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  2. Fun and Fancy.

    Early Pearl.—A baby's tooth. Neck or nothing.—A ball-dress. Lawbreakers.—Smashers, certainly. A man has invented a chair that can he ...

    Article : 1,351 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    Angora goats are said to have been raised by the Turks for over 2,000 years in the Vilayet of Angora in Asia Minor. The Angora industry ...

    Article : 152 words
  4. CASTLE OF THE ORIGINAL BLUE-BEARD

    On a bright morning in May, 1887, 1 aft Angers for Nantes, the metropolis of Brittany. As I was about to take the train, a friend, who had come to see me ...

    Article : 536 words
  5. Politeness that Paid.

    "I tried to make it like home for him " This is an explanation given by an elderly billet-lady who to-day finds ...

    Article : 202 words
  6. THE UNOFFICIAL USE OF SANDBAGS.

    In an article on "Sandbags" in the "Manchester Guardian," a ' captain writes :—"The humble sandbag forms a highly important addition to ...

    Article : 166 words
  7. Naval Disasters.

    The mysterious destruction, "by an unexplained series of internal explosions of three warships first the [?] then the ...

    Article : 481 words
  8. MAORIS AND KULTUR.

    It would be a poor fillip, to any conceit His Majesty of Germany. may have could he have been present at a Maori meeting in New Zealand ...

    Article : 155 words
  9. THE PEASANT AND THE EMPEROR.

    A Persian emperor, when hunting perceived a very old man planting a walnu[?]tree, and advancing towards him, asked his age. The peasant replied, "I am four ...

    Article : 302 words
  10. DON'T KISS THE CAT.

    It must be a terrifying revelation to those ladies who kiss their cats that has been made by Prof. Fiocci, the Italian chemist. He has found ...

    Article : 122 words
  11. AN INCH OF RAIN.

    When the Weather Bureau reports that an inch of rain has fallen, it means that the amount of water that descended from the sky in that ...

    Article : 167 words
  12. A CHINESE FARM-HOUSE.

    The Chinese farm-house is a curious looking abode. Usually it is sheltered with groves of feathery bamboo, and thick. spreading banyans. The walls are of clay ...

    Article : 145 words
  13. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,324 words
  14. A SHOCK FOR THE COLLECTOR.

    I was going my rounds as an insurance agent one day and came to the house of a notoriously and payer knocked at the door anxiously, ...

    Article : 202 words
  15. THE GAS-FLAME.

    The amount of light given out by a gas flame depends upon the temperature to which the light-giving flame are raised. Dr. Tyndall has shown ...

    Article : 188 words
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