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MITSUI
BUSSAN
KAISHA.
ASAHI
BEER
Say each of these phrases four
Gig whip..
Cricket critic.
She sells sea shells. Six thick thistle sticks. Flesh of freshly flying fish. A growing gleam glowing
green. Timothy Titus took two T'a to tie two tabs to two tail trees.
Silly Simon Smith sat singing sixay-six sweet songs sad- ly.
BREAKING THE BUN.
This is an excellent catch. but rather "dangerous to perform!
Ask your friend if he can break a bun in an empty bag.:
He will promptly say he can. When he has done so, you calm- ly tell him that the bag was not Tempty-the bun was in it. It is as well to have another friend with you to pick up the little pieces after your victim has fin- ished with you!
WAS THE POET MAD?
Can you solve this?
"Caesar entered on his head, . His helmet on his feet.. His sandals in his hand
His trusty sword in his eye, An angry gleam." It seems like nonsense, but it
isn't really. "Caesar entered. On his head,
His helmet. On his feet, Hig sandals. In his hand,
His trusty sword.
eye,
An angry gleam"
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TYPE OF MEN.
THE CHINA MAIL.
SEIGMUNDIS'S PAGE.
ALPHABET RIDELES.
Which letters work hardest?--
The B's (bees)." Which letters spread farthest
The C's (sens); Which letters are fond of com- Which letters have most to say
fort? The E's (each).
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SHIRT OF NESSUS. SSÚS.
INSTANCE OF IMMORTAL FICTION.
Like Hercules Come True.
An extraordinary case has for themselves?-The I's. Which letters are the noisiest ? come to light in the Franch law
The J's (jaya),
courts to stir a host of memories. Which letters are the longest? The story is that a manufac-
The L's (alls)...
turar produced an artificial silk Which letters are the poorest?-
which proved explosive in pae; → The O's (owes). Which letters are a great bother? Nitric acid entered into the com-
The T's (tease).
position, and was not extracted; it which letters are the most sensils said, before the yarn vas used.
ble-The Y's (wise).
The result was, according to a boy the legal argument, that wearing a scarf of this material! was burned to death owing to the scarf bursting into flames. Now here is a sad, real-life story recall-
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"IF THE KETTLE WON'T
BOIL*
If the kettle won't boil when
you're ready for tea,
And you're fearfully hungrying an immortal legend from the old Greek myths, the story of the death of Hercules..
as hungry can be.. Don't say to the kettle, "Oh,
hurry up. do For kettles get nervous, just
like me and you If people call out to us: "Teddy
and Kate,
Just look at the clock-you'll
be dreadfully late """ No, "try and pretend that you
have no idea It's past four o'clock and your
tea-time is near. Look out of the window, or play
with your toys,
And don't get impatient, and
don't make a noise.
You'll find that the kettle will
very soon purr,
As if he were saying: "Oh, thank you, kind sir!"
Then rattle his lid with
"Diddle-de-dee!..
F'm ready, dear children,
give you your tea."
-By Joe Walker.
FISH TRAVEL.
Wondrous Tricks of The Salmon..
By the C. N. Natural Historian.]
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A fish has set two continents
talking. It is a salmon, such as
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An Old' Knight-Erränt. To the ancient Greeks he was the son of Jupiter dwelling on Earth as a mortal, put to terrific tasks the Labours of Hercules, which make up the marvellous tales we read from childhood to old age; the strangling of the serpente in his baby hands the Killing of the Hon sent against with nine heads, the cleansing of him, the destruction of the Hydra the Augean stables by turning a river through them, the gaining of the girdle of the Queen of the Amazons, the release of Pro-raghoun, Beat of Food mil darries.
metheus from the rock to which he had been fixed as punishment for bringing fire, from Heaven for the service of ment
So the tales rih on, with the bringing of the golden apples from the Garden of the Hesper- ides, the battles with the giants, and so on, all stirring adventures which made him not only a god to the Greeks but the symbol of manly endurance and generous! ald to the suffering and oppress- ed.
Hercules and the Centaur. We meet him in Homer and
we should buy for a comparative-Hesiod and later writers, he
ly small sum in England (a mere stalks majestic and grimly ten-pounder), with a metal tag in humorous through the fables of its tail yet in romantic interest Aesop. At last, as legends grow, and suggestion it is worth a thou- and he remains on Earth, some- thing must be done to dispose "of sand pounds an ounce.
him or how shall his end be ac-
hunted for?
It has beaten Columbus: it has rivalled Magellan. At least, we In his think it has, but there is the
He is married to Deianirs, who puzzle. It was sent forth to swim who is loved by Nessus, a Cen- in the Atlantic. It has turned up tar. The Greeks believed in a in the Pacific. It has crossed or race of creatures. half-horse and rounded a continent which, way half-man. as they and later did it go?
peoples believed in mermaids of Copying the old folks at home, the sea. the Canadian fishery authorities Nessus controlled a ferry, and mark a number of fish each year, received clipping through the flas or talls human passengers over it. Her- a metal tax stating the place of cules, having to cross this river. fee-sic-origin, the date on which they are entrusted Delanira to. Nesaus released, and the age and weight while he himself swam across. of the Sah...
The man of taking ways-the
pickpocket.
The man of fetching manners
-the waiter,
The man of powerful
the doctor.
The man of striking attitudes
-the boxer.
The man of decision--the foot-
ball referee.
HEARD THESE? Teacher: "Can any boy tell me what is meant by 'divers diseases"?"
Small Pupil: "Yes, sir, I know -fish bites."
Three Possibllllles, Now, this ten-pounder, having been thus marked, was liberated by an official of the Canadian Fisheries Department on the At- lantic seaboard. It has just been caught in the Gulf of Georgia, British Columbia, which is on the other side of America...
fees for conveying
Nessus played him false and tried to carry off the fair Deianira, and Hercules, perceiving the act, shot the Centaur with an arrow.
The Vengeance of Nessus. Guileful to the last, Nessus. told Deianira, as he was dying, that if she preserved his tunic, stained with his blood," she might It has therefore eclipsed the use it as a love-charm to keep feat of Columbus, who, once he constant the affections of anyone had stumbled upon America, was she wished to love her. She be- for ever seeking a way through lieved him, and, desiring none but "This dollar piece doesn't. sound
or past it. He never succeeded, the affections. of Hercules, she right," said the shop assistant, but died in the belief that he had steeped one of his garments in a ringing the coin on the counter.
come upon some unknown coast of potion, obtained from the Cen- "Rubbish!" replied the cus-India stretching far into the taur's tunic. Hercules, on put- "Wha tdo you want for A
Atlantic. Magellan did find the ting it on, found his flesh burned) dollar? ...
way through in time, followed and blistered beyond endurance. next by Drake. The salmon Has With the despairing strength of a followed suit somehow or other. Samson, he climbed Mount Oeta, How did it manage it?
tore down the forest trees, built
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An operatic solo with orchestral accompaniment ?"
TREASURE. UNDER WATER. Roman Galleys In Lake Nemi.
Did it follow Magellan through himself a funeral pyre, laid him- his Strait? Did It pursue the self upon it, bade his faithful furrow of Drake down past Cape friend, Philoctetes, to apply a Horn? Or did it follow him lighted brand, and perished in the North; go on where he turned flames." back, and breast the terrors of the North-West Passage?
Beneath the mysterious waters
The very gods grieved to see his of Lake Nemi, whose beauty and
end, the story goes, but Jupiter.! romance inspired the English A Romantic Theory. his father,. pointed the lesson of painter Turner, lie mystery and Those are three possibilities. the immortality of the soul; only romance many centuries older But there is an even more roman- the mortal part of Hercules had than his pictures.
tic theory. The fish may have perished, and his immortal spirit Tradition says that Roman crossed America inland! It may was exalted to the skies to dwell treasure galleys were sunk,be-have penetrated the Panama for ever with his peers. Markete neath the waters of the lake. Canal in the wake of a ship, have To this day, after more than Signor Mussolini, the Italian dic found the fresh-water connection, two thousand years, men speak tator and a realist to the core, has and, pursuing a course through of the Shirt of Nessus to indi given orders to disturb the lake's the rivers and the lake, found its cate a tortured conscience, a fatal lovely, waters in order to find way from ocean to ocean Though gift a misfortune from which them...
there is no direct sea-level con- there is no escape. To the poor Many plans have been made to nection, it is not impossible that little French boy, his scarf of And the lost ships. Leonardo da the salmon should have got artificial slik seems to have been Vinci, engineer as well as painter, through
of that kind,
Does not modern fact here had a plan, though it was never What a long series of problems. put into execution. Two Lake this asimon has created for our seem to have borrowed from an- Nemi bronzes of wolves" heads contemplation! It has achieved. cient fiction?
nown by science in the way of fish tra
are now inthe, Diocletian the most notable feat Museum.
The waters are those of a We know that fishe crater lake. They rest in an ex- enormous distances,
tinct volcano of the Alhan Moun-par
tains, which look down on Rome; the
and one drastic project that has
been suggested is to grain the
breaking of the General has put England right at the list of nations of Colonel Edward -M
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OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.
Either for use here as a reference, or for sending Home to "tell everything," this week's issue of the "Overland China Mail" will be found to be extremely useful.
As the weekly edition of the "China. Mail," all the local news and reports-by mail or cable on China are included. What better then to take the place of a tedious letter?
OUR NAVAL HEROES:
There are the latest despatches,, giving vivid details of how 110 British Naval men fought 20,000 Chinese at Wanhsien: The whole action and rescue is described at length. Particulars about additions to the China Fleet are mentioned and the British Minister's Note to Peking nicely rounds off the narrative.
BOYCOTT" SETTLEMENT!"
Mr. Eugene Chen's important despatch on the decision to settle the boycott and to impose new taxes is reproduced.
As with the case in all matters not readily understood, the """China" Mail"" has made it a practice to add footnotes or com- ment where required. Such will be found in profusion through the "Overland China "Mail."
FOREIGNERS IN DANGER.
Many are the wild yarns which circulate abroad about the dangers undergone by foreigners in China. This week's issue has much to say concerning events in the lives of British and others in Kwangtung, Kwangsi, central China, along the Yangise and elsewhere.
Several messages throw much light on anti-British
ARTICLES BY EXPERTS.
In addition to the current local events, there are special articles written by experts, such as "Who's who in the Canton Army.
Latest Picket Activities on the Ri The protest against the treatment a British subject in Swatow will make interesting.
READY
and the Sibe
waters of the lake.