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  4. IN THE ARMCHAIR.

    The Prince of Wales is, to a certain extent, a believer in pahni[?]try. Mr. George Groesmith, who travels a great deal, never [?]nds long railway ...

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  5. FACTS & FANCIES.

    The Astronomical Society's gold medal this year has been given for work done with the largest telescope in the world, which was presented to the University of ...

    Article : 190 words
  6. JOKELETS.

    Doctor : "Well, did Bam have the relapse, as I said yesterday, Auntie? "Auntie Brown: "Y[?] right bout dat collapse; dat old bed broke and ...

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  7. SPRAY.

    "Jones is a terribly ignorant num." "What makes you think that ?" "Why, I was talking with him the other night on the subject of music, and it turned ...

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  8. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    " I am sorry. Mr. —cr—Lee, but [?] find that my partner has already filled the vacaney." With a quaver in his voice Maynard ...

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  9. FOR INVALIDS.

    for those confined to their room by illness nothing appeals more keenly than a new institution known as " a gossip book." This taken the form of a sort of general ...

    Article : 153 words
  10. AFTER THE FIRE.

    After a big fire in London some interesting notes were made on the sales which were excavated from the ruins. One safe had the brass handles and [?]ttings ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. THE NEW CHIVALRY OF THE JAP.

    With the Japanese adoption of foreign dress came the idea that a woman was an individual rather than merely a thing, and that she should receive consideration. In ...

    Article : 133 words
  12. UTILISING WASTE.

    Up to comparatively recent times the Sheffield cutlers made a point of burning over night the borings and filings of the celluloid used for making handles on ...

    Article : 105 words
  13. DOCKING HORSES.

    It is thought that the practice of docking horses tails dates from the beginning of the eighteenth century. The strange custom provoked the observation of Voltaire ...

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  14. LAKE TANGANYIKA.

    Lake Tanganyika, in Central Africa, presents one or two curious features in natural history. There is found in it a species of jelly fish or medusa, unknown ...

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  15. DIAMOND MINING.

    Diamond mining at Ki[?]berley is the subject of an illustrated article in the " Engineering Magazine." from which it appears that the ancient, laborious methods of ...

    Article : 485 words
  16. REDUCED TO FIGURES.

    At a meeting of a phonographic society recently it was stated that to write stenographically at the rate of one hundred and fifty words a minute involves hearing on ...

    Article : 92 words
  17. KNOWN AS "EVE'S APPLE-TREE."

    A tree which is supposed to bear " the forbidden fruit" is one of the botanical curiosities of Ceylon. It is generally spoken of as " Eve's apple-tree." The blossom ...

    Article : 132 words
  18. FRUIT FOR NOTHING.

    Cherry trees are planted along the [?] of some of the roads in Germany and other parts of the Continent. Any passer by may freely eat of the fruit, except th[?] ...

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  19. FROM THE "FLOWERY LAND."

    The rarest, most costly, and most curious fish for aquariums come from the East. Goldfish breeding is a speciality among the Celes[?]ials, the fish having been ...

    Article : 94 words
  20. EXPORTED TO AFRICA.

    Strange as it may seem, a lot of money is made out of policemen's cast-off uniforms. Quantities are bought by African traders and exported to various parts of ...

    Article : 79 words
  21. IN DIFFERENT COUNTRIES.

    Hissing means different things according to where you happen to be at the time. In West Africa the native hiss when they are astonished : in the [?] ...

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  22. IN A THIRD-CLASS RAILWAY CARRIAGE.

    "Many people who are otherwise s[?]pulously honest" (writes a correspondent of a contemporary), " take a delight in committing petty frauds on railway ...

    Article : 345 words
  23. DEPENDENT ON HIS SONS.

    In Japan more than most other countries war means a great national sacrifice for there a man's sons are practically his only provision for old age. The Japanese father, ...

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  24. BALD YET HAIRY.

    The proud possessor of the longest beard in the world for a long time was believed to be a Frenchman named Louis Coulon. His beard, which was never [?], ...

    Article : 79 words
  25. WHERE WIDOWS ARE REVERED.

    According to the laws of good society in China, young widows should not remarry. Widowhood is therefore held in the highest esteem, and the older the window ...

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  26. 200 MILES FROM LAND.

    It often happens that [?] run short of water when they are off the northern [?]oas[?] of South America. They then make for the month of Amazon, where they ...

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  27. KINDNESS THAT IS CRUELTY.

    Among many [?]urious laws concerning capital punishment, none, perhaps, [?]curious than one which prevails in [?]. It enacts that a man being sentenced to ...

    Article : 53 words
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