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From the British Association
arrives some inside information on the subject of sea-birds which seems to throw a certain light on why a duped person may be described as having been gulled. Somebody has been experiment- ing to see how far it is possible to go in the way of fooling black- headed gulls by taking away their eggs and giving them other arti- cles to sit on. Under that treat- ment the simple-minded birds tri- ed to hatch onions, golf balls, camphor balls, and reels of cot- ton, but drew the line at a cricket ball, though it is asserted by the experimenter that the selected not balance itself on the top of bird did its best but simply could
so large a sphere.
The paper contributed to the British Association by Mr. J. M. Keynes on the storage of food- stuffs and raw materials in Brit-perimenter's opinion. How does he That, of course, is only the ex- ain outlines a bold and compre- know that the apprehensive bird hensive policy. He drew atten- did not fall off the cricket ball in tion to the "staggering fluctua- horror at the sudden thought that tions" that occur in the prices of if it sat there long enough it the principal raw materials in might hatch out another Verity the case of rubber the difference between highest and lowest price could do that trick at Blackpool, or O'Reilly? Of course, if it in a year may be 96 per cent., in that of wheat 70 per cent, and so that the result would be quali- he put forward a plan that should bird's performance would not only fied to play for Lancashire, the
not only have the effect of lessen-
ing the violence of the swing but make a wonderful sideshow but be of real assistance at Old Traf- of greatly increasing security in ford and elsewhere. time of war. In brief his pro- posal is that Empire producers of specified raw materials should he
offered storage facilities at a Frankness in
nominal charge provided they
ship their surplus produce to
approved warehouses. He points Advertising
out that considerable stocks are
constantly held overseas the To tell the truth with arrest- transport of which would be a ing candour when seeking a sit- tax on shipping in emergency,uation is certainly not a new de- and he urges that Britain might parture to the Bright Young Mod- with advantage become the ware-
erns of to-day, as witness this house for sugar from the West advertisement inserted in the Indies, jute from India, wool Morning Post" by a young man from Australia, vegetable oil pro-in 1889: ducts from West Africa, non-fer- rous metals, and all the endless
Will any rich person take
variety of Empire products that gentleman and board him? Of
good family, age 27, good musi
Ex-
must be stored somewhere." :
Mr. Keynes reckons that the cian, thoroughly conversant with office work No objection to cost of storage would average turn Jew Lost his money about 4 per cent. of the value of
through dishonest trustee. the goods, and that for an an-
cellent. writer. nual expenditure of $20,000,000'
This one appeared in the we could accommodate stuff to the value of £500,000,000. When Morning Chronicle" in 1807: it is remembered that the total Patronage, Wanted, by a gen- amount recently spent by the tleman of high honour and char- Government on the purchase and acter, a respectable official situa- storage of essential foodstuffs to tion in England (either a sinecure tide the country over a first emer- or one which does not require gency is a mere £7,500,000, the constant attendance) for
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will
scale of Mr. Keynes's proposal an adequate compensation ch
can be gauged. He considers that be given, according to the annual the annual cost would be "over-produce.
whelmingly worth while" in view From the employer's side, this of its return in the shape of piece of impertinence is hard to
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industries, increased control over Wanted. A really plain but the trade cycle, and insurance experienced and efficient gover- against having to pay excessive ness for three girls. Music, prices at a subsequent date. French, German required. Bril- The gain to our prestige and liancy of conversation, fascina- to our apparent security of so tion of manner, and symmetry of vast an accumulation of these form objected to, as the father liquid forms of wealth situated at is much at home and there are home, an accumulation which grown-up sons. others could not afford to imitate, This oddity comes from an old would be worth in itself the real- copy of the Paris "Figaro": ly trifling expense. It would Be Wanted. A Professor to come a dem stration of reserve re- twice a week to the home of
would catch the noble family in order to reform
the World. And the pronounciation of a parrot.