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  2. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING.

    Another name for tomato is "love apple." The Dead Sea is 1,200 feet below sea level. ...

    Article : 830 words
  3. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Some women spend half their lives before the glass, and some men spend half theirs behind it. ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  4. THE POULTRY RUN.

    This is an ailment ailment which is incidental to hot climates. Ill effects do not usually result in the case of adult birds; but chief[?]ens are apt to acquire ...

    Article : 240 words
  5. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    File or grind, the piece to be tested, and polish them smooth, then place them in a dilute nitric or sulphuric acid solution for a day. Wash ...

    Article : 84 words
  6. RANDOM HEADINGS.

    Never were genius and madness more closely allied than in the case of Charles XII—the "Madman of the North"—the strange man who came ...

    Article : 513 words
  7. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    Willie: "Mummie, will it hurt to have this tooth out?" Mrs. Slimson: "Naturally; but it will be so sudden that you won't have ...

    Article : 60 words
  8. "WHEAT DOCTORS."

    New and powerful breeds or wheat have been created on America and Canada during the last few years, and many of these haver taken the place ...

    Article : 286 words
  9. EXPLOSIVE WE DAREN'T MAKE.

    Explosives are solids which, under certain conditions, suddenly change into heated gas occupying many times the original space of the solids. ...

    Article : 685 words
  10. HOW NAN SAVBD HERSELF.

    Guilty little Nan tiptoed into the house and presented Herself before the family in the dining-room. She had been told that she might go to a ...

    Article : 90 words
  11. CIGAR WITH WOODEN PEG INSERTED IN TIP.

    A cigar manufacturer in Wisconsin equips each cigar with a small wooden shoe leg inserted in the tip and projecting far enough to be ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. RECIOUS STONES.

    I think you will like this pretty story told by Georgia M. Bickford in the "Youth's Companion":—"At length the little princess ...

    Article : 829 words
  13. THE MOTH AND THE FLAME.

    The moth plunges headlong into the flames because of the way its body is constructed. There are two symmetrical points, exactly alike ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. A BIT ABOUT BREEDING.

    In the earlier days record-breaking layers were bred from pullets and cockerels. Smashers have also been got from a cockerel and second and ...

    Article : 242 words
  15. SURPRISED THE AUDIENCE.

    The manager of a music-hall, who, although a most illiterate man, prided himself not a little on his brilliant oratorical powers, made it a practice ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. CORDITE.

    Cordite, the British Service propellant used in all arms, from the Webley revolver to the fifteen-inch naval gun, may be taken as a general type of ...

    Article : 110 words
  17. NEW METHOD OF DEALING WITH MAIL BAGS.

    A railway mail transfer system for collecting and dropping mail bags from trains has been adopted for the Chicago and St. Louis line of the ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE

    It is nice to have good lookers about the place, but don't lose eight of the fact that the utility qualities (that is eggs and meat) should be the chief ...

    Article : 455 words
  19. THE BLESSING OF THE WATERS.

    The Orthodox Russian Church has many curious customs connected with it, one of the most interesting of them being the annual "Blessing of the ...

    Article : 442 words
  20. BISMARCK AND THE EGGS.

    The dinners and luncheons that King Ferdin[?]d of Bulgaria had served him in the field during the [?] campaign are in startling contrast to ...

    Article : 156 words
  21. FACTS ABOUT WATCHES.

    The balance-wheel of an average watch makes 300 vibrations, a minute, 18,000 an hour, 432,000 in a day, or 157,788,000 in a year. At each ...

    Article : 156 words
  22. STRANGE CHINESE BELIEFS.

    Among the many extraordinary customs of the Chinese is that of banding years together in groups of twelve, called "cycles," and naming ...

    Article : 194 words
  23. HELPING THE BLIND.

    He stood at the usual spot, his eyes covered by a shade. Accompanying him was a iittle white dog on a leash, with a box attached to its collar, on ...

    Article : 144 words
  24. TRANSMITTING WRITING OVER WIRES.

    Instead of telephoning to various departments in a great hotel being erected in Washington, all orders will be sent around by the telantograph, a ...

    Article : 161 words
  25. CONUNDRUMS.

    Why is a very angry man like the clock at fifty-nine minutes past twelve?—Because he is just ready to strike one. ...

    Article : 171 words
  26. HURT THEIR FEELINGS.

    The visitor to the training-camp was quite taken aback at the pumber of black eyes and bruised faces he saw everywhere. ...

    Article : 113 words
  27. ELECTRIC PROPULSION FOR BATTLESHIPS.

    The United States is the first nation to use electricity in place of steam, to propel a battleship. That will be the motive power on the Dreadnought ...

    Article : 177 words
  28. TOO LAZY TO BREATHE.

    Sam Smith was reckoned the laziest man in town. So tired had the authorities become of contributing to his support that they decided to consign ...

    Article : 124 words
  29. WHERE WAS THE CAT?

    A Jewish labourer, before departing for work in the morning, bought two pounds of meat, and ordered his wife to prepare it for the evening meal. ...

    Article : 136 words
  30. THE CLEANLY CAT.

    Cats make the most careful toilet of ny class of animals. Lions and tigers wash themselves in exactly the same manner as the cat, wetting the dark ...

    Article : 75 words
  31. ARTFUL.

    Father: "Dorothy, if you disobey again, I shall spank you." On father's return home that evening Dorothy acknowledged that she ...

    Article : 51 words
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