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...sticky seed pods. The more they struggle, the tighter they get gummed up. A resident of New Plymouth, N. Z., named J. Wheeler has a birdcatcher tree which has trapped hundreds of small birds. Last week it killed its largest victim, a brown owl which natives call the rum. Englishmen the Morepork...
...three boxers in Burke's Peerage, three are his personal friends, he is little short of ridiculous. And one is becoming a bit weary of people the Prince of Wales calls by their first names, to say nothing of those who make the discovery that under all their reserve Englishmen are really "fine fellows...
...runs, never surpassed. He considered cricket a science, was meticulous in his selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could have nothing...
Author Baring went to Eton and is still very proud of it. He seems to be unashamed of having been an undergraduate at "both Universities" (Oxford & Cambridge), a feat few Englishmen would care to mention. He tried Oxford first, "was ploughed" (flunked out) when he translated socordiam eorum inridere licet ?"It is licentious to laugh at a sister of mercy"?put his answers in the Divinity paper into such rhymes...
...Baldwin, speaking for that vast, preponderant part of the British Commonwealth which does not have "dominion status," showed his frank perplexity, lived up to his reputation as one of those Englishmen who follow the proud policy of "muddling through." Said he: "There are two ways in which increased preference can be given?either by lowering barriers among ourselves or by raising them against others. The choice between these two must be governed largely by local considerations. But subject to that, it seems to us that we should endeavor to follow the first rather than the second course. . . . Let us, therefore...