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  2. STRANGE GIFTS TO ROYALTY.

    The list of strange gifts to modern monarchs contains some curious items. King Edward, shortly after his coronation, received a registered packet from ...

    Article : 161 words
  3. "THE ETERNAL FITNESS OF THINGS."

    Artistic sense and good taste never clash with what is called the eternal fitness of things. The most flagrant violation of the divine fitness of things in all history ...

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  4. OLD COINS.

    As a profitable business deal it would not strike anyone to start buying pennies with sovereigns; but there are one or two notable firms and scores of private ...

    Article : 689 words
  5. GLASSBLOWERS.

    In the University Museum of Harvard is a collection of plants modelled in glass. It is a wonderful collection both in size and in beauty and accuracy of the work. It ...

    Article : 450 words
  6. METHUSALAH'S 1,000 YEARS.

    One of the greatest puzzles in the Bible is the great age to which Methusaleh is reported to have lived, 969 years. Many have tried to explain the figures away, but ...

    Article : 609 words
  7. LOVE AND EUGENICS.

    A dissertation upon eugenics and the marriage problem was the outstanding feature of the presidential address delivered by Sir James Crichton-Browne at the ...

    Article : 877 words
  8. LITERATURE.

    In "Turkey and its People" (London: Methuen), Sir Edwin Pears has acted on Othello's injunction. He has nothing extenuated, nor set down aught in malice. ...

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  9. NEW NOVELS.

    "Odd Come Shorts." By Mrs. Allred Sedgwick. (London: Mills & Boer. "Odd Come Shorts" is the name Mrs. Sedgwick gives to a series of tales hardly ...

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  10. WEDDING RING LORE.

    In the Isle of Man the wedding-ring was formerly used as an instrument of torture. Cyril Davenport, in his book on "Jewellery," remarks that there once existed a ...

    Article : 230 words
  11. HABITS OF ANIMALS.

    A fly on a window-pane will crawl up to the top, fly back to the bottom, and crawl up again. This order is seldom reversed. It is on record that a fly crawled ...

    Article : 170 words
  12. CHILDREN SOLD INTO SLAVERY.

    Did you know that the selling of children into actual slavery still exists as a recognised institution in a civilised community? ...

    Article : 293 words
  13. HOUSE BUYING.

    Every man is said to be ambitions of becoming the owner of his dwelling. Houses are, however, sometimes bought from very different motives. Ordinary ...

    Article : 451 words
  14. LADY AND LYONS.

    A recent unrehearsed effect at a music hall in Bordeaux might have had tragic consequences. A young lady named Mdlle. Rose was performing the daring feat of ...

    Article : 128 words
  15. THE BRONTES.

    Sir—After reading your interesting article on "The Brontes," in your issue of September 28, I cannot refrain from writing a few lines about Charlotte, since Miss ...

    Article : 490 words
  16. FASHIONABLE DOGS.

    To the up-to-date society woman of Paris the selection of a wardrobe for her dog is a serious matter and is no small item of her year's expenditure. If she would be ...

    Article : 304 words
  17. PROFITS OF GAMBLING DENS.

    Not only in this country (says a writer in a London paper), but also in France and America, the police authorities are confronted with a rapidly-growing evil ...

    Article : 564 words
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  23. PUBLICATIONS RECEIVED.

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  24. PENCIL WOOD SHORTAGE

    An impending shortage of lead pencils throughout the entire world is forecast in the "Scientific American," unless a substitute wood can be found to take the ...

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