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  2. NO TAXES AND NO POLITICS.

    Life in Greenland was discussed in the Prize Court in London recently, when Mr. Jan Dangaard Jensen, Governor of Greenland, was giving ...

    Article : 175 words
  3. NOTES FORM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Tight, unventilated hats are one of the chief causes of baldness. Portland cement is made of lime and clay, and was invented in Leeds ...

    Article : 1,001 words
  4. GERMANY ADMITS FAILURE OF HER WAR PLANS.

    In a remarkable article in the "Frankfurter Zeitung" Professor Meinicke admits that the Prussian plan for overrunning Europe has ...

    Article : 191 words
  5. STUD SHEEP BREEDERS.

    In all the classes of stud sheep developments there are old established breeders whose well-known names take leading places, but during later ...

    Article : 1,146 words
  6. CAPTURED U-BOATS.

    Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University, who went to Pittsburg on February 10 to speak at the annual banquet of the ...

    Article : 228 words
  7. MEN AS DRESS DESIGNERS.

    "You may make omnibus conductors, munition workers, farm bailiffs, and doctors of women, but you will never turn them into good dress ...

    Article : 174 words
  8. NO SECRETS IN WAR-TIME.

    There are no secrets from the State in war-time. Solicitors, doctors, priests in the confessional—all are included in "person or persons ...

    Article : 354 words
  9. WOLVES STOP A FIGHT.

    The correspondent of the "Vechernee Vremya" states that packs of hungry wolves in the forests and marshes of Polesie are boldly ...

    Article : 124 words
  10. HOW THEY ARE MADE.

    A group of Northerners at an hotel in Louisville were poking fun at the partiality of Southerners for the titles of "Colonel," "Major," and ...

    Article : 126 words
  11. MONKEY DETECTIVE.

    How the murder of a Chinese conjurer was revealed, and the alleged murderer identified, through the actions of an intelligent monkey ...

    Article : 219 words
  12. PERPETUAL YOUTH.

    Every woman is ambitious of keeping young as long as passible, and her ambition is quite a legitimate one. But a resort to artificial ...

    Article : 185 words
  13. MATHEMATICAL PRODIGY.

    A child Wonder, with unusual mental powers, attends a school at Findly Ohio. He is Master Roy Fork, aged six and the son of a local ...

    Article : 153 words
  14. PEDIGREE GOLD FISH.

    Mr. E. Murata, a Japanese, has the distinction of being the "Gold Fish King" of America, and operates his remarkable "ranch" at ...

    Article : 106 words
  15. SUSPICIOUS.

    Doctor (hurriedly called in): "Your husband appears to be sleeping quietly at the present moment. What unfavourable symptoms have ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. WHAT TO DO.

    To prevent the contents from sticking, sprinkle the pudding-cloth before use with cold water. If a brick is used for an ...

    Article : 406 words
  17. WHAT A SHELL CAN DO.

    The testing of a big gun built for the United States Navy was recently carried out with remarkable results. The gun is 60 ft. in length, weighs ...

    Article : 153 words
  18. RISKS HER LIFE IN MAKING FILMS.

    Miss Helen Gibson, the well-known cinema actress, has won the admiration of her fellow actors and actresses for her daring feats in ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. A WOMAN IN UGANDA.

    Mrs. S. C. Layzell—before the war Margaret Capell, a schoolmistress in Northampton England—is now mamager of a large estate in British ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. MONEY IN OLD BOOTS.

    Where do you throw your old boots and shoes? Generally in the dust heap; or you give them to some old tramp to wear. Were you in France, ...

    Article : 179 words
  21. WHY PAT BAULKED.

    Softly the nurse smoothed the sufferer's pillow. He had been admitted only that morning, and now he looked up pleadingly at the nurse who ...

    Article : 107 words
  22. SAFETY GLOVES.

    Government tenders, it is stated, have been issued for tens of thousands of gloves for use by munition workers in England. It is believed ...

    Article : 150 words
  23. HE EARNED THE SHILLING.

    In a London restaurant an Irish waiter was in the habit of bringing an old gentleman's tea, the major part of which was usually in the ...

    Article : 85 words
  24. IN NO MAN'S LAND.

    The hedge on the left, and the trench on the right, And the whispering, rustling wood between, ...

    Article : 212 words
  25. SMART.

    An Irishman landing in New York for the first time met at the landing stage it cousin who had resided in America for some years. The two ...

    Article : 72 words
  26. NO MORE BROKEN EGGS.

    It is estimated that the loss, owing to breakage of eggs in transit, amounts to no less than £10,000,000 annually in the United States. ...

    Article : 202 words
  27. NO NEED TO WORRY.

    At Princeton they tell of a freshman who as he blithely went his way whistling on the streets one day, was accosted by a classmate: "Whither ...

    Article : 93 words
  28. KIDDING THE NEIGHBOURS.

    Casey had been married only a week when he discovered that his wife, who had assumed control of household and larder, was inclined ...

    Article : 96 words
  29. HE KNEW.

    The lesson was in Standard I., and the subject "The Cow." Towards the end the teacher was asking the class about the uses to which ...

    Article : 90 words
  30. ALL BUT HER.

    After her third clay's attendance at school, Pauline was retailing at home stories of her classmates' naughtiness. ...

    Article : 79 words
  31. GREEK KING'S HUN WIFE.

    The role played by Queen Sophia, the Kaiser's sister, during the recent events in Greece, was explained by Mile. Stephanopoli, now in London, ...

    Article : 155 words
  32. HENCE THE CHANGE.

    "What's wrong with the old iceman?" the young husband inquired, noting the change. And his novice bride explained: ...

    Article : 38 words
  33. NO LACK OF WOMEN.

    A certain rector, just before the service, was called to the vestibule to meet it couple who wanted to be Married. He explained that there ...

    Article : 110 words
  34. A FELLOW FEELING.

    A humane society had secured a down-town show window, and filled it with attractive pictures of wild animals in their native haunts. A ...

    Article : 79 words
  35. GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP.

    "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Turkins, "I am going to be in favour of Government ownership." "Have you given the matter any ...

    Article : 73 words
  36. THE CRADLE OF THE DEEP.

    The family was emigrating to Australia, and little Willie did not feel at home in his new quarters on board ship. ...

    Article : 68 words
  37. EXPLAINED.

    The muster of the household had ordered that the maid should clean a coat of his with gasoline. The order was not carried out, so he asked ...

    Article : 67 words
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