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  2. CONSTANTINOPLE TO-DAY.

    It would be hard to find a more picturesque or fitting stage for revolution than Constantinople. The fact that even its situation ...

    Article : 1,273 words
  3. GENERAL INFORMATION.

    Telegraphic rates between Great Britain and Sweden have been reduced by a half-penny a word. The oldest firearms were used in ...

    Article : 621 words
  4. ALL THE WORLD IN A MARATHON.

    Many people do not realise the enormous speed of the earth. With our entire solar system it is being hurled through space at the rate of ...

    Article : 805 words
  5. A FORECASTLE YARN.

    "Women," said the Cap’n deliberately, glancing round the cosy bar parlour in search of contradiction, "allas reminds me of old ...

    Article : 1,095 words
  6. MILK TESTING APPARATUS.

    The following process for the detection of added water or of skimmed milk in ordinary milk is more accurate than the simple use of the ...

    Article : 542 words
  7. ACTUAL FLOWERS CHANGED INTO GOLD.

    In more than one direction nowadays science is producing results that would have amazed Cagliostro and all the old alchemists who ...

    Article : 796 words
  8. ALUMINIUM COINS.

    In 1907, the French Government proposed to replace the bronze pieces of 5 and 10 centimes with coins of pure nickel, but the project ...

    Article : 369 words
  9. KING OSCAR OF SWEDEN.

    Referring to the late King Oscar of Sweden, Doctor William Kohler, in a Mannheim paper, tells this anecdote. About fifty years ago Oscar, then a ...

    Article : 230 words
  10. AN AGILE WAR CORRESPONDENT.

    Lord Desborough, who presided over the Olympic Games last year, and is now taking great interest in the efforts which are being made to ...

    Article : 245 words
  11. SKIMOS’S JOKE.

    Speaking of bantam chickens," remarked Skimos, when the conversation turned to poultry, "I have a hen whose eggs are so small that ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. A ROYAL LOVER.

    A very pretty story is told of how the Queen of Holland was proposed to by her present husband. Before she was married she caused ...

    Article : 263 words
  13. AWAITING AN ANSWER.

    A most ridiculous question was asked recently by a very verdant young policeman who had just joined the force. He was going on duty for ...

    Article : 198 words
  14. HE WAS CURED.

    A certain clergyman in a Southern State in America has had in his employ a negro named Jilian for so long a time that the latter has ...

    Article : 182 words
  15. HER ONLY CHANCE.

    At a fair, a party of trippers had decided on a donkey-ride. One particularly stout old lady had some difficulty in securing a mount. ...

    Article : 143 words
  16. A NOVEL DEFINITION.

    Sydney Rosenfeld once wrote a comedy entitled "The Optimist," which achieved success after the production, but was a long time ...

    Article : 111 words
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