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  2. The Speed of Zeppelins.

    "Not so many years ago a British engineer expert calculated that the Zeppelin could not attain a speed of thirty miles an hour, as he proved ...

    Article : 250 words
  3. Another [?] Prophecy.

    A remarkable prophecy which seems to have been overlooked occurs in the Apocrypha, i the second book of Esdras:— ...

    Article : 330 words
  4. Russia's Hero.

    "About the most popular man in Russia," says Mr. Julius West, in "Soldiers of the Czar." [?] is a Cossack named Cosma ...

    Article : 245 words
  5. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    They were requested to leave the house of refreshment at closing-time, so they took the precaution to carry with them not less than one reputed ...

    Article : 117 words
  6. VERY TRUE.

    The temperance orator was working his speech up to a magnificent peroration, when a ruddy-nosed member of the audience interrupted. ...

    Article : 81 words
  7. HAPPY THOUGHT.

    Sydney, aged two and a half-years, often pays a visit to grandma, and when he begins to knock about his toys and is otherwise too rough he ...

    Article : 96 words
  8. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    The novelist was out walking and came across a bull in a field. He only, saved himself being thrown over a barbed-wire fence by jumping it, at ...

    Article : 129 words
  9. How Blotting Paper Absorbs Ink.

    Every student of physics knows that water will run up a narrow tube by capillary attraction. Anything immersed in water has a similar ...

    Article : 290 words
  10. Scottish Soldiers.

    It would be difficult to find an army in Europe which did not contain descendants of the Scottish soldier of fortune. In Sweden, Gustavus ...

    Article : 190 words
  11. INTELLIGENT DOG.

    Tommy Howard is no better and no worse than the majority of men of his age; but his maiden aunt, who keeps him in supplies at Oxford, and ...

    Article : 173 words
  12. NOT FAR WRONG.

    Gladys Ethel, the maid-of-al[?] work, had fallen in love with a man in khaki. A wonderfully useful soldier he was, too. As she listened to the ...

    Article : 193 words
  13. NO SUNDAY TRADING.

    Farmer Jones was a firm believer in keeping the Sabbath; he regarded it as his duty to show others a good example. ...

    Article : 194 words
  14. Lies Detected by Breath.

    When a man is telling a lie he breathes differently from when he is telling the truth. The difference was discovered by means of some tests ...

    Article : 237 words
  15. Troubles of a Medico.

    "Some of the queerest experiences of a doctor are pretty certain to be connected with the administration of anaesthetics," maid a New Orleans ...

    Article : 363 words
  16. HIS ONLY CONUNDRUM.

    The old pilot of the little steamer Maid of the Mist, which used to carry passengers quite up to the food [?] the falls of Niagara until the mist ...

    Article : 210 words
  17. A SURE SIGN.

    "Getting on nicely," said the doctor—"very nicely! I think he might have a little solid food directly he begins to be convalescent." ...

    Article : 220 words
  18. COMPULSORY ECONOMY.

    The son was about to embark upon the sea of matrimony. he father called him to his side, and gave his last lecture on economy. ...

    Article : 160 words
  19. HOW IT HAPPENED.

    In a certain hospital in England a British soldier was lying seriously wounded when an elderly lady visitor came into the ward. The sister of ...

    Article : 97 words
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