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  2. Random Readings.

    Recent excavations have indicated that the peninsula south of San Francisco once was inhabited by a race of giant stature. Profesor Harold Heath, ...

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  3. Wise and Otherwise.

    What does your husband like for his breakfast? Anything I haven't got in the house. Willy: What's the difference between ...

    Article : 681 words
  4. Science Notes and News.

    Improving flowers to make them keep longer after cutting is a new idea in plant evolution. The effect of various substances on the keeping ...

    Article : 92 words
  5. New, Odd & Interesting.

    Japan has a written history extending over 2,500 years. A ton of oil has been obtained from the tongue of a single whale. ...

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  6. For Young Folks.

    "Couldn't" and "Could" were two promising boys Who lived not a great while ago; They had just the same playmates and ...

    Article : 149 words
  7. WOMEN WHO WEAR TAILS.

    "With this tail I thee wed." The natives of a remote partof Northern "Nigeria, not yet under the complete control of the British, do not actually ...

    Article : 317 words
  8. INJECTING OXYGEN THROUGH THE SKIN.

    Attempts have been made to inject oxygen directly into the blood through the skin for a dozen years. Domine, a Spanish physician, was the first to ...

    Article : 652 words
  9. The Poultry Run.

    The following details of an American method of chicken raising will be interesting: Much can be learned about brooding by watching the ...

    Article : 720 words
  10. BREAD MORE DIGESTIBLE WHEN NOT KNEADED.

    A new way of making bread that can, it is claimed, be digested by the weakest stomach, has been discovered by a Philadelphia, woman. The method ...

    Article : 111 words
  11. QUEEN VICTORIA'S QUARREL.

    Some interesting light is thrown upon the married life of Queen Victoria by the book on that subject which Mrs. Clare Jerrold has written. The ...

    Article : 157 words
  12. THE BISHOP'S MASTERPIECE.

    At the close of his talk before a Sunday School the Bishop invited questions. A tiny boy, with a white, eager face, at once held up his hand. "Please ...

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  13. ABOUT GRANITE.

    Granite is two and two-thirds times as heavy as water; its specific gravity is 2.663. A cubic yard of granite weighs exactly three-quarters of a ton. ...

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  14. TOMMY WONDERED WHY.

    Little Tommy came home from Sunday School one day in a very thoughtful mood. Finally, looking at his mother, he asked : "Mother, don't you think ...

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  15. CORKS EASILY DRAWN.

    If you want to amuse friends at an evening party, tell them that you can draw a cork out of any bottle without a corkscrew. Of course they will ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  16. SOME "VEILED LADIES."

    One of the most famous cases of a man writer winning fame under a woman's name was that of the late William Sharp, who kept his identity with ...

    Article : 262 words
  17. TO MAKE DISEASE VISIBLE.

    At the Physiotherapeutics Congress in Berlin, Dr. Rosenthal presented for inspection a new apparatus invented by himself, by means of which it is ...

    Article : 123 words
  18. ARE YOU A BRICK ?

    No doubt you have heard one man say, to another, when he is very pleased, "You are a brick!" Perhaps you would think it is a very ...

    Article : 195 words
  19. PRODUCING SLEEP WITH AN ELECTRIC CURRENT.

    Causing human beings to go to sleep by means of an electric current is the remarkable achievement claimed by a Berlin physician, who already has ...

    Article : 114 words
  20. A PIG THAT SAVED A CASTLE.

    Most of us rather look down upon pigs. They are not pretty, and certainly they would not make nice pets, while their grunt is by no means, a ...

    Article : 265 words
  21. 200 KINDS OF CHEESE.

    How many kinds of cheese are there? Most people could give the names of half a dozen off-hand, but a report of the United States Department of ...

    Article : 438 words
  22. ACETYLENE GAS MANTLE.

    If the use of acetylene gas with incandescent mantles proves as practical as a writer in the "Revue Scientifique" believes it to be, the new ...

    Article : 197 words
  23. THEY CHEW CORDITE.

    One of the troubles of most European armies is that those soldiers who can get hold of it insist on using that terrible explosive cordite as if it were ...

    Article : 215 words
  24. FEELING YOUR PULSE BY TELEGRAPH.

    A wonderful instrument has been perfected, called the "electro cardiograph," by means of which a physician is able to see and count the ...

    Article : 427 words
  25. IMPROVING THE ALL-ROUND BREEDS.

    That something needs to be done to secure greater public support of the all-round breeds is admitted by all. The White Leghorns have overrrun the ...

    Article : 388 words
  26. LITERARY DOMINOES.

    To play literary dominoes, prepare a list of books with the final letter of one making the initial letter of another, as, for instance, "Lorna ...

    Article : 285 words
  27. BAD FOR JOHNNY.

    Little Johnny Squildig spoiled what otherwise would have been a pleasant call last evening, and it is feared established a deadly hatred between the ...

    Article : 257 words
  28. CONUNDRUMS.

    It is of no use to the waggon, yet the waggon cannot go without it. When the waggon goes, it goes, and when the waggon stops, it stops. What ...

    Article : 72 words
  29. KINDNESS MISPLACED.

    The kindly old gentleman paused in his afternoon walk to watch a wee tot, who was diligently searching the pavement for something she had evidently ...

    Article : 225 words
  30. MORE THAN HE EXPECTED.

    Husband and wife had a little tiff. He buried his nose in a morning paper, while she gazed out of the window with persistent intentness. Thus an ...

    Article : 196 words
  31. AN ANGRY TREE.

    In Idaho there exists a species of the acacia tree that is entitled to be classed as one of the wonders of plant life. The tree attains a height of ...

    Article : 173 words
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