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  2. Brain will be Man's Ruin.

    Man's downfall at the end of this geological age is likely to result from excessive brain development. At the Royal Institution the other ...

    Article : 264 words
  3. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST. THE "NINE" AT DELHI.

    The storming of Delhi is one of the memorable deeds of the Indian Mutiny: but the tale of its evacuation by the British forces, if less ...

    Article : 510 words
  4. "'WAY BACK."

    Fate clinched the matter for me. She had set her face for weeks against my desire to work, and I went farming to spite her. Jackson ...

    Article : 1,372 words
  5. THE PLAYGROUND OF THE WINDS.

    North of the head of the Great Australian Bight, in South Australia, and far westward beyond Eucla, in Western Australia, [?] a vast ...

    Article : 1,603 words
  6. TERRIBLE AMERICAN TRAIN DISASTER.

    A terrible railway accident occurred early on the morning of May 11, 1905, on the Pennsylvania Railway, near Harrisburg. The ...

    Article : 222 words
  7. Tower of Babel Discovery.

    The Abbe Henri de Genouillac, after his return from the excavation at Babylonia, said he believed that he had found the original of ...

    Article : 202 words
  8. The Indian Canoe.

    When the Canadian red man of the old kind wants to make a canoe he cuts a tree, preferably a cedar, or else searches for a fallen trunk of ...

    Article : 551 words
  9. "THE DEVIL'S DEN."

    Among the craps of the beautiful Blue Ridge mountains of Virginia lies what is known us "the Devil's Den," where for nearly a ...

    Article : 346 words
  10. Train Seven Years Late.

    The 'Railway Magazine' records the story of a train which reached its destination more than seven years behind time on a part of the ...

    Article : 444 words
  11. THE INTRODUCTION OF VACCINATION.

    On May 14, 1796, Edward Jenner conclusively established the important principles of vaccination, proving that it was possible to ...

    Article : 324 words
  12. The "Lightning Calculator."

    In the lunatic asylum at Nantes is (says the "Daily Chronicle") an illiterate inmate who has been discovered by the chief doctor to be a ...

    Article : 356 words
  13. A TUFNELL PARK KLONDYKE.

    On April 10, 1813, whilst engaged in grubbing up the roots of some trees in Tufnell Park, eight labourers came upon two jars ...

    Article : 220 words
  14. A BALACLAVA HERO.

    There are now but sixteen survivors of the famous Balaclava charge. One of the sixteen is Captain Percy Smith, who, in spite of his ...

    Article : 183 words
  15. SOME CURIOUS EXPLOSIONS.

    Apart from the ever-present danger due to the huge collection of intricate and swiftly-moving machinery with which most modern ...

    Article : 251 words
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