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  2. Advertising

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    Advertising : 303 words
  3. OUR SERIAL STORY

    "And Cynara?" Dick half hoped that the girl's name would recall Lady Fleda's resolutions, yet she only shook her head. "I can't put her before Barry. He comes ...

    Article : 3,627 words
  4. TAXATION OF BACHELORS.

    The municipal authorities of the city of Lyons are determined to levy a special supplementary tax on wealthy old bachelors. They hope thereby to counteract the various inducements for ...

    Article : 605 words
  5. PEOPLE WHO DON'T LAUGH.

    Laughter is unknown among the Veddahs of Ceylon. They are the most solemn people in the world. When a traveller asked some of them why their people never gave indication ...

    Article : 113 words
  6. PARS FROM ALL PARTS

    Orange cream perfumed with cre[?]sote and taris saturated with naphthalene ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 123 words
  7. SOME NOVEL AND INTERESTING INVENTIONS.

    A dispensing vessel in which three different beverages may be carried and discharged separately through the one spout is shown. Vertical partitions from three compartments, through ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
  8. SUBSTITUTE FOR MEAT.

    The availability of yeast as a food is a problem upon which the Berlin Institute ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 184 words
  9. THE DISADVANTAGE OF RICHES.

    The foremen of a Marseilles warehouse who recently won the prize of £40,000 in ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 118 words
  10. BIRTHPLACE OF FRUITS.

    Our strawberry is derived from a cross between the native strawberry of Virginia and that of Chits. The raspberry is native to temperate Europe and America and certain parts ...

    Article : 157 words
  11. IMPERISHABLE BRONZE.

    Bronze statues of Buddha and Hindoo divinities are frequently found standing in the north of Slam on the sites of ancient temples that have been crumbling for centuries, mute ...

    Article : 239 words
  12. CLINCHER GAFF FOR FISHERMEN.

    A clincher gaff controlled by one hand and designed to take the place of a landing net is shown. It will grip and hold any fish from [?] to 20 lb., and it is claimed that its grip leaves no ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 80 words
  13. THE NEW SIBERIA.

    Newest of "dips into the future" is that vision of the Siberian merchant fleet which "the land of the exile and the brodyag" is to send forth from the White Sea to provision Europe. Nor ...

    Article : 256 words
  14. THE HIGHEST RAILWAY.

    To the question, "Which is the highest railway in the world?" the answer is, the Central railway of Peru. In other words, the highest point reached by any railway line is touched by this ...

    Article : 200 words
  15. RECENT POPULATION FIGURES.

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    Detailed lists, results, guides : 111 words
  16. TRAIN THREE YEARS LATE.

    When a train on an Australian railway line is a few minutes late, the passengers sometimes express their opinions more freely than politely. But there is one case on record of an American ...

    Article : 125 words
  17. FIVE O'CLOCK TEA IN PRISON.

    Herr Bebel, the leader of the German Socialists, who is writing his autobiography, tells an amusing anecdote of the time when both he and the Socialist Liebknecht were Confined in ...

    Article : 147 words
  18. WIFE'S PITIFUL STORY.

    At the Daylesford (Vic.) Court of Petty Sessions last week, a truant officer said that a family lived in a hut at Musk Creek that was quite unfit for human habitation, having huge ...

    Article : 228 words
  19. DEVICE AIDS IN HEMMING.

    A Salt Lake City inventor has recently been granted a patent on a cloth holder which he calls a hemmer. This device, shown, facilitates the hemming of linen by hand and enables the ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 109 words
  20. NAPOLEON'S DEATH-BEDS.

    The chateau of Malmalson, where Napoleon's wife Josephine lived and died, has been made into a museum. "An American, Edward Tuck, has just presented to it the bed on which ...

    Article : 244 words
  21. SPY EPIDEMICS.

    Every foreign office of Europe acts on the theory that an army of spies is ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 173 words
  22. SUICIDE'S COFFIN HISSED.

    Twenty thousand people, it is estimated, took part in demonstrations of hostility which attended the funeral at Newcastle (Eng.) Cemetery of Alexander Ingram, who committed ...

    Article : 187 words
  23. PROPOSAL BY WIRELESS.

    A courtship which was conducted by wireless telegraphy has just been ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 122 words
  24. "FLYTRAP" AEROPLANE.

    This curiously shaped aeroplane, which resembles an old-fashioned flytrap inverted, or the tower half of a Chinese lantern, it the idea of a Columbus, Ohio, inventor, who believes ... [ILLUSTRATED]

    Article : 74 words
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