"MY friends," said a preacher "you will remember that I promised to speak to you tonight on 'The World's Greatest Liars.' and that I asked you to prepare your minds, by reading the seventeenth chapter of St. Mark. Kindly raise your hands if you have done so." Every hand went up. "Thank you," continued the preacher. "As there are only sixteen chapters in St. Mark, my subject will not be entirely inappropriate"
Answered DURING a recent examination at a public school, one of the questions set was the following:—"It King Alfred were alive today what would be his views on (a) conscription; (b) universal suffrage; (c) the Press; (d) polo"?
A boy with a very logical and practical turn of mind wrote:—"If King Alfred were alive today he would be too old to take any interest in any of thosd things." 7
More Progress Tur following statement has been issued by the Jam and Jabber Department of the Bolonial Office fcr the benefit of students of the Palestine problem.
A Proposal becomes a Tentative Proposal A Tentative Proposal becomes a Tentative Suggestion:
A Tentative Suggestion becomes a Positive Suggestion A Positive Suggestion becomes a Third Proposal Thus one reverts to the Original Soup, having successfully liquidated any Concrete Result.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.