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  2. A GRIM USE FOR CRIMINALS.

    A grim suggestion is just put forward by the eminent Paris physician Dr. Buizard. Why, he asks, should condemned criminals be executed ...

    Article : 128 words
  3. New, Odd & Interesting.

    Baldness among Indiana and negroes is almost unknown. Last year 22,478 deaths from snakebites were recorded in India. ...

    Article : 782 words
  4. THE MARTIAN.

    Parisians were recently surprised to find upon the front page of one of their favourite newspapers a weird drawing of a supposed inhabitant of ...

    Article : 144 words
  5. For Young Folks.

    Mrs. Smith was talking with a visitor, when her little son came in, and forgot to remove his cap. To admonish him she said: "Francis, what did ...

    Article : 55 words
  6. "Fetters of Silence."

    Gradually it dawned on Wilmot that there was some particular object in his having been invited to lunch, and he began to wonder what ...

    Article : 2,797 words
  7. ONE BLOW SUFFICIENT.

    "You say he died from one blow administered by himself?" "Certainly." "But it is not possibly unless he ...

    Article : 41 words
  8. FOOT-POWERED VACUUM CLEANER.

    Many vacuum cleaners operated by manual power have been invented, but this is the first, we believe, in which the weight of the operator, in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  9. AN ARITHMETICAL "NUT."

    I think you will be amused as well as instructed while reading the following story. Five men and one monkey spent a ...

    Article : 820 words
  10. EATING FROGS.

    It is a mistake to think that frogs as an article of diet are confined to France, or even to the Continent of Europe. In America frogs legs, at ...

    Article : 139 words
  11. HAND LORE.

    When a man is not telling the truth he is apt to clench his hands, as Few men can lie with their hands open. A man who holds his thumb tightly Strong-willed persons hold their thumbs outside when shutting their hands. Shaking hands in greeting was originally an evidence that each ...

    Article : 290 words
  12. WHAT LEMONS WILL DO.

    These are some of the things lemons can do for you:—Squeezed into a glass of water every morning and drank, it will keep ...

    Article : 195 words
  13. THE FOUNDER OF KRUPPS.

    Abandoning a successful grocery business in 1811, Frederick Krupp founded what has long been famous as the great steel works of Essen. In ...

    Article : 190 words
  14. CHEWING GUM.

    The basis of all the chewing gum that is so popular a sweetmeat with the American public is chicle, the gathering ef which is an important ...

    Article : 288 words
  15. WELLINGTON'S NERVE.

    The "Iron" Duke of Wellington was one day sitting at his library when the door opened, and without any announcement in stalked a figure ...

    Article : 157 words
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