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  2. NAPOLEON’S LOVE STORY.

    Napoleon, greatest of modern conquerors, made himself an Emperor, and made his brothers and two of his marshals kings. When his Empire ...

    Article : 581 words
  3. FOR YOUNG FOLKS

    Winnie’s parents were entertaining a rather large party to dinner, and as a special treat the little girl was allowed to be present When the sweets ...

    Article : 94 words
  4. NEW, ODD, INTERESTING

    The mean height of land above sea-level level is 2,250ft. Storks are partial to kittens as an article of food. ...

    Article : 553 words
  5. THE POULTRY RUN.

    The hen can’t count, if she has 12 chicks, you may give her 12 more, and she will try to cover the lot. She won’t get cross, or fierce, or try to kill ...

    Article : 185 words
  6. WISE AND OTHERWISE.

    “Jack proposed to me while turning the music for me at the piano.” “Ah, I see! You played right into his hands.” ...

    Article : 733 words
  7. RANDOM READINGS.

    Even a child will talk correctly about the “Commonwealth” of Australia, or the Indian “Empire” and no one would apply either of those terms ...

    Article : 164 words
  8. SCIENCE NOTES & NEWS.

    That good lighting in the workshop not only facilitates the work directly, but is of the greatest indirect value because of the feeling of security and ...

    Article : 149 words
  9. WORRIES WHICH WORKED.

    Trivi[?]shaps have often led to fortune; good has often come out of seeming evil; joy out of sorrow. Alfred Nobel was assisting in his ...

    Article : 390 words
  10. A SPRING LEGEND.

    The old Greeks had a beautiful idea that the whole-earth, the woods and the waters, were all people with spirits, something like our old belief ...

    Article : 258 words
  11. AN ALCOHOL PLANT.

    As a commercial possibility the nipapalm, abounding in the swamps of the Philippine Islands, seems to be unusually attractive, both as a producer of ...

    Article : 158 words
  12. ON SINGLE MATING.

    It often happens that chickens are wanted from a particular hen, and more than one method is adopted for getting them. If the hen lays a ...

    Article : 299 words
  13. JAPANESE PROVERBS.

    It has been said that the Japanese are as apt and unique in their proverbs as they are in their works of art. What, for example, could be more ...

    Article : 205 words
  14. THE CINEMATOGRAPH UNDER WATER.

    Apparatus has been developed for taking either, stationary or moving pictures under water. A collapsible accordion-like submarine tube of ...

    Article : 187 words
  15. A FABLE.

    There were once three brothers who made up their minds to choose a hobby. “I shall collect birds,” said the ...

    Article : 426 words
  16. NOT RISKING IT.

    An old country farmer lost his barn last year by fire. They said at the time that he was insured for more than the building was worth, and that ...

    Article : 167 words
  17. HOW ANTS RECOGNISE FRIENDS.

    One morning, says a writer in an American paper, I gathered a few black ants and a number of their small, brown, egg-shaped cocoons ...

    Article : 484 words
  18. NOTES FOR THE NOVICE.

    It is but a waste of time to attempt to cure sick chickens. If they are weaklings. It is plain that Nature intended they should not live, and, in ...

    Article : 418 words
  19. SPEED OF PROJECTILES.

    How fast does a bullet travel? The highest velocity ever given to a cannon-ball is 1,626ft. per second. This is equal to a mile in little more than ...

    Article : 246 words
  20. FREE DINNERS.

    A man who had just finished a comfortable meal at a restaurant the other day suddenly rose from his chair, grabbed his hat and umbrella that ...

    Article : 129 words
  21. MARY JANE GAVE NOTICE.

    Mary Jane’s master is a slightly eccentric bachelor. He has one most Irritating habit. Instead of telling her what he wants done by word of ...

    Article : 153 words
  22. A NESTLING STORY.

    When the door was opened to admit him into the dark parlour he caught the girlish figure in his arms, and with a loving kiss said in tender tones: ...

    Article : 137 words
  23. THE BELLS OF BELGIUM.

    For many centuries bells have been intimately associated with the hour of national triumph and disaster. In Belgium, famous as a land of bells ...

    Article : 166 words
  24. “POOR OLD ROBINSON CRUSO[?] !”

    The most popular novel the world has ever known is “Robinson Crusoe.” It has lasted two hundred years, and is still “going strong.” Yet very few ...

    Article : 248 words
  25. WALKING-STICKS AND CANES.

    At one time the general use of canes or walking-sticks was forbidden in Rome by Imperial edict, except to persons of patrician rank, thus ...

    Article : 130 words
  26. LOST ELOQUENCE.

    Determination writ large upon her angry countenance, the mother of the child who had been bitten by an Irish terrier belonging to a neighbour (Mrs. ...

    Article : 170 words
  27. ADAM’S MISFORTUNE.

    A Sunday-school superintendent at the close of an address on the creation of the world, which he was sure he had kept within the ...

    Article : 102 words
  28. DISAPPOINTED.

    Mistress: “Well, Jane, and how did you like the picture-gallery?” Jane: “Well, mum, to tell you the truth, I was disappointed. I paid ...

    Article : 119 words
  29. HE TRIED IT, TOO.

    McSimpson is very fond of his wife, so much so that after a little tiff with her he went about looking very down in the mouth. ...

    Article : 112 words
  30. PLENTY TO WATCH.

    Two maidservants met on their “afternoon out.” “Hallo, Lizzie!” cried one. “I haven’t seen you lately. Where are ...

    Article : 124 words
  31. A GOOD GUESS.

    A class of eight-year-olds were learning tables. They’d done “twice one are two,” and now were tackling the one which deals with money. ...

    Article : 84 words
  32. A SMART RETORT.

    He was a smart junior, with a rising reputation for genius in the art of cross-examination. Said he to witness, a garrulous but . alert old lady: ...

    Article : 91 words
  33. THE NEIGHBOURS’ STORY.

    “Bridget,” said the mistress of the house, “some of the bed-clothing is missing. Was any of it left on the line?” ...

    Article : 71 words
  34. ALMOST ENOUGH.

    “How did you come out with your law-suit?” “I won it.” “Get damages?” ...

    Article : 31 words
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