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  2. NATURE NOTES.

    There is no other bird which runs quite the same risk and evades them in the same way as the pigeon. Given a fair start and no surprise there is no ...

    Article : 178 words
  3. THREE VIEWS.

    Every man is so much force. He comes into the world able to speed it upon its way; and the duty of each man is simply to act himself out. But ...

    Article : 1,420 words
  4. MONTE CARLO

    I paid a flying visit to the Riviera two or three weeks ago. It was some twenty-five years since I had been there, and about twice that period ...

    Article : 1,734 words
  5. THE CASE OF LOIS ANN.

    "Come right in this way," I heard Aunt Sally calling, as I stepped upon the verandah. I found her baking pies and ginger creams in her workshop, as ...

    Article : 2,534 words
  6. CONFESSION MANIA.

    It is a curious characteristic of Daniel White that he delights in representing himself to be a deserter from the Army, when, as a matter of fact, ...

    Article : 404 words
  7. ELECTRIC-LIGHT FISH.

    One of the most remarkable of the creatures which live in the ocean depths is known us the electric fish, from the fact that it carries ...

    Article : 80 words
  8. THE LARGE-EARED DOG.

    A very interesting addition has just been made to the animals in the Zoological Gardens in the form of a specimen of the large-eared dog (Octocyon ...

    Article : 178 words
  9. A POWERFUL FISH.

    The power of the sword fish has always been admitted, and instances have not been altogether uncommon of his attacking vessels and burying his ...

    Article : 220 words
  10. WIRELESS SECRETS.

    The young draughtsman from Ports-mouth Richard Sidney Knowlden, improperly found in possession of wireless telegraphy apparatus, drawings, and ...

    Article : 473 words
  11. HOW CAMELS ARE TRAINED.

    The first thing an Arab does when training a camel is to teach him to kneel down at the word of command. He seizes him by the throat with his left ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. CHILD'S OVERALL.

    A smart little overall is made this way, with pleated skirt and embroidery, shoulderstraps, and yoke. The blouse may be either neatly tucked as ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 41 words
  13. GIANT TOMATOES.

    It has lately been demonstrated that tomatoes can be grown to an enormous sphere by much the same process that evolved the American Beauty rose— ...

    Article : 54 words
  14. SOME PUBLISHERS' BLUNDERS.

    Publishers, like other people, sometimes make mistakes. Mr R. Codhrane, in the "Book Monthly," recalls some famous examples. George Meredith, as ...

    Article : 239 words
  15. RATS AS SENTINELS.

    Two ingenious burglars in an American gaol recently found their cells infested with rats. They did not object to this, for they devised a means by ...

    Article : 114 words
  16. SUNDAY TELEPHONE POST.

    Mr Frederic Peake, secretary of the Lord's Day Observance Society, has (says the "Express") written to the Postmaster-General regarding the new ...

    Article : 140 words
  17. FIRE HEROINE REWARDED.

    In recognition of the prompt and efficient aid rendered by her at a fire, in South Lambeth last year, when a child was burnt to death, Miss Beatrice Daisy ...

    Article : 70 words
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