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  2. SOME HEALTH SECRETS.

    It is a curious and common habit to blame the wrong person or the wrong thing. When a train is late, you often hear someone angrily ...

    Article : 999 words
  3. BIRDS OUTDO AEROPLANES.

    Although of recent years aviation has made such tremendous strides, the feats of present-day aviators cannot be compared with those of Nature's ...

    Article : 282 words
  4. Her Father's Daughter

    "It sounds like a dream to me—just like a mad sort of dream." Rosa spoke in low, half-bewildered tones, staring hard at Mr. Curtis. She ...

    Article : 4,029 words
  5. HOPE ON, HOPE EVER.

    Hope on, hope ever, though to-day be dark, The sweet sunburst may smile on thee to-morrow. ...

    Article : 227 words
  6. BOOKS FOR MILLIONAIRES.

    A complete unabridged edition of Burton's translation of the "Arabian Nights" was published in London at three hudnred guineas about fifteen ...

    Article : 241 words
  7. THE "GREAT WHITE PLAGUE."

    At the present time about one in ten, or 10 per cent., of all the deaths in England and Wales is due to some form of one disease—tuberculosis. ...

    Article : 120 words
  8. Where She Would Find Him.

    New Woman (tenderly): "The man I marry must possess all the graces and none of the failings of his sex." The Man: "You are worthy of such ...

    Article : 138 words
  9. HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

    A bath can best be cleaned with a rag soaked in paraffin oil, and then washed with soap powder and hot water. ...

    Article : 370 words
  10. The Last Straw.

    Jack Podger was the most obliging man that ever lived. His services were given gratis to all applicants. He could mend a clock, repair a ...

    Article : 151 words
  11. THE BLOCKADE.

    German genius beats against our blockade vainly, and strives to stir up neutral nations with brave talk of "the freedom of the seas," ignoring the ...

    Article : 510 words
  12. Living Barometer.

    A leech confined in a glass jar of water will prove an excellent weather prophet. If the weather is to continue fine the leech lies motionless at the ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. Hit the Right Spot.

    A Wesleyan chapel in a Cheshire village was in a very dilapidated condition, and a meeting was called to discuss the subject of repairs. The squire ...

    Article : 152 words
  14. Discovered.

    A mechanic, with the intention of enjoying a practical joke, pasted the figures of two donkeys on the dead wall opposite to his workshop, and ...

    Article : 148 words
  15. Liked to Help.

    The young lawyer was consulting in the gaol with his unfortunate client, charged with stealing a stove. "No, no," he said, soothingly; "I ...

    Article : 287 words
  16. Advertising

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    Advertising : 1,302 words
  17. Merely Conversational.

    Irving Bacheller, the American novelist, was on a tramping tour through New England. He discovered a chinbearded patriarch on a roadside rock. ...

    Article : 143 words
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