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  4. IN THE ARMCHAIR.

    We have all heard lots about the down-trodden author who can never set his work accepted. Less is told us about his brother, the up-trodden author. ...

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  5. FACTS & FANCIES.

    Perhaps the earliest instance of ecclesiastical promotion won by a pun in that of a curate named "Joseph, who was prompted by Swift to take this text for a sermon ...

    Article : 356 words
  6. THE SKETCHER.

    Answer: "No." The Kaiser has given instructions to the Special Police Force which does duty in the streets of Berlin when is out driving ...

    Article : 1,304 words
  7. SPRAY.

    It was Saturday, and the gang of navvies who had been busy in the roadway were just about to break up. The "gaffer" felt hospitable, and in a generous mood invited ...

    Article : 1,117 words
  8. PITH AND POINT.

    A crow will destroy 700,000 insects every year. One in seven British landowners is a woman. Some doctors now class crysipelas as a contagious disease. ...

    Article : 569 words
  9. THE TALE FOR TO-DAY.

    "An extraordinary case, Mr. Derick, is it not?" said Mr. Joseph Harwood, the famous solicitor, glancing keenly at Richard Derrick, who sat in his chair limp and ...

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  10. ASKING PAPA.

    The lovely girl tapped softly at the door of her father's private office. There was no response. She tapped a little louder. "Come In." ...

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  11. IN A LONDON OMNIBUS.

    A prominent Police Court magistrate, passing one day through the city, and not being pressed for time, availed himself of the outside of an ...

    Article : 213 words
  12. "DON'TS" FOR MOTHERS.

    A gospel of "don'ts" is generally conceded to be an unhealthy mental diet to bring up children on; but there is little doubt but that a judicious amount ...

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  13. SOIL WET AND DRY.

    Wet soil assumes a darker colour than dry because its particles thus become semi-transparent, as is the case also with a piece of wetted tissue paper, or ground ...

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  14. NOTHING WASTED.

    Every residual product has its value today. There is absolutely no waste in Nature, and very little in modern chemistry. Street offal and washings of coal gas ...

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  15. ON RADIUM'S RIM.

    We are evidently yet on the outer rim of the varied powers and effects of radium. Experiments seem to demonstrate its power to convert, ordinary rain and spring ...

    Article : 129 words
  16. ON UNUSUAL LINES.

    A curious form of life assurance is springing up in French manufacturing toens under the name of La Fourmi (the ant). The peculiarity is that the longer a man ...

    Article : 105 words
  17. THE CLEVER OLD BOY.

    A van laden with lamp-glasses had collided with another vehicle in the Strand, creating a tremendous crash. Lamp-glasses, though expensive to buy, are very ...

    Article : 201 words
  18. WITH THE SAGES.

    Life is [?]ick sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is ...

    Article : 231 words
  19. SCENT THE EXCEPTION.

    Most people will be surprised to learn that the majority of flowers have no perfume whatever. A chemist, who has for some time been making r[?]ches into the ...

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  20. HENCE THE NARROW OUTLOOK.

    It is probable (according to a travelled journalist) that, not one in a thousand of the Russian peasantry have even a vague idea where Japan is or why their country ...

    Article : 97 words
  21. FLOGGING BY MACHINERY.

    A flogging machine has been perfected by an Russian inventor with the object of saving labour in this detestable department of official industry. It catches the ...

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  22. POLITENESS FIRST.

    Walking in the park at Dresden, the Queen of Saxony met a nurse in charge of two little children, and she stopped to admire the rosy babies, for she is very fond ...

    Article : 111 words
  23. NOT IN LEAP YEAR ONLY.

    Every year in Moscow, on the feast of the Epiphany, all the eligible girls of the, lower orders array themselves in their best clothes and gather in the street. A ...

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  24. THIS BIRD SHAVES.

    Man has a rival in the art of shaving in a South American bird called the "motmol." which actually begins shaving on arriving at maturity. Naturally adorned ...

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