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  2. RANDOM READINGS.

    The largest stage in the world is that of the Grand Opera House in Paris. It is one hundred foot wide, nearly two hundred in depth, and eighty feet ...

    Article : 95 words
  3. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    Do you know what the science of the weather is called? It is known as meteorology. The same comes from two Greek words meaning "to rise ...

    Article : 302 words
  4. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    In reaping the rewards of married life the average man finds that matrimony is more of a binder than a reaper. Casoy: Phwat kind av a horse is a ...

    Article : 1,048 words
  5. NEVER PUT MONEY IN YOUR MOUTH.

    The reason that children, shopgirls, conductors, and others should never put any kind of money in their mouths is not because swallowing money, as ...

    Article : 451 words
  6. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    The oldest known English picture is one of Chaucer, painted in tho year 1880. Oysters are such nervous creatures ...

    Article : 752 words
  7. TAUGHT A LESSON.

    A certain class of shopkeepers try to force their wares upon passers-by. A traveller determined to teach one of these a lesson. The offender was a ...

    Article : 197 words
  8. WHAT FLAGS MEAN.

    From time immemorial flags have been flown by ships at sea all over the world, but it is only in more recent years that an International Code has ...

    Article : 412 words
  9. A NEW FLAG.

    The now "flag of peace" which was devised by the Hague conference will easily break records in the matter of variety of hue. The great majority of ...

    Article : 95 words
  10. HAD HER OWN WAY.

    It was a sunny day, and the florist's window, full of gaily-decked flowers, looked unusually seductive. Soon there entered a lady of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 269 words
  11. AN IDEAL JAPANESE HUSBAND.

    A Tokio review, the "Choukouyo Gousho," has been asking its lady readers for their ideal of a husband. Here are the necessary virtues of the ...

    Article : 161 words
  12. THE TEA TELLS ITS HISTORY.

    "Sad thing about the lemon, isn't it?" remarked the sugar to the the one night after the shop was closed. "Why, what happened to him," ...

    Article : 695 words
  13. ONE OF NAPOLEON'S MARSHALS.

    Jean Baptiste Jules Bernadotte, one of Napoleon's marshals and King of Sweden and Norway, was born at Pau, France, on January 26th, 1764, and ...

    Article : 257 words
  14. TOO SUDDEN.

    "This is so sudden!" As he heard the girl speak these words the astonished young man rose to his feet in bewilderment. ...

    Article : 193 words
  15. KNEW HIM WELL.

    It was a contested will case, and one of the witnesses, in the course of giving evidence, described the testator minutely. ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. PERFUMES SHOULD MATCH COMPLEXIONS.

    None of our senses is so little considered as that of smell, and it is a sign of advance in civilisation that there is a growing tendency to develop this ...

    Article : 376 words
  17. A DRY JOKE.

    The guard had told the passenger very frankly that he was not a walking encyclopaedia, neither was he a general information bureau. The ...

    Article : 132 words
  18. PEOPLE WHO DO NOT THINK.

    The mind of the Eskimo appears to be solely concentrated on hunting. Nothing else seems to interest him. In his book, "The People of the Polar North," ...

    Article : 287 words
  19. DOCTOR TO THE PLANTS.

    If you eat too much, the chances are that you will get fat and flabby. It is the same with trees. If the food they get is too easily digested the fibres ...

    Article : 242 words
  20. MUST HAVE SUFFERED.

    "Dear me!" grasped Mrs. Hollonut. "Here's a terrible item in this paper! My word How the poor man must have suffered!" ...

    Article : 141 words
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