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  2. NECKLACE MYSTERY.

    Some remarkable manifestations, so far not susceptible to any ordinary explanation, have occurred in Edinburgh in association with an ...

    Article : 1,941 words
  3. NO MORE SEA-SICKNESS?

    All kinds of attempts to prevent ships from rolling have been tried, hundreds of inventors have designed non-rolling ships, but sea-sickness ...

    Article : 201 words
  4. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Experiments to determine the angle at which ladders should be placed to secure the maximum degree of safety for those using them have shown that ...

    Article : 111 words
  5. THE TEMPERS OF EARTHQUAKES.

    The recent earthquake disturbances in the state of Vera Cruz, Mexico, have followed the usual custom of such happenings by causing many ...

    Article : 855 words
  6. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "No, sir," cried the irate parent "my daughter can never be yours." "I don't want her to be my daughter," interrupted the lover. "I want ...

    Article : 623 words
  7. FOOTBALL STOPPED BY FOXES.

    The story from Scotland of a foot-ball match being held up while the players pursued a fox that had found its way on to the ground recalls a ...

    Article : 272 words
  8. THE SPEEDIEST ANIMAL.

    There is an antelope in China (Gazella gutturosa) which a traveller who has seen it in motion credits with a speed of 60 miles an hour, ...

    Article : 102 words
  9. RUBIES HAVE RISEN.

    The time when the diamond was the most valued of gems is long past. Pearls, rubies, and emeralds are far more prized to-day, and fetch prices ...

    Article : 351 words
  10. CLEANING WATCHES WITH BREAD.

    Perhaps the most novel use to which bread is put may be seen in some of the great watch factories, where more than forty loaves of ...

    Article : 170 words
  11. "CROSSING THE LINE."

    From the accounts of the manner in which the Prince of Wales was initiated into the company of those travellers who have "crossed the ...

    Article : 193 words
  12. THE ELEPHANT.

    Many years ago a student of animals and their ways in London, visited a place called the Exeter Exchange. Here he came upon an ...

    Article : 556 words
  13. SUBMARINE MINES.

    When all the coal in Britain is finished there will still be millions of tons under the seas around the coasts, and though there is danger ...

    Article : 181 words
  14. CAT AND DOG LIFE.

    Why does the dog, by nature, wage mortal warfare on the cat? A writer gives the following reason: He is tolerant of other ...

    Article : 151 words
  15. THE WAGES OF CAPITAL.

    Burke said that if all the capital-ists were killed and their capital di-vided among the working classes, there would not be a plate of bread ...

    Article : 267 words
  16. GREY MATTER.

    We get six complete new sets of brains every year, and the best set is that which has its first half of life in December or March. Our ...

    Article : 258 words
  17. BATTLEFIELD OF AN ORATOR.

    Many people find their limbs becoming limp when they have to make a speech, though some love the sensation of publicity. But nobody, ...

    Article : 212 words
  18. SIAMESE ENGLISH.

    What about this advertisement from a Siamese paper? asks the "Morning Post." "The news of English, we tell the latest. Writ in ...

    Article : 85 words
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