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  2. THE VALUE TO THE WORLD OF FINDING THE NORTH POLE.

    The use of the Polar exploration is not that it promises any immediate return of food, or gold or land, but that it adds to the sum of human ...

    Article : 192 words
  3. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    Use lemon-juice and salt to remove iron-rust, ink, and mildew on white goods. Caster-oil mixed with tallow and ...

    Article : 415 words
  4. PING PONG; OR PARLOUR TENNIS.

    Mr Walter Harrison, Honorary: Secretary of the Cavendish Table Tennis Club, writes in the current issue of the "Windsor Magazine":— ...

    Article : 1,297 words
  5. TESTING THE MIND BY CLOCKWORK.

    'A' wonderful machine to test the Secret minds of human beings and to tell them what they are fitted for in life is one al the latest triumphs of ...

    Article : 1,199 words
  6. KING SOLOMON'S WATER SYSTEM.

    King Solomon's pools, the ancient aqueducts and reservoirs of Jerusalem an and the most remarkable remains of as antiquity, after centuries of disuse ...

    Article : 573 words
  7. THEN IT WOULD HAVE BEEN.

    A young subaltern of Scotch nationality was one day on guard with another officer at Gibraltar, when the latter fell over a rock and was killed. ...

    Article : 135 words
  8. WHERE HE STOPPED.

    An old fellow who had taken the pledge, but whose practice it was shrewdly suspected, did not keep pace. with his profession, was twitted one ...

    Article : 91 words
  9. WILLINGLY PAID.

    On the journey from Vienna to St. Petersburg a thought-reader entertained his fellow-travellers by reading their thoughts. One of the ...

    Article : 183 words
  10. BRUIN DRINKS TOO MUCH.

    The methods pursued when Russians go bear-hunting may not appear very sportsman-like from our point of view but they are nevertheless efficacious. ...

    Article : 208 words
  11. THE WORLD'S BIGGEST TUNNEL.

    Brig, an Alpine village, has long been the terminus of the Jura-Simplon railway. Only 121 miles away lies Italy, but those are 12½ miles of ...

    Article : 415 words
  12. HUMOROUS ITEMS.

    He ( fervently) : " You are the only girl' I have ever loved." She: " Ah ! What lots of fun you have before you !" ...

    Article : 478 words
  13. IN THE CONSERVATORY.

    "Very interesting conversation in where Ethel, Mr. Tomkins, and little Eva sat very quietly. "Yes indeed," said Ethel, ready on ...

    Article : 70 words
  14. THE REASON OF IT.

    Mrs. Sweet : " I find it ever so much more economical to do my own cooking. I even make the pastry." Mrs. New : "And so do I, dear, ...

    Article : 81 words
  15. BIRD'S WITH BIG APPETITES.

    A common barn owl has been known to swallow seven mice straight off the reel, while a pair of the same birds have been observed to take as many ...

    Article : 319 words
  16. A MISUNDERSTANDING.

    In a few remote villages there still exist old-fashioned people whose hands go up in horror at the sight of a lady cyclist clad in the rational costume. ...

    Article : 212 words
  17. MIRRORS THAT CAN BE SEEN THROUGH.

    This is a new invention, and one that will doubtless become popular. These mirrors are of so-called platinized glass, being backed by a ...

    Article : 208 words
  18. THE SHORT CUT.

    Two Irishmen got a job to clean some lofty windows. Having no ladder that would reach the windows, they invented a plan of their own. ...

    Article : 173 words
  19. WHAT HE OUGHT TO GIVE.

    In anything that tends to the wellbeing of the toilers, Lord Roseberry is the soul of generosity. Not long ago on the platform of a ...

    Article : 178 words
  20. AN EXAMPLE.

    It was a sultry afternoon, and the teacher of the geography class was endeavouring to get a few good answers before closing the lesson. ...

    Article : 126 words
  21. THROUGH NIAGARA FALLS IN A BARREL.

    Mrs. Anna Edson Taylor has won world wide notoriety by plunging over Niagara Falls in a barrel and reaching land alive. Poverty ...

    Article : 580 words
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