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  2. NOTES FOR HORSE-OWNERS.

    Everyone should know that the hand —a term commonly used in describing the height of a horse—is one-third of a foot or four inches ...

    Article : 251 words
  3. FAMOUS STREET TO BE DEMOLISHED.

    Though there are few folks living— except perhaps its actual denizens— who are not glad that Tabard-street should be wiped off the face of the ...

    Article : 679 words
  4. HOW IT FEELS TO FALL.

    "How does it feel to fall?" was asked of an acrobat who had had several hair- raising experience "It feels like something happening ...

    Article : 360 words
  5. STREET LIFE IN JAPAN.

    Sights In Thoroughfares of Yokohama Attractive to Strangers—Old-Time Courtesy of Little People Seems to be Wearing Away in Seacoast Cities ...

    Article : 685 words
  6. On the Brink of a Chasm.

    Pelham sat with the boy for about hour. The nurse came in and turned the electric light. She lit a lamp a distant part of the room, and ...

    Article : 4,561 words
  7. THE CURFEW.

    The common supposition is that the curfew originated with William the Conqueror. It is true he enacted a law ordering all fires and lights to ...

    Article : 261 words
  8. ELECTRIC LIGHTS ON FARMS.

    Within ten years electricity will light a majority of the farm homes and country schools and churches of Kansas, it is predicted. Farm homes ...

    Article : 463 words
  9. THE STORY OF A FAMOUS WARHORSE.

    A famous regimental pet in days gone by was "Black Bob," a horse which belonged to the Sth King's Royal Irish Light Dragoons—now Hussars. ...

    Article : 422 words
  10. A SONG OF THE VAGRANT SINGER

    In stately halls I share the feast, By campfire help prepare it; When soldiers flay the ravished 'beast At board of lordliest or least ...

    Article : 187 words
  11. A (DISCONTENTED) VEGE- TARIAN'S ALPHABET.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 389 words
  12. WHERE CAMELS RUN WILD.

    It is quite unnecessary, it seems, to go so far afield as the heart of Africa the silent spaces of the regions, to find virgin ground. There ...

    Article : 255 words
  13. HIS SET UNIQUE.

    A wealthy Russian freak has been the subject of comment among philatelists. M. Stammer, of St. Petersburg. a ...

    Article : 122 words
  14. DRY CURE FOR INDIGESTION

    Such an innocent-looking remedy as the water-drinking cure, says a medi cal authority, may sometimes be very mischievous and even a source of real ...

    Article : 258 words
  15. HOW PEARLS ARE FORMED.

    Pearls are small bodies found either the motner-of-pearl shells or those with a nacreous lining. They formed cither by disease, by the presence ...

    Article : 138 words
  16. WONDERFUL CAVE TEMPLE.

    About three hours' journey from Bombay, India, in the face of a steep cliff, is a curious Buddhist cave temple, It is considered one of the ...

    Article : 122 words
  17. ANTIQUE EARRINGS.

    Did our feminine ancestors really have larger ears than we own at the present day? asks a writer in an English exchange. It would seem so, for ...

    Article : 119 words
  18. Due Precautions.

    In a certain town there was an old preacher whose knowledge world was not wide nor deep, but who conceived it to be a place where, if ...

    Article : 155 words
  19. WHERE MOTOR CARS ARE BARRED.

    An interesting example of the referendum in working has been afforded in the canton - of Grisons, For eleven years motor cars had been ...

    Article : 122 words
  20. Admitted.

    "Women already do a lot of governing," said Mrs. O. H. P. Belmont brilliant suffrage leader, in an interview. "Men, If they are observant ...

    Article : 104 words
  21. Needed Assistance.

    A poor old cast-down swaggie started knock the paint off of a back door the other morning, and when he tearfully told the lady who appeared that ...

    Article : 90 words
  22. THE LONELIEST PEOPLE.

    The people on the Island of Tristan Da Gunha are perhaps the loneliest in the world. There are only .14 men, 20. 'women, and '43 children oh this ...

    Article : 63 words
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