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  2. THE GERM-PROOF HOUSE OF THE FUTURE.

    That will be the motto displayed on the twentieth century house. The [?] of the future wil be the battles of the microbes. Against these orc[?] men of to-day ...

    Article : 1,714 words
  3. WORKING AT DIZZY HEIGHTS

    The tall steal towers of a bridge, now in course of creation, are anearly completed. There now remains only the placing of the trucks an the top to support the great cables ...

    Article : 845 words
  4. A STORY OF LORD KITCHENS.

    Many stories have been told as an illustration of Lord Kitchener's rigidity of manner, but here is a pleasing little anecdote which exhibits the ...

    Article : 157 words
  5. HOW A SUICIDE CLUB WAS FORMED

    The Bridgcorl, U.S., Buicide Club, the last member of which has list terminated his ex[?]nce, was [?] as a joke. It is hard to understand the north of mind that can ...

    Article : 455 words
  6. REMARKABLE DISCOVERY OF HIDDEN TREASURE.

    A young student was recently looking over an old manuscript in the library of Vienna, when suddenly his eyes fell upon a passage which ...

    Article : 209 words
  7. THE PROTECTION OF KINGS.

    Mr. Sidney Low is right in saying—remarks the "Spectator"—that the power of Kings has increased of late, or, as Mr. Balfour put it, they have ...

    Article : 1,016 words
  8. MANX SUPERSTICIONS.

    The Manxman still clinge tenaciously, to the customs and superstitions of his race. His belief in the fairies is firmly rooted; if you lose an article ...

    Article : 277 words
  9. AIR FROZEN SOLID.

    At an estimated temperature of probably 320deg. below zero Professor A. L. Metz, of New Orleans, has been experimenting with blocks of solid ...

    Article : 404 words
  10. THE LAWYER'S ADDRESS WAS A FAILURE.

    The real cycle is always a man with a history, and this is true of a comparatively young Pittsburg lawyer, who views all attest girl gradustes with unnatural distrust. This ...

    Article : 519 words
  11. THE HORRORS OF A SEAFARING LIFE.

    In an illustrated interview with Mr. Frank T. Bullen, in the "You Man" for February, we are told that the deepest depth of a great ship is a place unfit for human ...

    Article : 604 words
  12. AN IDEAL SOLDIER, AS PICTURED BY THE KAISER.

    Prince Eitel Friedrich, second eon of the German Emperor, has formally received at Potsdam, his commission as an officer in the 1st Regiment of ...

    Article : 177 words
  13. THE AMERICAN PRIVATE RAILWAY CARS.

    The car on which we travelled to a few of the eastern towns of Canada was divided as follows—dining-room and drawing-room in one; two ...

    Article : 192 words
  14. DEFINITION OF MAGIC.

    Magic is the traditional science of the secrets of nature which comes to us from the Magi. it unites in a single science all that is most certain in ...

    Article : 155 words
  15. GAVE HIM A JOB.

    A barker of cothes-props was toiling along when a policeman accosted him and said: "Here, my man, you go with me; ...

    Article : 133 words
  16. WHERE IS THE UNO OF BURNS?

    If ninety nine out of any hundred intelligent people were asked in what part of Scotland in the "Land of Burns," they would probably name Ayrshire. An admirer of ...

    Article : 181 words
  17. A SCARE FOR THE SHOPMAN.

    Some Indians flora Buffalo Bill's Wild West, arrayed in bright coloured blankets and an exceptional amount of face paint, were taking in the sights of the city the other ...

    Article : 309 words
  18. LEIGH HUNTS LITTLE JOKE.

    It is related of Leigh Hunt that on one occasion he went to call on a man as a whose exact address he was uncertain. He know the street, but not the number, ...

    Article : 165 words
  19. THE FOX AND THE DEER.

    "It will be necessary," remarked the bear, who was chairman of the animal meeting, "to raise a handsome sum if we intend to curry out the idea of ...

    Article : 112 words
  20. WHAT HE WANTED.

    A gentleman went into a butcher's shop the other day, saying he wanted a piece of meat, but he did not want any fat, nor any bone, not any ...

    Article : 151 words
  21. X-RAY DETECTIVES.

    Proof of the value of x-rays in detective work has been furnished by the post office at Buenos Ayres. Jewelers have found that smuggling ...

    Article : 131 words
  22. FEMININE DIPLOMACY.

    "How do you get on with your new neighbours?" "Very nicely," answered Mrs. Blykins. "We pursued our usual ...

    Article : 77 words
  23. EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES.

    Tenderfoot: Did you folks lynch the man who stole that automobile here last week ? Castus Charley: Nope. We intended ...

    Article : 48 words
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