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  2. Animals as Weather Prophets.

    Shepherds and others who spend much time in the open air say that we may always know when it will rain by watching the ways of ...

    Article : 192 words
  3. Asleep in the Dustbin.

    The dustbins of Rouen, which the authorities of that town boast are of the most modern type in France, have been nearly responsible for the ...

    Article : 160 words
  4. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Flowers have been artificially coloured with more or less success, but until recently animals have escaped the experiments of the ...

    Article : 930 words
  5. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST. POIGNANT POLAR TRAGEDY.

    The tale of the Gordon Bennett Expedition of 1870 in one of the most poignant of Polar tragedies. The Jeannette left San Francisco ...

    Article : 288 words
  6. Kings in Commerce[?]

    Like most really busy men the German Emperor always seems able to find some time for more work. As well as attending to the affairs ...

    Article : 371 words
  7. Dentistry 1,000 Years ago.

    During a lengthy relic-hunting visit to Ecuador, Professor Marshall Howard Saville, head of the Archaeology department of ...

    Article : 199 words
  8. MALTA BECOMES BRITISH POSSESSION.

    On Friday, September 5, 1800, Malta, the largest of a little group of Mediterranean islands, was surrendered to the British, under ...

    Article : 228 words
  9. Carrying a 20-ton Engine on a Cable.

    The strength of a cable is graphically illustrated in a photograph from Mexico, where engineering plant has had to be transported by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 147 words
  10. Was Nursed by Napoleon.

    The centenary of the battle of Waterloo will fall due within another two years, and, naturally, old people who can remember that ...

    Article : 162 words
  11. Eyes of the Motor-car.

    A new automobile headlight has just been put on the market in France, which represents a radical departure from present designs. ...

    Article : 190 words
  12. Speed of the Wind.

    Up to the present the greatest speed of the wind has never been measured, for the simple reason that no instrument has yet been ...

    Article : 182 words
  13. A DAY OF CARNAGE.

    When the light of dawn stole quietly over the Sudanese desert on the morning of September 2, 1898, it revealed the spectacle of war ...

    Article : 297 words
  14. An Ingenious Defence.

    At Munchen-Gladbach, an important West-German manufacturing town, a short time ago, a defendant in the police-court was ...

    Article : 130 words
  15. A Strange Pilgrimage.

    One of the most interesting of the Tachienlu (W. China) Lamastic population is a person who receives the appellation of "Chang-cha-[?]a." ...

    Article : 312 words
  16. A Blind Girl's Memory.

    A blind girl, Miss Mabel Green, aged twenty, has just written from memory a verbatim report of a sermon lasting three-quarters of an ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. Hiawatha Dead.

    Hiawatha the last hereditary chief of the Iroquois Indians, is dead. He had presided for many years over the remnant of the tribe which ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. Keeps Greenstuff Fresh.

    One of the chief causes of failure in the backyard poultry run is an insufficient supply of fresh green stuff. Even when green meat is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 140 words
  19. Woman's "No" all Powerful.

    A manuscript dealing with Gudula Rothschild, the mother of the great banking family, and wife of Maier Amschel Rothschild, the ...

    Article : 199 words
  20. FIRST FEMALE PEER.

    Great peerages have fallen to ladies in the natural course of events, but the first peeress by creation was Anne Boleyn. On ...

    Article : 160 words
  21. An £8,000 Find.

    In October of last year a daring robbery was committed from the mail van of a Bordeaux-Marseilles express train, and among other ...

    Article : 191 words
  22. More and the Maniac.

    In front of his Chelsea House Sir Thomas More had a garden and gatehouse, and as there was a pleasant view from the summit of the ...

    Article : 280 words
  23. Some Famous Echoes.

    Among the most noted echoes is that heard from the suspension bridge across the Menal Strait. The sound of a blow from a hammer ...

    Article : 203 words
  24. Bank Notes Eaten by Mice.

    A few years ago a poor peasant in France learned to his surprise and joy that he had come into an inheritance of £400. His thoughts ...

    Article : 231 words
  25. Earth as Food.

    Among many strange foods which the inhabitants of this world partake of, and consider delicacies, perhaps the strangest of all is earth. ...

    Article : 232 words
  26. AN HISTORIC CANNON BALL.

    The discovery, at a village near King's Lynn, of a cannon ball reputed to be a relic of the Parliamentary Wars recalls the fact that ...

    Article : 200 words
  27. CANADIAN COLD.

    The late Rev. Dr. Mason when in Rupert's Land as a missionary had a decidedly unpleasant experience one winter. The cold there is ...

    Article : 149 words
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