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Aaham brought string up to dare. For proud, don't simply diler one- si tis New Auburn cars, but drive a 1925- Auburn also). A year ago Auburn produced the ultimate in wony, whooth misering of balloon timi that others plan to "introduce" pextiyar. No more um latique. Parking simplini. At speeds the Auburn practically holds the road by j self. And it straightens up quickly after a turn, Drive all day at 50 media in hour or more. No for upon the part of the car in partem and no
ort upon the part the driver, Aubara challange any other oguseltbar its degree or quality of service under al sonditions 'Make Your own comparisont and rest and if the Auburn down not sell i
you will not be whed in buy.
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QUITE A NOVELTY,
THE CHINA MAIL.
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STRIKING!
Strike me if you will,
Treat me with disdain, Burn me, break me; still-
Your equal I remain. What am I? Answer:A match..
TONGUE TWISTERS.
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Say 'these as quickly as you
Strange strategic statistics. Sarah in a shawl shovelled soft snow slowly.
A couple of cups of coffee in a copper coffee-pot.
The sea censeth, and it suf- ficeth us.
Smith's flask split Philip's sixth sister's Afth squirrels skull.
SHORT TURNS & ENCORES.
Although files are supposed to be polite, I found one bathing in my tea the other morning-with- out a costume on!
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SEIGMUNDIS'S PAGE.
LIMERICKS AGAIN!
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IS ANYTHING NEW?
Ago.
I wish to thank "Joan" again, Bending Glass 5000 Years
time for this
the following limericks.
There was a young man of Bor-
danus Whose voice was as hoarse as a
Creaux;
He went to the Zoo,... And they took him in, too. So now he's a fixture-What
heaux
An ambitious. young salesman
named Weast, Used to feed himself mainly on
yeast;
For he said, "You'll surmise, I am hoping to rise; So I mean to get started at
least."
There once was a person named
Carr.
Who caught the 8.3 to Forfar; "For," said he, "I believe, "That the 3.3 does leave Far before the 4.4 for Forfar"
I do
Two splendid inventions of the last few years, stainless metal}! and unbreakable glass have been found to be nothing new after all
A writer in our weekly friend. Nature, who has been studying the matter, has discovered a state- ment to the effect that in A.D. 829 El Mamoum, son of Haroun- al-Raschid after succeeding in Cheops and the West Pyramid of making an entry into the tomb of:
Gizeh, found treasures containing instruments of iron and vessels of earth, with "arms which rust|| not, and with glass that might be bended and not broken."
Pyramids were built about 8900 It is generally believed that the
B.C, which means that rustless steel and flexible glass were prob- ably known to the ancient Egyp- tians more than five thousand years ago!
Many years ago, during a naval fight between Brazil and Uruguay, round Dutch cheeses were used as ammunition for the guns! Bread, however, was not fired out with them.
RECIPES DE LUXE,
Lost secrets are like lost causes. Unfortunately, the cookery-Mr. Middleton Murray. book which I expected to arrive a few days ago, failed to catch that mail So I am not able to give you any recipes from it this week; but, however, I have chosen the following, four delights from a feminine journal instead. hope you will like them.
A tomtit eats about: 9,000 but Knights on Pontoons.
Required:-2 egg yolks, 1 cup-terfly eggs a day, and the mother ful milk, teaspoonful salt, tomtit catches on an average 40,000 caterpillar to feed her bread:
children. This easily beats the record of a sparrow family, which uses a mere 5,000 caterpillars in the day's meals.
It is regrettable to note that many shops are encouraging bar Cut slices of stale white bread glary. I saw this notice on dis-one-fourth inch thick. Cut off the play quite recently: "Any article crusts and trim into shape. may be taken from the window. Beat together the egg yolks, milk, and salt; pour over the bread, and let soak for a few minutes. Fry in a hot buttered pan to a golden brown. Arrange on a platter and place a teaspoonful of jelly in the centre of each piece. Serve hot. moon shoneApple Pancakes.
CLEAR AS MUD!-
Twas midnight on the ocean,
Not a tramcar was in sight,
and SUT brightly,
The
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Required-6 to 8 apples, 1 While it rained al day that cupfull flour, 1 cupful milk, 8 eggs,
night..
1 tablespoonful sugar, be tea- spoonful salt.
For in the summer snowstorm
When the rain flowed just
like glass,
A barefoot boy with shoes on.
Stood sitting on the grass.
WEIRD ADVERTISEMENTS,
Wanted, a room, by two gentle
men: thirty feet long and
twenty feet. broad..
Bulldog for sale, Will eat any-
thing, fond of children.. Furnished apartments to let suitable for gentleman with folding doors.
Lost, near Cathedral, umbrella. belonging to a foreign gentle- man, with a bent rib and bone handle.
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moment. At the pressure of a button by these wizards in the control station the pilotless ma- chines will drop bags of mails, which will come floating down supported by parachutes.
Letters at 500 Miles an Hour,
The experts who have concen trated on this subject, say that we' shall be able to flash express let- ters between London and Paris in
and
Mix and sift together the flour, augar, and salt. Beat the eggs with the milk and add to the other mixture. Pare and cut the less than an hour. They declare apples crosswise, removing the such as that between America and that on immensely long lights, cores. Place, in a greased pan' a single layer of the appies, fry for Europe, automatic mail-carriers, like stream-lined projectiles, a minute; then pour over the apreaching heights of ten ples just enough batter to cover twelve miles above the surface of the bottom of the pan; fry for a the ocean, will eventually reach few minutes; turn and fry on the other side. Repeat the process, maximum speeds as great as, or even exceeding 500 miles an hour. and place two or three cakes on
Ten miles a minute 12 miles) the top of each other, sprinkle high! Think of it! Think what with sugar, and serve.
it will mean to human intercourse, Faprika Veal or Beef Goulash.
Required: pounds veal or to the acceleration of the world's business, when urgent mails can beef, 1 cupful butter or other fat,
3 large onions, 1 teaspoonful salt, be finished between Europe and the United States in hours instead 1 tablespoonful paprike, soup of days, when a wirelessly-direct- stock or water, flour, 2 or 3 tabled mailplane, with no human hand spoonfuls cream..
at its controls, covers distance at such a pace that it epans the At lantic in eight hours!
SOMË RIDDLES,
Melt the fat in an iron pot, and What instrument of war does add the meat, cut in aquare pieces, the earth resemble?-A revolver and the finely chopped onions, and
Charting the Upper Air. Why is the sea cunning-Be-fry to a golden brown; stir in the
An all-important feature of this cause it is full of craft.
paprika and salt. Cover and let it What coloured letters do we slowly simmer, add the soup-stock new research will be the accurate eat?Green peas.
or water from time to time, and charting of the speed and trend of stir in a pinch of flour at inter-winds which blow at immense vals to produce a rich and rather heights.
One of the vital theories now to thick sauce. Cook slowly for one
newspapers
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Why is a newsboy never cold? -Because selling keeps up the circulation."
Which travels faster: heat or and one-half hour, and when near- be proved or disproved ls that at cold?-Heat, because you canly done add the two or three table-altitudes of from ten to twelve catch cold.
Why should a doctor keep his temper Because if he doesn't he Will lose his patients (patience),
corn grow.
spoonfuls of cream. Fruit Salad a la Etats D'unis.
Required: 8 medium oranges, cupful strawberries, 4 cupful pineapple (cut in pieces), 1⁄2 cup ful walnuts, paprika, French dressing, lettuce,
miles above the surface of the Earth there are vast winds mov- ing at speeds as great as 250 or 300 miles an hour Research is now going on to clear up these mysteries.
Can February March 7-No, but
One method of aerial sounding April May.
What is it if you take away all
Pare the oranges with a sharp for this purpose is to send up Its letters still remains the same? knife and cut crosswise into 1/8-manless balloons carrying instru
A postman.
inch slices. Remove the seeds, if ments which, when a balloon any, and cut away the membrane reaches Earth again, record the Why is an author the queerest from the centre, being careful to height it had attained and the animal in the world? Because his tail (tale) comes out of his keep the slices in perfect shape, strength of the winds which it head.
Place. 8 slices of a crisp lettuce passed through at various alti- Why is a tight shoe like the Sum-leaf on top of each other. Mix tudes. Another way of finding mer Sun? Because it makes the the strawberries, pineapple, and out these things is for a pilot to nut-meats together. Cover the ascend as high as he can in an When is it dangerous for a top slice of orange with the fruit acroplane and make personal ob burglar to eat bread? When a mixture. Sprinkle with the servations. With balloon sound. policeman is on the loaf.
French dressing (allowing about Ings much valuable work has been 8 tablespoonfuls for each indivi-done. dual plate of salad) and paprika. Flying 16 Miles Above the Earth When this sweet salad is served One small pilotless balloon re- dessert is not needed.
cently reached a height of over 28 miles. It has been shown) at- ready that miles above the Earth's surface the wind attains: a force greater than any knows in į any gale that sweeps over land and ses
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