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  2. SOCIAL ITEMS.

    Instead of returning to Sydney from Colombo. Her Excellency the Countess of Dudley will proceed to London in order to see her younger children, while Lord Dudley will return to this ...

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  5. SIX AT A BIRTH

    According to statistical records, there are in Great Britain 18 twins to every thousand births, 160 triplets to every million births, and 8 quadruplets to every million. Consequently ...

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  6. Humor of Strikes.

    All the world over higher wages and fewer hours of work have been the great basis of a strike, but there are exceptions. In the Paris strike of waiters in 1907, the great question of ...

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  7. The Conjurer.

    The average conjurer usually receives credit for being far more clever than he really is. The popular idea concerning him is that be spends his mornings and afternoons in inventing new. ...

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  9. INTUITION.

    Mother—"Mabel, stop pounding your little brother! What do you mean?" Mabel—" Well, I told we'd better play we was only engaged, but he wanted to play we was married." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 33 words
  10. ORNITHOLOGICAL PUZZLE.

    Ornithological puzzles are the penguins, with their curiously shaped wings and odd, unbird like, upright carriages. The peculiarities of their wings suggest that the penguins are ...

    Article : 279 words
  11. POLICEMAN AND PRESIDENT.

    President Taft recently had the unpleasant experience of being "held up" by the constable of an American country town for speeding too fast in his motor. The President had left ...

    Article : 178 words
  12. "THE LITTLE WOODEN SHIP."

    It was only a poor and broken toy. It was but a little wooden ship; But how strangely stirred is the mother's heart. And white with sorrow her trembling lip. ...

    Article : 311 words
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  14. SLANTING WRITING.

    The question of upright versus slanting writing has been under consideration in France, and evidently fiercely discussed. Writing specialists to whom the matter was referred reported ...

    Article : 123 words
  15. AMERICAN SLANG.

    President Faunce, of Brown University (U.S.A.), in an address delivered at Chantaqua, New York, declared the American people are murdering their mother tongue. He asserted ...

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  17. THE WOMAN OF FORTY.

    "I wonder," asks a recent writer on the subject, "what is the age at which we may call woman at her best? The answer depends upon who decides—man or woman. Almost ...

    Article : 131 words
  18. INCREASE OF POPULATION.

    The population of the earth, so far as the earth was known to Romans, at the death of the Roman Emperor Augustus, about the time of the commencement of the Christian era, was ...

    Article : 190 words
  19. PRISON CELL TELEPHONE.

    While some prisoners in Helsingfors (Sweden) Gaol were engaged in executing work on the prison roof, one of them, a professional electrician, noticed that telephone wires passed ...

    Article : 55 words
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  22. A RISE IN LIFE.

    William Miller, who until 15 years ago was a ragged, newspaper boy on the street of Pittsburg U.S.A. has been engaged by the Munich Royal Opera to act as leading tenor for the ...

    Article : 32 words
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