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  2. Odds and Ends.

    MRB. CHATTERTON: 'Bridget, that. pitcher you broke this morning belonged to my great grandmother.' Bridget (relieved): 'Well O'm glad of ...

    Article : 43 words
  3. WIND PRESSURE ON BRIDGES.

    It is probable that in the early days of bridge-designing, no account was taken of the great increase in the area of a bridge which takes place when a train, or even a ...

    Article : 156 words
  4. SHORT STORY.

    SHE gently pushed him outside the door as she finished speaking, and left him no further chance of justifying himself. Like a felon from the dock he ...

    Article : 1,249 words
  5. An Escape.

    THE Reverend Bryce-Ritson was beginning to fear that he had mistaken his profession—that he was too full of rude energy for the Church. Already he looked back ...

    Article : 1,585 words
  6. CORRECTED.

    Quickflash, sen. (to his son): ' Don't you think you could make yourself useful by clearing off this snow?' Quickflash, jun.: ' Aw, rather queer job, ...

    Article : 49 words
  7. TO HARNESS THE SUN.

    Ernest V. Howe, of Morristown, N. J., has invented an odd machine, which he claims will be the means of utilising the almost unknown vibrations from the sun ...

    Article : 257 words
  8. A CONCLUSION.

    Sympathetic Old Lady (to tramp): ' Ah my poor fellow, life is full of trials!' Tramp: ' It are, mum. What was you tried for?' ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 29 words
  9. EXPLAINED.

    . Paw,' said Tommy, "what is a bicycle meet?' ' Most any pedestrian is likely to be bicycle meat if he can't look two ways at ...

    Article : 30 words
  10. CUSTOMS AND CHARACTERISTICS OF RUSSIAN DAILY LIFE.

    The daily life of a Russian couple of the wealthier classes is singularly regular and monotonous, varying only with the changing seasons. In summer the lord of ...

    Article : 394 words
  11. RECOGNISED IT.

    She had sent off a telegram and was waiting for an answer. Suddenly the peculiar halting click of the receiving machine sounded in the office, and she said to her ...

    Article : 44 words
  12. Miscellaneous.

    THE magnetic energy of the earth, according to recent measurements, seems to be decreasing at the rate of 1.6 in forty-six years, which may be alarming if ...

    Article : 202 words
  13. IN DEBT.

    As a pleasant-faced woman passed the corner Harris touched his hat to her, and remarked feelingly to his companion: ' Ah, my boy, I owe a great deal to that ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 42 words
  14. ADVISED.

    Mr Suburb: 'My neighbour has a big dog that we are all afraid of. What do you advise?' Lawyer: 'Get a bigger one. ...

    Article : 27 words
  15. A COVERED CONSCIENCE,

    Mrs Holder: 'John, why aren't you reading your evening paper?' Mr Holder: On account of my conscience. I found an umbrella to-day, and I'm afraid ...

    Article : 31 words
  16. CONCRETE BUILDING BLOCKS THAT DEFY DETECTION.

    So many improvements have been made in the machinery for manufacturing concrete building blocks as a substitute for building stone, and so generally have these ...

    Article : 290 words
  17. A SUBSTITUTE FOR IRRIGATION.

    At a banquet given to visiting English chemists at New York, Dr. H. W. Wiley, Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry at Washington, supplied an entertaining ...

    Article : 99 words
  18. ESSAY ON THE KANGAROO.

    The kangaroo is a quadruped, but two of his feet is only hands. He is closely related to the flea family, and jumps like him, and has the same kind of resemblance. ...

    Article : 146 words
  19. THERE'S MANY A SLIP.

    ' Your husband seems to be getting bald very rapidly,' said the family friend. 'Yes,' answered Mrs Nagsby, 'there is soarcely a good handfulle— Hem! Er ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 35 words
  20. PROOF POSITIVE.

    Mrs Singer: ' I wonder if that rich uncle of mine remembered when ha made his will? I used to sing to him.' "Cynical Friend: ' He must have; he ...

    Article : 39 words
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