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  2. AROUND THE WORLD.

    The entertaining author of "Collections and recollections" has been writing on the favourite beverages of great men. Tuckeray's choice was claret. He ...

    Article : 214 words
  3. SCIENCE AND HEALTH.

    At a meeting recently of the Berlin Medical Society Prof. Krause, of the Augusta Hospital, introduced a young man on whom a remarkable operation ...

    Article : 173 words
  4. AUSTRALIA AND THE EMPIRE.

    A few years ago England gave the lives of 25.000 men, and expended a sum of £250,000,000, in the struggle to keep South Africa for the Empire. It was ...

    Article : 2,147 words
  5. TOO GREAT A RISK.

    He desired to take out a life policy for £10,000. Smiling eagerly, the agent drew forth the blank form, and began the usual ...

    Article : 67 words
  6. FISH IN ARTESIAN WATERS.

    A very interesting question has been raised as to where the fish come from that appear in lakes and irrigation channels which are supplied with water from ...

    Article : 596 words
  7. THE SCORCHER.

    'Tis all in vain he seeks to warn, The auto goes so fast You haven't time to hear the horn Before the danger's past. ...

    Article : 27 words
  8. THE SCIENCE OF A BOIL.

    The popular idea of a boil is that it is Nature's safety-valve for "badness in the system;" and that it cleans and "tones up" the system to have one. Dr. ...

    Article : 667 words
  9. THE ALCOHOL ENGINE.

    The belief that almost immediately the market will be supplied with perfected engines using alcohol for fuel, and that it will be a very simple matter to ...

    Article : 203 words
  10. NEW USE FOR BLAST FURNACE SLAG.

    The idea of producing by artificial means the various descriptions of stone used in building has long been the dream of the inventor, and the problem has in ...

    Article : 1,006 words
  11. A VILLAGE HEROINE.

    The heroine of the little village of Solway, Minnesota, says the "Minneapolis Journal," is pretty Miss Mary Mulvaney, a schoolmistress, who, ...

    Article : 218 words
  12. SHIP OF THE FUTURE.

    Mr. Joseph R. Oldham (naval architect) makes the following interesting observations relative to ships of the future. Eight years ago he wrote all article ...

    Article : 616 words
  13. TRICKING THE POLICE.

    An amusing trick was played recently on the constabulary of the Austrian town of Troppau. A new police station had been built and roofed with so-called ...

    Article : 210 words
  14. LARGEST SAILING SHIP AFLOAT.

    To Germany belongs the credit of possessing not merely the fastest steamships afloat, but also the largest sailing vessels. The credit for the latter ...

    Article : 829 words
  15. MISS CORELLI ON AMERICA.

    Miss Marie Corelli has written an article for the "Rapid Review" on the book war, entitled "The Mousetrap," in which she makes some characteristic remarks ...

    Article : 339 words
  16. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    He (bashfully)—I'm—er—going to kiss you when I go. She—Well, here's your hat—but what's your hurry? The angler sallies forth, again, ...

    Article : 74 words
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  18. "I'LL BE THERE, TOO!"

    A small girl, while on a visit to her aunt, asked one day, "'Did you ever tell a lie, auntie?" This was a poser, but honesty compelled an affirmative reply. ...

    Article : 88 words
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