Nuxr to the condition of our cricketers, writes a British columnist, nothing is so important to us as the news that "experiments have induced, chimpanzees to select coloured discs and ex-Change them for certain articles they want. In other words, they select the right coinage to buy the goods."
In leading scientific circles, where everything goes round and around until ultimately, it flies out as a modern blessing, it is hoped that in another 20,000 years apes will be so civilized that they will be able to dig up gold on one side of the world and then bury it again in vaults on the other side.
It is upon this action, of course, that our whole culture depends, as Michelanelo once observed to a cardinal when he threw his palette at what he took to be a truffle-hunting pig and hit a Florentine usurer.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.