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  2. THE TALKING TRUTH.

    Women, from time immemorial, have been the target for many jokes dealing with their talkativeness, and, although there are those who would ...

    Article : 234 words
  3. CASH FOR CORKS.

    A remarkable trade exists in London for the purchase of old champagne bottle corks. It is run by agents and wholesale wine merchants ...

    Article : 216 words
  4. THE SECRET OF THE CARPET BAG.

    Late one November night a woman might have been seen walking westward along the Strand carrying, a carpet bag. She was short and stout ...

    Article : 1,957 words
  5. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    It is not generally known that a postage stamp will mend a bicycle puncture temporarily. A tube thus mended will keep up many miles. ...

    Article : 542 words
  6. EGGS WE DON'T EAT.

    The ostrich lays the biggest thing in the egg line at the present age in the world's history. Hard boiled, it weighs three pounds, and would make ...

    Article : 145 words
  7. NEW AGE IN MUSIC.

    Musicians are predicting a revolution in music and the development of a new type of musical composition as the result of an invention which ...

    Article : 155 words
  8. BIRDLAND BRIGANDS.

    Birds are born robbers. If there is a chance of obtaining a tit-bit in the way of food, they will never hesitate to "down" their neighbour. ...

    Article : 651 words
  9. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Your hair wants cutting badly, sir," said a barber, insinuatingly, to a customer. "No, it doesn't," replied the man ...

    Article : 637 words
  10. IMMUNITY FROM VENOMOUS SPORPIONS.

    Up the Mazaruni River diamond mining in the forests of British Guiana, large, black scorpions up to five or six inches in length are ...

    Article : 403 words
  11. PEAT POSSIBILITIES.

    In Great Britain and Ireland there are over eight million acres of peat, of an average depth of 12ft. to 14ft. It is claimed that this peat ...

    Article : 176 words
  12. EVES APPLE TREE.

    Among the many botanical curiosities of Ceylon is a fruit supposed to bear the marks of Eve's teeth! The tree on which it grows is ...

    Article : 128 words
  13. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    After being released from a liner crossing the Atlantic to Europe, a pigeon flew 1,000 miles over the sea to its left in New York. ...

    Article : 356 words
  14. A LAND OF OIL.

    Many centuries ago Palestine was celled "a land flowing with milk and honey," and to-day Texas may be called a land flowing with oil. ...

    Article : 167 words
  15. MAILS BY RADIO 'PLANE.

    A scheme was recently put before the French Government whereby letters and parcels can be delivered to certain centres throughout the ...

    Article : 173 words
  16. SAVING THE BUFFALO.

    Many people recall. "Buffalo Bill." He got his name from his prowess as a hunter of the American bison. He and others, almost exterminated ...

    Article : 132 words
  17. HISTORY IN IVORY.

    The way works of art travel is astonishing; they turn up in all kinds of queer and unexpected places. There' is a series of small ivory ...

    Article : 140 words
  18. WHEN LONDON STARVED.

    Annually during the early part of October there takes place at the Mansion House a carious civic ceremony which recalls, the ancient ...

    Article : 73 words
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