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  2. Dentistry 1,000 Years ago.

    During a lengthy relic-hunting visit to Ecuador, Professor Marshall Howard Saville,' head of the archaeology department of ...

    Article : 196 words
  3. Reckless Spendthrifts.

    There is a man travelling about the world at the present time who is doing his utmost to rid himself speedily of a fortune left to him ...

    Article : 1,063 words
  4. Animals as Weather Prophets.

    Shepherds and others who spend much time in the open air say that we may always know when it will rain by watching the ways of ...

    Article : 195 words
  5. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    According yo Mr. Justice Darling a hundred years or so ago judges were the only people in the country try who were habitually sober. To ...

    Article : 210 words
  6. Asleep in the Dustbin.

    The dustbins of Rouen, which the authorities of that town boast are of the most modern type in France, have been nearly responsible for the ...

    Article : 156 words
  7. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    Flowers have been artificially coloured with more or less success, but until recently animals have escaped the experiments of the ...

    Article : 1,069 words
  8. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST.

    The tale of the Gordon Bennett Expedition of 1879 is one of the most poignant of Polar tragedies. The Jeannette left San Francisco ...

    Article : 282 words
  9. Carrying a 20-ton Engine on a Cable.

    The strength of a cable is graphically illustrated in a photograph from Mexico where engineering plant has had to be transported by ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 105 words
  10. Speed of the Wind.

    Up to the present the greatest speed of the wind has never been measured, for the simple reason that no instrument has yet been ...

    Article : 181 words
  11. Was Nursed by Napoleon.

    The centenary of the battle of Waterloo will fall due within another two years, and naturally, old people who can remember that ...

    Article : 157 words
  12. Eyes of the Motor-car.

    A new automobile headlight has lust been put on the market in France, which represents a radical departure from present designs. ...

    Article : 172 words
  13. THE CZAR'S HUNDRED PALACES

    The Czar has a hundred palaces scattered throughout the length and breadth of his dominions. These Imperial residences have a ...

    Article : 114 words
  14. A DAY OF CARNAGE.

    When the light, of dawn stole quietly over the Sudanese desert on the morning of September 2, 1898, it revealed the spectacle of war ...

    Article : 295 words
  15. TARRING AND FEATHERING.

    People who suppose "tarring and feathering" is an invention of Judge Lynch "out West" may be surprised to learn that it was invented, or ...

    Article : 413 words
  16. Hiawatha Dead.

    Hiawatha the last hereditary chief of the Iroquois Indians, is dead. He had presided for many years over the remnant of the tribe which ...

    Article : 190 words
  17. Bank Notes Eaten by Mice.

    A few years ago a poor peasant in France learned to his surprise and joy that he had come into an inheritance of £400. His thoughts ...

    Article : 331 words
  18. A Blind Girl's Memory.

    A blind girl, Miss Mabel Green, aged twenty, has just written from memory a verbatim report of a sermon lasting three-quarters of an ...

    Article : 192 words
  19. Keeps Greenstuff Fresh.

    One of the chief causes of failure in the backyard poultry run is an insuflicient supply of fresh green stuff. Even when green meat is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

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  20. More and the Maniac.

    In front of his Chelsea House Sir Thomas More had a garden and gatehouse, and as there was a pleasant view from the summit of the ...

    Article : 157 words
  21. FIRST FEMALE PEER.

    Great peerages have fallen to ladies in the natural course of events, but the first peeress by creation was Anne Boleyn. On ...

    Article : 164 words
  22. An £8,000 Find.

    In October of last year a daring robbery was committed from the mail van of a Bordeaux-Marseilles express train, and among other ...

    Article : 183 words
  23. An Ingenious Defence.

    At Munchen-Gladbach, an important West-German manufacturing town, a short time ago, a defendant in the police-court was ...

    Article : 131 words
  24. Kings in Commerce.

    Like most really busy men, the German Emperor always seems able to find some time for more work. As well as attending to the affairs ...

    Article : 274 words
  25. A Strange Pilgrimage.

    One of the most interesting of the Tachieulu (W. China) La mastic population is a person who receives the appellation of "Chang-cha-ba." ...

    Article : 275 words
  26. AN HISTORIC CANNON BALL.

    The discovery, at a village near King's Lynn, of a cannon ball reputed to be a relic of the Parliamentary Wars recalls the fact that ...

    Article : 193 words
  27. Too Much Aid.

    To own a magnificent Newfoundland dog which would be ready at your call to plunge into the water and rescue a drowning person would ...

    Article : 241 words
  28. Earth as Food.

    Among many strange foods which the inhabitants of this world par take of, and consider delicacies perhaps the strangest of all is earth ...

    Article : 229 words
  29. CANADIAN COLD.

    The late Rev. Dr. Mason when in Rupert's Land as a missionary had a decidedly unpleasant experience one winter. The cold there is ...

    Article : 157 words
  30. MALTA BECOMES BRITISH POSSESSION.

    On Friday, September 5, 1800, Malta, the largest of a little group of Mediterranean islands, was surrendered to the British, under ...

    Article : 229 words
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