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  2. HIS CONFIDENT TO-MORROW.

    Three travelling companions. Gray, Brown, and Green were breakfasting at an hotel to the Southern States. Gray ordered coffee, rolls, creamed ...

    Article : 331 words
  3. THE POULTRY RUN.

    This bad habit is frequently noted in suburban poultry yards. Why? Because the restricted accomodation causes the fowls to be kept crowded ...

    Article : 288 words
  4. GRASSHOPPERS IN A GLACIER.

    Once considered a myth, "Grasshopper Glacier," at the head-waters of the East and West Rosebud rivers in the Beartooth Mountains of ...

    Article : 200 words
  5. MEN WHO HATE MONEY.

    Probably no one hates the sight of money as do the croupiers at Monte Carlo, through whose hands thousands and thousands of pounds pass every ...

    Article : 210 words
  6. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    Which is the largest theatre, or music-hall, in London? Not one person in a thousand will guess correctly. It is not in the West End, which ...

    Article : 890 words
  7. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    A portable military searchlight has been developed in the Italian Army, which is said to have several novel features. The motor-car which ...

    Article : 225 words
  8. WASTED NAMES.

    There are authors who make the most of their names, and there are others who don't. When W. W. Jacobs was commencing his literary ...

    Article : 216 words
  9. MAY AND JUNE.

    Obadah Blinks was one of those sentimental idiots who had allowed his passions to capitulate to the ever-increasing wiles of the mischief-maker ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. RESULT—NO BACK ANSWERS.

    "Hour and twenty minutes, next train sir," said the porter, as he turned into the porters' room on the little country station. ...

    Article : 168 words
  11. LIGHT LITERATURE.

    Perkins was a merchant—a prosperous merchant, whose life was very valuable, and who, therefore, when laid low by typhoid fever, was nursed ...

    Article : 188 words
  12. WOOD AND WATER.

    It is well known that all wood contains more or less water; eyen the driest wood contains two or three pounds of water to every hundred ...

    Article : 160 words
  13. SICK FOWLS.

    Don't doctor them; instead, kill them, and burn the bodies. Don't bury them; if you do, a stray dog or the other birds may scratch up the ...

    Article : 423 words
  14. A LAKE WITH A ROOF.

    The great salt lake of Obdorsk is nine miles wide and seventeen miles long, yet, except in a few places, it is solidly roofed over with a deposit of ...

    Article : 200 words
  15. THE POSTSCRIPT.

    His aunt was rich and elderly. She had called unexpectedly while he was out, and his wife was trying to entertain her by such methods as she ...

    Article : 151 words
  16. ROYAL CROWNS.

    The crowns of Spain, Portugal, and Poland are all three of the same form, and are described by a recent writer as ducal coronets heightened up with ...

    Article : 184 words
  17. A SCULPTOR'S PNEUMATIC CHISEL.

    Lorado Taft, a Chicago sculptor. It is stated, has installed in his studio a pneumatic chisel, by means of which the work of outlining marble statues ...

    Article : 165 words
  18. SUCH FRIENDLY PEELINGS.

    For twenty minutes Brown had sat staring helplessly at the empty table in front of him. Still there was no sign of the lunch which he had ...

    Article : 148 words
  19. WHITE WITH GRIEF.

    Times were bad, shocking bad. "It's most enuff to make one grow honest," grumbled the dog-stealer, as he pored through the "Lost and ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. READING THE HAND.

    "Do you know anthing about palmistry, Herbert?" she asked. "Oh, not much!" he answered, with the air of modesty which is not ...

    Article : 114 words
  21. WARMER THAN WOOL.

    Kapok, the strange name of a material out of which they are now making mattresses, lifebelts, pillows linings for clothes, even underwear ...

    Article : 317 words
  22. A DOMESTIC TRAGEDY.

    "Off! Off!" The words came like a shriek of despair from the lips of the struggling man, and there was intense agony ...

    Article : 143 words
  23. JANE'S POLITENESS.

    A lady in the suburbs was considerably annoyed to find her neighbour's fowls continually over-running her garden, and playing havoc with the ...

    Article : 138 words
  24. A NOVEL SUGGESTION.

    During an election an old fellow, who had evidently been celebrating the success of his particular candidate, and who was the proud ...

    Article : 99 words
  25. HARD ON HUBBY.

    When Mr. Newwedde went home the other evening, he guessed something had occurred to displease the light of his life. She looked gloomy. After ...

    Article : 113 words
  26. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    In saving seeds, you don't take from every flower. You gather from the best blooms, of course. Why don't you do the same thing with ...

    Article : 192 words
  27. EACH TO HIS JOB.

    "Yes, I did pretty well by my sons," said the old man thoughtfully. "I trained one of them to be a doctor and the other to be a lawyer." ...

    Article : 131 words
  28. ON THE LOOK-OUT.

    At the breakfast-table little Tommy was not behaving himself. His father reproved him, more than once for playing with the cruet, but Tommy ...

    Article : 112 words
  29. DEVIL-FISH.

    In Japan, devil-fish weighing up to two hundred pounds are sometimes caught. These fish are amphibious; they are often seen wobbling on their ...

    Article : 83 words
  30. PLAINLY PUT.

    It was her very first voyage, and, of course, she was nervous. Moreover, she had made herself hated by the officers because of her foolish ...

    Article : 76 words
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