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  2. Blind Watchmakers.

    Blind people—those who have been born blind—are, as is well known, exceedingly clever with their fingers, but it is not often we hear of a ...

    Article : 164 words
  3. WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

    A recent issue of the "Electrical World" describes a handy electric installation on a farm in Massachusetts. Besides lighting the house, ...

    Article : 151 words
  4. INTERESTING ITEMS.

    The champion sheep-shearing prize at Killerton, Exeter, has been won by a fifteen-year-old girl. That there are 800 Joneses on one ...

    Article : 304 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    "Cross me, and with silver, kind sir," whined the sunburnt gipsy girl. The strapping stranger flung her a sixpence, and, disgusted with the ...

    Article : 133 words
  6. A DUTIFUL CHILD.

    In a happy little home in a Western city there is a pretty, seven-year-old daughter, named Jessie. Recently Jessie forgot her parlour ...

    Article : 205 words
  7. AVALANCHE WARNINGS.

    In the Cascade Range and the Rocky Mountains of the north-western United States, more or less destruction of life and property is ...

    Article : 106 words
  8. Funny Notices.

    There is a notice to be seen in a shop window in Norway, "English spoken here; American understood" —which is a nasty one for the ...

    Article : 233 words
  9. CRICKET-BALL RAISED £548.

    A sum of £548 for the wounded has been raised in an interesting way recently. In 1882, in the happy days when ...

    Article : 126 words
  10. Heat and Cold.

    There is a very common idea that one of the secrets of maintaining good health lies in the avoidance of variations of temperature. It seems ...

    Article : 648 words
  11. A WAY OUT.

    A leading theatrical manager tells the following story:— "There was on chap," he said, "I couldn't get rid of. Dear me, he was ...

    Article : 117 words
  12. POWER FROM TIDAL CURRENTS.

    Plans for the utilisation of tidal currents in the Bay of Fundy are now being studied. This bay is about 150 miles long and for a large ...

    Article : 178 words
  13. 'Lord of the Narrow Seas.'

    When did Britain first assert her supremacy on the narrow seas? It is possible that this may have been first done in the time of the Edwards ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. ACCORDING TO RULE.

    Some time ago an insurance agent called on an old lady for her weekly premium. The policy-holder informed the agent that she was going to ...

    Article : 198 words
  15. TRENCH PLOUGHS.

    Whenever and wherever it has been possible to do so, gigantic trench-digging machines have been used for entrenchments instead of the spade ...

    Article : 162 words
  16. TOO STRENUOUS.

    The housewife was showing her new maid through the upstairs apartments. Finally, they came to a staircase leading down into the ...

    Article : 128 words
  17. En-durance Vile!

    What is the limit of human endurance? A bomb-thrower has hurled bombs continuously for forty-one hours. ...

    Article : 230 words
  18. FIRST MILITARY BAND.

    Military bands first came into existence about a685—in the reign of Charles II. That monarch had a partiality for music. Anyhow, it was ...

    Article : 216 words
  19. USED TO IT.

    "Need any more talent for your moving picture dramas?" "We might use you. Had any experience at acting without audiences ...

    Article : 126 words
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