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  2. TOPIC FROM ALL QUARTERS

    Thomas A. Edison has been taking lessons from a bumble bee. Mr. Edison, after watching the tremendous energy, of the busy and noisy little creature, remarked: "A real ...

    Article : 104 words
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  4. HOOKWORM.

    In most regions in Porto Rico ifc is estimated that not more than 33 per cent, of tile natural efficiency of any force of men can be exercised because of the terrible ...

    Article : 103 words
  5. NAPOLEON'S TOBACCO MONOPOLY.

    Napoleon, who tried to smoke once, and then with dire results, instituted the French tobacco monopoly, which the German Government now proposes to adopt as far ...

    Article : 131 words
  6. THE SMALLEST AEROPLANE.

    What is claimed to be the smallest and fastest aeroplane in the world lias just completed a successful flight at the rate of 115 miles an hour at Farnborougli. The ...

    Article : 100 words
  7. ARMLESS WONDER MARRIED.

    Miss Marie Loriano, a handsome young woman who has no arms, was married in New York to a young man named Charles Gerardi. The bride is "The Armless ...

    Article : 171 words
  8. SALT PRODUCING WELLS.

    Salt-producing wells are among the sights at Hutchinson, Kansas. Hutchinson's salt is obtained by boring a hole down into the salt bed, pumping water down, and then ...

    Article : 171 words
  9. A SEA MONSTER.

    People at a quiet watering-place at Malta were terrified to behold a sea. monster, of horse-like appearance in front, and serpent-like otherwise resembling the monster ...

    Article : 97 words
  10. WALL OF CHINA.

    Few people realise what an almost perfect condition prevails along a large part of the Great Wall of China. The bricks of the parapet are as firm as ever, and their edges ...

    Article : 121 words
  11. CERVANTES' TERCENTENARY IN 1916.

    The tercentenary of Cervantes will take place in l910. A royal order has already decreed that Spain shall honour the man and his book, "Don Quixote," which, in its ...

    Article : 128 words
  12. DOCS AS GOAT-HERDS.

    Just before the Rio Grande crosses the boundary line between. Colorado and New Mexico, it enters a box-canyon whose walls in some places are a thousand feet in height ...

    Article : 626 words
  13. TIPPING.

    The London "Express" says, that the evil of tipping is once again being discussed, and one enthusiastic "kicker" has included the table money paid for guests at most ...

    Article : 222 words
  14. DOGS AND WAR.

    Dogs have gone to the wars from the very earliest time. They barked at the siege of Troy. In those early clays, however, they wera used as sentinels and for purposes of ...

    Article : 146 words
  15. WHAT BECOMES OF LOST PINS?

    What becomes of the millions of p[?] that are used annually? This question has puzzled for many years, but at last it [?] to have been solved. Dr. Xavier, a Paris ...

    Article : 146 words
  16. A BRAVE WOMAN.

    Recently a monument to the memory of M[?]illy [?] Dodu, the here[?] telegraphist of Pithiviers, was unveiled. In 1870, during the Franco-German war, she was ...

    Article : 194 words
  17. NATURAL GAS.

    Medicine Hat (So there Alberta) [?] gas is in daily use by the Canadian Pacific railway from the Atlantic to the Pacific. It is now more than eight years, since this ...

    Article : 162 words
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