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  2. WHY ADAM LEFT EDEN.

    Why did Adam leave the Garden of Eden ? A clay tablet has been discovered which is said gives the orig­inal story from which the Biblical ...

    Article : 172 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Daughter : "Mr. Banvleigh is coming here to-night. If he asks me to marry him, how shall I answer?" Mother: "Promptly." ...

    Article : 857 words
  4. MY FIGHT WITH A LION.

    Few men have gone through the ex­perience of Mr. Arnold Wienholt, D. S.O., and lived to tell the tale. While hunting in Africa he was ...

    Article : 788 words
  5. SUCCESSFUL MEN SMILE.

    The Chinese have a proverb which says, "A man without a smiling face should not open a shop." Faces are a real factor in business ...

    Article : 143 words
  6. THE CADDIS FLY.

    The eggs of the caddis fly are laid on the surface of a river or stream, but they sink to the bottom before hatching. The fly is first born in the ...

    Article : 197 words
  7. WONDER WIRELESS WAVES.

    There are a thousand and one mys­teries connected with wireless tele­phony. Some of them have been ex­plained by science, but others baffle ...

    Article : 643 words
  8. "KNOCKING WOOD" FOR LUCK.

    Why does a person "knock wood" whenever he does not want bis luck to desert him ? It is believed to originate from an ...

    Article : 154 words
  9. LAWS MADE FOR LAWYERS.

    The man of wig ana gowD, whether the latter be of stuff or silk, must not advertise, unless he wishes to become an Ishmael among lawyers. ...

    Article : 809 words
  10. WISE MEN SAY—

    The parents' life is the child's copys book. A contented mind means a cared for body. ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. THE CULTURED CANNIBAL.

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    Article : 600 words
  12. HOME-MADE ELECTRICITY.

    Recently s man, with no small gift of invention, was struck by the' fact that each morning over hall a dozen bathfuls of water were consigned to ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. WOMEN'S TROUSERS.

    In the Balkans, where women tend goats and cattle in the mountains, it is necessary for them to wear trousers; skirts would be too ...

    Article : 165 words
  14. SECRETS OF THE SAND.

    Fortune-telling together with divination are everywhere at home in Afri­ca; they are carried on in the East­ern Soudan by a manipulation of ...

    Article : 320 words
  15. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    Sixty per cent. of plum jam is sugar, and forty per cent, plums. Diamonds, which are regarded as a solid security, are increasing in value. omen outnumber men by fourteen,1 to one on the island of Tagawa, in ...

    Article : 256 words
  16. SMALLEST MAN ON EARTH.

    I didn't even raise my eyes from my paper as his pattering footsteps passed me in the hotel lounge. Something in his voice, however, as h ...

    Article : 744 words
  17. CLOCK MADE OF GLASS.

    A Bohemian glass polisher has per­formed a wonderful feat of painstak­ing ingenuity. He has constructed a clock which, with the exception of ...

    Article : 180 words
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