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  2. NOTHING SERIOUS.

    A clergyman of a certain village was one Sunday questioning his scholars. He asked them quite a few questions which they answered ...

    Article : 137 words
  3. Only Recently Abolished.

    Delaware has punished thieves, highwaymen, assailants of women, and pick-pockets by pillory and whipping-post 1717, when the first ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 159 words
  4. IN OTHER LANDS.

    A kite lifted a boy aloft at the military parade ground at Rouchiff, near Lille, recently. Experiments were being made with the kite, when ...

    Article : 967 words
  5. TOY FILMS.

    Perhaps you have been puzzled over the making of those mechanical toy picture, showing dolls. Teddy-bears, and toy cats apparently ...

    Article : 365 words
  6. Old-Time Magic.

    Place button in the paint of the left hand, then place a coin between the second and third fingers of the right hand Keep the right ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 118 words
  7. Cleopatra's Needle.

    Few of the many thousands who daily pass Clepatra's Needle on the Thames Embankment know of the exceedingly miscellaneous collection ...

    Article : 238 words
  8. A GOOD TWO MILES.

    After a hand day's work at the manoeuvres, a battalion of Territorials were marching wearily along a seemingly interminable country ...

    Article : 132 words
  9. A RISING CARD TRICK.

    A rising card trick can be accomplished with very little skill by using the simple device illustrated. The only things needed are four ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 194 words
  10. THE POWER OF HABIT.

    The young man took a piece of paper and a pencil from his pocket, and laid the paper on his knee. ...

    Article : 159 words
  11. How Kipling was Interviewed in America.

    In Chicago, considerably more than twenty years ago, I obtained a chance interview from Rudyard Kipling. At that time Kipling, ...

    Article : 1,082 words
  12. An Oft-Told Tale.

    The tale of the loss of the Birkenhead has often been related, but can never be too often told. The troop transport left Simon's Bay ...

    Article : 294 words
  13. Porter's Coats as Afghan Uniforms.

    The Amir of Afghanistan is exceedingly anxious to Westernise his country, but it is rumoured that some of his subjects are not ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. A Dovetail Joint Puzzle.

    A simple hut very ingenious example in joinery is illustrated. In the finished piece, Fig. 1, the dovetail appears on each side of ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 143 words
  15. Indian Heraldics.

    Alert Bay, an old Indian village on Vancouver Island, Alaska, possesses the most complete collection of totem poles to be found ...

    Article : 169 words
  16. CHEERING.

    The wealthy Englishman had bought an estate without having seen it. He believed that he could trust the man he bought it from, ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. His Plan of Campaign.

    A sergeant in charge of a squad of recruits was waiting in front of the Dog and Gun public-house, expecting the arrival of the ...

    Article : 283 words
  18. A NOBLE FIGHT.

    Two gentlemen, costers by profession, were passing a wet afternoon in the British Museum. In the course of their travels they ...

    Article : 112 words
  19. Weather Made to Order.

    Is it possible to make weather to order? in the opinion of that eminent scientist, Sir Oliver Lodge, it is by no means beyond the powers ...

    Article : 273 words
  20. Trams on Holy Ground.

    The statement that Jerusalem and its vicinity are to be modernised by the laying down of an electric-lighting plant and the construction ...

    Article : 284 words
  21. Workhouse Children.

    In January, 1913, the number of children in receipt of relief from the State in England and Wales was close on a quarter of a ...

    Article : 250 words
  22. WONDERFUL WOODCRAFT.

    The discussion all arose because a tree, in happy innocence, happened to be growing near to the camping ground of the 1st Mudshire ...

    Article : 140 words
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