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  2. FROM VARIOUS SOURCES.

    Mr. Henry Ford, the great car manufacturer, is not a believer in the doctrine of limiting farm production in order to keep up prices. ...

    Article : 463 words
  3. OTHER PEOPLE SAY

    Philosophy except so far as it enables one to bear losses with equa[?]mity, is not a business asset.—Lord Riddell. ...

    Article : 272 words
  4. UP IN THE AIR

    Soaring nearly two miles above the earth with no motor to aid him. Robert Kronfeld, a Vienna glider pilot, recently set a new world's record for altitude ...

    Article : 121 words
  5. FRANKLIN'S SHIPS

    What became of the ships on the ire, if they were the Erebus and the Terror? The Terror spent over three months on a floe in 1837 and yet reached England. ...

    Article : 164 words
  6. THIRTY THOUSAND LEAVES OF GOLD

    High above the dome of St. Paul's Cathedral stand the huge cross and ball known to many generations of Londoners. They have just been ...

    Article : 149 words
  7. OVERHEARD

    "Oh, why was I ever brought up to be a writer?" sighed the cub to his fellow reporters. "You weren't" came the unexpected ...

    Article : 31 words
  8. A SIMPLE WAY OUT

    Angry Father—"Look there, Doris. I won't have young Jones bringing you home of midnight." Daughter—"Well, dad, who else do you suggest?" —"The Humorist." ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 30 words
  9. A NEW UNIVERSE

    The most distant object yet [?] in space, a super-universe so far away that its distances in miles would be expressed by a figure something [?] ...

    Article : 276 words
  10. A DONATION TO POSTERITY

    A Washington message to the New York "Herald Tribune" states that nearly 3,000 acres of virgin redwood forest is to be preserved for all time ...

    Article : 221 words
  11. CHILD'S CABBAGE POEMS

    The story of a little girl who hoodwinked editors of many newspapers including a famous humorous journal by her poetry, was told to a gathering ...

    Article : 227 words
  12. CAN YOU MEND EGGS

    Can you mend broken eggshells? Mr. William Candy, who sits in a little china shop in Cheltenham, does scarcely anything else. ...

    Article : 167 words
  13. 5,100 WORDS ON A POSTCARD

    A new world's record is claimed by M. Noel Coussacs, a native of Perpig[?] France, who has succeeded in writing 5,100 words on a picture postcard. The ...

    Article : 306 words
  14. NEW CHINESE LANGUAGE

    A new Chinese language has been invented and its teaching made compulsory in every public school in the country. It is called "Pci-hua." ...

    Article : 220 words
  15. MUSSOLINI'S BIRTHPLACE

    The birthplace of Signor Mussolini, Premier of Italy, has become a shrine for pilgrims from all over Italy. This small town, numbering a few years ago ...

    Article : 235 words
  16. HARVEST OF THE SEA

    In 1928 the quantity of deep-sea fish landed by British trawlers totalled 11,580,000 cut., which was sold at the dockside for £14,000,000. Last year ...

    Article : 113 words
  17. "THE CITY OF PERHAPS!"

    Oh, I know a far-off city. That's soft wrapt in violet haze, And the tallness of its steeples Are agleam with sunny rays. ...

    Article : 129 words
  18. A BENEFACTOR

    Eight hundred of Manchester's poorest people were the guests at a dinner given by an anonymous benefactor, who during the same week ...

    Article : 136 words
  19. GULL FLIES ATLANTIC

    A black-headed gull from Europe has been found among the native gulls of Newburyport, near Boston, U.S.A. It is the first of its species ever ...

    Article : 98 words
  20. COLORED FOUNTAINS

    Luminous fountains, with all the colors of the rainbow playing on torrents of water, were an attraction at the International Exhibition opened in ...

    Article : 89 words
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