THE CHINA MAIL-FRIDAY SUPPLE
CABBAGES AND KINGS
ODD
A lighthouse has been found
upside down in the Wash, Foul play is suspected.
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DARTER
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"I hear your husband's a good darts player?"
"Ay, and he should be, too. When he comes home from his work at night he darts into his tea, darts into the kitchen for a wash, darts upstairs and changes his clothes and then darts into the nearest pub."
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HEARD AT THE CLUB "If I were marooned for the rest of my life on a desert island," Baid the hair man. with the curly flaxen hair and watery, blue eyes, "I would not m ad had I but my Keats with me.”
"You'd be far more likely to need your Keatings," coarsely observed Capt. Samson Jones, middle-weight champion of the 25th Fusiliers, as he strode off to the second house at the Hol- born Empire.
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NEW DISH
In the mess-room of a rail- way station a hefty guard was storlizing his whistle in a pan of boiling water.
One of his colleagues asked an- other, "What's 'e doin'?"
"Lumme!" was the reply, "'E must be 'ungry-'e's cooking the pea in his whistle for dinner."
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FOR STRONG MEN
A crowd has gathered round a man who was selling tins of corn curu. After a long speech on its qualities he asked if anyone in the crowd had bought a tin before. A voice from the back of the crowd shouted, "yes, I bought one ten days ago.”
"Thank you, sir,” said the sales- man. "And did you find it all I Bay?"
"Yes-and more. My missus didn't know what it was, so she used it to polish the furniture, and it took all the knobs off the cheat of drawers!"
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(Above)-Take the pull! A glimpse of energy at the Wah Yan Sports.
(Right) The St. Joseph's team which won the Colony open 400 metres relay race on the occasion of the Wah Yan Past Student's Sports.
HEARD IN COURT
Woman: He has a great con- tempt for the law, and he has actually told me that he is not afraid to see his name in lights outside the police station.
Witness: They were holding a sort of garden party. The woman was standing in the scullery door- way throwing cups, and the man on the lawn was ducking.
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SONG OF DRINK
My wife's not a member of the I.R.A.,
But she's full of IR.E. We have explosions every day,
And it's all because of me! Refrain:
So it's heigh-ho and ten bottles of, ale, And drink, drink, drink till the stars grow pale!
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Patents have been applied for in connection with the following new inventions:
A special metal cup lined with velvet to accommodate spiders while housemaids remove webs. The spiders can be replac- ed afterwards.
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Detachable cork tips for cigarettes.
A preparation for removing shirt fronts from tomato stains.
A camel-drawn egg-timer for bolling ostrich eggs in the desert.
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