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  2. SCIENTIFIC ITEMS.

    It is calculated that the distance travelled by the blood current of a normal healthy man, whose heart beats sixty-nine times a minute, ...

    Article : 606 words
  3. SOME EDISON-ANA.

    "Thomas Alva Edison: Sixty Years of an Inventor’s Life," by Mr. F. A. Jones, has just been published by Messrs. Hodder and Stoughton. It ...

    Article : 683 words
  4. HIS HIM OF CENIUS.

    "Hello, old man! Heard you were head book-keeper over at the New House.’’ "Yes." ...

    Article : 296 words
  5. IN DOWNLAND.

    High above the little sea-grit town the grass-grown slopes of the Down country stretch away dimly into the misty sky. How great the expanse ...

    Article : 704 words
  6. HOW TO PLAY DIABOLO.

    It speaks much of Diabolo’s simplicity when I tell you that I learnt the game in exactly thirty minutes. This was eighteen months ago, and I ...

    Article : 1,151 words
  7. BARBOUR’S "BRUCE."

    One of the two figures which stir the heart of every perfervid Scot into enthusiasm is that of Robert Bruce. Bruce is seen to-day, he has ...

    Article : 723 words
  8. HOW AN M.P. WAS PREVENTED FROM RUNNING.

    No doubt many a man wolud like to indulge in this graceful and healthgiving form of exercising but that he fears to be the first to begin it. ...

    Article : 540 words
  9. JESTS AND JIBES.

    Somebody sends s-pecially suitable s-says, so sensibly selected, sans seriousness, sans sapience, sans sanity, sans sense. See sample. ...

    Article : 218 words
  10. SMART AND FUNNY.

    Some people get on in the world; most just get on in years. Afterthoughts are usually best— woman was an afterthought. ...

    Article : 468 words
  11. THE LITERARY HEROINE.

    Lady Dorothy Nevill is once again the literary heroine of the moment, and everybody is reading her second delightful book of reminiscences, ...

    Article : 452 words
  12. A POCKET-PICKING TALE.

    Mr. George Grossmith, jun., recalls a host of amusing incidents he has witnessed at one time or another, but finally, after long consideration, ...

    Article : 428 words
  13. HOW DANCES GOT THEIR NAMES.

    Many of our popular dances have names with quite an intereting origin or significance. Obviously, the position taken by ...

    Article : 386 words
  14. THE WIT OF THE WELLERS.

    It's over, and can't be helped, and that's one consolation, as they always say in Turkey. Wery glad to see you, indeed, and ...

    Article : 391 words
  15. THE INCOME OF KINGS.

    One of the most difficult tasks is to [?]orm an estimate of the revenue of the world’s rulers, partly because of the many sources from which the ...

    Article : 413 words
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