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  2. SOME REMARKABLE TREES.

    One would hardly expect to find anything like soap growing on a tree; yet such a thing is to be found both in tropical South America and ...

    Article : 539 words
  3. JACK-RABBIT V. GOLDEN EAGLE.

    I once (writes a correspondent of "Chums") witnessed an exciting battle 'twixt a big eagle and a very little rabbit. Do not laugh, for no ...

    Article : 454 words
  4. TO CROSS THE OCEAN IN TWO DAYS.

    A new type of torpedo-boat has been. attracting much attention lately on both sides of the Atlantic. It is equipped with a small ...

    Article : 218 words
  5. FOR SAFETY AT SEA.

    Mariners say that the greatest menace to the safety of a ship at sea is a collison Inventors have, therefore sought a way to prevent ...

    Article : 365 words
  6. A WOMAN OF THREE CENTURIES.

    About two miles from Chester, Iowa, lives Mrs. Julia Noonan, believed to be the oldest person in the United States. She was born in ...

    Article : 273 words
  7. A TALE OF THE SOUTH SEA ISLANDS.

    Under the title "Billy Maclaggan and the Fiji Ram "Mr. Louis Becke describes the following amusing adventure in a recent issue of the ...

    Article : 2,125 words
  8. HOUSEKEEPING IN THE ARCTIC CIRCLE.

    In the summer of 1900 there sailed from North Sydney, Cape Breton, the ship Windward, carrying supplies to the explorer, Robert Peary. ...

    Article : 684 words
  9. AN AFGAN'S FEAT.

    Though the love of gold is a very prevalent weakness, an instance of it that has recently attracted great attention in medical circles may ...

    Article : 295 words
  10. FOWLS AND THEIR VALUE.

    We wish to relate the wonderful story of the American hen, n story no less true because it is American. In fact, the figures are official. ...

    Article : 506 words
  11. THE ORIGINS OF INSTINCT.

    The horse originally roamed, in a wild state, over plains of more or less long grass and low bushes. A horse, when alarmed throws up his ...

    Article : 266 words
  12. SCIENTIFIC AND USEFUL.

    The value of the mining machinery in the Transvaal is not far short of £10,000,000 The population of the Australian ...

    Article : 371 words
  13. THE CLIMAX.

    It must be admitted that the French people have much to be proud of. and that their habit of regarding the world as revolving round ...

    Article : 105 words
  14. A GOOD COUNTRY FOR SPINSTERS.

    In a mining centre some 80 miles from Coolgardie, a carpenter died and his widow is said to have had offers of marriage from the doctor ...

    Article : 86 words
  15. HARNESSING HURRICANES.

    An ingenious inventor of Southern' California' has 'constructed a hugh combination of lenses and reflectors whereby the heat of the sun is made ...

    Article : 222 words
  16. A BARN STORMER.

    A tragedian thus recounts a triumph during a recent tour in the provinces— "The first night. sir," I was hissed—sir, hissed ; the second ...

    Article : 120 words
  17. NONSENSE RHYME.

    There was a small boy in Quebeck, Who was buried in snow to the neck, When they asked, 'Are you friz ?' He replied, Yes, I is— ...

    Article : 38 words
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