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  2. CONFECTIONERY IN ANCIENT EGYPT.

    THE invention of confectionery, an English writer guesses, is due to Noah, who "first hit on the idea of boiling down the starch of the wheat and the juice of the grape. The ...

    Article : 110 words
  3. JEWEL THIEVES BUSY IN AMERICA.

    IN the past month burglars, working in the best detective novel manner, have committed a series of robberies in the houses of wealthy residents at the summer colonies ...

    Article : 137 words
  4. GIANT GERMAN AEROPLANE.

    A LEIPZIG telegram says that what is claimed to be the largest aeroplane in the world, manufactured by the Aviatik Works of Leipzig, has just carried out its ttrst flights. ...

    Article : 81 words
  5. FAMOUS FRENCH TRENCH.

    A DRAMATIC incident of the defence of Verdun vas recalled recently when Cardinal Dubois, the Archbishop of Rouen, consecrated the temporary graveyard at what ...

    Article : 120 words
  6. WILSON'S WASH.

    THE best story about President Wilson so far concerns an occasion when he was announced to speak at a meeting in a small western town. On account of a cloud-burst, ...

    Article : 77 words
  7. A PREHISTORIC NIAGARA.

    WHAT is thought to have been a second cataract of Niagara has been discovered at Thorold, Canada. The contractors on the New Welland Ship Canal, after excavating ...

    Article : 116 words
  8. A PLAGUE ON BOTH THEIR HOUSES.

    In Politics the Ins and Outs Are Montague and Capulet: Each mutually the other clouts; Agree? They couldn't, on a bet! ...

    Article : 153 words
  9. 400,000 DIVORCE SUITS.

    A SSEETING that the institution of marriage in America is endangered by the divorce evil. Chief Justice Hoffman, of the Domestic Relations Court, Cincinnati, suggested the ...

    Article : 156 words
  10. A RETURN TO KAISERISM.

    FIELD-MARSHAL von Hindenburg, addressing the youth of Hanover, who demonstrated before his house in honor of Tannenberg. said:— ...

    Article : 192 words
  11. "PUSSYFOOT" ORATORY.

    A REMARKABLE example of Prohibition oratory in the United States is afforded by a "funeral oration" delived at Los Angeles, California, by Dr. C. E. Locke, in celebration ...

    Article : 212 words
  12. WHEN THE MOON WAS BLUE.

    THE expression "once in a blue moon," meaning that occurrences are so widely separated by time as to almost never recur, is, not merely a figure of speech. The ...

    Article : 236 words
  13. FATAL ACCIDENT AT GOLF.

    ROBERT TAIT, a mining engineer, aged 18, employed at the South Ayrshire Collieries (Limited), died recently at Girvan from the effects of an accident at golf. On the previous ...

    Article : 95 words
  14. FROM A MILLION TO £1000.

    THE will of Oscar Hammerstein, the impresario, leaves every thine to his widow. The value of the estate is little more than £1000, but he had given a substanial sum to ...

    Article : 70 words
  15. Corrlosity.

    Mother: "Don't ask so many questions, child. Curiosity killed the cat." Little Ethel: "What did the cafe want to know, mammal?" ...

    Article : 22 words
  16. Make or Break.

    Winks (giving advice to his friend): "Clothes don't make the man, you know." Blinks (examining tailor's account): "No, but they go a long, way towards breaking, him." ...

    Article : 28 words
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