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  2. A GOOD CUSTOMER.

    The other day, Mark Twain, the celebrated American humorist, went into a bookseller’s shop at Washington and inquired the price of a work ...

    Article : 191 words
  3. ROBBING THE MINT.

    Some years ago the mint authorities ties of a certain city noticed that a small amount of gold was missing every day after the coining ...

    Article : 207 words
  4. FROM NATURE’S BOOK.

    The highest peak of the Australian Alps, Mount Koscuisko, 7,300ft. high, has been climbed by a motorcar. It is recalled that this peak ...

    Article : 654 words
  5. ART V. NATURE.

    In this our realm of England exists a National Mouse Club. And, strange, unaccountable fact, more than half the members of the ...

    Article : 292 words
  6. MEN AS BALLET-GIRLS.

    It may come as a great surprise to you to know that pantomime “ladies” are not always of the fair sex, said a theatrical agent to the ...

    Article : 647 words
  7. OUR ROADWAY.

    They took a little gravel and they took a little tar, with various ingredients imported from afar; ...

    Article : 198 words
  8. HOW FOREST FIRES ARE CAUSES.

    Memories of the appalling forest first which devastated parts of the United Stated and Canada are still fresh upon the mind of the public. ...

    Article : 820 words
  9. THE GIRL OF TO-MORROW.

    What will she be like ? It is interesting to look over the hedge, of to-day into the field of to-morrow and speculate on the further ...

    Article : 841 words
  10. THE STRUGGLES OF OTHERS.

    I know how you feel. You feel that year troubles are the only troubles in the whole wide world ; that your load is the heaviest load; ...

    Article : 1,303 words
  11. WARRIOR WOMEN.

    Why not women warriors ? Boadicea lives deathlessly in our history and our poesy as. the “ British warrior-queen.” Victoria, in ...

    Article : 363 words
  12. PERSONALITIES.

    President Roosevelt’s son Theodore, who is earning I8s. a week in a carpet factory, is not following so closely in his father’s footsteps as ...

    Article : 359 words
  13. WHY WE CANNOT SEE WEIL UNDER WATER.

    The swimmer may open his eyes under Water, but he sees very poorly The reason is that the index of refraction (power to bend rays of ...

    Article : 217 words
  14. A LACONIC SPEECH.

    At an earlier period of English rmal life there was perhaps more of an equality between the landowners and their labourers than exists ...

    Article : 261 words
  15. FLYING NAVIES.

    In my judgment, the real significance of the recent more or less successful ventures in aerial navigation, so far as national defence is ...

    Article : 245 words
  16. A NEW INVENTION FOR THE POST OFFICE.

    A new electrical apparatus—which is designed to facilitate the despatch of postal letters, has just been installed in a Paris post ...

    Article : 146 words
  17. IN NEED OF IT.

    The regiment was drawn up for church parade, but the church was being repaired, and could hold only half of them. ...

    Article : 75 words
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