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  2. WITH THE OPAL MINERS OF WHITE CLIFFS.

    White Cliffs, New South Wales, is one of the strangest places in the British Empire, if not in the world. It is situated in the mystic land ...

    Article : 2,327 words
  3. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The idea of a postpaid envelope originated in 1653. It takes a weight of 14,500 pounds to crush a half-inch cube of granite. ...

    Article : 398 words
  4. OUR GREAT EMPIRE.

    In these days when the Imperial idea is so much in the air, it seems unnecessary to remind intelligent citizens ol the fact that we inhabit ...

    Article : 766 words
  5. THE SECOND CROP.

    " If a man wasn't a widower in my day. why, no girl wanted him," said Sarah Anna Spriggs, advising her daughter, Sally, as to the choice ...

    Article : 1,328 words
  6. DO MAMMOTHS EXIST?

    Once more the astonishing and puzzling report comes that the Alaskan Indians are fleeing from a monster " as big as a cabin, with a ...

    Article : 419 words
  7. ANIMALS THAT HAVE RECEIVED LEGACIES.

    The Count de la Mirandole, who died in 1825, left a legacy to his favourite carp, which he had nourished for twenty years in an ...

    Article : 695 words
  8. A FURTHER REWARD.

    The other evening a gentleman of the burglar type stepped up to an old gentleman, and handing him a piece of paper said : ...

    Article : 292 words
  9. THE KITCHEN RACE.

    Joe : " Say, Sambo, what do you think? Such a strange thing happened this morning.': Sambo : " What was that ? " ...

    Article : 94 words
  10. THE DIRECT ANSWER.

    Two men were arguing who was the cleverest. " Well," said Billy. " I'll bet you can't find out this puzzle. Three ...

    Article : 149 words
  11. PING PONG BALLS.

    Ping-pong balls are made of xylonite and six tons per week are turned out of one factory alone. As 800 weigh 11b., the weekly output is ...

    Article : 148 words
  12. PUZZLE, FIND THE CROPS !

    An auctioneer was selling a Jot of land for agricultural purposes. " Gentlemen," said he, " this is the most delightful land, it is the ...

    Article : 135 words
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