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  2. SUNKEN TREASURE.

    Treasure, estimated at nearly £35,000,000, is lying at the bottom of the sea, waiting to be picked up. It is all solid treasure in gold bars, coin of ...

    Article : 570 words
  3. THE AUSTRALIAN HARVESTER.

    The history of Australian invention as applied to grain harvesting machinery comes under notice at the present time as it is just 50 years since the first ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 1,876 words
  4. TO TAKE MEDICINE.

    The way African natives take nauseous medicine (says a missionary’s wife in the "Newcastle Weekly Chronicle,” always struck me as being ...

    Article : 221 words
  5. HOW TO GROW OLD IN GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS.

    At time of writing I am 74 and write from experience. No rule of living, no set of rules, would suit all cases or cover all conditions. Vast ...

    Article : 1,129 words
  6. SERVANT GIRL AS MADONNA.

    Preparations are afoot for the celebration this year of the tercentenary of Oberammergau’s famous Passion Play. The 300,000 people who in 1930 ...

    Article : 236 words
  7. ACCIDENTS OF THE WILD.

    The other day, during a country walk, I found a blackbird pierced by a long spike in the middle of a blackthorn bush. No doubt the bird had ...

    Article : 161 words
  8. CAMEL CAPTURES A THIEF.

    Writing in the December “Wide World Magazine,” a former Indian Police officer tells a most dramatic story of an outlaw who, after successfully ...

    Article : 264 words
  9. A PUZZLE.

    The lady of the house was explaining things to the new maid. “And what’s this, missus?” asked the girl, indicating a metal bottle. ...

    Article : 458 words
  10. IN PRAISE OF CHEESES.

    In the recent Fete du Ventre, held in Rouen, in France, one of the items on the programme was “Poesie Gastronomique.” The poets had to write ...

    Article : 249 words
  11. WORLD’S LONGEST WATERWAY.

    The Grand Canal of China is said to be the longest waterway ever made by man. It stretches for nearly seven hundred miles (from Pekin to Hang ...

    Article : 83 words
  12. SAUL WRONG.

    The train steamed slowly out of the station as the worried man sprinted up the platform and scrambled into an already overcrowded compartment, ...

    Article : 308 words
  13. TOO GOOD TO LOSE.

    The magistrate heard the case patiently. “Forty shillings fine and costs,” he said. ...

    Article : 241 words
  14. WINNER.

    All Irishman approached a stallholder at the country fair and, proffering twopence, received three balls. Taking careful aim, he let fly, ...

    Article : 185 words
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