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  2. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    The man on top is sometimes just standing on his friends' shoulders. Troubles you expect worry you more than troubles you already have. ...

    Article : 785 words
  3. COMPLETE SHORT STORY. GUIDO, THE CELLIST.

    The house was uncomfortably full, and the placard announcing "Standing Room Only," had been replaced by one stating "No More Money ...

    Article : 753 words
  4. THE PACE THAT KILLS.

    It may be taken for granted that we don't wish to die young. Also that, if we live to a good old age, we should like to have sufficient ...

    Article : 301 words
  5. TOPSY-TURVY SAMMY.

    You have often looked into a mirror and noticed how everything seems to he the wrong way round. Things which are really coming towards you ...

    Article : 320 words
  6. TO BEAT AMERICA.

    Rome is to be modernised. The slums of the Italian capital are to be cleared away, a large programme of new building is to be undertaken, ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. NIGHT OF MAGIC.

    Though All Hallows Eve, or Hallowe'en, is not now so universally celebrated as it was a generation or so ago, many quaint rites are still ...

    Article : 184 words
  8. WONDERS WATER MAY WORK.

    Science is on the brink of a discovery that may lead to the abolition of petrol and coal as motive power for motor-cars, engines, and ...

    Article : 176 words
  9. WOMAN'S LATEST WHIM.

    Woman's latest plaything is the grotesque doll. The uglier a specimen is the higher its price. These miniature monstrosities are ...

    Article : 172 words
  10. MYSTERY OF THE MOON.

    By chemical analysis of lavas of the Hawaiian volcanoes, Dr. Henry S. Washington, the famous expert on, the chemistry of the earth's crust, ...

    Article : 132 words
  11. THE AGE OF FIREWORKS.

    Few of the many thousands who celebrate in the time-honoured manner the national fireworks fete on November, 5th will stop to consider ...

    Article : 596 words
  12. IS MAN ALIVE WHEN DEAD?

    Can survival after death be proved by logic and science? Sir James Marchant, LL.D., who converted Mrs. Besant to theosophy ...

    Article : 567 words
  13. MURDERED BY A RING.

    Rings have been associated with many things, both happy and sinister. It was common in Roman times, and not by any means unknown in ...

    Article : 218 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Electricity is now being used for cooking in place of gas, on the newest restaurant trains. Why some birds hop and others ...

    Article : 294 words
  15. A CENTURY OF GLASS-MAKING.

    The name of Chance is met with in scientific work all over the world, in connection with microscopes, telescopes, laboratory ware, and, in fact ...

    Article : 124 words
  16. AMBROSE BUTTS IN.

    An American writer says that he does not think that Adam and Eve really existed, in which case he might tell us who first started raising Cain. ...

    Article : 1,072 words
  17. COST OF NELSON'S COLUMN.

    Trafalgar Square, London, is dedicated to Nelson. It was designed by Sir Charles Barry, and completed at a cost Charles Barry, and completed at ...

    Article : 181 words
  18. JELLY-FISH AT ANCHOR.

    The manner in which a jelly-fish produces its "children" is really wonderful. In most cases the beginning is an ...

    Article : 155 words
  19. MINING FOR MUSHROOMS.

    When a pit has become exhausted of coal, it may be put to uses strangely at variance with its original purpose. Recently a disused pit ...

    Article : 133 words
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