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  2. THE EYES OF THE SUBMARINE.

    Of all the equipment of submarine vessels, the most important is the periscope, a simple device that serves as the eyes of the craft when it is ...

    Article : 303 words
  3. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    Russia lacks only ten longitudinal degrees of stretching half-way round the earth, and possesses one-sixth of landed area of the planet. Perhaps ...

    Article : 881 words
  4. LUCKY DAYS.

    The belief in the special luck, bad or good, attaching to certain days of the week is as old as the hills. Some great men have believed that ...

    Article : 306 words
  5. RECORDING FAMOUS VOICES.

    Billy Williams, the well-known music-hall comedian who died recently, possessed a beautiful singing voice which produced remarkably clear ...

    Article : 431 words
  6. The Man of Silence.

    He saw a young girl come out of the house, walking with a particularly slow and graceful movement; she was followed by a man in ...

    Article : 2,760 words
  7. THE DRINK CURE.

    "Cassidy," said the head of a large drapery establishment, eyeing him sharply, "you've stopped drinking, haven't you?" ...

    Article : 214 words
  8. WOMAN'S WIT.

    During one of the wars which kept Germany in constant trouble for many years, two Princes, brothers, were fighting on opposite sides. The ...

    Article : 181 words
  9. THE ANIMATED FOGHORN.

    A big transatlantic liner was proceeding through a dense fog off the banks of Newfoundland, when suddenly the loud squealing of a pig was ...

    Article : 147 words
  10. A MODERN DANGER.

    The case was one of assault and battery. The witness had just given his story of what he had seen, when the ...

    Article : 113 words
  11. WHAT FLAGS MEAN.

    The flags displayed by vessels in port have quite a language of their own. Flags half-masted mean death. A yellow flag means that the vessel is ...

    Article : 147 words
  12. THUMBS OF APES.

    The gorilla and chimpanzee, which belong to the higher order of apes, have many points of resemblance to man; but there is one thing they ...

    Article : 131 words
  13. A WONDERFUL ROSE.

    Many wonderful things are done by the Chinese, Japanese, and Siamese in raising flowers. One of their most remarkable productions is known as ...

    Article : 129 words
  14. TOO MUCH FOR HIM.

    It was a sad and sorry day for Pottleby, of corn-plaster fame, when, having made his pile, he decided to buy an estate in bonnie Scotland, and ...

    Article : 138 words
  15. DID SHE SAY IT?

    The fair maid gnawed fiercely at the handle of her pen. Then she bent again over the sheet of note-paper, and wrote rapidly. ...

    Article : 184 words
  16. ALSO AND LIKEWISE.

    A Scottish bachelor farmer, a little past his prime, finding himself hard up, thought the best thing he could do would be to marry a neighbour of his ...

    Article : 123 words
  17. HE TOOK THE HINT.

    "What is your name?" asked the new teacher of the first boy in line. "Tom," said the boy. "No, it isn't Tom; it's Thomas." ...

    Article : 36 words
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