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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 1948.

"OL! There's pixies in this 'ere bark."

Every Wednesday in the Telegraph:

Sitting

FARCH-25—was the-dato.

M

At. 3.7 a.m. precisely.

At that uncomfortable moment the world was to end and Sheffield was to be the new Jerusalem.

This information was sent in by a Sheffield render some- where around last Christmas time. Usually prophecies of this kind, which arrive with the same regularity as chain letters, go straight into the waste- paper basket-together with the chain lettera.

mathematical Most of them are efforts concerned with measurements

Inside and outside the Pyramids, and get mixed up, so far as one can make out, with astronomy and the Book of Revelations.

The others are almost entirely concerned with zoology and dream interpretations,, Hons fighting bears, eagles swooping on serpents and horses galloping madly about the heavens in a kind of celestial Grand National.

The message from Shefeld said in more than this:--

The world will end on March 25, 1948, at 3.7 a.m. Sheffield will be the new Jerusalem. You have bren warned, but you won't believe

it

it,"

NOTICE

WINE AND DEER TO BE SOLD JN. PARKS

on the

Fence

by NATHANIEL

GUBBINS

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The Chicken DID Come Before the Egg!

By CHAPMAN PINCHER

NE of my hens, Dizzy by name, laid me a special egg for Easter. It was perfectly round and no bigger than n nutmeg.

My wife served it for my breakfast in the biggest egg-cup we have.

By correctly prophesying that it would con- tain only "white," I recovered some of my scienti fie prestige-lów in the family circle after my statement that a mare was unlikely to win the Grand National.

Technically, I pointed out, the thing was not an egg at all. And, for that matter, melther is the normal product of a hen's labours.

The round ball usually called the yolk is tho real egg or ovum. The four layers of albumen and the three-layered shell are extras.

RARE TWINS

THE odds against Dizzy's next egg having no ovum are about 1,100 to 1.. There is one chance in 500 that she will make up for her lapse by slipping two ova in the next shell, giving what my wife calls a double-yolked egg, but what is really twins,

"best suit"ready for his last dinner at

the local hotel.

If the women have regained con- selousness they can have the last in of sardines for their supper. For your Unete it will be champagne and double helping of everything, a obtained by open bribery,

Anyway, it wasn't lack of an ovum that made. Dizzy lay her Easter special. Like any normal hen she carries the germa of about 4,000 eggs, and so far, in five months' laying, has produced only 86.

Since it takes about 22 hours for a whole egg to form, she has not done badly.

COLOUR TEST

THE colour of the yolk has

nothing to do with tho breed of the hen. It depends on what the hen has been eating. What a pleasure it will be to sit You can get orange yolks by, there drinking and listening to fola feeding hens on cabbage, green- talking in the last hours of the

Ending with this last column which hates but who have so far been pro- of

nobody will read, there has been no rected from insult by his thin vencer whether or not ish bodies

point in doing anything, saying anything, thinking about anything. arguing about anything right from the start.

There has been no point in suffer-

Ing Tools patiently, if not gladly; no point in 1stening to bores without smashing them over the head with a bottle; no point in paying taxes and keeping faith with creditors; no point in holding honest opinions and stick- ing to them; no point in enduring and overcoming: no point nt all in achievement, hard work, charity or any of the accepted virtues.

integrity.

The only people who have been winning out all these centuries are the crooles and the bums, The rest have been fooling themselves since

told them they had somebody consetence,

of

civilisation.

"Hullo, Is that X?"

Wito is it?"

"Oh, bullo."

"Hullo, you rotten, stinking crook," "What?"

"You heard, you filthy, crawling, misbegotten son of a she ape."

"Look here, I say," "Get off the line. I have other

reptiles to ring up."

Last dinner THIS sort thing will be done over

short and long distance with no thought of the bill that will never be paid. And when the last insult has been hurled over the wires your Uncle Nat will dress himself in his

Well, that's all over now so far AMERICAN ANGLE: as your Uncle Nat is concerned. Eighteen hours is a short time to

Maybe was the uncompromising uve an entirely different life and brevity of the message which kept behave according to the urgings of out of the waste-paper basket. It grosser instincts. But 18 hours will was also quite a change to read an und of the world prophecy without a reference either to animals or the Pyramids.

Then, as the thing hung around for some time, the, date, March 25, was looked up in the calendar and it turned out to be a Thursday,

Of course it would be a Thursday. Thursday is the one day in the week your Bnele Nat reserves to write his column,

have to do,

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First, the last breakfast. No more holding back and saying, "No, I don't think I'll have an egg this morning, as I had mine on Monday."

M

of

Shell colour is not

world-old men chattering rubbish ish ones by giving them linseed about politics and too much money meal, and brown yolks by letting chasing too few goods, young women the hens eat acorns. yelling at each other for the benefit

Not discussing

50 with the shell.. You young men, and

will show less cannot alter the colour of the shell their bony

by by switching the ratlons, but hens adopting the new look.

Saying brown eggs produce shells of By 3.7 am lighter shade at the end of the laying Yes, you're right, they'll get a new look.

season. Then the stars will sway in the

a guide to heavens and white-hot winds with quality. Whatever His shade on the blow across the oceans and the outside two-bunce fresh egg yields continents; and the sun wilt rust about 167 calories and a quarter of towards the earth, burning and an ounce of protein, shrivelling every living thing; and

some

housewives prefer boiling tidal waves will wash the brown eggs and other women pay ashes of the world away.

more for while ones, At midnight your Uncle Nat will It is like picking a. horse by the commit his first theft. He will sical colour of the jockey's shirt I told a bottle of brandy from the hotel, my wife. Then remembering that drink it in bed and be sound asleep popular. I hastily added that egg

my views on racehorses are by 3.7 a.m.

Judges at Do11

poultry shows-mostly men-are equally unscientifle.

They attach such Importance to P.S.-How's. Sheffield looking this shell colour that fakers spend days morning?

before a show trying to dye their eggs the winning shade.

The real

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MISSOURI HAS THE

ST LOUIS BLUES

By C. V. R. THOMPSON

NEW YORK. NTURO TOSCANINI has been ISSOURI, President Truman's A

approached to conduct a telo native State, has had an vision opera ... EARLIE BYRD attack of St. Louis blues. was the last person to file his 1947 For years it has been planning income-tax) return in Knoxville a fitting memorial to its part in (Tennessee) before the Govern

ment's deadline.

Your Uncle will either order the family's entire bacon-and-egg ration for the week to be put on one plate, (his) or he will lock himself in the Thursday is also the day when kitchen, cook the lot and eat it him-American history-the starting place there is a weekly conspiracy to stop self.

of the covered wagon treks to open

him writing It If a plumber ever He will also ent most of the up the West. calls it is on a Thursday. If the family's butter ration, hiling the rest lights fuse it is on a Thursday, and away for his last lunch. the electrician usually colls the following Thursday to put them right.

People throw parties on Thurs- friends to turn up. dnys. It is also the day for old Relatives fall ill on Thursdays and have their teeth out. Final demands for income tax arrive on Thursdays. On Thursdays pipes freeze un, in Buenza knocks you out, dogs go mad and bark uil day and night,

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Therefore it was no surprise to your Uncle to find that the world. was ending on a Thursday. In fact he rather expected it.

That is why he is writing this on a Wednesday, to be on the safe

side.

It is Wednesday, March 24. The time is 0.7 a.m. precisely with 18 hours to go.

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WITH RED PINS for

war

Yet

not

Job of the shell is to stop the egg being squashed when the hen alis on It and to provide calelum for the chick's bones.

1

VA air

BAD EGG

S the chicle develops-It-takes In through fine pores in the shell. It is because the egg has to be porous for breathing that it goes bad so easily. The air takes moulds in with it. You stop this by plugging the pores when you preserve eggs in water-glass.

Every egg contains some air of its nwn in a special compartment at the broad end, but this is not used until the day before hatching.

On its 20th day of incubation the Bussin chick pushes its benk into this W and blue pins for America, cavity, fills is lungs with air and It found the answer-a 500-foot omeers at Washington's

moving modernistic arch of stainless steel College have been fighting a

War starts

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three months. "Neither side is yet can hear it clamouring for freedom. close enough to the other's vital

Eggs, it appears, taste good to flea, whey are one of the few things on which the germs will thrive outside the human body. Flu- Inoculated eggs are used to make anti-flu

for mën are women.

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be written out for the same amount man of the Fine Arts Commission, targets to be able to hit them with in favour of Self. This he will ensh alleged that the arch, designed by Week. at the bank and begin a tour of the Eero Saarinen, a young taverns.

In the taverns he will be the com-wanted to put up in Rome to cele crammed with the largest surplus

COFFERS plete cad, forcing drinks on people brate 20 years of Fascism. who don't want them, talking about

(£1,250,000,000) in history. And the himself at the top of his volee, Missouri's top architect, Willam

Treasury assures

Waterbury butting into other people's convers-Wurster, said; This would mean you positively may

(Connecticut) taxpayer that he WITH all this knowledge you tion and insulting small weak men couldn't plant a linden tree because wife's boy friends as a dependant-the chicken or the egg came first,"

not claim

still do not know whether who can't hit back.

The Unter den Linden is German.

been paying my wife gibed. Saarinen said: It is the straplest even if his wife has and purest form we could think of large part of the taxpayer's for a gateway..

salary to him.,

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Missouri says: Oh dear!

Kansas prairies

теля

a

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tho "If by the egg you mean chicken's egg I can assure you that After a couple of hours of this he

the chicken come first," I replied. will be in the right mood to return;

The chicken is descended from HE ANGLO-SAXON majority in THE

the U. S. would have more say timo long ago there must have been

the Indlan home and fight the women for half

Jungle-fowl.

Some on in electing presidents under a con- the week's meat ration for three-EN-FOOT SNOWDRIFTS

a bird hatched from the exя of a three cutlets. And what a fight that will be. No holds barred, no quar-food news for the world. Kansas is today by the

good stitutional amendment approved jungle-faw) which was so different Congress Judiciary from its ancestors that it had to be ter, within little under 24 hours to America's whicat centre. Not In Committee. Under the present called

something else. That was. go before the end of the world. 20 years has there been so much complicated system of voting, says the first chicken. unconscious in the dining room your

Leaving the women bleeding and winter moisture for the wheatßleids Representative Ed Gossett, Or The answer to the

on the dry plains. Up again goes ganised minorities hold n balance "Where

question, Uncle will then spend a happy after-America's already huge 1048 wheat of power far greater

war- from?" noon ringing up all the people he crop estimate.

ranted by their numbers.

Jungle-fowl."

DAT" MEANS YER NOT. YOU'RE A HEP---YER BEHIND

TH TIMES

COMPLETE SQUARE

By Ernie Bushmiller

-YEP--- EVEN TO SNOWBALLS

than

Vid. the chicken como is: "From the

of a

BUSHMILLAJ

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