall the exploit of Eddie Perkins, a Connecticut burglar, that for audacity and ...

    Article : 1,014 words
  4. BRITISH AIRMAN'S HARDEST FIGHT.

    It was a gallant lieutenant in the Royal Flying Corps who told this story of his most dangerous air-fight, expressing himself freely, as is hereinafter set down, in a letter to a ...

    Article : 1,385 words
  5. OLD MOORE AGAIN.

    The number of the Great Beast is 666. This is the 222nd year of issue of "Old Moore's Almanac." There is nothing relevant in the comparison, but something distinctly Old ...

    Article : 368 words
  6. SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.

    I notice that it is customary for the daily gapers to publish a column or so of Society gossip. They generally head it "Chit-chat," or "On Dit," or "Le Boudoir," or ...

    Article : 993 words
  7. HAPPY THOUGH MARRIED!

    Thirteen times married was the record of "Uncle John" Dempsey, who died at Marion, Illinois a few days before his 100th birthdays Dempsey married thirteen times, and ...

    Article : 122 words
  8. UNSINKABLE LIFEBOAT.

    A lifeboat which he bays cannot be sunk, by rolling down from the side of a torpedoed vessel or under stress of storm waves has been invented and offered to the American, ...

    Article : 312 words
  9. OCEAN ABLAZE.

    A remarkable story of the sea is related by a gunlayer who was rescued after his ship had been torpedoed. The torpedo smashed a stokehold bulkhead of the ship, and the ...

    Article : 371 words
  10. SHELLS AND CABBAGES.

    Vegetable-growing on a grand scale is now in full swing in Mesopotamia, where the English cabbage has taken kindly to the thirsty soil. The Indian gardeners' corps ...

    Article : 63 words
  11. GHOST M.D.

    Seeing a ghost cured a man of what was regarded as permanent infirmity. A Stopnoy man, after serving in the army, contracted such acute rheumatism that for the past three ...

    Article : 82 words
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