A Penny Of Observation
TELEPHONE REFORM. We shall be sorry indeed if the projected reform of our tele- phone system does not include the appointment to an advisory position in the Post Office of at......
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THE CHIMNEY-SITTER. Flying a small black flag and eating hard-boiled eggs, a young man recently sat at the top of a 130-foot factory chimney in Tokyo for no less than 314 hours.......
Rationalize The Song-birds.
" The Nightingale," wrote Izaak Walton, " breathes such sweet lowd musick out of her little instrumentall throat, that it might make mankind to think Miracles are not ceased."......
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THOUGHTS ON MISREPRESENTATION. Reflecting on the news that the Chinese Government is being asked to make a diplomatic protest against the British film producers' habit of......
Of Poetry And Pigs
By LORD HOWARD OF PENRITH. T T is really strange that the pig, a most useful animal, should have been so studiously neglected by poets. He has, however, qualities which should......
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