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  2. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

    From time to time some daring individual arises to challenge the belief that the earth is round. We laugh at him, but it very rarely occurs to any of ...

    Article : 369 words
  3. POSTAL ORDER JUBILEE

    It is just fifty years since the first postal order was issued. The man who originated the idea was Mr. Edward Norris, a member of Parliament, who ...

    Article : 207 words
  4. PLAYING AT LIFE

    I am constantly in a state of astonishment over the attitude of people who just go around the world playing at life. "Let's have a good time" seems to be ...

    Article : 207 words
  5. SAGE SAYINGS

    Blunt people have sharp tongues. Grievances and babies grow with nursing. A mule by any other name would ...

    Article : 170 words
  6. MONK RASPUTIN

    The Sofia correspondent of the "Morning Post," says that Archbishop Teophane, of the Russian Orthodox Church, who is living in exile in ...

    Article : 163 words
  7. SOAPING THE GEYSER

    In the Hot Lake district of New Zealand there are two remarkable geysers, Waimungu ,and Wairoa. The Waimungu Geyser hurled water, ...

    Article : 300 words
  8. WRONG NAME

    CUSTOMER—"This 'Complete Love-Letter Writer' you sold me is no good. All the letters are addressed to to Pamela, and my girl's name is Muriel." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 31 words
  9. NO LIFE ON MARS

    Sir James Jeans recently gave reasons why he did not believe that there was life on Mars. "The earth is the only planet whose temperature seems entirely ...

    Article : 303 words
  10. POTTED WISDOM

    There is nothing more uncertain than a "sure thing." A woman is never surprised when she is handed a compliment. ...

    Article : 88 words
  11. WHAT IS A QUICKSAND?

    To most people quicksands are of largely academic interest, but the subject seemed to come nearer home the other day. ...

    Article : 140 words
  12. WHAT PEOPLE SAY

    It is the bored type of woman who is most dangerous to the cause of peace. —Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P. It is no use teaching the A B C to ...

    Article : 134 words
  13. HUBERT KEEPS ON WALKING

    It isn't often that a hippopotamus makes history, but Hubert is not an ordinary hippopotamus. Some time ago he left the haunts of his kind, ...

    Article : 229 words
  14. TRUFFLES

    There once lived a king who was a great gourmand and was always terrifying his cooks by demanding, with threats, new delicacies for his table. ...

    Article : 217 words
  15. WHEN WARSHIPS ARE SCRAPPED

    When the cruiser Conquest was being towed from Portsmouth to Rosyth recently the tow-rope broke owing to the rough seas, and she drifted for some ...

    Article : 122 words
  16. HOW NEWS TRAVELS

    A news message has been sent twice round the world in five minutes over two hours. That is not so fast as a wireless impulse, which can girdle the ...

    Article : 138 words
  17. MY NEIGHBHOR'S ROSES

    My neighbor's roses climb the fence And nod their crimson heads at me, And our backyard, in consequence, Is beautiful to see. ...

    Article : 83 words
  18. Pop

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  19. A FRIEND

    Yours was a strong hand in the dark, to me, Stretched out to meet my need. You helped mo to lift up my head and say: ...

    Article : 76 words
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