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  3. Nose Chewing Episode.

    This rounds like comic opera, although not of the true Offenbach type When a messenger employed by the Offenbach (Germany) leather goods finn ...

    Article : 152 words
  4. The Sunflower's Uses.

    This gorgeous, and prolific plant is utilised in many ways in Russia. The seeds are eaten in lorge quantities, raw or roasted, and the oil obtained by ...

    Article : 172 words
  5. Woman's Eleven Languages..

    Mis. C. Jackson Coleman, a London woman, whose marriage service was carried out in Esperanto, speaks eleven languages fluently. Mrs. Coleman, who ...

    Article : 44 words
  6. An Old Crime Recalled.

    Ex-Sub-Inspeotor Morris who died recently at' Kensington, was one of the first to trace in N.S.W. (while at Bathurst) the movements of the ...

    Article : 87 words
  7. Channel Swim Costs.

    What does it cost to attempt a swim the English Channel? Now so many Channel attempts are being made, the question is [?]ing ...

    Article : 195 words
  8. The Naming of Ships.

    An old ship canpot be renamed unless the owner gives his reasons in a public advertisement; anyone has the right to object. A duplication of ...

    Article : 88 words
  9. Knew "Thunderbolt."

    At the ago of 99 years, Edward Haynes wno was widely known in New longland district, N.S.W., died in the Armicale and New England hospitalr ...

    Article : 224 words
  10. Lest Passengers Forget.

    When a passenger buys his railway ticket he sometimes has to put his suitcase or what-not on the ground and the next thing, it he be an absent-minded ...

    Article : 129 words
  11. Scientists' Language.

    Another example of scientists' obscurity of phraseology—to which attention has been drawn repeatedly—is contained in the following passage from a ...

    Article : 186 words
  12. A Horrible Pair.

    There is a crab which becomes partner in a shell with a horrible creature possessing n squirming wormlike body armed with terrifying appendages ...

    Article : 103 words
  13. In London's Larder.

    The variety and quantity of goods of all kinds that can be stored at the Port of London in a source of neverending wonder to visitors to Dockland. ...

    Article : 148 words
  14. Seals Like Ice Lumps.

    Lattle seals are snowy-white at first —the better to hide on the white ice on which they are horn. Only their yes and the tips of their noses are ...

    Article : 143 words
  15. Detectives 2000 years ago.

    It is'the fashion of the general reader nowadays to credit Edgar, Allan Poe with being the originator of the detective in fiction. But the detective ...

    Article : 194 words
  16. Fashions in Boots.

    Two men of eminence in their day— Mr. Joseph Chamberlain and Lord Avebury—would huve joined in the opposition to the high lace-up bool, which is ...

    Article : 114 words
  17. The Royal Sturgeon.

    The sturgeon is included as a "Royal fish" in an Act of Edward. II., which assigns to the Sovereign "all wrecks and whales," whilst the Lord Mayor of ...

    Article : 174 words
  18. A Postman's Palace.

    One of the quaintest houses in existence is at Hauterives, a French village. It was erected by a postman, who once saw a picture of a wonderful ...

    Article : 140 words
  19. Graveyard of Many Ships.

    About half-way between the West Indies and West Africa lies n vast, stagnant sheet of water known as the Sargasso, Sea. Round if it circulate two ...

    Article : 152 words
  20. Eagles and Titles.

    President Coolidge's Indian title is "Loading Eagle," and now Mr. Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister, has been mude "Chief Sitting Eagle." ...

    Article : 61 words
  21. Costly Ton of Coal.

    A new coalmine, which ultimately is expected to have, an output of 1000 tons a day, is being sunk at Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire, by the Bolsover ...

    Article : 248 words
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