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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1222, 2 September 1911, Page 12

An Irishman aboard a man-of-war was ordered to hand in a tow line. After pulling in forty or fifty fathoms he muttered: "Surely, it's as long as to-day. and tomorrow! What, morn of it yet? Och, murder! tho say's nioighty deep, to he sure!" After continuing in a similar strain, lie suddenly stopped short and, addressing the olliccr, exclaimed, "Bad manners to me, sir, if I don't think somo body's cut off the other end of it! It's missing!" After occupying the same premises for ■15 years, a Vienna goldsmith, 011 removing'. recovered gold, silver, and platinum dust worth .£">00 from the floor and walls of his workroom. "How many pints does a gallon contain?" asked a teacher in a county council school. "I forget," replied (he boy spcciallv addressed. "Try to think,"' suggested the teacher, "Surely you know? Nov," your lather," she added, taking what, seemed an appropriate example, "is a milkman. He somolimes sells a gallon of milk, doesn't he? Perhaps you can tell us how many pints of mill; he- puts in that gallon can?" "It's all milk!" was the lad's indignant response. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, for Coughs uud Colds, never fails. Is, Gd,'