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  2. CLANCY OF THE OVERFLOW.

    The following vigorous and atmospheric poem appeared originallyunim j signed, in an Australian newspape i I had written him a letter ...

    Article : 392 words
  3. TO MAKE A CHEAP CEMENT.

    A splendid adhesive can be made in the following manner. Boil half a pound of the very best glue, strain it till quite clear, and then mix with ...

    Article : 943 words
  4. EMOTIONS GAUGED BY CLOCKWORK.

    The dynamometer is an instrument that can easily be made to record the emotional nature in exact degrees on a dial which has a face similarr ...

    Article : 686 words
  5. THE VANISHING WATCH.

    "I beg pardon for intruding upon your time," said the polite, smiling man with a small handbag in his hand. "A pedlar is a nuisance. I ...

    Article : 280 words
  6. WHAT ARE YOU?

    "What are you?" asked that eminent scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge, in a recent lecture on "The Ascent and Fall of Man." "I am," he said, ...

    Article : 584 words
  7. THINGS AN ENGINEER HAS TO KNOW.

    Supposing you were told to bore a tunnel through a mountain and provided with unlimited labour and money, how would you set about it? ...

    Article : 920 words
  8. ABOUT THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

    By Joseph Knowlson, in "Chat." Near Shakespeare's Cliff at Dover a tunnel extends for nearly one and a half miles. Similiarly, on the ...

    Article : 551 words
  9. NO PLACE LIKE HOME.

    It was a cold day, and along the dreary country road the gaunt, leafless trees were swayed by fitful gusts that spoke of coming rain. ...

    Article : 169 words
  10. ON THE SPOT.

    The great astronomer had delivered a long lecture on that most entertaining of subjects "Sun Spots and Solar Chemistry," and he was feeling ...

    Article : 133 words
  11. THE AUNT OF EDGAR POE.

    Stories of heroic devotion in the mothers and wives of celebrated men are common; more than, half the great men of the world have been the ...

    Article : 650 words
  12. THREE TO ONE.

    An elderly gentleman, was strolling in the East-end when a woman rushed up to him. "Oh, sir, will you please came at ...

    Article : 92 words
  13. THE PITY OF IT.

    They were travelling peacefully home in their lumbering market cart, when from the shadowy hedge there leapt two unkept forms. ...

    Article : 140 words
  14. GENERAL GENERAL INFORMATION.

    About 60,000 postage stamps are found loose in pillar-boxes in the United Kingdom every year. Time passes soon enough—especially ...

    Article : 420 words
  15. WORLD’S WIDEST RIVER.

    The Amazon, in South America, is the largest river on the face of the globe, and is, according to Professor Agassiz, 160 miles in width ...

    Article : 192 words
  16. THE BEAUTY OF SUNSETS.

    When the air is moist it absorbs the blue rays of light and lets the red rays pass. Therefore the sun is sometimes red. Then when the sun ...

    Article : 376 words
  17. A YOUTHFUL FINANCIER.

    The old gentleman had a calendar pad on his library table, and he also had a treacherous memory. If there is anything to be done on ...

    Article : 343 words
  18. "ANOTHER WORM, SIR!"

    One of his Majesty's inspectors asked the children at a small country school to each name an animal For some time he could obtain no ...

    Article : 98 words
  19. WHY HE GAVE HIS CONSENT.

    Aaron Cohen is on the Stock Exchange. Nothing has come his way for the last three years—except expenses. ...

    Article : 186 words
  20. ART PERFECTED.

    Donald, who was a fisher, started to dress his own flyhooks. He was met by a cronic one day, who said: ...

    Article : 159 words
  21. THE NEW COLOUR.

    "Have you got any buff trimming to go with this stuff?" asked a flashily dressed woman of an assistant in a large draper’s the other ...

    Article : 98 words
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