Dm. Winnington Ingram, the Bishop of London, is a great believer in the efficacy of hum-Qur (writes a correspondent of the Yorkshire "Post") and once declared no man was fit for the ministry who could not appreciate, and make others appreciate, the lighter side of things.
His own ready wit helped him to triumph even over a London taxi-man, A man who had driven him from St. Paul's Cathedral to Fulham Palace grumbled over his tip, and sneered, "Do you think if St. Paul was alive he'd live in your palace?"
"Why, no," replied the Bishop "He'd be living at Lambeth Palace, and your fare there would have been only a shilling."
Geometry "iT is time for Stephen Leacock's famous "Boarding-House Geometry" to be revised. Humbly I put forward* the following Short Primer of Geometry says a British columnist A lie may be produced any number of times.
A frontier may be extended indefinitely.
A dictator is an angular figure, equal to anything but ultimately less than nothing.
A treaty has neither weight nor substance.
Any other country may be reduced to its lowest terms by a series of propositions, A plane is that which describes circles, threatening to drop bombs on a defenceless population while a dotted line 1s drawn with the result that the opposite side is squared, and finally reduced, Let A be a dictator's point, and B be a point belonging to another State. Now the shortest distance between A and B is a direct invasion Therefore A and B are both Nazi points. QED.
A disarmament conference has neither length, breadth. magnitude, nor position. Yet it may be extended indefinitely.
Russia, France and Britain are parallel lines in that they run side by side but never coincide.
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