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  2. DRASTIC PREVENTIVE MEASURES.

    The city of Odessa was lately the scene of a fire which lasted nine hours and which destroyed the buildings covering an area of nearly three ...

    Article : 974 words
  3. ELECTION STORIES.

    The heckler appears at your meeting, primed to the larynx with puzzling questions, or with interruptions ot a more or less brainy character. ...

    Article : 425 words
  4. DOBBIN'S DENTIST.

    The dentist who deals with horses’ teeth is necessarily very skilled, and it is obvious that his task is not an easy one. It may be noted that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 88 words
  5. ENGLISHWOMEN AS SEEN BY A JAPANESE.

    Mr. Yoshio Markino, the observant Japanese artist in England, writes in the “English Review,” under the title of "My Ideated John Bullesses,” his ...

    Article : 1,099 words
  6. MIRACLES OF SOLOMON’S THRONE.

    Dr. Moses Gaster, one of the greatest Hebrew scholars in England, and a well known lecturer at the University of Oxford, has discovered in ...

    Article : 1,113 words
  7. WHO FIRST WORE A COLLAR?

    Man’s first real step forward towards civilisation was the assumption of a collar. It is true that the early collar was more like a necklace, ...

    Article : 568 words
  8. A WAYSIDE CAMP.

    There is a chilly coldness in the aspect of the sky, broad yellow patches of sunset light show cold and clear through the trees, on which ...

    Article : 895 words
  9. PNEUMATIC SUBSTITUTE FOR SPRINGS.

    There has recently been invented by a California mining engineer a novel substitute for springs and shock absorbers on automobiles, says the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 482 words
  10. TRAINING SEALS IS EASY.

    According to an old trainer, it is a very simple thing to teach seals the tricks they do in the ring. “The cardinal principle in training ...

    Article : 349 words
  11. A HORSE THAT JOKES.

    A Staten Island physician is the owner of a horse which has a fondness for practical jokes. Recently the doctor drove into the country to ...

    Article : 277 words
  12. OPPOSITE REASONS.

    During the late war two soldiers, who were preparing a short roadway leading up to a gun-pit, were talking about their reasons for enlisting. ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 186 words
  13. BILLIARD BALLS.

    There is a big difference between the ivory and the composition billiard-ball. This difference chiefly lies in the ...

    Article : 226 words
  14. A GUN THAT "FIRES” CEMENT.

    The cement gun is not a new weapon for the navy, but a machine for squirting concrete mortar in stucco form upon a surface of any kind. The ...

    Article : 139 words
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