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  2. INTERESTING HISTORICAL EVENTS.

    As a result of the Boer War, another great addition to the British Empire was made, the Transvaal being annexed by a Royal ...

    Article : 262 words
  3. PREPARATIONS FOR THE SHOW BENCH.

    Many varieties of fowls, under good ordinary conditions of cleanliness, need little or no special preparation before being shown with prospects ...

    Article : 276 words
  4. THE WRECK OF THE 'SCRAPE-THE-SKY.

    It was the airship Scrape-the-sky, That sailed o'er the sleeping town, And the skipper had taken a feather-bed, ...

    Article : 243 words
  5. TO WARD OFF DISEASE.

    A person attacked by a disease of germ origin becomes immune to that disease for a longer or shorter period, and often for life. In some cases ...

    Article : 932 words
  6. WHEN A COMET FELL ON EARTH.

    Our readers already know that Haley's comet is on a visit to us for the 29th time in 2,000 years. We have also chronicled some queer facts ...

    Article : 1,179 words
  7. THE POINT OF VIEW.

    The electric tramcar passed out of the town where the houses gathered thick on either side, and into the country lane, 'where across the hedges ...

    Article : 258 words
  8. ORIGIN OF FIREWORKS.

    Artificial fires were used by the ancients in their sacrifices and ceremonies, but not in public rejoicings. The rise of feux-de-jole, or fireworks, ...

    Article : 246 words
  9. REVIVAL OF THE FAN.

    Fans—those age-old implements of coquetry—are to be revived again, and lessons from an expert will have to be taken if due effect is to be got ...

    Article : 252 words
  10. EVOLUTION OF BLACKFACES

    A writer in the "West Yorkshire Pioneer" on "The Evolution of Blackface Sheep" deals at some length with the improvements ...

    Article : 673 words
  11. THE FIRST ENGLISHMAN IN JAPAN.

    A strange and romantic tale of adventure was related by a letter dated October 23, 1611, which was received by the East India Company of ...

    Article : 387 words
  12. THE FIRST BATHROOM.

    Now in the dim, dim past, perhaps in the days of Darius or some other eastern potentate, a man came into the domicile of his landlord one ...

    Article : 585 words
  13. EXPOSURE OF A 'MEDIUM.'

    The Berlin police have put an end to the career of Frau Abend, who, as a "medium," has humbugged the spiritualists of the German capital ...

    Article : 280 words
  14. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    A man was walking down to business one morning when he saw a young woman with a baby in her arms sitting on a church step and ...

    Article : 237 words
  15. THAT CLEVER GUARD.

    "Now, guard," said Mr. Pilkington "'remember if I have this carriage all to myself for the entire journey you will receive a whole half-crown from ...

    Article : 248 words
  16. WISDOM OF THE WEEK.

    The greatest victory in life is gained in the little things that make up home.—President Taft. From the point of view of moral ...

    Article : 220 words
  17. HER WAY OUT OF IT.

    "Would you not like to fly with me to some hidden part of the world," asked the enamoured youth, "where the false conventions of ...

    Article : 145 words
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