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  5. WATER IN OUR BODIES.

    Discussing late physiological findings, Dr. L.F. Meyer,in Germany, states that the water of the body varies with age, kind of nutriment, and ...

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  6. AND ECHO ANSWERED— "WHERE?"

    Stories are still cropping up about "Billy" Travers, the New York wit, who stammered so delightfully. Travers it appears, was a guest at a yacht ...

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  7. THE HIGHER THE LOUDER.

    Those of us who have unsuccessfully tried the high placing of framed heirlooms in a modern home will appreciate the remark credited to a woman. ...

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  8. ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY TO FIND POISON.

    By moans of an artificial "kidney," devised by Prof. A.W. Abek,of Johns Hopkins University,It has been made possible to determine whether persons ...

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  9. IN LIGHTER VEIN

    Buyer:"But is this a genuine Wattoau?" Dealer:My dear sir, I saw it painted myself" ...

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  10. A USEFUL LOAN.

    They were discussing Brown, his charming manners, and his look of foral responsibility in all matters connected with money. "He means to be ...

    Article : 98 words
  11. THE WORLD OF SCIENCE

    A baby speaks only what it hears. It connects the sound of a word with the object represented by that word only after many repetitions, many ...

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  12. A KNOCK-OUT.

    As an illustration of great devotion to truth, a would-be M.P.told his auditors that he "underwent a sovero thrashing when a boy for telling the ...

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  13. THE DOCTOR'S MNEMONIC.

    Dr. Raid, the celebrated medical writer, was requested by a lady of literary eminence to call at her house. "Be sure you recollect the address," ...

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  14. A LINE OF SAFETY.

    "One of the characteristics of my old comrade, A.mos Stillman, was bravery in actual fighting service," said the old soldier."Another ...

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  15. ELECTRICAL GARDEN: WONDERFUL CROPS.

    Though reports of success in electrically stimulating plants continue to be made, commercial results screem to be as far off as ever.Careful and ...

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  16. WORSE THAN ANYTHING.

    She had Just finished reading Edward Halo's "The Man Without a Country," and as she laid it down she signed and said;— ...

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  17. GOT USED TO IT.

    Are you feelling perfectly well now, Mrs. Perkins?" "Yes I'm well enough." "I thought Dr. Bright would be ...

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  18. TOO "FLY" TO BE CAUGHT.

    A certain patrol-waggon driver takes great pride in his horses, and on a number of annual inspections has won the prize for the best-looking ...

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  19. THE HAMS OF A PIG."

    A young wife recently went into a gracer's shop and addressed the grooer thus:—"I bought three or four hanas here a month or so ago, and they were ...

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  20. CAUSE OF THUNDER.

    For a long time it was supposed that the noise of thunder was caused by the closing up of the vacuum created by the passage of the lightning, the ...

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  21. SUBTLE CRITICISM.

    The small boy stood in front of the dazzling lights of the cheap theatre with a. yellow dog under his arm. Evidently he wanted to get in,and the ...

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  22. ANOTHER KITCHENER.

    Soyer, the famous chef of midVictorian days, and author of the noted cookery book, was arrested one night in the Crimoa as spy. ...

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  23. A FAR-OFF YESTERDAY.

    How little what is known as the "time element" troubles the calculations of poets and philosophers is illustrated in a book entitled,"Homo Life in ...

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  24. IT DIDNT SAVE HIM.

    Among the less-known writers of the nineteenth century was Samuel Rogers He kept open houe, and frequently entertained Dickens, Macaulay ...

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  25. THE IGNORANT MINIMUM.

    Alfred Gwyame Vanderbilt. looking very fresh and young, a red carnation in the buttonhole of his morning coat, was talking to a reporter about an ...

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  26. THE SIMPLE BOER.

    Ignorance is not bliss on the battle- field.When the South African War began, the Boer, brave fighters though they were,lost many an advantage ...

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  27. SMALLPOX GERM FOUND.

    The germ of smallpox, a protezoan so Infinitesimal that it has passed through the minutest filters and escaped the trained gaze of microscopists ...

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  29. WHISTLER STORIES.

    James M'Nell Whistler,the artist, a keen untiring student and worker.His passion for perfection grew upon him until it became almost ...

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  30. HE WAS JUSTIFIED.

    The New York pedestrian took his time in crossing Broadway. He knew his rights and meant to assert them. ...

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  32. CURIOUS EFFECTS OF SUGAR IN PORTLAND CEMENT.

    That sugar in quantities as small as one-quarter of one per cent, of the weight of the cement will completely prevent the cement from setting, and ...

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  33. A STANDING BARGAIN.

    "I want to find a horse that my wife and daughter will dare to drive," said a customer to a farmer one bleak November day, as the latter reined up his ...

    Article : 167 words
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