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  2. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    With characteristic th[?]toughaess the Germans have devised a real burglar-proof safe, so cleverly designed that it will baffle even the burglare ...

    Article : 140 words
  3. THE WORK A WOMAN WANTS.

    Any woman who wants a short cut to a beautiful complexion, agile limbs,and graceful proportions, may find it by following the directions of ...

    Article : 227 words
  4. "WATCHING THE SEA LINE."

    "The etiquette of war has changed; in future, war. if declared at all, will be declared by wireless." These words form one of the most ...

    Article : 441 words
  5. ADVENTURES WEIRD AND WONDERFUL.

    Seldom has a man started upon a more adventurous mission than that undertaken a few years ago by Mr. Charles Mayer, the agent of the ...

    Article : 1,498 words
  6. THE SHADOW OF PEKIN.

    The chief railway station in Pekin must be one of the most fascinating of all the curious places in toe world. Its red facade rises within ...

    Article : 743 words
  7. WOOING LIKE A TIGER.

    Mme. Maeterlinck, the wife of the famous Belgian poet and playwright, who was Mile. Georgette Leblanc, the actress, in a remarkable interview ...

    Article : 853 words
  8. ADVANCE STEP IN SURGERY.

    "Surgery has taken another advance step at the Johns Hopkins Hospital, where recently three patten's suffering from tuberculosis of the ...

    Article : 185 words
  9. ANIMALS AND SICKNESS.

    Animals will do anything to keep themselves in perfect condition, and they have learned in the course of ages that cleanliness in one of the ...

    Article : 733 words
  10. THE " SACCHARIN " DANGER.

    Saccharin is largely employed as a sweetening agent in place of sugar, but the U.S.A. authorities controlling food adulteration have just stated ...

    Article : 172 words
  11. FEEBLE-MINDED FOLK INCREASE.

    Not least of Britain's, social problems is the increase of the feebleminded. There are already more than 150,000, a majority of whom ...

    Article : 106 words
  12. 32.937 STITCHES IN A COAT, TAILOR SAYS.

    An enterprising tailor has taken the trouble to count the stitches in the last coat he made. He found 32,937—23,800 machine stitches and ...

    Article : 126 words
  13. CHEAP LABOUR.

    We never hear of a strike happening in India, and yet in that country the wages of the labouring classes average something like ...

    Article : 251 words
  14. "TRAINING " : AN IMPORTANT OBSERVATION.

    The average man who goes in for athletic training believes that unless be reduces his weight, his lal ours have been wasted. The fallacy ...

    Article : 150 words
  15. POLAR COLD AND WINGS.

    During the Polar expedition of the 'Belgiza,' Captain Gulache noticed that many of the insects were without wings. It had been remarked ...

    Article : 117 words
  16. WHO SIGNED FIRST?

    Mr. Robeson L. Low, manager of the banking department of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company's Jamaica branch, prides himself upon the ...

    Article : 178 words
  17. THE LARGEST ROOM.

    A gentleman seeing an advertisement in the paper, "A five-room house to let," went to have a look at it. It was just the size he ...

    Article : 115 words
  18. THROWN IN HIS WAY.

    In Brookiyn a maiden named Dolly Had no seat and stood up in a trolley, When the car with a jerk, ...

    Article : 79 words
  19. PUTTING BILLY AWAY.

    "Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise." But where wisdom is bliss, then 'tis folly to be ignorant, as the pupils of Birchemon the Seat ...

    Article : 150 words
  20. NEXT PLEASE.

    Tall stories were the order of the day. "Do you know," said the quiet man in the corner;l was once on a ...

    Article : 115 words
  21. NO JOKE.

    "My dear," said Mrs. Henpeck, "I'm positive that our George is thinking seriously of matrimony." "Well, I only hope so," returned ...

    Article : 63 words
  22. KING'S ENGLISH.

    When the native banker in India, who boasted a s[?]attering of English, described himself over his door as a " European loader," he wondered, ...

    Article : 42 words
  23. ADVICE.

    First Deaf Mute: ''What would yon do in a case like that?" Second Deaf Mute : Td treat her with silent contempt; I wouldn't ...

    Article : 42 words
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