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with the painted arms of the Knights of the Seraphim Order, and the air is thick with the ban- theners that Sweden have won in war.
It was before the high altar that! the arrogant noble, Bo Jonsson, called Grip, beenuse his amis were he has covered a quarter of a million griffin's heat-who ruled the a uice pup, isn't miles and has spent 2,500 hours in and with a glance of his eye- remarked the farm hard, sathe gazed the air. During all this period hohewed in pieces, his proudly at his pet ferrier, Iaven has own practically nothing but Nilsson in the Fourteenth Cen- adim long, he continued. the wg twin-engined Rolls-Royce Sury Med Farmer Bikes one day takin machine, and has hardly broken a im to t'pond, an' I ses to 'im, Wot single wire. Except for a be you again' to do wi' that pup. weeks in the East and a month
The Canadian long-distance Fanner Bikes? I'm a-goin to gent taking mails across the Trish drown 'im,' 'e ses, surrowful like. Seu, his whole time has been spent canoest, George Smyth, who re-
An' w'y? I ses. 'Oh,' 'e sex.
on the Continental services. Some only failed by a few days to win his bet for a timed journey from e's always chewin, the paint off of his trips have been in dense fog Nova Scotia to New York, London, when all other traffic was at a stand-and Rome, has accepted a new it'legs of t'sofi, 'Don't drown 'im. mister,' NOR Give 'im to me, and once he got through in a blinding snowstorm, On one over-
wager to cance from Naples to I 'cure 'im. An' I did cure 'im.
sawed t'legs off tsofa, replied the farmer's boy.
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few Naples to Petrograd in a Canoe.
"How?" asked the listener. Ision the right-hand propeller few Petrograd in one hundred and fifty off in the air and nanowly missed days. The wager, which is for cutting the nose off his machine. 15.000 dollars, has been laid by Mr. In spite of this, however, he man- Fitzgerald, of New York, the same aged to alight in perfect safety. On gentleman who challenged Smyth For nearly two decades the another ccension he was benten in for the Nova Scotia to Rome effort. Woolworth building, which is 702, the ground by a sudden squall, butt Smyth has expressed himself us by ft. high, with 55 storeys, has domin- managed to alight in safety under ated Lower Manhattan unchal very dangerous conditions. For lenged; but plans are now being this feat he was subsequently pre prepared for the erection of a 68-sented with a gold cigarette case by storey baiting in the rapidly ex- his 12 pasreugera, panding business centre which sur The Shade of Lenin. rounds the Grand Central station in 42nd-street. It is estimated that{ the projected structure would cost over $13,000,000 (£3,000,000), It would have a 19-storey tower sur mounting 44 storeys, built up in a saries of steps, as dictated by the zoning laws. The names of the promoters are not yet announced. Maté.
Next Year's Cricket Tests.
means afraid of the task before hima most tricky and difficult route of nearly 7,000 sea miles-and has declared his intention of taking with him his wife in his frail craft. He will leave Naples, and will roast by Genoa, Marseilles, and Soviet propagandists in England thence by the waterways of France, and other countries usually bring Belgium, and Holland to Denmark, forward as one of their arguments and so on to the Baltic stretch of in part of the cultam advance-lus route. ment of Soviet Russia under the Bolshevist régime the growing
Barreking was one of the points number of books printed and pub lished in the Soviet Union, which dealt with by Mr. F. 3. 0. thay allege at present exceeds by Calthorpe, the Warwickshire cap- far the figures for pre-revolutionary tain, in a discourse on cricket Latin-America has its own special Russia. To what purposes these questions at a Birmingham brother. "Don't notice the drink, which the Prince of Wales books are being put is shown by hood mecting haa no doubt already been invited to the Pravda which, in its last barrocker; it is just what he likes,'
Barracking, he sample. This is maté prepared from issue, complains that one has was his advice. the leaves of Ilex Paraguayenais, a only to enter any grocer's or fish admitted, was apt to get on the species of holly, for which almost monger's shop in Soviet Russia to victim's, nerves, but the more angry magical qualities are claimed in the have one's sugar or salt herrings the victim got the more would he His view of the way of refreshment, nerve-soothing wrapped up in pages of Lenin's be barracked. and coolness, without any deleteri. posthimmons works in Kalinin's Australian tours was that an Eng- ous reactions. The preparation of biography, or Trotsky's books on fish eleven needed a twenty-five: mat is ther elaborate. Some profetarian culte. The Pravda" per cent. playing superiority. to sugar and a little hot water are has ascertained that the shop-counteract climate and other nn- placed in a small calabash, the mate keepers are supplied with this familiar conditions. He thought is added, then the vessel is filled waste paper" by the State the Australians would not have a with boiling water, plus hot milk Publishing Department, which has look in here next year if the wickets or lemon juice necording to taste, its storehouses bulging with were wet. If the summer proved The somewhat bitter-davoured volumes of Lonin, Mars, and other dry no Test match limited to three. liquor that results is
succeed Communist writers whom nobody-days would be finished. He wished through a tube.
among the relatively small number well to Hobbs in his attack on who are not illiterate--will buy or Grace's record, but 'W.G." would read.
never be got out on the wickets.
The Crown Raises Rents.
"The £gures given in Parliament recently as to the Crown's revenue! from Regent Street illustrate most strikingly the difference between London to-day and the Tondon of the Regency. The annual rents re- ceived from Nash's Street under the old lenses were £26,383, 9s. 71. When the work of reconstruction is completed it is estimated that the new rents will vield about £450,000. Such is the difference in the rental values, created not, in the main, by the enterprise of particular persona, but by the vast growth of the Empire'a metropolis,***
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"You know what a fuss has been made about Shakespeare's leaving his second-best' 'Bedstead to his wife in his will It has been urged that he showed his dislike of his 1 wife in the minimizing his posthumous generosity, " writes Mr. W. L. Courtney in the "Even- ing Standard." "Why not.. his first bedstead? Well, I think the answer is not difficult. I suspect that the first-best bedstead was) kept for the people who came to visit Shakespeare: all those dull bid people who would talk about their illustrious townaman and oon- gratulate him on the reported suc cess of his plays, though we do!! not altogether approve of their tendency. But she second-best bedetea was that on which Shake spers would dream all the day and
the night long with all lus wild fancies and passions and regreta hardly separating dream from reali ty and living bis peat's life apart. Who would care to sleep in the best hed? Who would not give
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