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  2. The Poultry Run.

    The Leghorn has firmly established itself as a standard breed, and is one f the best known. The birds will repay anyone who takes them up, and with ...

    Article : 637 words
  3. Wise and Otherwise.

    "So you have decided to call in another doctor?" "I have," was the reply. "The absurdity of a man prescribing linseed-tea and mustard ...

    Article : 995 words
  4. WHAT THE HANDS REVEAL.

    When a man is not telling the truth he is apt to clench his hands, ns few men can lie with their hands open. A man who holds his thumb tightly ...

    Article : 264 words
  5. Random Readings.

    In "L'Echo du Merveilleux," M. Albert du Pouvourville publishes some curious details of Chinese occult practices. The Chinese, he contends ...

    Article : 236 words
  6. For Young Folks.

    Here is a list of things that a boy should learn. I hope the readers of this column wilt not think the writer of the following. which dates back a ...

    Article : 164 words
  7. New, Odd & Interesting.

    Every Swedish girl not born to wealth is taught a trade. Of Great Britain's railway passengers nine-tenths travel third class. ...

    Article : 683 words
  8. A MILLIONAIRE'S HOBBY.

    The following story may be wholly true or otherwise, but the "New York World" is responsible for it. The life ambition of one of the ...

    Article : 901 words
  9. Science Notes and News.

    The Greek herald Stentor was reported to have a voice as loud as those of a hundred men combined. This remarkable performance has now been ...

    Article : 169 words
  10. WOULD NOT TELL A LIE.

    Many years ago there lived on a farm in Scotland a father, mother, and two girls. The father and mother died and left the two ...

    Article : 275 words
  11. DOUBLE-ENDED CORKS.

    Bottles containing liquids which require to be sprinkled are now supplied with double-ended corks. Those, instead of being larger at the top, as is ...

    Article : 81 words
  12. THE BEST WAY FOR NEWSPAPERS.

    It is to the "National Review," of Shanghai, that we owe the interesting information that the Chinese arc the greatest consumers of old newspapers ...

    Article : 277 words
  13. ELECTRICITY FOR SHIPS.

    A collier of a novel design is being got ready for her trials y the officials of the United States Navy. The vessel is the Jupiter, and she will be driven ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. A WIRE CLOTHESPIN.

    The pin is made of galvanized wire, A, 8 or 10 in. long, wound spirally, B, on a round surface, such as a broom handle, to make the holding ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 50 words
  15. HIDE AND SEEK.

    Tom always liked when his big sister Nell played with him, and they used to have lovely romps together among the sheaves of corn. One day ...

    Article : 254 words
  16. MORE WONDERS OF WIRELESS.

    In the wireless experiments made with the device of Professor Zehnder, of Berlin, telegrams have been not only transmitted several hundred miles ...

    Article : 118 words
  17. THE CARE OF THE CANARY.

    It is said that a hundred thousand canaries are kept in Paris apartments, and that it costs four hunched pounds a day to supply them with chick-weed ...

    Article : 456 words
  18. A LAZY MAN'S INVENTION.

    A man wh likes to sleep with his windows open and his blinds up does not enjoy getting up early. His bedroom, however, faces the east, and, as ...

    Article : 101 words
  19. A FAINT-HEARTED KING.

    That was a curious proposal of marriage made by Myles Standish to priscilla through his proxy, John Alden. But an English King, George III., was ...

    Article : 322 words
  20. HINTS FOR BUYERS.

    When buying dead poultry look out for a bird with a well-rounded form and a straight breastbone, well covered with merit on either side. The skin ...

    Article : 182 words
  21. HOW ROB COUNTED THE STARS.

    Other little boys have tried to count the stars, but let me tell you how Rob counted them. He was then four years old. It was a warm summer's ...

    Article : 193 words
  22. A UNIQUE LABORATORY.

    Outside the harbour of Sfax, Tunisia, in the shallow water of the clear Mediterranean, is situated a biological laboratory for the study of sponges. It ...

    Article : 76 words
  23. OIL DRIVEN LOCOMOTIVE.

    A petroleum-electric main-line engine of a horse-power up to one thousand is in course of construction, and will he given an exhaustive trial on ...

    Article : 130 words
  24. IMROVING THE EGGS.

    Eggs used for eating should be from hens that have no male bird with them. Such eggs arc infertile. In fertile eggs incubation may start in a ...

    Article : 141 words
  25. ENTANGLED.

    The young rann shot into the haberdashery department as if propelled there with some external force. Arrived, he staved about him, biting a ...

    Article : 187 words
  26. MODESTY OF A HERO.

    A French reporter encountered in a little village of the South of France a gardener who wore, pinned on his clean Sunday blouse, the ribbon of the ...

    Article : 209 words
  27. HOW TO CROW TALL.

    A man's organs and those of his banes which are not subjected to pressure grow continuously until he is forty years old; that is to say, the heart ...

    Article : 201 words
  28. SIMS AND TOOLE.

    Mr. Sims Reeves told this story in his Reminiscences:— "I was pitying the part of Tom Tug in company with my excellent ...

    Article : 176 words
  29. STATE TOBACCO TASTERS.

    The French Military of Finance has among its officials half a dozen men whose duties arc simply to smoke from morning to smoke from morning to night! ...

    Article : 177 words
  30. TEETH LIKE STARS.

    John and Jeannie went for a walk one evening. After walking for some time in silence, John ventured to remark ...

    Article : 117 words
  31. Announcing Extras with a Steam Suren.

    La Prensa, the leading newspaper of Buenos Ayres, has a novel and enterprising way of announcing its "extras" to the city. On the roof of its ...

    Article : 101 words
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