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A savings bank in the form of a
closed urn of baked clay with a slit
in the top has been found in the
ruins o f Utica, an ancient Phoenician
city on the African coast. It is be
lieved to be at least 2,500 years old.
Woodbridge, Suffolk, is the home
of a unique water mill which, al
though nine miles inland, obtains all
its power from the tides of the River
Deben. Rental records show that a
mill, probably this water mill, was
standing on the same spot 740 years
ago.
Red tape, an expression signifying
official formality and delay, owes its
origin to the red tape usually in ty
ing up public documents.
It is said that Anatole France, the
great French writer, would go to any
lengths to avoid the use of a semi
colon.
The discovery that the fiber of the
cocoon spun by the silkworm could
be made into cloth is ascribed to Se-
Ling-She, a Chinese queen who lived
about forty-seven centuries ago.
During the recent visit of the Duke
of York at Auckland, New Zealand,
the Maoris presented him with eight
een carved canes.
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O f the 300,000 veterans going to
France this year, it is estimated that
912,318 will cross for the first time.—
Pottsville Journal.
Two bandits in Missouri were each
sentenced to 45 years in the peniten
tiary on the day after the robbery.
That’s showing them.— Detroit Free
Press.
How long will it take the Chinese
if they are let alone, to fight it out
among themselves?— Boston Globe.
Alas, it is man’s fate to keep on
growing older long after he is old
enough!— Toledo Blade.
We shall not lose our temper be
cause a French historian says the
Masques beat Columbus across the
Atlantic by several centuries, but we
warn the wretch not to claim that
the Basques sailed the blue Cape Cod
before the Cabots and Lowells.— St.
Louis Post-Dispatch.
We might turn the Chinese puzzle
over to those snorts writers who are
telling the world how baseball should
be managed.— Milwaukee Journal.
A decent play, apparently, is one
that can hope for no free advertising.
— Vancouver Sun.
An inconsiderate scientist has in
vented an antidote for snake poison,
, utterly ruining the one remaining
excuse that a lot of nature enthusi
The tuna fish was not originally
asts had for carrying a jug.— Indian
hunted for food but as a means of
protecting the sardine interests of the
apolis News.
Mediterranean, as the little fish were
devoured in large quantities by the
When a wife wishes she had gone
tuna.
in for a career instead of marriage
you can bet your bottom dollar she
doesn’t wish it half as much as her
According to Pliny, Cato believed
husband does.— Cincinnati Enquirer.
that husbands started kissing in or
Now is the season of balls-—golf,
der to determine whether their wives
tennis, base and moth.—Arkansas
and daughters had been drinking
Gazette.
wine.
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