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  2. SPIDER-WEB SECRETS.

    The spider's web is remarkable in several ways. It is the only trap, save one that any animal builds. The manufacture of this essential ...

    Article : 238 words
  3. Lady of the Bungalow

    "O, Dr. Baroo, Dr. Baroo--do tell me! I'm so excited. Is everything true what everybody is saying about everything!" ...

    Article : 2,636 words
  4. AMUSING INCIDENTS.

    "Yes, my friend," said the theological lecturer, "some admire Moses, who instituted the old law; some Paul, who spread the new. But after all, which ...

    Article : 1,130 words
  5. "PULLMANS" OF THE AIR.

    Not more than a dozen years ago an aeroplane was a curiosity, and people would go miles to see one. It is a far cry from the crude models ...

    Article : 190 words
  6. WHO WAS SWEENEY TODD?

    On the north side of Fleet-street, London, they are pulling down some old houses, and in clearing the site have found an old well which is ...

    Article : 234 words
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  8. INGRATITUDE!

    On an Irish golf course there was a shortage of caddies. A farm labourer who had never seen golf played was therefore pressed into service. ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. MAKING IT EVEN.

    In front of the guard-room of a certain regiment stood a gong, upon which it was the duty of the soldier on sentry to strike each hour with a mallet. ...

    Article : 327 words
  10. THE INSULT.

    The old lady entered the room where her husband lay on his bed of sickness, trembling with suppressed wrath and indignation. ...

    Article : 115 words
  11. WATER-POWER WONDERS.

    Under the streets of London there are over one hundred and eighty miles of pipes devoted solely to the carrying of water for working artesian wells, ...

    Article : 184 words
  12. THE SUFFERER.

    There was a knock at the door, and on opening it the landlord found one of his tenants standing on the doorstep. ...

    Article : 67 words
  13. MADDENING.

    A man was touring in a small two-seater, and ran out of petrol when miles from the nearest garage. Consequently, great was his joy when he ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. THE REASON.

    "Do you remember, dear," said Mrs. Blank, "that before we were married you always offered me your left arm?" "Yes," replied her husband, I wanted ...

    Article : 83 words
  15. A PLAIN TALK.

    A cat with nine lives is not so hard to kill as Time! A lot of people spend a large part of their existence "killing time," and never completing the job. ...

    Article : 155 words
  16. THE NEWCOMER.

    The football match was in full swing but the visiting team was putting up the worst show ever seen on the home team's ground. ...

    Article : 90 words
  17. Formalin and Copper Carbonate.

    Sickle brand Formalin has been chiefly relied upon in this State for pickling seed wheat for the last 15 years or so, and has been consistently advocated and advertised ...

    Article : 170 words
  18. "CLOCK OF DEATH."

    Mrs Madden, widow of Surgeon General C. D. Madden and aunt of Admiral Sir Charles Madden, who has just died, lived at Hampton Court Palace ...

    Article : 111 words
  19. FOOLING THE FOREMAN.

    At one of the ironworks in Newcastle, a story is told at the expense of a foreman. The men known as "barrow-men" ...

    Article : 153 words
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  21. RIGHT THROUGH.

    The judge's style was possibly a little weighty, but he was a wit--oh, yes, he was a wit pre-eminent even among judges. ...

    Article : 137 words
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  23. FRANCE FOLLOWS SUIT.

    Paris is to have a Wembley of its own next year, and preparations for the new exhibition are already in an advanced stage. The French venture ...

    Article : 152 words
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    Advertising : 225 words
  26. FORGIVEN.

    Hubert, who had been sent to bed for being naughty, could not get to sleep. At ten o'clock he crept downstairs, and said to his startled ...

    Article : 452 words
  27. THE DATES PREFERRED.

    The minister in a small country parish, a genial, good-natured man, is very popular in the district. One day he officiated at a wedding, and when the ...

    Article : 121 words
  28. THE NOBEL MILLIONS.

    The reservation of this year's Nobel Prizes for Chemistry and Physics will still further swell the big capital sum available for the five awards. ...

    Article : 104 words
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  30. ANOTHER TWIST.

    The other evening, whilst taking a stroll with a friend, a sailor tapped a gentleman on the shoulder and inquired if he would buy some cake ...

    Article : 175 words
  31. THE DEEPEST SEA.

    The discovery of a spot in the Pacific Ocean, south-west, of Japan, 32,636ft. deep will not greatly astonish oceanographers, for the Pacific has ...

    Article : 308 words
  32. AN OUTSIDE SEAT.

    A man walking along a country road found an Irishman perched upon a signpost which pointed north with this inscription:-- ...

    Article : 141 words
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