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  2. A GOOD CUSTOMER.

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

    Article : 196 words
  3. OUR ROADWAY.

    They took a little gravel And they took a little car. With various Ingredients Imported from afar; ...

    Article : 192 words
  4. 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 : 694 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 : 297 words
  6. ROBBING THE MINT.

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

    Article : 216 words
  7. 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 : 678 words
  8. HOW FOREST FIRES ARE CAUSES.

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

    Article : 857 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 : 650 words
  10. THE STRUGGLES OF OTHERS.

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

    Article : 1,367 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 : 410 words
  12. PERSONALITIES.

    President Roosevelt's son Theodore. who is earning 18s. a week in a carpet factory, is not following so closely in his father's footsteps as ...

    Article : 369 words
  13. WHY WE CANNOT SEE WELL 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 : 225 words
  14. A LACONIC SPEECH.

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

    Article : 266 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 : 259 words
  16. A NEW INTENTION 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 : 131 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 : 87 words
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