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  2. RANDOM HEADINGS.

    "I was standing out in front one night," said a theatrical manager, "when a ragged little urchin came along with a dog under his arm. The ...

    Article : 182 words
  3. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    Greyhounds belong to one of the oldest known types of dog. The albatross is the largest of son birds. ...

    Article : 553 words
  4. THE SIAMESE TWINS.

    Within two hours of one another, on Jan. 16 and 17, 1874, the celebrated Siamese Twins died, in North Carolina, U.S.A. ...

    Article : 369 words
  5. THE POULTRY RUN.

    Don't doctor them; instead, kill them and burn the bodies. Don't bury the bodies; if you do a stray dog or the other birds will scratch up the ...

    Article : 423 words
  6. THE SUPPLY OF EMERALDS.

    Mount Zabarah, in Upper Egypt, is said to have been the source of many of the wonderful ancient emeralds, but centuries have passed since these ...

    Article : 428 words
  7. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    A cement for making repairs on switchboards when iron or other metal has to be fastened to marble may be made from thirty parts plaster of ...

    Article : 66 words
  8. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    "Is the lady of the house in?" asked a caller. "The mistress is in," replied the maid, who had received her notice, "but she's no lady" ...

    Article : 786 words
  9. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    Both father and mother struggled valiantly to tench little) Effic to repeat the letter "A." The child emphatically refused to pronounce the first letter of ...

    Article : 91 words
  10. THE LONGEST ROPE RAILWAY.

    A rope railway, seventy-five miles in length, is to be put in operation in India. It will connect the rich country in the Vale of Kashmir with the ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. THE MISCHIEVOUS PARROT.

    A young lady once went into n shop to buy a thing or two, and when she got inside someone in the shop sad, in a shrill and squeaky voice, ...

    Article : 247 words
  12. THE AUTHOR OF "EAST LYNNE."

    Mrs. Henry Wood, the famous novelist, was born at Worcester on January 17, 1814. She was the daughter of a glove manufacturer named ...

    Article : 617 words
  13. FROZEN, YET ALIVE.

    Professor Raoul Pichet has been continuing the researches which he described in 1911, and it is now possible to freeze live fish in cakes of ice ...

    Article : 151 words
  14. THE PROUD DONKEY.

    There was once a very proud donkey who lived in the same field with a wild canary. Whenever the forest fox ran through the field the ...

    Article : 521 words
  15. QUITE TRUE.

    There was a buzz of excitement in the classroom, for the teacher had offered the fabulous sum of one penny for what he considered the best essay. ...

    Article : 136 words
  16. WIRELESS TELEGRAPHY IN ANCIENT DAYS.

    In the Juamara region of the Amazon the natives use a crude system of wireless telegraphy, which, it is clamed, has been in operation for ...

    Article : 179 words
  17. KILLING FOWLS.

    To kill fowls by dislocating the neck, lake the bird by the legs in the left hand, catching: the extreme ends of the wings in the same, hand, to ...

    Article : 270 words
  18. ADJUSTABLE HOLDER FOR HOT DISHES.

    Adjustable holders for dishes are being made which are intended to be used when highly, heated china is placed on a table. They afford handles by which ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 63 words
  19. NAMING THE BABY.

    They talked of Medora, Aurora, and Flora, Of Mabel and Mercia, and Mildred and May. ...

    Article : 81 words
  20. HOME-MADE ELECTRICITY.

    The ordinary person either does not understand or is afraid of electricity. and could scarcely be persuaded to manufacture it himself, and yet, after ...

    Article : 202 words
  21. LORD ROBERTS' REFERENCE.

    "Bobs," when Commander-in-Chief, finding himself short of cash one morning, drew a cheque for fifty pounds to the order of his soldier servant, and ...

    Article : 172 words
  22. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    If you have more than one perch in the house they should all be of the same level from the floor. Where one roost is higher than the others, the ...

    Article : 297 words
  23. ARCADIAN ISLANDS.

    The Cross-Keelings are a group of about twenty small islands, seven hundred miles south-west of Sumatra. They form part of the Settlement of ...

    Article : 117 words
  24. SPEAKING TRUMPETS.

    Instruments by which the voice could be so strengthened us to be heard at a much greater distance were known in the earliest ages, for of all musical ...

    Article : 238 words
  25. BLOOD-MONEY.

    There was a crash and a grunt as old. Mr. Tiddleby fell on the slippery pavement and slid along for several yards. When he recovered his ...

    Article : 107 words
  26. WAITERS' SLANG.

    "Mutton broth in a hurry," says the customer. "Baa-baa in the rain! Make him run!" shouts the waiter.—"Beefsteak and onions," says the ...

    Article : 179 words
  27. JAPAN'S TOMMY ATKINS.

    Should the day over arrive, when the British Tommy Atkins fights side, by side with the soldier of Japan, the greatest contrast between them will ...

    Article : 119 words
  28. WHAT'S IN A PLACE?

    It was never a happy day for Sammy's painstaking father when his young hopeful's school report arrived. As for Sammy himself—well, he was ...

    Article : 96 words
  29. JACK'S PRAYER.

    When the British ships under Lord Nelson were bearing down to attack the combined fleet of Trafalgar, the first lieutenant of the "Revenge," on ...

    Article : 122 words
  30. CLEANED OUT.

    Mr. Muggins was an enterprising fellow. He had saved a little money, so he bought a ladder and set up in a business which he called the Universal ...

    Article : 221 words
  31. ST. OMER.

    St. Omer, the little French town where Lord Roberts died, has many associations with England, and has quite a large proportion of English residents. ...

    Article : 89 words
  32. SNAPPY, THOUGH MARRIED.

    It was a cold morning, but not a dry one. The railway carriage was even more than usually depressing. Old Tubbs got in, grunted a ...

    Article : 101 words
  33. AN UNUSUAL WEDDING-PRESENT

    It is recorded that, not long ago, a wealthy gentleman, resident in London, presented to his son on the eve of his marriage a small and ...

    Article : 92 words
  34. IN THE FREAK BUSINESS.

    A husband and wife ran a freak show in a certain provincial town, but [?]tely they quarrelled, and the ex[?] were, equally divided between ...

    Article : 114 words
  35. A HOUSE IN A TREE.

    There is, not far from San Francisco, a unique dwelling designed by a romantic owner. He wanted to spend his honeymoon unmolested by the cares ...

    Article : 107 words
  36. THE "MANCHESTER OF POLAND."

    The city of Lodz lies about seventy-five miles in a south-westerly direction from Warsaw. The city is the second largest in Poland, and since the ...

    Article : 64 words
  37. A NATURAL CROSS.

    In the heart of the Rocky Mountains may be seen the Mountain of the Holy Cross. This mountain derives its nanny from a gigantic cross on one side, near ...

    Article : 61 words
  38. Y'S OR OTHERWISE.

    A Glasgow merchant, famous for his stinginess, came into his office one morning and found a young clerk writing n letter in rather a flourishing ...

    Article : 58 words
  39. IN REMEMBRANCE.

    Visitor: "Hallo, Mike! What's that you have in the glass case?" Mike: "That's the brick I got up agin my head at the last election." ...

    Article : 55 words
  40. NO SYMPATHY.

    "Sir, your daughter has promised to, become my wife." "Well, don't come to me for sympathy; you might known something would ...

    Article : 40 words
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