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  2. SKETCHER.

    Resident in a small villa situated in a Glasgow suburb, I occasionally spent the summer evenings as a looker-on at an adjacent bowling green, of which my ...

    Article : 341 words
  3. GENIUS AND WEIGHT OF BRAINS.

    Some interesting facts bearing on the size and weight of the brain were given recently by Sir William Turner. In the case of Europeans the average brain- weight is from ...

    Article : 181 words
  4. MENTAL PECULIARITES OF INVENTORS.

    To illustrate the kind of lapse of reasoning power that great inventors are known to suffer from and which Sir Isaac Newton was under the influence of when he cut one hole ...

    Article : 262 words
  5. VARIETIES.

    There are over 1,000 islands under the flag of Japan. News comes from the Klondyke of a game of poker at Dawson City in which the players ...

    Article : 647 words
  6. ROGUES.

    A lady and her husband in Edinburgh went out to a ball one night, leaving the house about 7 p.m. in the sole charge of their maid-of-all-work, a young girl. About ...

    Article : 291 words
  7. QUESTIONS.

    HOW SHOULD WE KEEP COOL?--It is a very difficult problem to keep cool in such weather as we have been having lately, even with all the resources that modern science ...

    Article : 406 words
  8. ARTFUL THIMBLERIGGERS.

    The conviction of the gang of thimbleriggers at Ardrossan the other day for plying their artful calling on board the Adder incites me to give an experience of ...

    Article : 1,349 words
  9. TO MAKE PATENT LEATHER.

    This leather is prepared from calf, seal, and other skins, with a varnish compound of drying oil, vegetable black, and Prussian blue. The skin is first stretched on a flat ...

    Article : 353 words
  10. SCIENCE.

    A very simple and effective trousers stretcher may be made in the following manner : Take two pieces of dry pine 22in by 2in by 1in ; into the edge of one fasten a ...

    Article : 107 words
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