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  2. ENGINE-WHISTLES.

    Accidents have, over and over again, set the busy brains of inventors working on new ideas. It was net until four years had elapsed from the time ...

    Article : 208 words
  3. HOW FAST DO ANIMALS MOVE?

    The "speed of a gazelle," "fast as a horse," "fleet as a deer," "slow as an ox," are all familiar terms. But few know just how fast or fleet or slow ...

    Article : 282 words
  4. RANDOM READINGS.

    Warsaw has played an important part in the history of Poland. Early in the seventeenth century it supplanted Cracow as the capital of ...

    Article : 200 words
  5. TO THINK OVER.

    We feel most lonely when we feel most selfish. The modest man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never ...

    Article : 207 words
  6. ANIMALS' DANGER SIGNALS.

    Animals in their wild state have strange ways of warning their own species of danger. Rabbits, when startled, at strange noises, stamp hard ...

    Article : 194 words
  7. FACTS AND FANCIES.

    The poster is almost as old as civilisation itself. In tracing back the history of advertising, signs and criers are found in Palestine, Greece, ...

    Article : 926 words
  8. LITTLE ESSAYS.

    The pig is composed principally of pork, crackling, trotters and bad manners. As a pet for the children he is not to be recommended, and the only ...

    Article : 222 words
  9. A DIFFERENCE IN DATES.

    With an appreciative sniff and an approving glance at the general makeup of the restaurant, a hungry diner took his seat at a lonely table. ...

    Article : 195 words
  10. FORTUNE FROM A SHOVEL.

    The simplest labour-saving device may quite possibly be worth a fortune. Ninety years ago a number of men were at work on the road-bed of a line ...

    Article : 330 words
  11. FRIGHTENED THE POET.

    The ethereal being with unshorn locks was shown into the editorial sanctum. "I have written a poem on the dog," ...

    Article : 180 words
  12. CANDID.

    A certain life office sold an annuity to Mr. Patrick Maloney, and they continued, year after year, to pay the money until they reckoned his age ...

    Article : 136 words
  13. SWEET GIRL.

    "George, although I refused to marry you, I promised to be a sister to you, you know." George (gloomily): "Y-e-s." ...

    Article : 115 words
  14. THE SPIDER'S WEB.

    A patient student who watched a garden spider spin its web from start to finish has related what he saw. At half-past nine in the evening the ...

    Article : 112 words
  15. UNPLEASANT FOR DAD.

    A popular writer visited a certain prison in order to take notes for a magazine on gaol life. On returning home he described all he had seen, and ...

    Article : 118 words
  16. A CHINESE ALTAR.

    There is no altar on earth which vies in marble majesty with the Altar, of Heaven--Tien T'an--in the south of the Chinese city of Peking, which ...

    Article : 169 words
  17. WHAT SHE HAD, SHE'D HOLD.

    It was the happiest moment of their lives. He had just proposed, and she had grab--er--accepted him. Then he took a tiny leather case ...

    Article : 102 words
  18. NO COMPULSORY SERVICE.

    A lady, having unexpectedly come into a fortune, set up a country house near a big city, where she lived in great style. One day she was showing ...

    Article : 90 words
  19. PITY THE PEACEMAKER.

    The fight between the Irishmen was waxing fast and furious. It had progressed to the extent that each had forgotten what it was about ...

    Article : 113 words
  20. THE SUGAR PALM.

    In the southern parts of French Indo-China the natives obtain both food and a certain kind of wine from the sugar palm. Several varieties of ...

    Article : 125 words
  21. SECRETS OF SUCCESS.

    "Push," said the button. "Take pains," said the window. "Never be led," said the pencil. "Be up to date," said the calendar ...

    Article : 75 words
  22. NOT HIS FAULT.

    "Cook!" cried the waiter down the kitchen speaking-tube. "Gent won't 'ave these taters! Says they're no good! ...

    Article : 80 words
  23. FELONS OF THE PEERAGE.

    The last English nobleman to die a felon's death, and thus illustrate the perfect equality of our criminal laws, was Lawrence Shirley, fourth Earl ...

    Article : 365 words
  24. COULDN'T BEAR IT.

    Every seat in the tramcar was occupied, and tired women and girls were strap-hanging in the middle. When he went to collect the fares, the ...

    Article : 86 words
  25. LIKE AN ELEPHANT.

    It is said that a certain well-known portrait painter has almost as great a t reputation for joking as for taking excellent likenesses. One evening he ...

    Article : 125 words
  26. THE PEOPLE'S CHERRIES.

    In various parts of Austria cherry, trees are planted by the roadside, and are chiefly intended for the benefit of pedestrians. The road from Brunn to ...

    Article : 84 words
  27. Advertising

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    Advertising : 94 words
  28. MELTING CHEER.

    A friend met a cheerful Irish citizen who had plainly suffered some hard knocks. "Weil, Pat, how are you getting ...

    Article : 88 words
  29. BOTH IN THE SAME BOAT.

    The modern wife is beginning to astonish the modern husband. A man came home at 1 a.m. and took off his shoes on the doorstep. ...

    Article : 100 words
  30. TOO MECHANICAL.

    A proud millionaire had told a friend of the perfect labor-saving mechanisms of his new mansion. And then he said: ...

    Article : 121 words
  31. HOW DID HE KNOW?

    "What a methodical fellow, you are, Blunt," said Scrip, who had stepped into Blunt's office during the latter's absence. ...

    Article : 86 words
  32. THE WAY OF THE TRANSGRESSOR.

    Kitty: "Oh, Edwin, your present was so beautiful! And you unintentionally left the price-tag on--eight guineas." Edwin: "Oh, how careless of me!" ...

    Article : 87 words
  33. TIT FOR TAT.

    A cashier, of somewhat portly build, was frowning over a statement of accounts just placed before him by his pretty typist. "As a young lady," he ...

    Article : 73 words
  34. NO NONSENSE.

    Mrs. P.: "How do you always manage to have such delicious beef?" Mrs. B.: "I select a good, honest butcher, and then stand by him." ...

    Article : 51 words
  35. VERY TRUE.

    The young man in charge of the "Home Help" column in the local paper took his duties very seriously, and worried all the other members of ...

    Article : 89 words
  36. NO EVIDENCE.

    Two farmers met in a Western town a day or two after a cyclone had visited that particular neighborhood. "She shook things up pretty bad out ...

    Article : 65 words
  37. BAD ENOUGH.

    The sympathetic neighbor asked: "Is your little brother ill this morning, Johnnie? I heard him crying in the most heartrending manner." ...

    Article : 54 words
  38. JUST IN TIME.

    [?] suppose," said the casual acquaintance, the day after the wedding, "it was hard to lose your daughter?" "No," replied the bride's father. "It ...

    Article : 55 words
  39. AND YOU KNOW IT.

    Professor: "Which is the most delicate of the senses?" Pupil: "The touch" "Prove it?" ...

    Article : 44 words
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