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  2. MIRACLE MACHINES.

    It is said that the wonders of one generation are the commonplaces of the next, but never, perhaps, will some marvels of to-day become just ...

    Article : 602 words
  3. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Hornbaker: "Why don't you and Bilkins go into partnership?" Snedeker: "He was engaged to my wife before I was. You don't suppose ...

    Article : 837 words
  4. SEEING SOUNDS.

    The noises made by traffic are so nerve-racking that many people not only hear them but feel them as well. A new invention enables us to see ...

    Article : 209 words
  5. "DRUGGING" A FOREST.

    "Can the leopard change its spots?" is a question that may soon be altered to "Can a forest change its colour?" ...

    Article : 184 words
  6. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    In one month a caterpillar devours 6,000 times its own weight in food. The value of the property in museums in Britain is estimated at ...

    Article : 300 words
  7. MILK FROM TREES.

    In South America grows a tree called the cow-tree, from which excellent milk is obtained. After travelling in the Cordilleras, ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. WISE MEN SAY—

    Get wealth honestly; use wealth generously; govern wealth discreetly. As a rule, what the heart longs for the head and the hands can ...

    Article : 211 words
  9. MICROBES KILLED BY TEARS.

    When you "have a good cry" you are losing a substance which is one of medicine's greatest friends. It has been discovered that tears ...

    Article : 157 words
  10. SPANISH JUICE.

    Most of us have tasted Spanishwater, chemists sell large quantities of "Spanish" or stick liquorice, for making up old-fashioned cough ...

    Article : 110 words
  11. TYPEWRITER WRITES WORDS.

    A typewriter, that writes, at the touch of a finger, words as well as letters, has been put on the market by a British inventor. ...

    Article : 177 words
  12. LIFE FROM OTHER WORLDS.

    Did the earliest forms of life on our globe—the tiny parent organisms from which we all existing animals and plants have sprung-first reach ...

    Article : 549 words
  13. POISONS THAT DO GOOD.

    We read in our newspapers of so many cases of death by poison that it may be interesting to look at the other side of the shield, and at the ...

    Article : 382 words
  14. NOT WHAT THEY MEANT.

    The true "bull" is not manufactured ; it just happens. Perhaps that is why it rarely fails to amuse. Here are some amusing examples:— ...

    Article : 283 words
  15. HISTORY IN HAIR.

    The pigtail, which for hundreds of years has been the distinguishing mark of the Chinese, is rapidly passing out of fashion. In a short time ...

    Article : 251 words
  16. GAMBLING IN CHURCH.

    Probably the only church in the world where gambling is a recognised custom is at St. Ives, in Huntingdonshire. ...

    Article : 185 words
  17. WONDERS OF THE EARTH.

    The centre of the earth is about 4,000 miles beneath us. The deepest shaft ever sunk reached a depth of less than one and a half miles. ...

    Article : 702 words
  18. LEAN MEN AND FAT.

    Why some men are painfully lean and others objectionably fat has always been a mystery. When doctors set out to tell you the reason they ...

    Article : 275 words
  19. FIGHTING FIRE WITH DYNAMITE

    Many great fires that threaten to destroy both life and property on a wholesale scale have been subdued not by water but by explosives. ...

    Article : 265 words
  20. A MYSTERY OF SPACE.

    It is an established fact that the earth is drawn by the sun about a million miles through space every day. ...

    Article : 220 words
  21. THE HEAVIEST METAL.

    If you were asked which is the lightest and which the heaviest metal, you would probably answer aluminium and lead without a moment's ...

    Article : 197 words
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