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  2. The Skipper's Adventures AND The Home on the Cliffs

    The Finding of Captain Brent One morning after breakfast, about two months after the wreck of the "Mary Ellen," the men proposed a ...

    Article : 4,350 words
  3. Milked for Six Years Without Calving

    "A few months ago a paragraph in "The Farmer Weekly" quoted an instance of a cow that was milked for four years without having had a calf ...

    Article : 142 words
  4. Opal Superstitions

    Opinions as to the opal vary in different parts of the world. In the East it is called the Spirit of Truth, and it is thought that its touch on the brow ...

    Article : 332 words
  5. Children's Toys Through the Ages

    Has child nature changed through the ages? Not very much, judging by the toys children loved and played with long ago, and which can still be ...

    Article : 828 words
  6. Bath-Tub's Lesson

    One of the difficulties against which mining engineers who bore for oil have to fight is the seeping into their wells of water through the pores of ...

    Article : 109 words
  7. TRAGEDY OF ERRORS.

    With the rapid acceleration in the tempo of modern living, accidents continue to take a heavy toll of human life. In an age of mechanisation, road, ...

    Article : 155 words
  8. NURSERY RHYMES.

    Handed Down Through the Ages. Slang phrases in the course of time become absorbed into the vernacular, in the same way as nonsense and ...

    Article : 236 words
  9. DO IT NOW.

    If you've anything good to say of a man, Don't wait till he's laid to rest. For the eulogy spoken when hearts ...

    Article : 173 words
  10. OCEAN WAVES MEASURED.

    The size of ocean waves has been ascertained by a German High Sea Exploration. The measurements reveal that descriptive writers on the sea ...

    Article : 136 words
  11. PREFERRED DONKEY.

    Vlajko Srdanovitch, a farmer, "swapped" his pretty young wife for a donkey in a deal made at a Smederveo market, in Jugo Slavia, the ...

    Article : 157 words
  12. SPECTACLES.

    "It is always the popular habit, when one is seeking the history of a particular subject, to try to trace its origin from the Chinese." says Mr. L. ...

    Article : 202 words
  13. BITTERNESS IN MILK.

    Bitter flavor in milk is commonly associated with the product of animals which are nearly the end of the lactation period. The type of bitterness in ...

    Article : 233 words
  14. MACARONI DISHES.

    Macaroni and Pineapple. 1 pint clear jelly, ½ tin preserved pineapple, 3 oz. loaf sugar, 6 oz. macaroni, milk, cochineal. Boil the macaroni in milk ...

    Article : 303 words
  15. ORIGINAL MEANING OF THE WORD "MANURE."

    Anything which will assist in the liberation of the locked-up plant food in the soil is just as much manuring as top-dressing. ...

    Article : 151 words
  16. THE "OPEN SECRET" AND THE OBVIOUS TRUTHS.

    It is the "open secret" which, as Carlyle insisted through his long life, most people fail to read; the obvious truths which most people continually ...

    Article : 270 words
  17. WHAT LONDON EATS.

    The roast beef of Old England is still the staple diet of innumerable Londoners. According to a recent survey of London's middle class ...

    Article : 269 words
  18. WORLD'S BIGGEST CITY.

    Zamboanga, in the Philippine archipelago, is the world's biggest city. Zamboanga has only 101,048 inhabitants, but a recent charter gave it an ...

    Article : 108 words
  19. Not What He Wished.

    A little fellow sat on the doorstep Crying bitterly. Passers-by tried To console him, but without avail. Presently a sympathetic old lady came ...

    Article : 160 words
  20. Cut Both Ways.

    An Irishman who had been present at a shooting affray was ordered to appear in court. When he entered the witness-box the judge asked him if he ...

    Article : 176 words
  21. A Smart Pair.

    "I was looking out of the diningroom window, and I actually saw a house fly." "Indeed!" said my friend. "I was ...

    Article : 64 words
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