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  2. WATCHES AS BIG AS PLATES,

    The first watches ever made were as big as soup plates and as heavy as they were cumbersome The Emperor Charles V., for ...

    Article : 137 words
  3. HANGED BY A DREAM

    With spiritualistic matters attracting so much attention, the story of sensational crime-drama in which criminals were brought to justice ...

    Article : 314 words
  4. FORESTS FELLED BY INSECTS.

    In the recently accounts have appeared of the damage damage done to crops and fruit by insect pests Entomologists have also ...

    Article : 291 words
  5. PLANT PICK-ME-UPS.

    A farm and garden machine of great ingenuity is now being tested the South of England. Its function is to bestow a pick-me-up of the ...

    Article : 117 words
  6. CURIOS WHICH BRING DISASTER.

    Mysterious are the happenings recorded in connection with some curios it behoves all collectors to be quite sure that the particular ...

    Article : 743 words
  7. ROTHINO SERIOUS.

    The man in the rainbow stockings was playing golf. No ; that’s a false start. The man in the rainbow stockings ...

    Article : 903 words
  8. THE AURORA BOREALIS.

    What the Aurora Borealis is we do not know, but it seems that it is perhaps due to some electrical influences, and it is remarkable, too, ...

    Article : 203 words
  9. “MUST NOTS” FOR PARENTS,

    The fact that parents may be sent to prison if they do not allow a child to be operated upon, when, in the opinion of the doctor, it is ...

    Article : 828 words
  10. DAYS AND FACES.

    If “the proper study of mankind is man,” then make a beginning by studying the week’s faces of your fellow-travellers or workers. You will ...

    Article : 275 words
  11. TEN YEARS TO WRITE A POEM.

    Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” occupied some thirty years of diligent study and close work. ...

    Article : 293 words
  12. THE PTOMAINE POISON PERIL.

    At this time of the year we hear a good deal about ptomaine poisoning Almost every case of illness obviously resulting from the consumption ...

    Article : 611 words
  13. WHO INVENTED ICE-CREAM ?

    Ice-cream is not such a modern product as many people imagine. The ancients first used ice for the making of iced drinks. These served ...

    Article : 388 words
  14. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Paper which cost l½d. a lb. in 1914 now costs 1½- a lb. Tests recently made go to prove that disease germs cannot live long ...

    Article : 329 words
  15. WHY BE SEASICK ?

    Perhaps there is ho complaint for which more different remedies have been suggested than for that distressing malady sea-sickness. ...

    Article : 289 words
  16. “HIS HOBBY.”

    When I came home the other evening I found Matilda in tears, her hair in the matutinal curl-papers, and to have dinner ready. A blight ...

    Article : 772 words
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