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General Knowledge Questions oux weekly prize of one guinea for

the best thirteen Questions submitted is awarded this week to C. J. T. Mackie, " Alfriston," Swanley, Kent, for the following :- Questions on Dickens' Minor Characters

1. Who was the Analytical Chemist ?

2. How were the military associations of a family kept in remembrance ?

3. Who welcomed a bride to her home with an invocation of woe ?

4. Who cheered himself up by drawing pictures of skeletons, and why ? • 5. Who was made in the cheapest market and had to dispose of himself in the dearest ?

6. What honest tradesman made a liberal offer " to catch hold of his throat and choke him " ?

7. Whose expression seemed to have been imperfectly chipped out with a dull-edged chisel ? . , • 8. Who was described as a " conceited, bragging, empty-headed, duck-legged idiot " - 9. Who was the very prince and prodigy of Apothecaries ? - 10. Who became the merriest young. grazier in all Northampton.

shire ?

11. Who kept an account with the Majesty of heaven, posting up

Credit entries and keeping-a proper. " set-off "

. 12. Who was " Old. Foxey 1 - 13. Who walked about like a little elephant and castle ?

- Answers will