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  2. CRICKET BY MACHINERY.

    Will the professional bowler be abolished? The question may be serious considered in view of the remarkable invention of Dr. Venn, F.R.S.. and ...

    Article : 414 words
  3. MOVING PICTURES IN THE MAKING.

    When you have watched the cinematograph pictures record an explosion deep down in a coal mine have you ever wondered how the thing is ...

    Article : 1,058 words
  4. WHERE GOLD GOES TO.

    Mr. A- C. Simkins, writing in “Harper’s Weekly” deals Interestingly with a problem that seldom presents itself to people outside banking circles. ...

    Article : 462 words
  5. A Confident To-Morrow.

    The woman looked at Hathaway in A quizzical sort of way as she gave him the glass Of water. as If there were something he ought to ...

    Article : 1,806 words
  6. THE SETTLING OF A SCORE.

    Mallandaine walked slowly along Rain had fallen, and the pavement underfoot was slippery with a moisture that reflected dimly the lights ...

    Article : 3,163 words
  7. ESAU WOOD’S STORY.

    Esau Wood sawed wood. Esau Wood would saw wood. All the wood Esau Wood saw Esau Wood would saw. In other ...

    Article : 319 words
  8. DIAMONDS IN A GRAVE.

    M. Chauchard. the multi-millionaire founder of the Louvre, the great Paris stores, who died recently, leaving a fotune of £6,000.000, took about ...

    Article : 160 words
  9. OLD BELLS.

    There are several old bells in Scotland, Ireland and Wales. The oldest are often found quadrangular, being made of thin iron plates, which have ...

    Article : 412 words
  10. A CROOKED JUDGE OUTWITTED.

    Some couple of centuries ago the administration of law was by bo means as devoid of bribery as it is supposed to be in the present times. ...

    Article : 373 words
  11. A Conundrum.

    His mother was more crumpled at the answer given by her young hopeful to a conundrum, which he put to her in his best Sunday manner: ...

    Article : 61 words
  12. Thought Only.

    “Thought you said you had ploughed that ten-acre field?” said the first farmer. “No; I only said I was thinking ...

    Article : 40 words
  13. The New Hats.

    “Come into the garden. Maud,” Said facetious-minded Fred. “What’s the use?” said Maudie ; “I have it on my head.” ...

    Article : 22 words
  14. In Favor of It.

    Young Rymes: I tell you, marriage takes all the poetry out of a fellow. Friend: Then it can’t be a failure. Little Willie had been trying to ...

    Article : 316 words
  15. TRAVELLING SIX THOUSAND MILES TO COOK A [?]

    George W. Harvey, the inventor of steamed oysters, and a famous restaurant-keeper, who died at Washington recently, was once the hero of an ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. SUITABLE COLORS.

    A dress artist says that the woman with dull, light brown hair, a dull complexion and grey or blue eyes, should wear bright black, cream, ...

    Article : 262 words
  17. One on the American.

    A native-born American, member of a party of four business men, who often lunched together, took great delight in Joking the others on their ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. THE HAND, THE EAR, AND THE BRAIN.

    Professor P. W. Mott. Pathologist to the London County Council, in a lecture on “The Brain, Righthandedness, and Speech,” at the Royal Institution, ...

    Article : 174 words
  19. A Very Mean Man.

    Irate Barber (to customer as he seats him in chair): You see that man going out the door? Customer: Yes, what of it? ...

    Article : 89 words
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