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  2. WAILING FOR A LIVING.

    Few people know that wailing outside the wall of the Old City of Jerusalem, beneath the site where once stood the Temple of Solomon, ...

    Article : 158 words
  3. WISE ARID OTHERWISE.

    It was a lesson on punctuation, and Jimmy was lolling asleep at his desk. “Now,” said the teacher, “if I say, ‘I must leave, as I have an ...

    Article : 907 words
  4. MEN I HATE!

    It takes a bachelor girl to know men. I've smiled at many a married woman when she had talked at me and looked superior over her ...

    Article : 813 words
  5. YOUR HAIR HAS MUSCLES.

    While the expression "hair standing on end” is merely a figure of speech, the fact remains that this is one of the involuntary effects of sudden ...

    Article : 165 words
  6. WHEN ECHOES SPELL DANGER.

    All the time he is flying, the bat utters a weird high-pitched squeak, which is so shrill that many people cannot hear it at all. It is the bat’s ...

    Article : 184 words
  7. SHOOTING AT STARS.

    Many curious and amusing instances can be given of meteors, stars, and other heavenly bodies having been mistaken for something connected ...

    Article : 627 words
  8. KEEP YOUR FLOWERS FRESH.

    A novel way of making cut flowers last is to put the ends of the stalks in raw potatoes. Bore holes of the right size in the tuhers, and then ...

    Article : 128 words
  9. PERILS FROM PETS.

    Pets may be a source of danger in a house unless they are looked after very carefully. Frequently children are allowed to play with unhealthy ...

    Article : 140 words
  10. BLACK RAIN.

    While showers of tiny frogs and even fishes are not unknown, how many people are aware that at various times England has experienced ...

    Article : 146 words
  11. POISON IN THE TEAPOT.

    Tea seems a harmless enough beverage; yet if it is made wrongly, or drunk to excess, it can be a slow but deadly poison. ...

    Article : 174 words
  12. WORLD’S MOST FAMOUS SHIP.

    To write of any one particular ship as the most famous in the world seems rather a tall order. Yet probably every sailor alive ...

    Article : 648 words
  13. CHLOROFORM IN THE HAREM.

    The first experience of the use of chloroform by the Sultan Mulai Abdul Aziz of Morocco might easily have led to more serious results. ...

    Article : 136 words
  14. WILES OF MICROBES.

    The microbe which causes the dread wool-sorters’ disease, or anthrax, is a tiny fellow only one three-thousandth part of an inch in length. Rather ...

    Article : 207 words
  15. HUNTING FOR GOLD MINES.

    Of the many who read in their morning paper of "a revival in Kaffirs” or of "a miniature gold rush in Nigeria,” few realize how the ...

    Article : 529 words
  16. ANIMALS’ SIXTH SENSE.

    Animals have a weird sixth sense which few human beings possess. Sea birds know in some curious way when a storm is approaching. ...

    Article : 142 words
  17. JAPAN’S LUCKY NUMBERS.

    We had imagined that belief in lucky numbers was chiefly the failing of Western nations, but it appears that the Japanese are even more ...

    Article : 141 words
  18. A LIVING BAROMETER.

    If you put a leech into an eightounce phial containing three gills of water, and covered with muslin, it will make an excellent barometer. ...

    Article : 103 words
  19. CREATURE THAT NEVER DIES.

    If you take a drop of water from any puddle, a low-powered microscope will reveal the presence of a creature that never dies. ...

    Article : 291 words
  20. A DOG’S GHOST.

    Do animals have souls that survive after death?—can they think, reason, love? "Yes,” says Mr. T. S. Hawkins; ...

    Article : 694 words
  21. DUST-HEAP DISCOVERY.

    Until recently the dust discharged from blast factories was looked upon as useless refuse, and was discarded as such. To-day it is one of the ...

    Article : 163 words
  22. DEEPEST GOLD MINE.

    Australia is said to possess the deepest gold mine in the world. It is situated at Bendigo. Victoria, and is known as the New Chum Railway ...

    Article : 161 words
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