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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The small boy with the long face entered the office of the local paper to hand in the result of their match. "Well, how have you got on to-day, ...

    Article : 100 words
  3. Politeness that Paid.

    "I tried to make it like home for him!" This is an explanation given by an elderly billet-lady who to-day finds ...

    Article : 212 words
  4. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Naturalists consider the elephant's trunk the most marvellous miracle of Nature. It contains over 4,000 muscles—a great many more than are ...

    Article : 102 words
  5. Ladies' Column.

    Considering the aptitude that women have for the work it is surprising how few take up hairdressing as a means of earning a living. A ...

    Article : 182 words
  6. On Remand.

    Clang! The heavy black door had closed. Until I had tried to open it and failed, I would not own to myself ...

    Article : 503 words
  7. AN ILL-MANNERED DONKEY.

    A gentleman once bought his sixyear-old son a donkey to amuse himself with. The little fellow got on all right with it at first, but one ...

    Article : 78 words
  8. AUTHORS' AMAZING FEES.

    Five thousand pounds is the highest price ever paid for a poem, which Byron received for "Child Harold"; he subsequently got £3,600 for "Don ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. CONSCIENCE MONEY.

    "Here, my dear," said the husband producing a handful of sovereigns, "are ten pounds I won at the club at cards last night. You may have ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. HOW TO CLEAN VEILS AND LACES.

    All women know how often their dainty laces aiul veils arc ruined when washed in the usual way, or if not ruined all their crisp freshness ...

    Article : 340 words
  11. BURIED SHELLS.

    An odd problem, which will he encountered all through the fighting territory after tha war, is that of guarding against the exploding of ...

    Article : 319 words
  12. EXPENSIVE SHELLS.

    The type of shell which is fired from a great howitzer costs £1,200. Even the comparatively small fieldguns are loaded with shells which ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. SWEET MEMORIES.

    In some respects it was the most Interesting moment of the voyage, for they had just sighted a school of whales, and stood watching with rapt ...

    Article : 213 words
  14. Unwritten Laws.

    Have you ever wondered, when the band plays "God Save the King," and everyone stands, where the law is written which is obeyed so ...

    Article : 370 words
  15. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Every time an officer or a seaman goes upon the quarter-deck he salutes it. He never by any chance forgets this, one of the regular customs on ...

    Article : 178 words
  16. SUNSPOTS STUDIED.

    Sunspots are generally looked upon as a cause of magnetic storms on the earth, but more light is still being sought. At a late meating of the ...

    Article : 119 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 501 words
  18. FRANCE'S "FOREIGN LEGION."

    The French "Foreign Legion" is one of the best-known regiments in the world's armies. Its discipline is enforced with pitiless severity, death ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. THE ENTERPRISING WHITE.

    A writer gives a little sketch of black and white in Natal. He tells how he came across a white boy, some fourteen years old, and a group ...

    Article : 191 words
  20. FACTS ABOUT WATCHES.

    The balance-wheel of an average watch makes 300 vibrations a minute or 18,000 an hour, 432,00 in a day, and 157,788,000 in a year. At each ...

    Article : 147 words
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