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  2. MONOSYLLABIC RIVALRY.

    A good story is told in "The King and His Navy and Army," of Frederick III. of Prussia who had the reputation of being the most ...

    Article : 178 words
  3. A GOOD DOG STORY.

    The intelligence of dogs was never better displayed than in the case which is reported from Greenville, New Hamptshire. ...

    Article : 356 words
  4. "LOOPING THE LOOP" IN 1846.

    It is generally supposed that the "looping the loop" idea, which is now a common form of amusement at holiday resorts is something ...

    Article : 659 words
  5. (All Rights Reserved.) RUN TO. EARTH. PART 14.

    The student of criminology very soon discovers that there are two distinct types of criminals. The one possesses discernment, ...

    Article : 2,460 words
  6. AN OYSTER’S SHELL.

    A poor weak thing is the body of an oyster apparently incapable of doing anything at all. Yet what a marvellous house he builds around ...

    Article : 308 words
  7. SINGULARLY PRESERVED COINS.

    Sonin 15 years ago n gentleman purchased in Alexandria, Egypt, from a native who had found it in a wall af a building broken during a ...

    Article : 143 words
  8. "EGYPTIANIZED" CLAY.

    A discovery which gives good promise of affecting the clag industry and its various brandies has been made (says a New York paper) by ...

    Article : 298 words
  9. DELICACY OF SCALES.

    Few people are aware of the extraordinary nicety with which weighing can be conducted by means of scales and weights in scientific ...

    Article : 154 words
  10. INTERESTING ITEMS,

    Vesuvius, the famous Italian volcano, is 3,918ft high. Germany's twenty-two shipyards give employment to 60,00 men. ...

    Article : 467 words
  11. WHY PLANTS GROW UPWARDS.

    Why do plants grow upwards? Most of us would say that they grow towards the light. But the light explanation does not cover the ground ...

    Article : 289 words
  12. CHAPTER XVII.

    In the mining regions of the far West., towns and cities, so-called, spring up in a night, and sometimes vanish in a day. In more ways than ...

    Article : 267 words
  13. VULCANISED TIMBER IN ENGLAND.

    A considerable amount of interest has been aroused by the announcement, as the result of a prolonged series of experiments, of a method of ...

    Article : 208 words
  14. HIGH-PRICED WORK.

    One often reads of the extravagant allowances granted the heads of nations by their respective Governments, and of the almost fabulous ...

    Article : 338 words
  15. IN A NEWSPAPER OFFICE.

    Country Editor: "You have done me many favours Mr. Richmann. and I shall be glad to assist that young man by giving him work on my ...

    Article : 174 words
  16. PAT’S MISTAKE.

    Owing to the scarcity of manual labour in his native village Pat Doolan thought the best thing he could do was to cross over to ...

    Article : 161 words
  17. DESERT GEMS,

    In 1889 a hunter in the northwest of New South Wales wounded a kangaroo. The animal went off thourgh the mulga and the ...

    Article : 136 words
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