Mow many Englishmen know show towns and villages in the coun-reside, they may have been born in, got their names? Very few. It is this ignorance that the English Place-name Society is trying to Wispel. Some interesting informa-Rion is the result, Durham, for stance, used to be Dunholm' (hill island). Kirby Muckloe in Leicester there used to be Kirby Muckless or Wlean Kirby. A seaside resort in Sussex is now known as Kingston-y-Sea, which is hardly an improvenent on its original name, Kingston Bowsey. The new name raises pictures of piers, piervots, and brass Bands, But Bowsey—who could not abend an ideal holiday in a place with a name like that?
Aid for Farmers 'A-1or is being heard of the hard limes being experienced by farmers at Home and in the United States fand, especially in England, experiments are being tried to improve Mex lot, Imagine how the bol ferous old farmer of fiction would ave reacted te the sight of silver foxes in an agricultural livestock show? Yet that was one of the! exhibits in a Norfolle show recently. Te is calculated that, out of five breeding foxes, the farmer can make about £100 a year, and $1,000 a year fent of a dozen. The average price England of a good silver fox pelt fis now between £30 and £40, which explains how the profit is made, 1 wee No Denying It Tury used to say in the village Mat Billy Dunn was a bit simple. Nowadays, though, old Horrocks, the grocer, is not s0 sure, because recently Billy walked in his. shop fand asked for a dozen eggs—White Leghorns, The grocer, himself something of a poultry expert, looked Denevolently at his customer and Intimated that he had been set a Gifficult task, as it was impossible to tell the ces of one breed of hen from another. Billy thought diffe ently, so old' Horrocks resorted to atratery. Looking down at the vast rate, he said: "Do you mean to say, Billy, that you can separate White Leghorns from the others?"
"Ah con that," came the reply.
"Very well," said the grocer, Broach twelve out and you can take them for your dozen.
Whereupon Billy" stooped and fumbled in the crate until he had Pieked out the twelve biggest egos due could find, He put them on the counter, Them's White Leghorns," he.
'A University City is an inspiring, but also an awe-inspiring, thought that in few years Spain, now in the throes of a rebellion, will be able to boa complete "university city" population almost exclusively students, on a hillside near Madei The "Ciudad Universitaria" will a commodate some 10,000 and, one supposes, a suffi Jowance of batman, publican: and shopkeepers to Week after their debts. "Tt should be opened and fully functioning in 1934, to cele-Urate the jubilee of King Alfonso. As students from all the Latin American countries are expected to come into residence, the no means devoid of poll im. portance. It may be a link to bind] South and Central America to Latin Europe rather than to the Nordic, (if one can still call them 50) United States.
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