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  2. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    Jerry: "Why did Stella break her engagement with you?" Tom: "Merely because I stole a kiss." "She must be silly to object to having her fiancee ...

    Article : 887 words
  3. NEW ODD, INTERESTING

    Parchment on the best banjos is made of wolf-skin. The first mention of gloves occurs in Ruth, which moans that they have ...

    Article : 838 words
  4. THE POULTRY RUN.

    It may happen that you have a siting of eggs under a hen which are thin-shelled, and that the hon is a heavy-weight. This is a combination ...

    Article : 154 words
  5. RANDOM READINGS.

    The milk problem has been solved in Japan, where cows are scarce, by an extensive use of artificial milk derived from the soja bean. The beans ...

    Article : 80 words
  6. FORTUNES FROM SEAWEED.

    Along the shoos of Joderen, on the south-west coast of Norway, the seaveed grows in veritable forests; not the common crass variety, but actual ...

    Article : 519 words
  7. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    Few things are more annoying to the average smoker than to expend his hard-earned money on an extra fine cigar, as a treat, and then when he ...

    Article : 217 words
  8. FOR YOUNG FOLKS.

    "0-o-oo-oh! Bo-o-o-ho-o-o!" As the childish wall rang through the house the anxious mother sprang to her feet. Rushing into the hall, ...

    Article : 210 words
  9. CURIOUS BIBLES.

    The following memorandum of some quaint editions of the Bible will be interesting to those who care to follow the history of the art of ...

    Article : 451 words
  10. THE SACRED BIRD OF THE NILE.

    That beautiful bird the scarlet this was held sacred by the ancient Egyptians. It was supposed to kill snakes. The scarlet Ibises were kept in ...

    Article : 186 words
  11. BROODIES TO ORDER.

    From time to time one reads, and hears of statements to the effect that a turkey hen may be made broody at any time by the giving of wine. It is ...

    Article : 215 words
  12. TREE HUNTERS.

    Mahogany hunting is one of the best paying professions. Mahogany trees do not grow in clusters, but are scattered through the forests. The ...

    Article : 204 words
  13. "D.D."

    The word dawdle means to waste time. When a boy does a thing in a poky, lazy way he dawdles over it. It is a bad thing to fall into a dawdling ...

    Article : 664 words
  14. KIND WORDS

    We shall never regret the kind things that we may do for others, if they really spring from Kindly feelings and are not prompted by ...

    Article : 189 words
  15. INTESTINAL WORMS.

    Fowls suffering with intestinal worms are liable to produce eggs of an abnormal kind. Owing to the irritating effect of the parasites upon ...

    Article : 465 words
  16. MEASURING THE HEIGHT OF TREES.

    A simple way to measure a tree can be practised by anyone on a sunny day or in bright moonlight. All that is necessary is a straight stick of any ...

    Article : 228 words
  17. TURNING THE TABLES.

    She was a sweet young thing, and having come down to see her soldier brother, who was on duty at that time, she was being taken round by his ...

    Article : 162 words
  18. FROM RANKER TO PASHA.

    On August 2, 1849, Mehemet Ali one of the most striking examples in the nineteenth century of men who have ascended to the highest grades ...

    Article : 354 words
  19. DEFYING THE DOCTORS.

    Doctors may err, even in the stillness of the sick room. How much more, then, are they likely to make mistakes in the uproar of the ...

    Article : 216 words
  20. POWER AND USES OF COAL.

    The energy contained in coal is enormous. A pound of coal—that is to say, a piece about as big as a man's fist—in combining with oxygen, ...

    Article : 226 words
  21. HAD ONE OF HER OWN.

    It was Mary's day out, and she was comparing notes with Susan from No. 6. "So I 'ear you've left that artist's," ...

    Article : 145 words
  22. NO CROWDING.

    A travelling showman hart a parrot, which was accustomed to imitate his voice and words when he was addressing the crowd about his tent, and ...

    Article : 180 words
  23. PERHAPS!

    Oh, Ebenezer Waterskin was in great form at the temperance meeting as he held forth on the glories of teetotalism! ...

    Article : 104 words
  24. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    After all is said, the best way to get fowls through a hot day is to soak with water, overnight, a patch of loose earth in a shady spot. Next day ...

    Article : 85 words
  25. NO HOPE FOR HIM.

    The lawyer who cracks jokes at the expense of the witness often gets more than he gives. The following incident in a divorce trial is told by a ...

    Article : 174 words
  26. FOILED AGAIN.

    Anything he could get free he got free. Such an adept at the game was he that he would often apply for free samples from twelve different ...

    Article : 154 words
  27. JAPANESE FOOTWEAR.

    The national Japanese footwear consists of a plain, flat wooden sale, with two transverse blades let into the underside of it. The foot is so ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. FOREST WEALTH OF MOROCCO.

    The preservation and exploitation of the forests in the French zone of Morocco are in charge of a special governmental department, which has ...

    Article : 141 words
  29. STILL USEFUL.

    Filled with pity at the dilapidated condition of the garments of some of his pupils, a certain benevolent schoolmaster determined to supply the more ...

    Article : 120 words
  30. SPECIAL FAVOR.

    The new curate was very anxious that he should look his smartest while preaching his first sermon. But when he arrived at the church he found that ...

    Article : 135 words
  31. ANOTHER GAS ROBBERY.

    A man who was seized by violent toothache did not succumb any too readily to the gas administered by the dentist, but in the course of time he ...

    Article : 108 words
  32. WHY HE REMAINED SINGLE.

    A lady, meeting her gardener in the grounds, said to him: "Sandy, I am surprised you do not marry. You have got a free house, ...

    Article : 90 words
  33. THE TROUBLE.

    Mrs. Knagg: "I'm sure I. don't what reason my boarders have to [?] plain. I treat "em just like members of the family." ...

    Article : 41 words
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