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  2. AMERICAN HUMOUR.

    Promises in Politics.—During a municipal campaign in Chicago a politician dropped in one morning to see a certain grocer. During the ...

    Article : 888 words
  3. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS

    An inventor in San Diego has developed a novel seat for use in parks and pleasure resorts, which is normally so tipped that it cannot be used. Upon ...

    Article : 94 words
  4. INSECTS THAT GO INTO TRANCES.

    Some insects have fits. They go into trances of a cataleptic nature, and remain in that state for periods that last for many hours. Professor Peter ...

    Article : 393 words
  5. ELEPHANTS AS NURSES.

    It is by no means uncommon in India for the children of a mahout (the keeper of an elephant) to be cared for by his animals. The whole family of ...

    Article : 370 words
  6. THE POULTRY RUN.

    It is generally supposed that when an egg is broken into a saucer, and a small white spot is seen on the centre of its yolk, such an egg is fertile. ...

    Article : 914 words
  7. ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE EARLY KOREANS.

    George Kennan, speaking before the National Geographic Society in Washington recently, made some surprising statements concerning Chosen, ...

    Article : 575 words
  8. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    There are folks in India belonging to a certain sect or caste that will only drink water with a cloth fastened over the mouth. This is to prevent the ...

    Article : 980 words
  9. THE BABY ALBATROSS.

    That great bird, the albatross, lays but one egg at a time, and makes two hatchings a year. As soon as the chick is hatched the parent bird flies away ...

    Article : 98 words
  10. A WHALE'S WEIGHT.

    The weight of the Greenland or right whale is 100 tons, or 220,000 pounds, equal to that of 88 elephants or 440 bears. The whalebone in such a whale ...

    Article : 107 words
  11. EGGS HATCHED IN RICE.

    Certain of the Chinese in the interior districts adjacent to Amoy employ a somewhat unusual method for hatching both hens' and ducks' eggs. The ...

    Article : 144 words
  12. THEIR BIG BROTHER.

    A business man who had amassed a comfortable fortune lost it in speculation. He became a commercial traveller, and, having to "work" every ...

    Article : 144 words
  13. WHY IS THIS THUS?

    Here is a paradox to fool your smart friends with. Take an ordinary folding rule (a two-foot rule is best), and ask your friend what will happen if you tie ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 191 words
  14. CONTROLLING TWENTY-FOUR LIFTS.

    There are twenty-four passenger lifts in one of the New York skyscrapers; and the management have found a simple way in which to keep in constant ...

    Article : 140 words
  15. A JAPANESE FESTIVAL.

    No notice is taken in Japan of the actual anniversary of a birth, but every one adds a year to his or her age on the Setsubun, a movable festival which ...

    Article : 177 words
  16. TO MINIMISE FLIES.

    A French journal states that it has been found that flies have a great objection to the color blue, and if tenements infested with flies are washed ...

    Article : 152 words
  17. A SKATING RINK OF SALT.

    At the Berlin Zoo a skating rink made of salt was recently opened. The salt was produced by purely chemical means and without the employment of ...

    Article : 145 words
  18. THE VALUE OF HEALTH.

    Health is wealth. In the great sum of things, not what we do but what we are really counts; for we cannot do well unless we are well. Nor our ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. RIVAL NEWSPAPER EDITORS.

    Some years ago there were in Paris two papers, the "Razor" and the "Scorpion," which were always attacking each other. ...

    Article : 125 words
  20. A NINE-FOOT GIANT.

    King Alfonso took a great interest in a recent circus performance in Madrid in a French giant named Eugene Arcean, who is aged nineteen, stands ...

    Article : 180 words
  21. MIXING COLORS.

    Colors are mixed as follows to obtain tints: For brown, mix red and black. For purple, mix white, blue, and ...

    Article : 139 words
  22. THE LIMIT.

    There was a man who grumbled at everything. He wasn't satisfied even when they tried him for murder and sentenced ...

    Article : 144 words
  23. PAT'S ASTRONOMY.

    Pat found it impossible to believe that the earth is round in spite of the numerous arguments of an eminent astronomer. ...

    Article : 114 words
  24. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    Fowls will not keep in good health unless they have constant access to:—(1) Shell grit (for making the eggshells and supplying lime for bodily ...

    Article : 107 words
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