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  2. Is it Pleasant to Die.

    Interest in the discussion on "The [?]ains of death" is stimulated by some recent lettees published in "The Times." A correspondent ...

    Article : 986 words
  3. The Large Ice Cave.

    A few years ago some members of the Austrian Speleological Society discovered in the Dachstein mountains some caverns which are ...

    Article : 322 words
  4. Chickens Hatched by Bees

    Rearing chicks by electricity seems a tall order, yet this is what is being done at a chick farm at Muskogee, Oklahoma, where ...

    Article : 362 words
  5. In the Wild West.

    In the days when the West was really "wild" and "woolly," good doctors were scarcer than women out in the mining camps. ...

    Article : 203 words
  6. Care of Paint Brushes.

    Common wood clothespins may be used as supports for holding paint brushes in a liquid while they are not in use. The pins are clamped ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 106 words
  7. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST. JONATHAN WILD.

    One of the most notorious criminals that ever lived in England was Jonathan Wild. He was born at Wolverhampton of decent parents ...

    Article : 372 words
  8. A Dominie to the Japs.

    "What is that big building over there?" I asked my companion, as we walked down the Ginza in Tokio. "No!" he replied, with a ...

    Article : 547 words
  9. THE FIRST STEAMER TO [?]ROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    The Savannah, a 350-ton brig, was built for the packet service between Havre and New York. Moses Rogers, afterwards captain of ...

    Article : 315 words
  10. A Deadly Industry Made Perfectly Safe.

    It seems extraordinary that primitive methods of obtaining the necessary combustion for getting fire or light should have prevailed ...

    Article : 429 words
  11. The Mouse Escaped.

    The landlady, while engaged in her domestic duties, encountered a mouse in the flour-barrel. Now, most ladies in similar ...

    Article : 135 words
  12. Sash Shade Holder for Venetians.

    A shade fastened to the casing at the top of a window always hinders the free passage of air when the top sash is lowered. A simple ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 170 words
  13. THE GREAT BULLION ROBBERY.

    Never was a crime more audaciously conceived than the great bullion robbery of 1856, on the South-Eastern Railway. On the ...

    Article : 300 words
  14. The First Cigars.

    The cigar is now so common an object that we hardly realise how recently it came into use. A letter of Robert Bloomfield, the author of ...

    Article : 424 words
  15. Dowries for Gifts.

    At different times thoughtful people have stipulated in their wills that a certain sum of money shall be set aside to provide dowries for ...

    Article : 450 words
  16. Gems that Change Colour.

    The newest fashionable gem is one that has the somewhat startling peculiarity of being a quite different colour in the evening from ...

    Article : 307 words
  17. AN EPOCK-MAKING BOOK.

    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" war published on March 20, 1852. The author Mrs. Beecher Stowe, was despondent as to "whether anybody would ...

    Article : 198 words
  18. WORSE THAN A BAD ONE.

    "Wal," said the public-house philosopher, "now that they've caught that young Foster brat a-poachin' on th' gun club's preserves, his ...

    Article : 181 words
  19. A SHRINKING SEA.

    The surface of the Caspian, which lies 88ft. below sea level, has, since June, 1910, been continually sinking, without a plausible ...

    Article : 155 words
  20. A MEXICAN ROYAL TRAGEDY.

    On May 19, 1864, Maximilian, the handsome, blue-eyed, fair-bearded brother of the Austrian Emperor, made his proud entry into the ...

    Article : 292 words
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