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  2. WORLD-WIDE NOTES. NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE.

    Nothing could be more beautiful and restful to the eye than the lovely coral reefs which stud the northern coast of Queensland. Take a low-level ...

    Article : 355 words
  3. BREAKING-IN!

    The boys had just come down from Boonara with a fine lot of fat cattle, but principal amongst their charges was a dozen young horses, ...

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  4. Telegraph Humour.

    There are several good examples of telegraphic errors in an article, "Humour in the Telegraph Office," in 'Chambers' Journal.' ...

    Article : 366 words
  5. British Crab Census.

    No fewer than 5,750,000 crabs were, according to the annual report on Sea Fisheries for 1912 just issued, recorded in the landings for ...

    Article : 187 words
  6. Manufacture of Rubber.

    Through the introduction of rubber for the tyres of motor-cars and cycles the demand for this product has increased so rapidly that, had ...

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  7. RADIUM VAPOUR.

    Persistent and unwearying research work at the Radium Institute in Riding House-street, Portland-place, has resulted (says the ...

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  8. A Flow of Electrons.

    Electrons are the smallest bodies known, it one can use the word bodies when speaking of them. They possess the fundamental property of ...

    Article : 265 words
  9. FIVE HOURS IN A WHIRLPOOL.

    Peter Langard, of Copenhagen, a daring cinematograph actor, nearly lost his life while attempting to make a trip through the Whirlpool ...

    Article : 235 words
  10. LAWN MEET OF THE STAGHOUNDS.

    'ARRY ON 'ORSEBACK (who has br[?]dkfasted rather too well).—Fox-hunting is all very well in its way! But gettin' drunk and staghuntin' for me. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  11. 'BUS OVER PRECIPICE.

    Five people have been killed and twenty badly injured at Accumoli, Italy, when a motor-'bus containing thirty-four politicians going, to an ...

    Article : 50 words
  12. ONE GUN REPUBLIC.

    San Marino has hitherto contented itself with one fixed pun, bought in 1893, but now the little Republic on the Adriatic has caught the ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. NATIVE'S LUCKY FIND.

    A native of Drogeveld Estate River Diggings in Griqualand West, recently found a diamond of 160 carats. He casually stepped into a disused claim ...

    Article : 130 words
  14. BLACK BATHROOMS.

    Smart people in London who are suffering from jaded nerves and can afford to adopt any plan to soothe them are having their rooms ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. A TAX ON PERAMBULATORS.

    The authorities of the Berlin suburb of Spandau has decided to tax perambulators. Every citizen who sends his child riding in one of these must ...

    Article : 48 words
  16. The Villager Knew.

    A missionary meeting, described in Bishop Boyd-Carpenter's "Some Pages of My Life," was held in a village. The Vicar of the parish ...

    Article : 186 words
  17. ROYAL TEETOTALERS.

    Describing, on his return to London, a 4000-mile tour of Scandinavia, Mr. Herbert Stead, of the Browning Settlement, Walworth, said that ...

    Article : 116 words
  18. GERMANY AMAZED AT ULSTER AND ENGLAND.

    The German Press is criticising affairs in Ulster from the Continental point of view, which fails utterly to take in the picture in coherent form. ...

    Article : 131 words
  19. Doctor to the Plants.

    If you eat too much, the chances are that you will get fat and flabby. It is the same with trees. If the food they get is too easily digested ...

    Article : 212 words
  20. NO RING AT WEDDING.

    A wedding without a ring seems incongruous, but in some parts of Spain no ring is used. After the ceremony the bridegroom mores the ...

    Article : 56 words
  21. How to Live 100 Years.

    The decrease in the death rate during the last century has been remarkable, but as every well-informed physician will tell you, it has ...

    Article : 331 words
  22. BATTLESHIPS AS SANATORIA.

    The British Medical Journal warmly supports the suggestions of an American physician, Dr. Knopf, that discarded battleships should be fitted ...

    Article : 167 words
  23. Last Lighthouse Woman.

    Mrs. Joynson, the only woman lighthouse-keeper in England, kept her last watch a few nights ago at Hale, on the banks of the ...

    Article : 205 words
  24. TATTOOED MAN.

    Perhaps the most extraordinary tattooing idea ever carried out was that of a coachman who, at the time of the Dreyfus trial, had his body ...

    Article : 53 words
  25. Mary's Lamb Up-to-date.

    Miss Mary was the possessor of a diminutive and immature specimen of the Ovis Aries, a wool-hearing and ruminant quadruped, whose flesh ...

    Article : 245 words
  26. BRAVE ABORIGINAL GIRL.

    The Department of External Affairs in Melbourne has received from the Royal Humane Society a certificate and bronze medal for ...

    Article : 101 words
  27. Dried Yeast.

    In the "Bulletin of Agricultural Intelligence and Plant Diseases" (Rome), Dr. F. Hayduck describes the remarkable development of the ...

    Article : 258 words
  28. Best Bedrock Diet.

    For the man who had come down to bedrock living wholemeal or black bread was better than white, said Professor Leonard Hill at the ...

    Article : 229 words
  29. MAIL-CARRYING 'PLANE.

    The first aeroplane to be employed officially by the French postal authorities for the carrying of mails, recently transferred the West Indian ...

    Article : 42 words
  30. 1,387 MILES IN 24 HOURS.

    By flying from Berlin to Posen and back, and then to Muhlhausen, the German aviator Stoeffler has set up a new long-distance record, covering ...

    Article : 71 words
  31. AVIATOR WRECKS ROOF.

    While flying over Mosbach, close to the French frontier, at night, the German aviator Reichelt fell on to a farmhouse roof, but he and his ...

    Article : 69 words
  32. £10,000 in "Tips."

    "Departing Londoners leave behind them nearly £10,000 in 'tips' at railway-stations in the week before Bank Holiday," says a railway ...

    Article : 143 words
  33. Advertising

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  34. SMUGGLING BY AEROPLANE.

    According to the Paris "Journal," smuggling has been carried on by aeroplane on the Belgian frontier. The aeroplane did not actually land ...

    Article : 35 words
  35. A MAN OF WEIGHT.

    A Pennsylvania man who died recently was so stout that his house had to he demolished partially before it was possible to bury him. His ...

    Article : 92 words
  36. A CURIOUS CUSTOM.

    At the wedding of Henry Aubery, an ex-servant of the Royal Household, at Seamer, near Scarborough, the old custom of breaking a plate ...

    Article : 41 words
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