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  2. HOTEL HAPPENINGS.

    BY A HOTEL PROPRIETOR Mine is just an ordinary ten[?]med Commercial hotel in a seaport town. It doesn’t look as ...

    Article : 1,197 words
  3. CHURCH THIEVES.

    Holiday-makers are often annoyed when they discover the door of some interesting old church locked up, and find that the only way to get in is ...

    Article : 690 words
  4. SNEEZE SIGNS.

    In the ancient days of Greece and Rome, a sneeze was supposed to bear in its train far greater portents than a mere cold. ...

    Article : 218 words
  5. WEIGHING A FULL STOP.

    As you smoke your cigarette and flick away the paper ash, it is difficult to believe that a thousand cigarette papers piled tightly ...

    Article : 627 words
  6. PICTURES BY WIRELESS.

    The claim that it is possible to broadcast pictures in the same way that music is broadcasted was put forward by Mr. Thorne Baker during ...

    Article : 247 words
  7. “LINEN KING” OUTLINES HIS PLANS.

    There were a round dozen of them round as to figure as well as figures --typical City men whose every slightest movement was ...

    Article : 1,498 words
  8. EPILEPSY AND CRIME.

    A charge, of shoplifting was recently dropped at the instance of the Public Prosecutor on the ground that the [?] was at the time ...

    Article : 305 words
  9. SPORT IN THE SKY.

    A novel game has been suggested for Army and Navy aerial forces. It. is known as “aerial ball,” and, except that it is played with ...

    Article : 103 words
  10. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    Bicycles are so popular in France that there is one for every seven persons of the population. Gibraltar has no public debt, no ...

    Article : 303 words
  11. SUBMARINE CITIES.

    The [?] ...

    Article : 560 words
  12. A SUN-RAYS ENGINE.

    The sun’s rays are used to generate power in a miniature engine which was the subject of a [?] at the college of the City of New ...

    Article : 168 words
  13. MILLIONS UNDER THE SEA

    [?] ...

    Article : 377 words
  14. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    Gertie : “It hurts me, George, to think how you have changed To think you used to catch me in your arms every night !” ...

    Article : 427 words
  15. THE FORGOTTEN SERMON

    It will be [?] that absent [?] ...

    Article : 444 words
  16. TURNING SILVER INTO GOLD.

    A French scientist claims [?] can turn silver into gold [?] ...

    Article : 103 words
  17. ‘FROST’ YOUR OWN WINDOWS.

    When glue or gelatine is allowed to dry [?] on a sheet of ordinary window glass it tears away the surface face of the latter and chips it into ...

    Article : 133 words
  18. FIRST POCKET ORCHESTRA.

    An Hungarian engineer has invented a gramophone no larger than a watch. The inventor’s slogan is “Carry your orchestra in your vest ...

    Article : 206 words
  19. MILLIONS KILLED BY RATS.

    Forty million pounds worth of damage is. done in England every year by rats. There is, however, an even more appalling feature of the ...

    Article : 238 words
  20. WILL EUROPE BE DESTROYED.

    Dr. Milton A. Nobles, a distinguished geologist, prophesied in 1922 the beginning of an earthquake era which would ultimately submerge a ...

    Article : 168 words
  21. A PRESS-THE-BUTTON ’PLANE.

    Experiments with an automatic aeroplane directed by wireless were made at Villesauvage Aerodrome near Paris, recently. ...

    Article : 99 words
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