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  2. SHORT STORY.

    Be sure, if there was one person in the world more than another that Mrs. Templeton gazed it with eyes of curious regard, it was her husband's cousin, Mrs. Morris, and ...

    Article : 2,237 words
  3. Housekeeper.

    Keep bloaters apart from all other food in the larder. When making shortbread, use icing instead of castor sugar. ...

    Article : 191 words
  4. Miscellaneous.

    While a dredger was working lately at Gosford, New South Wales, the suction-pipe became choked. It was found that a 6ft. shark had been drawn ...

    Article : 362 words
  5. REPTILES' TAILS THAT SOME OFF.

    The iguana is a reptile of the lizard kind, and Mr. C. William Beebe has just had a curious experience with one in Mexico. He grasped a three-foot ...

    Article : 262 words
  6. Scientific Notes.

    Absorbing flood water by storage wells is a plan French engineers are considering. Much damage was formerly done by inundations on the ...

    Article : 79 words
  7. CATCHING COLD.

    Avoiding a cold is to a certain extent a matter of constitution, of habit of manner of living, and of mental hygiene. Some persons instinctively ...

    Article : 185 words
  8. Odds and Ends.

    "What makes you look so blue, old man?" "Oh, Mabel has sent me back my ring." "Has she? What's the matter?" "We've—we've had a ...

    Article : 253 words
  9. DINING BY TELEPHONE.

    A wealthy New York broker was visiting Denver at Christmas, his wife being at Salt Lake City, Utah, about five hundred miles away. Telephones ...

    Article : 77 words
  10. NATURE'S PARACHUTE.

    Careful examination has been made of the heads of Canada thistle-downs, in order to determine their effectiveness as parachutes, carrying the seeds ...

    Article : 148 words
  11. THE "HOPE CHEST."

    A present-day fad among American girls is to meet at the different homes, spend the afternoon working for what they call their "hope chest" and then ...

    Article : 237 words
  12. IN A TURKISH THEATRE.

    A curious notice may be seen in one of the theatres of Contsantinople. It solves the problem of people at the back obtaining a clear view, and is ...

    Article : 124 words
  13. NEW WAY OF STUDYING MARS.

    Photographing through coloured screens is the newest method of studying Mars that has been undertaken by Tikhoff at the Pulkova Observatory. ...

    Article : 179 words
  14. IN EMERGENCIES.

    The [?] [?] of blood-vessels are naturally associated with three varieties of haemorrhage or bleeding. Thus, in the case of an artery being wounded, the blood which ...

    Article : 572 words
  15. MOVING SANDHILLS.

    It is a remarkable fact that sandhills move. On the Pomeranian coasts there are large tracks of sands heaped up by the wind, hundreds of [?] in ...

    Article : 111 words
  16. THE STRANGER.

    IT was cold; so cold that most of the shivering wretches, whose nightly couch was the steps and benches of Trafalgar-square, had sunk the pride of poverty and gone ...

    Article : 1,266 words
  17. Advertising

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    Advertising : 257 words
  18. THE WONDERS OF WAVES.

    Waves are deceptive things. To look at them one would gather the impression that the whole water travelled. This, however, is not so. The water ...

    Article : 116 words
  19. EXHAUSTED PATIENCE.

    A young curate was preaching at great length in a country church. Amid yawns and stifled signs the congregation gradually faded away ...

    Article : 67 words
  20. THUNDER.

    It has usually been thought that the noise of thunder is caused by the closing up of the vacuum created by the passage of the lightning, the air ...

    Article : 211 words
  21. "A LITTLE KNOWLEDGE."

    Customer (looking in mirror): "Great scissors, barber, you've gone and cleared every blessed hair off my head." ...

    Article : 51 words
  22. IS GREENLAND GREEN?

    When you were a boy you used to sing, "From Greenland's Icy Mountains"; well, the country is simply a vast nest of green mountains, covered ...

    Article : 120 words
  23. RECIPES.

    Specially written for this column Welsh Rarebit: Cut up 602 of Cheddar cheese, free from rind, into small pieces, put this with half a teacupful ...

    Article : 471 words
  24. CONUNDRUMS.

    Which is the longest letter of the alphabet?—An L (see). What flower would you be most likely to find in a shoemaker's shop?— ...

    Article : 78 words
  25. CHINA'S DUCKS.

    Children herd ducks on every road, on every pond, on every farm, on every lake, on every river in China. There is no back vard without its duck ...

    Article : 195 words
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