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  2. FEMININE "FLUTTERS."

    About three tidies a year the writer falls from her good principles and puts half-a-crown each way on a sure winner. ...

    Article : 170 words
  3. SURVEYING THE SEAS.

    Plans for the most complete survey of the ocean ever attempted have been inaugurated by a conference representing scientific branches of the ...

    Article : 142 words
  4. THE OLDEST ALMANAC.

    In the British Museum is an almanac that is 3,000 years old; it is supposed to be the oldest in the world. ...

    Article : 119 words
  5. OUTLAWS OF THE WILD.

    There are animals that have not a friend in the world; there are some, indeed,, which are so harmful that prices are set upon their heads, and ...

    Article : 589 words
  6. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. "TWIXT THE CUP AND THE LIP."

    After excusing his tardiness to his hostess, a friend tried and true whose loyalty even this delinquency could not alter, Mr. Fairfax was not ...

    Article : 1,906 words
  7. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    There is a lot more sun-buin in the j world than the.seaside sun blows knows about. Mr. Newlywed: "Which do you ...

    Article : 929 words
  8. SCORNFUL COOKERY PHRASES

    Why the business of the cook should be used as a vehicle of scorn and revenge is a mystery of our mysterious language. ...

    Article : 226 words
  9. HARNESSING SUNBEAMS.

    Professor Marcuse, of Berlin, is London, to exploit his invention to utilize the energy derived from the sun's rays. ...

    Article : 139 words
  10. GHOSTS OF THE SEA.

    There are few men more tight-lipped than your old salt. He will talk openly to men of his own profession and even to the landsman about ...

    Article : 838 words
  11. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    In Bath, water is still flowing through the lead pipes in use in Roman times. One of the most valuable documents ...

    Article : 298 words
  12. POWER FROM THE TIDES

    The French are to make an important experiment in harnessing the tides, a problem of great importance in view of the dwindling supply of ...

    Article : 70 words
  13. ALIVE FOR 4,000 YEARS.

    Stonehenge is supposed to be the oldest monument in Britain, and it is possible it miay be as old as the pyramids of Egypt; but of growing, ...

    Article : 260 words
  14. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Here is a splendid recipe for a dainty morsel for afternoon tea. Mix together two ounces each of flour and cornflour, and half a teaspoonful ...

    Article : 410 words
  15. HEN THAT HELPED INDUSTRY.

    The secret of making sugar perfectly white was discovered in a curious way. A hen which had been through a clay puddle went with her ...

    Article : 164 words
  16. ODD DISHES FROM THE OCEAN

    Along the Great Barrier reef of Australia is found that curious sea beast, the dugong, and those who have tasted its flesh declare there is ...

    Article : 283 words
  17. SUMS AT LIGHTNING SPEED.

    A French lightning calculator, M. Inaudi, was recently pitted against twelve of the latest types of calculating machines. The human ...

    Article : 92 words
  18. WHAT WE OWE TO CHINA.

    China produced discoveries and inventions of the greatest value to the human race long before the rise of Western civilization. ...

    Article : 148 words
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