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  2. Is it Pleasant to Die.

    Interest in the discussion on "The pains of death" is stimulated by some recent lettees published in "The Times." A correspondent ...

    Article : 979 words
  3. Chickens Hatched by Bees

    Rearing chicks by electricity seems a tall order, yet this is what is being done at a chick farm at Muskogee, Oklahoma, where ...

    Article : 361 words
  4. The Large Ice Cave.

    A few years ago some members of the Austrian Speleological Society discovered in the Dachstein mountains some caverns which are ...

    Article : 308 words
  5. PEN PICTURES OF THE PAST.

    One of the most notorious criminals that ever lived in England was Jonathan Wild. He was born at Wolverhampton of decent parents ...

    Article : 374 words
  6. In the Wild West.

    In the days when the West was really "wild" and "woolly," good doctors were scarcer than women out in the mining camps. ...

    Article : 203 words
  7. Care of Paint Brushes.

    Common wood clothespins may be used as supports for holding paint brushes in liquid while they are not in use. The pins are clamped ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 104 words
  8. A Dominie to the Japs.

    "What is that big building over there?" I asked my companion, as we walked down the Ginza in Tokio. "No!" he replied, with a ...

    Article : 541 words
  9. THE FIRST STEAMER TO CROSS THE ATLANTIC.

    The Savannah, a 350-ton brig, was built for the packet service between Havre and New York. Moses Rogers, afterwards captain of ...

    Article : 309 words
  10. A Deadly Industry Made Perfectly Safe.

    It seems extraordinary that primitive methods of obtaining the necessary combustion for getting fire or light should have prevailed ...

    Article : 407 words
  11. The Mouse Escaped.

    The landlady, while engaged in her domestic duties, encountered a mouse in the flour-barrel. Now, most ladies in similar ...

    Article : 135 words
  12. Sash Shade Holder for Venetians.

    A shade fastened to the casing at the top of a window always hinders the free passage of air when the top sash is lowered. A simple ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 166 words
  13. THE GREAT BULLION ROBBERY.

    Never was a crime more audaciously conceived than the great bullion robbery of 1856, on the South-Eastern Railway. On the ...

    Article : 293 words
  14. The First Cigars.

    The cigar is now so common an object that we hardly realise how recently it came into use. A letter of Robert Bloomfield, the author of ...

    Article : 423 words
  15. Dowries for Gifts.

    At different times thoughtful people have stipulated in their wills that a certain sum of money shall be set aside to provide dowries for ...

    Article : 438 words
  16. Gems that Change Colour.

    The newest fashionable gem is one that has the somewhat startling peculiarity of being a quite different colour in the evening from ...

    Article : 306 words
  17. AN EPOCK-MAKING BOOK.

    "Uncle Tom's Cabin" was published on March 20, 1852. The author Mrs. Beecher Stowe, was despondent as to "weather anybody would ...

    Article : 209 words
  18. WORSE THAN A BAD ONE.

    "Wal," said the public house philosopher, "now that they've caught that young Foster brat a-poachin' on th' gun club's preserves, his ...

    Article : 182 words
  19. A SHRINKING SEA.

    The surface of the Caspian, which lies 88ft. below sea level, has, since June, 1910 been continually sinking, without a plausible ...

    Article : 161 words
  20. A MEXICAN ROYAL TRAGEDY.

    On May 19. 1864, Maximilian, the handsome, blue-eyed, fair-bearded brother of the Austrian Emperor, made his proud entry into the ...

    Article : 294 words
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