The idea of keeping the fish long enough to enable them
to cross under their own power has been abandoned.
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An Ashford gardener has grown a cabbage which measures twelve feet
across. It is said to be uninhabited.
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The Rules of Golf Committee now suggest a standard ball for England and
America. The question of a standard long-distance expletive for foozlers
is held over.
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A youth charged at a police-court in the South of London with stealing
five hundred cigars, valued at threepence each, admitted that he had
smoked twenty-six of them. We are glad to learn that no further
punishment was ordered.
* * *
_The Waste Trade World_ states that there is a great demand for rubbish.
Editors, however, don't seem to be moving with the times.
* * *
Off Folkestone, a few days ago, a trawler captured a blue-nosed shark.
Complaints about the temperature of the sea have been very common among
bathers this year.
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"No one has yet been successful in filming an actual murder," states a
Picture-goers' Journal. It certainly does seem a pity that our murderers
are so terribly self-conscious in the presence of a cinematograph man.
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