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  3. WHILE ON THE WING.

    The manner in which birds that have been wounded either by shot or trap recover is little short of marvellous. There is on record a case of a partridge ...

    Article : 227 words
  4. PITH AND POINT.

    The first expedition to the South Polo took place in 1567. In tho German army nearly 10,000 carrier pigeons are used. ...

    Article : 588 words
  5. SPRAY.

    A well-known actor, who has also written the libretti of several comic opera, was sitting in a restaurant recently with a friend, when a waiter approached to take ...

    Article : 588 words
  6. "Our Nellie."

    No playgoer, not even the most juvenii gallery first-nighter, can learn without a heartfelt pang of the death of Miss Neline Farren. ...

    Article : 1,322 words
  7. LIFE AS A DRESS MODEL.

    Among the ,peculiar and little-known industries monopolised by women is that of the figure, or dress, model. This worker in the social hive is contined to ...

    Article : 1,019 words
  8. THE EARTH FIFTY YEARS AGO.

    The lament, of a well-known geographical professor recently that the whole of the world is not explored and mapped out, seems almost asking to much when one ...

    Article : 829 words
  9. MENUS INSTEAD OF MEDICINE.

    Everybody is interested in food, but very few persons, except doctors .and invalids, feel an absorbing interest in the subject of medicine. Even the invalids, themselves ...

    Article : 850 words
  10. FEMALE IMPOSTORS.

    The reopening of the Chadwick case in America has incidentally emphasised the interesting fact that great frauds by women run in cycles, and that women ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,121 words
  11. FACE-FITTINGS.

    The ideal man is clean-shaven. Confidentially be exposes to the world his features undisguised by hirsute appendages Can we conceive the Apollo Belvedere ...

    Article : 345 words
  12. ESQUIRE.

    The United Stales of America is a democratic country, and, naturally enough, there is trouble in some of the towns and. cities in respect to the tendency towards ...

    Article : 337 words
  13. HOW GREAT WAR-SONGS WERE WRITTEN.

    It was in a mood of wonderful Inspiration that Rouget de Lisle wrote both words and music of the world-famous "Marseillaise," said to be the most inspiring ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 181 words
  14. A HUMAN PENDULUM.

    In the third of his series of lectures at the Royal Institution on "Methods of Measuring Time," Mr. Henry Cunynghame explained the laws governing the actions ...

    Article : 226 words
  15. A LEGACY OF EARS.

    The curious condition by which the late Miss F. P. Cobbe insisted in her will that her revival in the grave should be made impossible recalls (says the "Manchester ...

    Article : 275 words
  16. THE DUTCH CALENDAR.

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  17. MATCHING THE SNOW.

    The ermine is really a stoat whose coat has turned white with the coming of the snow. It has been found that cold alone will not produce the change, but that it ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. USED FOR SNAKE BITES.

    In California there grows a plant called the rattlesnake weed. It gets its name from the story that, when rattlesnakes fight and bite each other, this weed in ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. LONGEST IN THE WORLD.

    The longest bridge in the world is the Lion Bridge, near Sangang, in China. It extends five and a-quarter miles over an arm of the Yellow Sea, and is supported ...

    Article : 51 words
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