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  2. THE MAN WHO LAUGHED BUT ONCE.

    I do not know how I could illustrate more aptly the difference in the sense of humour in different individuals than by recording the only thing ...

    Article : 479 words
  3. CLOTH FROM BARK.

    Great possibilities are said to lie in the use of a new tree bark for cloth. The tree from which the cloth is made grows in exhaustless ...

    Article : 300 words
  4. PRESERVATION OF MEAT.

    The preservation of meat by the agency of salt (Sodium chloride) is one of the oldest and most widely used processes. Salt acts partially ...

    Article : 1,842 words
  5. JACK TAR TRADESMEN.

    The staid British citizen would be rather astonished, on paying a casual visit to one of the men-of-war, to find the lower deck placarded with ...

    Article : 780 words
  6. A MULTI-MILLIONAIRE WIDOW.

    Mrs. Russell Sage, the widow of the millionaire, one of the richest women in the world, graduated at the Emma Willard Seminary of Troy, U.S.A. ...

    Article : 372 words
  7. HOW SCIENCE PREVENTS CRIME.

    Of all the sciences, chemistry takes the lead as a factor in the detection of crime. It has accomplished marvels in the way of capturing ...

    Article : 935 words
  8. "MYSTERY" CAVES IN NEW SOUTH WALES.

    The most beautiful natural caves in the world are in New South Wales. They are only partially explored, because many of them are ...

    Article : 257 words
  9. THIRTY YEARS' WAR.

    An official despatch from the Island of Bali, in the Dutch East Indies, says the villages of the chiefs in Badoeng have been captured, and the ...

    Article : 242 words
  10. SATISFIED.

    "I don't wish to take up your time," the caller said, "unless you think it is likely I might interest you in the subject of life insurance." ...

    Article : 299 words
  11. A BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

    Many years ago a lawyer named Lee was briefed at Norwich to obtain damages for a lady in a breach of promise case. On looking into his ...

    Article : 301 words
  12. STRANGE LAWS IN A TINY REPUBLIC.

    Locksmiths are forbidden to sell latchkeys to young men in San Marino, the smallest republic on earth, and, it is claimed, the oldest ...

    Article : 250 words
  13. GENERAL BOOTH'S BEEFSTEAK.

    Throughout the whole of the motor tour, from which he has just returned. General Booth was almost a vegetarian: indeed, so sparing was ...

    Article : 235 words
  14. HOUSES OF CONCRETE.

    There is much grumbling at the domestic architecture of the day. No one ever finds the particular rooms in the particular house that ...

    Article : 428 words
  15. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    In 1801 coal in London sold for £2 15s. a ton. The total number of gipsies in Hungary is estimated at 185,000. ...

    Article : 233 words
  16. CURRAN'S CAUSTIC WIT.

    Talking of lawyers who were indiscreet enough to be witty at the cost of the Bench, I am reminded of Curran's rebuke to Robinson for that ...

    Article : 213 words
  17. TREASURES GUARDED BY FLOODS.

    Passing along on his bus by the Bank of England the average citizen, who looks down on the night guard of soldiers entering, has a ...

    Article : 278 words
  18. CHINESE STUDENTS IN JAPAN.

    Chinese students are still going to Japan in ever-increasing numbers, at the rate of 500 or 600 a month. The total number has already reached ...

    Article : 218 words
  19. NOT ENGAGED.

    There had been a fire at the local grocer's, and the neighbours were not slow to suggest that if the shop had not been insured the fire would ...

    Article : 182 words
  20. SLEEP.

    Oh magic sleep, O comfortable bird. That broodest o're the troubled sea of tho mind Till it is hush'd and smooth! O unconfind ...

    Article : 86 words
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