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  2. FRUIT FROM SLOT MACHINES.

    IN America there are quick-luncheon bars, where everything from sandwiches to large helpings of fruit pi[?] and cream may be got out of glass-fronted slot machines. ...

    Article : 123 words
  3. PET DOG EMBALMED.

    THE body of a pedigree fox [?] terrier, believed to be the first dog to be emblamed in modern times, was taken aboard the White Star liner Homeric at Southampton ...

    Article : 128 words
  4. THE GREAT PYRAMID IN MINIATURE.

    M. JEAN CAPART, the eminent Egyptologist, who is curator of the Museum of Ancient Art at the Palais [?] Cinquantennaire at Brussels, has a curious ...

    Article : 315 words
  5. WHY CLEMENCEAU LIKES THE BRITISH.

    THE joy of living was a point emphasised by M. Clemencean, "Father of Victory," in an armmisti[?]e interview published in Paris. ...

    Article : 208 words
  6. DOG THAT ATE KING'S BOOTS.

    [?]AMONG the good stories in Mr. Tim Healy's "Letters and Leaders of My Day" is one that Lord Spencer (the "Red Ea[?]") told the author. ...

    Article : 161 words
  7. A DAB IN TIME.

    EVERY woman who wears silk stockings will be glad to know that it is possible to learn ladder craft and stop a ladder before a pair of stockings is entirely r[?]ined. ...

    Article : 123 words
  8. A PROBLEM OF COLOUR.

    THE clothes problem must have been much easier in the old days, when there were comparatively few colours, and when such as existed were of the primary ...

    Article : 333 words
  9. THE ARMS OF "VENUS DE MILO."

    A CENTRAL NEWS message from Athens states that, following investigations by a number of experts in the island of Milo, the harbour is being dragged ...

    Article : 151 words
  10. CASH VALUE OF BEARDS.

    BEARDS have acquired a cash value. A London "Daily Mail" reporter found 20 beard-owners, all young men, travelling by train to the film studios at Elstree, ...

    Article : 125 words
  11. MIGHTY YEARS AGO.

    The Collingwood watchhouse is now completed, and as pretty a specimen it is of Government parsimony in the expenditure of Port Phillip ...

    Article : 336 words
  12. CLEVER POLICE DOGS.

    DOGS marked out by their intelligence, obedience, speed, and general usefulness took part in the open police dog trials for Alsatians at the Crystal Palace, London, ...

    Article : 362 words
  13. THE FIRST FLIGHT.

    TO celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the first flight in a motor-driven aeroplane, the Royal Acronautical Society was to hold a banquet at South Kensington ...

    Article : 305 words
  14. SILENCE.

    THE principle underlying the advice given us in early youth to count 10 before giving rein to that [?]ly member, the tongue, seems to have been carried further and ...

    Article : 314 words
  15. DOGS AND CATS— A COMPARISON.

    MR. K. C. M[?]NTOSH, in the "North American Review," in an article entitled "I Sing of Cats," is daring enough to give cats more credit than dogs, We quote ...

    Article : 470 words
  16. WHY WORRY?

    THE fact that the bathroom basin leaks may well be an annoyance, but why let it worry you into visualising an i[?]dation that ruins the plaster and takes you ...

    Article : 383 words
  17. LOST CITY SOUGHT IN AMAZON VALLEY.

    THE Brazilian-Americna scientific expedition, headed by J. Tozzi Calv[?], which will search for a lost city believed to have been built in the Amazon Valley ...

    Article : 317 words
  18. GAUDY BIBLES NOT POPULAR.

    A PLEA for brighter Bibles is made by the Bishop of Southwark (England) in n pastoral letter. "Why are Bibles so often not only printed ...

    Article : 229 words
  19. "WHY IS THE BACON SO TOUGH?"

    A LONDON restaurant customer demands to know "Why is the bacon so lough?" He thinks he is asking the maitre d'hotel, but he is actually addressing the band ...

    Article : 271 words
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