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  2. TO DETERMINE CANDLE POWER.

    This question and its answer ha: been until recentlyft' interest; scientists only. But since one methd, of lightin' is coeputing with the ...

    Article : 376 words
  3. A CAMEO FROM THE CLASSICS.

    I give an example of the preposterous, but always entertaining adventures of Baron Munchausen. I need hardly remind my readers that these ...

    Article : 1,163 words
  4. GERMAN MANOEUVRES.

    One hears a good deal of the German Emperor's "First army in the world," so that it is somewhat of a relief to listen to a story showing ...

    Article : 234 words
  5. TO PREVENT STEAMED WINDOWS.

    Shopkeepers can prevent this nuisance in the following simple manner:—Thoroughly clean the windows. Make a pad of linen rag, soak it in ...

    Article : 1,233 words
  6. THE YOUTH OF ROCKEFELLER.

    John D. Rockefeller, the son of a a country doctor, was born ineNow York State on July 8, nearly 70 years ago. ...

    Article : 317 words
  7. VERY LIGHT.

    It was a graceful little scene, and seemed somehow to brighten the sordid street. The two old ladies had not met for many months, so their ...

    Article : 120 words
  8. THE MACHINERY OF THE MIND.

    The science of medicine is year after year becoming more and more perfect; its diagnoses are more reliable, and its method of treatment ...

    Article : 1,029 words
  9. THE POLICEMAN’S BOOTS.

    "Think I don't know nothing about you?" remarked the street boy to the policeman. "You know enough about me to ...

    Article : 110 words
  10. WORSE THAN "RED RUBBER."

    Stitch, stitch, stitch went the village bootmaker's industrious needle as he sat in his dim little shop hard at work. He was particularlyxi ...

    Article : 178 words
  11. DO INSECTS SLEEP?

    Insects do not sleep as we understand it, for they have no eyelids. Consequently, they are unable to close their eyes. But scientific ...

    Article : 116 words
  12. SILENCE AS A BUSINESS ASSET.

    The best advice that can be given to a young man at the outset of his business career is "Cultivate the habit of silence if you would win ...

    Article : 749 words
  13. DO THE HARD THING FIRST.

    Suspended above the desk of a wellknown bank manager is this motto: "Do the Hard Thing First." Ten years ago he was discount clerk in ...

    Article : 317 words
  14. AS A LAST RESOURCE RESOURC.

    A number of legal lights were gathered in a certain club smokingroom a few evenings ago, discussing the latest reports of the Thaw Trial, ...

    Article : 185 words
  15. " SPOTTED FEVER."

    Of late, Glasgow and Belfast have been writhing in the grip of a new and mysterious malady named cerebro-spinal-meningitis, or as it has ...

    Article : 176 words
  16. FINE WORK IN SPITE OF SORROW.

    One of the lin anomalies of literary histor is. thatht lias often been the lot of those men who have contributed largely to the mirth or recreation of ...

    Article : 173 words
  17. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    There are nearly 40,000 foreign seamen in England’s mercantile service. A rope that is wetted shrinks in ...

    Article : 373 words
  18. WHY CHARLES READE SUCEEDED.

    Charles Reade stands prominently forth as one of the men who, with Thackeray, Scott, and Dickens, have made the novel the power which it is ...

    Article : 190 words
  19. TOOLS AND THE MAN.

    It is not the tools that make the workman, but the trained skill and perseverance of the man himself. A pan of water and twoermo ...

    Article : 235 words
  20. IS THE EARTH DRYING UP?

    The comparison of our planet with others in the system affords presumptive proof that the water will ultimately disappear and the earth dry ...

    Article : 201 words
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