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  2. NOVELETTE

    "May I warm myself at your fire? It is a bitter cold morning to ride with one's face to the wind." The speaker was Ephraim Brisbane ...

    Article : 1,920 words
  3. PROTECTIVE COLOURING OF HORSES.

    The endurance and disposition of horses in the tropics seem to depend much upon the colour of their hairy covering. Colonel Charles E. ...

    Article : 150 words
  4. FORGERY FRENCH BANK

    Onty one case of attempted forgery of French bank notes was reported to the Bank of France during the last year, and since 1899 only six cases of ...

    Article : 149 words
  5. A PRICECESS IVENTION

    A little apparatus which automatically cuts off the gas in a burning building and thus prevents explosions and the spreading of the flames, has ...

    Article : 239 words
  6. Odds and Ends.

    When she wasn't looking I kissed her. What did she do? Refused to look at me for the rest of the evening. The people next door seem anxious ...

    Article : 510 words
  7. Scientific Notes.

    The most powerful single-unit electric locomotives that have ben designed up to the present time are now being built for a Swiss railway. These ...

    Article : 105 words
  8. TIMBER RIBBONS.

    Many of the finest summer hats worn by women are literally made from wood shavings. The handsomest examples of this industry are ...

    Article : 111 words
  9. MORE WONDERS OF WIRELESS.

    In the wireless experiments made with the device of Prof Zehnder, of Berlin, telegrams have been not only transmitted several hundred miles ...

    Article : 130 words
  10. SAILS MADE BY HAND.

    Perfect as modern machinery is, there are still some crafts in which no machine can compete with the hu man hand. A notable example is sail ...

    Article : 178 words
  11. THE LONGEST TRAIN ON RECORD

    America remains the home of the record. This time it is the longest train on record which must go to the credit of America. Recently a ...

    Article : 158 words
  12. A MODERN QUESTION.

    One woman who went down on the Titanic, Miss Evans, of New York, raised a question often discussed since by other women. Unmarried ...

    Article : 235 words
  13. Miscellaneous.

    Shakespeare produced all his plays with about 15,000 different words Milton's- range comprised about 8000, and the Old Testament's limit is ...

    Article : 544 words
  14. OZONISED AIR.

    Electrical machinery for changing a part of the oxygen in the air into ozone is now generally employed for deodorising and sterilising the ...

    Article : 147 words
  15. NICKEL MONEY IN FRANCE.

    in a few months the substitution of nickel coin of one and two sous for those of bronze at present in circulation will have begun, says the Paris ...

    Article : 231 words
  16. Housekeeper

    Tie a piece of lemon on a corn every night for five sights and it will generally cause it to drop out. Cucumber rind, cut into thin strips ...

    Article : 253 words
  17. CHEERFUL DINING.

    Where nourishment and health are concerned laughter and goodwill are vigorous promoters of the digestive functions. The court jester was a ...

    Article : 61 words
  18. A SUBSITUTE FOR WOOD.

    The steadily increasing price of timber in Europe has caused interest to be centred in a French invention for preparing a substitute for this ...

    Article : 548 words
  19. RE[?]IPES

    Plum Cake: Required—One pound of flour, 6oz of butter and lard. 6oz of sugar, 40Z each of currants and sultanas, three pieces of candied peel ...

    Article : 633 words
  20. LUCKY STOCKINCS.

    Stockings figure in some carious superstitions touching old customs, especially those connected with marriage. Everyone knows that there are ...

    Article : 354 words
  21. A MOVING STORY.

    A debate was overheard between some working men as to whether it was cheaper to move or to pay rent. Opinion being about equally divided ...

    Article : 69 words
  22. CHINESE LOGIC.

    A tourist, in pricing tea in a Chinese store in Shanghai, was surprised to find that he could purchase five pounds of a certain kind of tea for ...

    Article : 83 words
  23. WHY RINGS ARE WORN.

    There is nothing, with which strange customs and superstitions, and true and legendary associations, have been more closely associated ...

    Article : 579 words
  24. NOT ACCEPTED.

    A trio of professional story tellers were in a cosy Corner of the club spinning yarns. Brown had just told a most unbelievable story, and the ...

    Article : 91 words
  25. BORN WITH FREAK EVES.

    A most remarkable eye case has just been discovered in America. Mirrored in a two-year-old-boy's eyes are two distinct letters each a quar ...

    Article : 112 words
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