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  2. INCOMES OF GERMAN PRINCES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 211 words
  3. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    Important results are expected of the remarkable discovery by Prof. Darsonville, of the College de France, of a new explosive, ten times more powerful ...

    Article : 87 words
  4. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    It is the nature of the musk ox that it cannot long survive in any country inhabited by a hunting people. We find nowadays that the range of the ...

    Article : 888 words
  5. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    This is Unkind.—"Pop, what is a freethinker," Pop: "A freethinker, my son, is any man who isn't married." ...

    Article : 884 words
  6. THE POULTRY RUN.

    It is safe to assert that since the Leghorns landed in England in 1870 no other breed of fowls has done so much for the commercial side of poultry ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 282 words
  7. POETS IN RIVALRY.

    It might be thought that first-rate poets would not indulge in competitive efforts in their great art. But such is by no means the case. For ...

    Article : 588 words
  8. IT IS WRONG TO SAY "KNOTS PER HOUR."

    Nine out of ten persons will say that such and such a, steamship is capable of steaming at twenty knots per hour." A nautical man would simply ...

    Article : 350 words
  9. SEAWEED TYRES FOR MOTORCARS.

    Motorists nay now look forward hopefully to a possible redaction in the cost of new tyres if the latest discovery as to the manufacture of rubber ...

    Article : 119 words
  10. DIAMOND CUT DIAMOND.

    The gentle Hebrew stood on the door of his second-hand clothing emporium. A weasel-eyed man approached him, and said, confidentially, "See that ...

    Article : 184 words
  11. THE EARTH'S LONG JOURNEY.

    The earth's journey in space is a long one, if we accept the conclusion of Doctor Turner, of the University Observatory of Oxford, and Professor H. ...

    Article : 159 words
  12. WHY PARROTS TALK BETTER THAN OTHER BIRDS.

    It would seem to many people that if a bird can imitate other birds after the manner of the thrush, it can also imitate human speech as does the ...

    Article : 341 words
  13. FOUL GROUND AND OVERCROWDING.

    It is, I think, bo exaggeration to Bay that half the complaints from which fowls suffer are traceable be impure or tainted ground. When fowls ...

    Article : 577 words
  14. INSTINCT IN PLANTS.

    Plants sometimes appear to possess reasoning power. Charles Darwin instanced the case of the rootlet, which, piercing its way through the soil and ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. WANTED TO BE REALISTIC.

    She could not see his face as he knelt and asked her to be his. She was glad of that, for she did not wish to know how much suffering her ...

    Article : 220 words
  16. BUSINESS INSTINCT.

    "George," said the beautiful girl, as she nestled close to him, "the last time you called you proposed." "I did, sweet one." ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. ECHO LOUDER THAN THE SOUND.

    To cause the echo of a sound to be louder than the sound that caused it seems an impossibility, but under certain conditions this can happen, and ...

    Article : 344 words
  18. NOT FRIENDS NOW.

    Two young lady friends met, and, after an interchange of the usual salutions, one remarked:—"Oh, May, I'm so glad to sec you. ...

    Article : 274 words
  19. TIPPED IN TALLOW.

    To pay for a whole candle when only a small part of it has been burned very frequently rouses the ire of American tourists in continental hotels ...

    Article : 273 words
  20. CONUNDRUMS.

    What were the first words Adam said to Eve?—Nobody knows. What is that which ladies look for but never wish to find?—A hole in their ...

    Article : 168 words
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