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  2. KNIFE DUEL IN THE SEA.

    Knife lights are common enough in Spain, and are seldom reported by the newspapers unless they have uncommon features, says a Madrid ...

    Article : 208 words
  3. A NEW WAY TO KILL RATS'

    In Brazil rats have multiplied to such an extent that inhabitants are obliged to train a certain kind of snake to exterminate them. This ...

    Article : 237 words
  4. LIQUID OXYGEN FOR AERONAUTS.

    An apparatus for the purpose of supplying aeronauts with pure oxygen when poised at a high altitude where the extreme rarefaction of the ...

    Article : 354 words
  5. THE EIFFEL TOWER.

    The Eiffel tower of Paris has proved of immense value as a meteorological station. The extreme height of its topmost platform above the ...

    Article : 218 words
  6. ANOTHER WIRELESS WONDER.

    A demonstration of the apparatus constructed under the Orling-Armstrong patents for transmitting electrical energy without wires, was given ...

    Article : 329 words
  7. VALUE OF AN EMMICRANT.

    Those who have contended that the United States is losing its AngloSaxon individuality on account of the influx of foreign immigrants will be ...

    Article : 224 words
  8. AFTER THE HONEYMOON.

    She was just married and when she asked her husband for a cheque for £10, what could he do hut draw her one? But as just then he was deeply ...

    Article : 243 words
  9. BOUNCED THROUGH.

    A very ugly little humpbacked man once visited one of our well-known barristers With regard to a breach of promise case. ...

    Article : 152 words
  10. ENGLISH USED IN JAPAN.

    The Japanese have a mania for putting up English signs, and they flood the rooms at the hotels with English cards. And such English! ...

    Article : 195 words
  11. MILLIONS IN WAGES.

    Lord Stanley, financial secretary to the War Office, was present at the aunual dinner of the Royal Arsenal Association, of Foremen at the ...

    Article : 187 words
  12. WHY HE WAS SILENT.

    At a recent football match in the Highlands a very exciting incident took place. During a scrimmage which resulted in a goal, the referee ...

    Article : 97 words
  13. HORSES FIRST LIVED IN WEST AMERICA.

    That the horse originated in America rather than in the Old World is not a new theory, hut it has received strong support from a recent find of ...

    Article : 202 words
  14. A QUEER STORY FROM CARDIFF.

    A correspondent of a weekly contemporary tells the following good story:—"My chum, Sam, was going to take advantage of an excursion by ...

    Article : 198 words
  15. ORIGIN OF THE WORD "QUIZ."

    It is by no means commonly known that the English language contains a word which is in common use, notwithstanding the fact that the word ...

    Article : 290 words
  16. HOW IT WAS DONE.

    A gentleman recently returning from abroad, brought with him two beautiful antique vases. He left them in the charge of his housemaid, and set ...

    Article : 98 words
  17. A WONDERFUL REVOLVER.

    The latest in small, arms is the revolver which has just been adopted by the Swiss Government. It is called the Luger after its inventor, and. ...

    Article : 197 words
  18. THE FLOWER OF THE HOLY GHOST.

    One of the rarest and mest wonderful orchids is a native of the Ist[?] of Panama. The early Spa[?] [?]tlers named it Flor del [?] ...

    Article : 162 words
  19. MARRIED 500 TIMES.

    To be married six times during the honemoon, is an experience that comes to few (Say a writer in the "New Penny Magazing"). Four ...

    Article : 161 words
  20. MORE IN HIS LINE.

    A short time ago a released prisoner went to a mission society's office, to try and obtain employment. "What are you capable of doing? ...

    Article : 86 words
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  22. CORRECT.

    ' That sir," said a phrenologist, placing the tips of his long b[?]y [?]gers on a bamp on his subjects. [?]d "is your bomp of locomotion." ...

    Article : 54 words
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