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  2. HUGE STRUCTURES.

    The biggest bridge in the world is the Forth Bridge. The British Navy can pass under it, and its biggest Dreadnought looks like a pigmy in ...

    Article : 213 words
  3. TOOK THE HINT.

    White he was .giving the greengrocer an order, the fussy old gentle, man slipped a strawberry into his mouth. ...

    Article : 129 words
  4. EASY WAY OUT.

    "Well, Inswin, you know I'm going to be married next week?" "So I hear. Let me congratulate you, old man." ...

    Article : 138 words
  5. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    Flies Faster Than An Aeroplane. There are several specles of birds. that can travel mutt taster than any. aeroplane yet invented. The fastest ...

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  6. THE POULTRY RUN.

    This is a useful adjunct in the poultry yard. Common colds may be cured by dipping the heads of the affected birds once a day in water colored ...

    Article : 134 words
  7. HIS FIRST LESSON.

    Algy Montmorency decided to have some boxing lessons. He is one of those tall, thin, nervous people who sometimes manage to ...

    Article : 169 words
  8. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

    A suggestion was recently made that Rontgen rays be used to ascertain whether an oyster contains pearls. If the Rontgen rays show ...

    Article : 208 words
  9. BREEDING TIPS.

    Before putting the male bird with the hens it is wise to examine his spurs and toenails. If the former point downward at all the hens will ...

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  10. MATCHED.

    Two clergymen, totally different in character, were yet firm, friends. One was prim and precise, especially careful of his linen, quiet in speech and ...

    Article : 130 words
  11. THEY WERE AGREED.

    With, faces solemn and stern, the "good men and true" took their places in. the jury-box. "Well, gentlemen," asked the judge ...

    Article : 118 words
  12. THE BITER BIT.

    A Scottish farmer was selling wool one day to a carrier, and after weighing it be went in to the house to make out an invoice. When he came back ...

    Article : 163 words
  13. THE ARBITRATOR.

    Oh, that baby! It was cuddled and kissed and caressed as though it were a kitten. It was loked at and leered at as though ...

    Article : 178 words
  14. THE EYE OF THE GUN.

    This is called the telemeter and is used by all artillerists in some shape or other. The telemeter is really a tube with two telescopic ...

    Article : 205 words
  15. THE HEIRLOOM.

    Poor Charlie's heartrending grimaces in school had aroused his teacher's deepest sympathies. The manner in which he would keep squinting in ...

    Article : 123 words
  16. NOT ON YOUR LIFE.

    Softly the nurse smoothed the sufferrer's pillow. He had been admitted only that morning, and now he looked up pleadingly at the nurse who stood ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. EXTREME MEASURES.

    "This towel," said the attendant in the germ-proof barber's shop, "has been subjected to an extreme heat and is thoroughly sterilised." ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. A DELICATE HINT.

    His wife had been dead for some time, and, having decently mourned her, he cast his eye around for her successor. ...

    Article : 162 words
  19. AN AERIAL ISLAND.

    In Mexico, three miles south of the Mesa Encantada, there is a splendid specimen of fantastic erosion-an "island" in the air, a rock with ...

    Article : 223 words
  20. ADAPTABLE.

    "Now lookee 'ere," said the farmer to the manager of the cloth factory, planking down a big parcel of wool, "t' last cloth you made for me was so ...

    Article : 147 words
  21. TOO GREAT A RISK.

    "Ah," remarked the doctor, as he examined the patient's tongue and felt his pulse. I'm glad to find you so much better this morning. That ...

    Article : 101 words
  22. TWAS A COPPER DROPPED.

    The travelling conjurer had been making things appear and disappear, and making hats into rabbits, etc., with great dexterity at his favourite ...

    Article : 130 words
  23. ANOTHER KIND OF LICKING.

    Tommy was writing a long letter to his father when a visitor was brought into the room by his aunt. In his haste to clear the table ...

    Article : 101 words
  24. CLEAR PROOF.

    Young Brown had caught the craze for muscular development, through which, like teething, mumps, and measles, most of us must go. ...

    Article : 117 words
  25. KNEW SOMETHING.

    School children know a great deal more than they used to do. In fact, some of them, in their own opinions, at least, are quite capable of tutoring ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. LIVING AEROPLANES.

    It would be a mistake to suppose that the bird's wings enable it to fly. It wings spelt flying, any of us could attach a pair and soar into the air. ...

    Article : 247 words
  27. THE VICTORIA CROSS.

    It is on record that the original motto on the design for the Victoria Cross was "For the Brave," but Queen Victoria, alter reaching a ...

    Article : 92 words
  28. MOST LADY-LIKE.

    "Frances," said the little girl's mother, reprovingly, "you came downstairs so noisily that you could be heard all over the house. Now, go ...

    Article : 82 words
  29. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    So far as feeding is concerned, all the broody hen wants is wheat, crushed charcoal, and clean water. Aim for a fair appearance in your ...

    Article : 187 words
  30. IN GREENLAND.

    Courtship and marriage customs among the Greenlanders were in early times simple and unceremonious. We are told that when a ...

    Article : 107 words
  31. THE COLONEL'S DEFEAT.

    The colonel believed in soldiers being bachelors, so be usually refused his men permission to marry. One applicant "burned away looking ...

    Article : 121 words
  32. DIDN'T BLAME THEM.

    Uncle Josh was comfortably lighting his pipe in the living-room last evening when Aunt Maria glanced up from her knitting. ...

    Article : 96 words
  33. EXTRA SPECIAL.

    They were sitting in the richlyfurnished drawing-room, with its rosehehaded lights, chatting after dinner. "Claude, dear," she said, with a ...

    Article : 100 words
  34. VIOLENT.

    "Was her father violent when you asked him for her hand?" "Was he? Great guns! I thought he'd shake my hand off." ...

    Article : 28 words
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