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  2. CLIMBING RAILWAY TRAINS.

    Railway trains that climb mountains are especially interesting, and there are some that do where the gradients is such that, if the wheels and rails were smooth, the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 265 words
  3. ODDS AND ENDS.

    About 43,000 people in Great Britain wear glass eyes. In all countries more marriages take place in June than in any other month. ...

    Article : 1,482 words
  4. CARD-PLAYING AMONG WOMEN.

    The Ladies' Home Journal, the leading American women's paper, which recently attained a circulation of a million copies, has in its April number a capital ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,905 words
  5. ECHOES AND RE-ECHOES.

    It is wonderful with what an unerring instinct the confidence-trick man can pick out a jay. One came up to me after our vessel had been a day oat from Port ...

    Article : 1,228 words
  6. THE BOY THAT WON'T.

    THE OTHER BOYS—He won't play with us as he used to. He's always walking off like that just when we're going to begin. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  7. INTERVIEW WITH MR. CARNEGIE.

    I ought to have seen him in Scotland. For Mr. Carnegie is still the Scotch weaver's son, and tho best background to that rugged, granity face—far better than the ...

    Article : 2,775 words
  8. ROYAL MOTOR CARS.

    The King has as magnificent a motor car as may be imagined. In size it is really enormous. The King does not drive himself, this being the work of Mr. Letzer, ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 251 words
  9. A REALLY UP-TO-DATE TRAMCAR.

    In March last, the London County Council inaugurated a new electric tram system in the world's greatest city. The very up-to-date cars cost £700 apiece, and one ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  10. A MARVELLOUS MACHINE GUN.

    It is believed in the United States that Dr. S. N. McLean, of Cleveland, has perfected a gun that will prove a terribly destructive weapon. Gen. Miles, head of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 820 words
  11. THE BIGGEST TREE IN THE WORLD.

    The biggest tree in the world has just been found by a woman. The tree has been named Methuselah, though its age is probably much greater than was that of the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 222 words
  12. THE UTILIZATION OF WAVE POWER.

    Poseidon, the sea god, is said to have created the horse, and to have taught men the use of the bridle. To-day he is himself being harnessed by man and driven to ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 399 words
  13. A NOVEL INSURANCE CO.

    President Roosevelt's strictures on “race suicide” and the low birth rate of native born American families have had a notable sequel. “The American Mothers' Birth ...

    Article : 75 words
  14. SERVED HIM RIGHT.

    It was a raw, cold night, and the rain fell pitilessly as an omnibus drew up at the corner of a turning in Oxford street. A thinly clad young woman stood on the ...

    Article : 180 words
  15. A BLESSING FOR THE BLESSED.

    When the sun has left the hill top. And the daisy-fringe is furled. When the birds from wood and meadow In their hidden nests are curled, ...

    Article : 238 words
  16. BOYS POISONED BY TOBACCO.

    At an inquest at Tredegar on Richard Thomas, 15, it was stated that be had died of nicotine poisoning, caused by chewing tobacco. The father said he frequently ...

    Article : 88 words
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  18. THE SUNDREAM.

    We are not perfect, comrade, in our lives; Our love is but a broken thought of God; But always in our hearts there is that strives Towards heights untrod. ...

    Article : 122 words
  19. Advertising

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