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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,510 words
  3. The Czar and the Soldier

    An interesting story is told about [?] young man in Russia. He was a wild, reckless, dissipated youth. His father, thinking that if he could get him away ...

    Article : 415 words
  4. Incidents and Adventures

    How he hung for two hours suspended by his [?] from a staple 200ft. about the ground is related by Alvah Jackson Stone. ...

    Article : 685 words
  5. The Rand Gold Mines.

    One of the richest men in England at this present day is J. B. Robinson who discovered the Rand; but he came near to ruining himself in the ...

    Article : 311 words
  6. WHO INVENTED SPECTACLES?

    Most authorities put the invention of spectacles to the credit of Alexander de Spina, a monk of Pisa, in 1285, but Dr Plott will have it that they were ...

    Article : 292 words
  7. How We Locate a Sound

    The detection of the direction of a sound by the sense of hearing is, like the rapid focussing of the eye on objects at different distances, one of ...

    Article : 218 words
  8. Why Do We Laugh.

    Laughter seems to be a specialised form of either the scream of a startled or injured animal or the cry of triumph common to many beasts of prey. ...

    Article : 191 words
  9. How Sealskin is Prepared

    If we look at a lady's sealskin jacket, we at once observe its rich brown colour, and the velvety softness and denseness of the fine hairs composing ...

    Article : 394 words
  10. Looking for Trouble.

    An observant critic of the world's ways thus satirised the man who, to use his expressive phrase, "goes about looking for trouble." ...

    Article : 235 words
  11. An Artist in Postage Stamps.

    [?] such an extent has the demand for [?] made in postage stamps increased [?] to such an extent has the craze of [?] developed amongst persons ...

    Article : 215 words
  12. BOUND TO FEEL IT.

    A popular preacher tells a good story of a young clergyman who launched out on a strong temperance sermon. When he had finished, a deacon said ...

    Article : 217 words
  13. Observed in Animals.

    A zoologist thus descanted upon a point in which he claimed that the lower animals set an example to many men: ...

    Article : 145 words
  14. Singular Stories of Sleep

    The average repose required nightly by the Great Napoleon did not exceed four or five hours, but it is related of him that at the conclusion of the ...

    Article : 438 words
  15. The History of Soap.

    It is hard to realise that so indispensable an article as soap was unknown 500 years ago, yet its origin dates only from the year 1524, when it ...

    Article : 321 words
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