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  2. Clever Business Women.

    There are not a few women to-day who, if not exactly making fortunes in the commercial world, are managing businesses which deal ...

    Article : 687 words
  3. Extraordinary Portable Banks.

    When the constable arrested the seventy-year-old, hump-backed beggar, William Kahler, he acted from a sense of pity that prompted him ...

    Article : 736 words
  4. A ROBIN'S NEST IN A BOOKCASE

    A robin which had frequented our house during the winter returned, and chose a novel site for its nest, writes a correspondent. After having been ...

    Article : 216 words
  5. Wooden Silk Dresses.

    Silk dresses arc now being made from wood. There is the cleverly "mercerised" cotton, for instance; but machinery and chemicals have ...

    Article : 498 words
  6. The Foot and the Yard.

    Foot rules and yard sticks are so common nowadays that not one person in a thousand over stops to think of their origin. Yet the ...

    Article : 468 words
  7. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    "Seeing by wire" was the startling suggestion conveyed in a lecture before the Institute of Automobile Engineers by Dr. A. M. Low, a ...

    Article : 256 words
  8. MAORILAND'S MAGNA CHARTA.

    It is Interesting to read the literal translation of "The Treaty of Waltangi," or as it has been a[?]tly called, "The Magna Charta of the ...

    Article : 521 words
  9. £4,000.000 FROM BREAKFAST FOOD.

    Mr. Charles Post, the breaklast-food "king," and one of the most original advertisers in the United States, who committed suicide ...

    Article : 101 words
  10. ALLIGATORS' FIGHT.

    An exciting incident occurred the other day at the Anglo-American Exposition at the White City., Shepherd's Bush. ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. DON'T INHALE.

    The cigarette has become universal. Its danger lies in the practice of "inhalation" so commonly adopted. The products of decomposition of ...

    Article : 224 words
  12. A DOG'S FUNERAL.

    A dog received a full-areas funeral recently at the Strawberry Vale (Finchley) Home for Dogs. A barrow covered with crepe was the ...

    Article : 71 words
  13. A Tiger Story.

    Some years ago the writer made one of a shooting party entertained by "Tom" Cannon, peerless horseman and a good fellow, who ...

    Article : 375 words
  14. Wonderful Wheat Growing

    Great interest is taken in France in a new method by which the yield of crops per acre is enormously increased. In one test case the yield ...

    Article : 510 words
  15. GALLANT AUSTRALIANS.

    It is well for Australians to remember that the event in South Africa which Conan Doyle described as being "the most gallant feat of arms ...

    Article : 216 words
  16. BLIND MAN'S WAGER.

    "I am willing to wager £1000 that I will find any address in London, without the aid of a taxi-cab or a guide, by walking and using only ...

    Article : 122 words
  17. FASHIONS FOR MEN.

    There is a revival of one of the old fashions which is favoured by some of the best dressed men of the day. I refer (says "Le Comte,") to ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. How the Sailor is Made.

    It costs the nation just three hundred pounds to turn out an efficient sailor at the expiration of about five years' training, and by ...

    Article : 330 words
  19. BY TRAMCAR TO BETHLEHEM.

    The running of tramways in Jerusalem is at last materialising. A forty years' concession has been granted. According to the contract, ...

    Article : 208 words
  20. SHAVING UNDER DIFFICULTIES.

    The Austrian pilot Konschel, who for a bet performed the feat of shaving himself in an aeroplane, rose 3000 feet before beginning operations ...

    Article : 71 words
  21. THE INVENTION OF BELLS.

    The invention of bells is attributed to the Egyptians, who are credited with having made use of such percussion instruments at announce the ...

    Article : 33 words
  22. Battle With "Apoohoo."

    A troup of Paris Boy Scouts sixty strong marched out one Sunday afternoon to [?] Bourget, the scene of one of the hard fought ...

    Article : 219 words
  23. A HISTORICAL FIGUREHEAD.

    There has recently been presented to the Auckland Museum, New Zealand, the figurehead of H.M.S. Orpheus, which was wrecked in 1865 ...

    Article : 89 words
  24. A METEORITE FROM ZULULAND.

    Prof. Stanley describes the fall of a meteorite in the N'Kandhla district of Zululand, which took place on the 1st August, 1912. An explosion took ...

    Article : 180 words
  25. "QUICK SERVICE."

    An Indian prince, of the name of Moolraj, was once besieging some English troops, and finding his ammunition coming to an end, ...

    Article : 122 words
  26. FINDING LONGITUDE: NEW METHOD

    The novel method of finding longitude lately tried by Professor Lippthe French astronomer, is the comparison of simultaneous ...

    Article : 65 words
  27. "JUMPING OUT OF BED" PERIL.

    An inquest was held on General J. C. Fabritius, of St. Petersburg, a retired Russian general and scientific officer, who was found dead in his ...

    Article : 101 words
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