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  2. A PAPER WARDROBE.

    Out of approximately 30,000 applications for patents in the United Kingdom which were made during 1913, a very prominent position is ...

    Article : 106 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Justice by telephone is the latest innovation in New York, and people who have hitherto made invidious comparisons between the law's ...

    Article : 380 words
  4. THE WORLD'S GREAT NAVIES.

    The question of the upkeep, growth and expansion of the British Navy is one which vitally affects Australia, and as the time for the ...

    Article : 532 words
  5. A Brush with Fate.

    The frost king had come to the world in a night, and the grass on the "rides" in the bristling covert was flashing and dancing as if ...

    Article : 779 words
  6. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE NORTHERN TERRITORY.

    The Royal Commission which was appointed to inquire into the question of railways and ports in the Northern Territory, has prepared two ...

    Article : 517 words
  7. Latest Ghost Story.

    A wonderful ghost story is said to be agitating high society. The [?]ar of a Kensington church was leaving the church after choir ...

    Article : 726 words
  8. Worst on Record.

    The shopman had been using a vast amount of persuasion in trying to induce the visitor to pur- chase a gramphone. ...

    Article : 133 words
  9. FOR SALE, A MOTOR-CAR.

    A motor-car is to be had for a mere none in Philadelphia. Its last owner, Mr. Stewart Owens, a student at the Philadelphia College of ...

    Article : 125 words
  10. Rage and Jealousy Make You Ugly.

    Very recent discoveries of the activities and uses of certain little glands in the body show how the body and mind are injuriously ...

    Article : 750 words
  11. ELECTRICITY IN ANTAR[?].

    Dr. Mawson in describing the terrific storms that his expedition experienced in Antarctica, said that the snow beaten on the face by the win[?] ...

    Article : 168 words
  12. A MAN OF THIRTEENS.

    The number thirteen recurs in the circumstances of the death of Mr. Phuyah Rudd, of North Burton, Yorks, who died on December 13th. ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. M.P'S TO BE CINEMATOGRAPHED.

    A Paris cinematograph firm has just signed a contract with the French Government under which it has obtained the sole right to take ...

    Article : 120 words
  14. A HUBBLE BEGINNING.

    Australia now contains about 90 million sheep, and the annual value of the pastoral industry exceeds 50 million sterling. In view of this, it ...

    Article : 323 words
  15. FREE LUNCHES IN CHURCHES.

    To the Congregational Church of Cincinnati, of which the Rev. Arthur Kelly is pastor, belongs the credit of establishing the first free lunch for ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. EVOLUTION OF THE HORSE.

    By the law of compensation Nature is evidently busy re-adjusting matters. In these days of humans de- veloping vegetarian tastes, it is not ...

    Article : 200 words
  17. CINEMATOGRAPH TRICKS.

    How cinema thrills are produced was demonstrated at Farnboro[?]h, Aldershot, recently by a number of London actors who played a drama ...

    Article : 134 words
  18. CONCAVE CINEMA SCREEN.

    Eliminating false perspective and making every portion of the picture equally distant from the projection light, a Chicago inventor has ...

    Article : 151 words
  19. CURIOUS SCHOOLS.

    In St. Petersburg there is an institution where young men training for service as police make a special study of the tools used by ...

    Article : 264 words
  20. Obeyed Instructions.

    The wit of a sharp retort often makes the reader forget its impertinence. Such a rebuke was that which Sir W. S. Gilbert ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. AN ANCIENT WEAPON.

    A curious stone weapon, extremely heavy and shaped like a "mere" (a email and effective Maori club), but fitted with a long handle, was ...

    Article : 135 words
  22. Fact and Fiction.

    In the "Realities of Irish Life," by W. S. French, is this anecdote: —"I have hoard a story that upon one occasion the Bishop of London ...

    Article : 125 words
  23. CONVICTS HAHNKSSED TO A PLOUGH.

    Scottish convicts at the penitentiary at Perth arc harnessed to a plough instead of horses. The farm attached to the prison can be seen ...

    Article : 135 words
  24. TAPERING OFF.

    A novel appeal was made, and not a vain, in the Magistrates' Court in Arrow, in the south of New Zealand, recently by a resident against whom ...

    Article : 107 words
  25. A NEW VERSION.

    Mr. Taft's triumphant announcement that he has beer able to reduce his weight to a more reasonable figure recalls one of the many little ...

    Article : 85 words
  26. SUITABLE BRIDE.

    "And a very suitable bride for you, old chap." "why?" "well, you say she has brains enough for two!" ...

    Article : 25 words
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