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  2. Wise and Otherwise.

    A stingy man is often a cheerful giver of advice. People are known by the company they keep—out of. ...

    Article : 879 words
  3. New, Odd & Interesting.

    The Town Clerk of London has a salary of £2,500 a year. The skeleton of an average whale weighs about twenty-five tons. ...

    Article : 623 words
  4. For Young Folks.

    A little way out of Paris there is a very beautiful place called the Dog Cemetery where many hundred of dog buried, and have little grave-stones ...

    Article : 437 words
  5. The Poultry Run.

    "This egg's the thing," Shakespeare might have said, and undoubtedly the main factor that people connect with poultry-keeping is egg production ...

    Article : 749 words
  6. MONUMENT TO SEAGULLS.

    A remarkable monument is soon to have a place in the grounds of the Mormon Temple in Salt Luke City. A column, to cost between £6000 and ...

    Article : 393 words
  7. Science Notes and News.

    A good way to clean gas mantles or gas burners that are blackened by carbon deposits is to sprinkle sodium chloride or "salt" upon them while ...

    Article : 79 words
  8. Random Headings.

    Zion City, Illinois, possesses a pipe organ which is even larger than the famous one in the Salt Lake City tabcrnacle, and which has many new ...

    Article : 416 words
  9. AMERICAN HEALTH RULES.

    The Washington Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has issued a series of health rules some of which make curious rending. The chief rules ...

    Article : 276 words
  10. A RAPID HEART-BEAT.

    Along with ninny other discoveries of greater or less importance, scientific men have proved tho law that the rapidity of the heart-beat is in inverse ...

    Article : 114 words
  11. NEW MOTOR-OAR WHEEL.

    A new motor-car" wheel has been produced which does away with the terrors of tyre changing, which has long been the ordeal most dreaded by ...

    Article : 127 words
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    The Doctor: "I'm very much afraid this young man is going to have an attack of measles." The Boy: "Say, Doc, can't you fix ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 33 words
  13. TEMPERATURE OF LAVA.

    Newly-ejected lava from Vesuvius has been tested and found to be at a temperature exceeding one thousand five hundred degrees Fahrenheit, and ...

    Article : 117 words
  14. WAR AGAINST KISSING.

    Lovers in Bavaria will have to be very careful ia future how they behave themseles at railway stations, for the Bavarian State railway administration ...

    Article : 433 words
  15. PLAYING THE GAME.

    Much is said among grown-ups about other grown-ups who do or do not "play the game." Now just what does this expression mean and how did it ...

    Article : 392 words
  16. THE SNOB SNUBBED.

    A prominent American was talking at his club about snobs. "Well-born and well-bred people," he said, "are never snobs. It is your ...

    Article : 211 words
  17. THE EMERALD.

    Emeralds are the most precious of the precious stones that have colour, except, of course, the pink pearls, which may be so unfathomably ...

    Article : 604 words
  18. EARS FOR SHIPS.

    Mr. Elias E. Rees, a civil and mechanical engineer, has just brought out an invention for ensuring the safety of ships at sea. His idea is to ...

    Article : 247 words
  19. SALT CELLARS.

    The salt-cellar at one time occupied a position of far greater prominence than it does now, for as far back as the fourteenth century large trencher ...

    Article : 200 words
  20. BRAN AS FOOD.

    Bran as a poultry food proper does not stand very high in the esteem of poultry-breeders, many never using it at all. Bran, however, possesses the ...

    Article : 198 words
  21. THE VALUE OF CHEERFULNESS.

    Some of the sunniest dispositions are these of confirmed invalids who have the strength of will to ignore their own sufferings in order not to cast a gloom ...

    Article : 342 words
  22. THE MOVING STONE OF TANDIL.

    To the deep regret of Argentinians, the moving stone of Tandil, a remarkable natural curiosity, has fallen. No one knows how many centuries this ...

    Article : 263 words
  23. PALACE GHOSTS.

    Eerie stories are told about Hampton Court Palace, where fine apartments have just been granted by the King to Lady White, the widow of the ...

    Article : 228 words
  24. CARRIED OUT INSTRUCTIONS.

    "Now," said the decorator to his brand-new assistant, "you have finished your work for the week. But if you'll stay and mind the shop for a ...

    Article : 224 words
  25. CURIOUS INSURANCE POLICIES.

    Many curious insurance policies have been taken out at Lloyd's. The following are some recent specimens—. The uncle of a rich heiress took our ...

    Article : 185 words
  26. Advertising

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    Advertising : 166 words
  27. WORTH ANOTHER YARD.

    With an haughty way about her, a young lady walked into the local drapers' establishment. "Give me one yard of—why, haven't ...

    Article : 109 words
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