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  2. BITS OF LIFE GIBES IN A WILL.

    REMARKABLE wills recently admitted to probate in the United States were described by Mr. W. H. Grainger, chief accountant of the Prudential Assurance ...

    Article : 247 words
  3. ENGLISHMAN CARRIES HOME ABOUT.

    AMONG the odd occupations of which one hears, one of the oddest is surely that of a man who travels about the country carrying his home with him. The man ...

    Article : 175 words
  4. A PIONEER IN ADVERTISING.

    THE first patent medicine advertisement in Britain has been discovered in Moorgate (London), and it is now in the Guildhall Museum. It consists of the base of ...

    Article : 189 words
  5. HUMAN WIRELESS.

    A LADDIN'S magic lamp has a serious rival in an instrument invented by Dr. Paul Moineau, the noted French electrical scientist. ...

    Article : 170 words
  6. BILLIONS OF CIGARETTES.

    FIGURES show that English people smoke 912 cigarettes a year each! Every year about £65,000,000 goes into the air in the form of cigarette smoke in ...

    Article : 263 words
  7. A Heat Wave Tragedy: The Vanishing Policeman.

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    Article : 7 words
  8. A MISSING MILLONAIRE.

    IN Canada one of the greatest detective agencies is till at work trying to trace the whereabouts of a Toronto millionaire, who disappeared on December 2, 1919, and ...

    Article : 225 words
  9. BACK-TO-NATURE BABY.

    MANY mothers will hold up their hands in horror when they read the story of little Diana Hughes-Hughes, aged four years and three mouths, of Northwood ...

    Article : 247 words
  10. PLOT TO STEAL DUKE'S BODY.

    AN extraordinary plot by six Vienna lads is revealed in a Reuter telegram from the Austrian capital. They have confessed that they were planning to break into the ...

    Article : 210 words
  11. THE PARABLE OF THE EGG.

    THE Bishop of Portsmouth, Dr. E. N. Lovett, compared various types of churchmen to an egg in different stages before and after cooking, when opening ...

    Article : 225 words
  12. THE PRINCE'S PUDDING.

    WHEN the Prince of Wales dined as a Bencher with the Honourable Society of the Middle Temple in their historic hall, last month, he ate Christmas pudding ...

    Article : 162 words
  13. DISAPPEARING TOES.

    "HIGH-Heeled shoes are contrary to the tendency of evolution," said Dr. Norman C. Lake of Charing Cross Hospital, in a lecture to the Incorporated Society ...

    Article : 155 words
  14. DANCER'S PET SPARROW.

    A Few weeks ago Senorita Tina Meller, the Spanish dancer in the London revue, "Wake Up and Dream," was walking through St. James's Park, when she found ...

    Article : 149 words
  15. THE CONCERTINA.

    LAST year that cheery little instrument the concertina celebrated its centenary. It was invented and patented by Charles —afterwards Sir Charles—Wheatstone in ...

    Article : 128 words
  16. VIKING MAIDENS' BOBBED HAIR.

    BOBBED hair was the fashion 1,000 years ago, and the Vikings had already invented a "zipper." These interesting facts have been ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. ADVICE TO PEOPLE OF FORTY.

    DR. Elizabeth Sloane Chesser, speaking of "Health, Hate and Happiness," at the New Health Exhibition in London last month, said that the majority of people ...

    Article : 177 words
  18. "SPRING-HEELED JACK."

    WHO is the original "Spring-heeled Jack," whose nickname has attached itself to the mysterious Cheshire dog-poisoner? One "Spring-heeled Jack," otherwise ...

    Article : 121 words
  19. ARMISTICE BABIES.

    TWO readers have written to the "Daily Mail" about their children who were born on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month (Armistice Day). ...

    Article : 127 words
  20. MODERN SHORTHAND.

    MODERN shorthand dates from the patent granted on July 26, 1588, for 15 years, to Dr. Timothy Bright, resident physician at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, ...

    Article : 107 words
  21. TESTS OF MODERN SAMSONS.

    WILLIAM Schaeffer, professional strong man, pitted his strength against two aeroplanes at Teteboro air field. New Jersey, and was victorious. ...

    Article : 93 words
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