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  2. WISE AND OTHERWISE

    "Perkins believes nearly everything he hears." "But he's stone deaf." "Precisely." "He believes thoroughly in ...

    Article : 890 words
  3. HOW TO GET RICH.

    Live up to your engagements. Earn money before you spend it. Never play at any game of chance. Drink no kind of intoxicating ...

    Article : 125 words
  4. RANDOM READINGS.

    The Kaiser is, of course, notoriously conceited. He once wrote a poem which he submitted for criticism to Ludwig Ganghofer, the Bavarian ...

    Article : 188 words
  5. FOR YOUNG FOLKS

    "J wish I were you," said a maiden small, One day to a Honey-bee, "All the day long you have nothing to do ...

    Article : 88 words
  6. PICTURES UNDER THE SEA.

    Thanks to the inventive genius of a Scotch-American Sea-captain, Charles Williamson, of Norfolk, Vancouver, the most amazing pictures of ...

    Article : 534 words
  7. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    Tortoises and turtles have no teeth. The Polish centre of Loz is known as the Russian Mancheaer. The Sanskrit language is said to ...

    Article : 688 words
  8. HOW WORMS EAT.

    There are thousands of different classes of worms inhabiting both land and water, and there are over a thousand different species of ...

    Article : 548 words
  9. A FABLE PROM JAPAN.

    A man who had just reached heaven began to look about him, and before long he discovered a large pile of what looked like human ears. He ...

    Article : 170 words
  10. SOMETHING TO SMILE AT.

    Phew! It was hot, and the grounds of the village flower show were crowded and dusty. Poor old Mrs. Simpson was gasping ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. THE DESTRUCTION OP POMPEII.

    In the reign of the Emperor Titus, on August 23rd, 79, the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum were utterly destroyed by an eruption of Mount ...

    Article : 324 words
  12. FAIRYLAND IN THE FIRE.

    David and Lucy lived in a log cabin in a great Oregon wood, fifty miles from the nearest town. Their papa and mamma worked ...

    Article : 589 words
  13. NEW FOUNTAIN PEN HAS TRANSPARENT BARREL.

    In a new fountain pen one end of the barrel is made transparent, so that it is possible to see the ink as it flows toward the point. The advantage ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 60 words
  14. THE HAT TRICK.

    The curtain was rung up for the third time, and Margaret Blake stepped forward and responded to the prolonged acclamation of their admiring ...

    Article : 136 words
  15. THE JAPANESE PRINT.

    Slowly but surely these quaint and beautiful products of the Japanese press found their way to Europe, to be valued, perhaps by only one in a ...

    Article : 389 words
  16. PROMISING BOYS.

    A lad hired a bicycle for an hour for threepence, but at the end of an hour and three-quarters he did not like to take it back, as he had nor more ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. NEATLY CAUGHT.

    Two men who had been sitting near the door of a car on one of the American railways became engaged in an animated controversy, and their ...

    Article : 189 words
  18. OF THE WEAKER KIND.

    For the fortieth time the second hand motor-car had broken down, and the driver and his friend stood eyeing it in silent desperation. ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. SHAKING WITH FRIGHT.

    Tommy was at tea with his mother, when she suddenly noticed that he was eating his apple jelly with his teaspoon. ...

    Article : 76 words
  20. A PUPIL OF THE "BEST TEACHER."

    "Cheer up, old boy," advised the married man. "You know 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all." ...

    Article : 65 words
  21. THAT OR NOTHING.

    At the close of a "Baby Show," which had been held in a public hall of a country town, an exhibitor went to claim her cherub. On a squalling lump ...

    Article : 116 words
  22. DIFFERENT IN BUSINESS.

    "Pa, doesn't precipitation mean the same as settling?" "It does in chemistry, my son; but in business you'll find that many ...

    Article : 35 words
  23. SOUNDS FISHY.

    A lawyer tells of a case tried in a fishing town during which the chief witness under cross-examination refused to state the amount of his gross ...

    Article : 60 words
  24. A FEMININE ANSWER.

    Hw (exasperated): "Why don't you speak to that man when he bows? He's a fine man—a diamond in the rough." ...

    Article : 34 words
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