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  3. HINDOO MAGIC.

    Many of our readers hare probably seen the clever tricks by Hindoo conjurors at Colombo or at Port Said, and we have all heard of the wonderful things these half-naked mea can do. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,919 words
  4. SOME STORIES.

    The worthy Sunday-school superintendent of a certain New South Wales town is also the principal storekeeper. He is as energetic and efficient in his religious as in his secular ...

    Article : 144 words
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  6. DOUBTFUL BARGAIN.

    "Don't you remember me?" said the thin chap with the sharp goatee and yellow satchel in an American store. "Why, I am the corn doctor that removed your corns last summer." ...

    Article : 111 words
  7. NOT WORTH IT.

    Aunt Fanny took little Mary to church one Sunday and gave her a penny to put in the collection piate. Little Mary looked at the coin with evident ...

    Article : 69 words
  8. HIS DENOMINATION.

    A man who had been playing golf with a clergyman, heard him swear two or three times under his breath. Suspecting the lapse, he could not be sure of it, until one ...

    Article : 86 words
  9. POOR FELLOWS.

    Most golfers will have heard of the old lady from a remote country district who visited Edinburgh for the first time and happened to arrive as a party of golfers were hurrying to ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. NERVOUS JELLY.

    Little Willy was eating luncheon with his mother. Presently she noticed that he was eating his jelly with his' spoon. "Willy, dear," she said to him, "you must ...

    Article : 74 words
  11. Science in Practice.

    A rational device for finding underground currents of water has been invented by a Frenchman named Dienert. It was suggested by the instrument known as Daguin's ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. HE "THINKED" RIGHT.

    Professor George Porter, principal of the Hallsville Schools, U.S.A., has continually told the pupils that they should think twice before they speak. One cold morning last week ...

    Article : 100 words
  13. SUBJUGATED MAN.

    A matrimonail misfit of a most pronounced and unusual kind was investigated by Mr. Plowden, the well known magistrate of Marylebone Police Court (London) recently. ...

    Article : 361 words
  14. TO FIGHT AIRSHIPS.

    An armored automobile, designed specially to attack and destroy airships, is tinder construction at Berlin for the German army, and is to be tried presently. It has a four-cylinder ...

    Article : 120 words
  15. Husbands and Housework.

    An American professor of political economy has recently propounded the remarkable maxim that no family with an income of less than £1000 a year ought to indulge in the luxury ...

    Article : 872 words
  16. INTRODUCED.

    Harry was walking with another boy when he was joined by a friend, a year or so older, and inclined to manners. "Introduce me, Harry," the newcomer ...

    Article : 74 words
  17. BIGGEST BAROMETER.

    A huge oil barometer has been constructed in the city of Faenza, Italy, as a monument to its distinguished citizen, Torricelli, the inventor of the barometer, the tercentenary of whose ...

    Article : 320 words
  18. ARTIFICIAL CHEESE RIND.

    The Italian cheese makers have been getting into trouble by treating the rinds of their cheese with chemicals. It has been proposed to prohibit the importation of Italian cheese ...

    Article : 304 words
  19. THE LATEST.

    "You claim to be a sailor?" sniffed the doubtful housewife. "Yes, mum," hastened Hornpipe Harry, as he took a reef in his trousers. ...

    Article : 57 words
  20. REAL ART.

    "So your son Daniel is developing artistic tendencies?" "Yes." "You must be very proud of him." ...

    Article : 190 words
  21. THIEF'S SMART TRICK.

    Particulars of a clever robbery were communicated to the London Metropolitan Police on January 16, when it became known that's man who called himself, most appropriately ...

    Article : 272 words
  22. AN ELECTRIC BAKERY.

    Electricity has been used for heating and cooking to a very limited degree hitherto, owing to the high price of the current, although the results are excellent and the ...

    Article : 227 words
  23. PURE IRON AT LAST.

    Chemically pure iron has never been obtained until very recently; it has been found almost impossible to remove the last traces of impurities, especially of sulphur. But a ...

    Article : 91 words
  24. EARLY RISING.

    Tommy was a very sound sleeper, and wouldn't get out of bed earlier than 10 o'clock, no matter what his mother said to him. So one morning she tried coaxing, and said to ...

    Article : 85 words
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