BORROWED BREVITIES
Poniato Vines Yielding Good Crop of Topatoes, reads a headline. Tycographical errors? No, just the result ot experiments carried on by a Mas sachusetts. (U.S.A.) horticulturist, who has successfully combined the tomato and potato plant so that it produces tomatoes above ground and potatoes underground, each retaining its own flavour.
Another of life's many unsolved mysteries is: Where do all the cruising taxi-cabs hide when it is raining hard? _ A thing that has puzzled us from time to time for may years is as follows: What is the regular job of an Arab?
England is now learning that it isn't the first post of a mandate that counts so much, as the upkeep for the downput of the uprising.
The greatest advantage of travel by air is the fact that signboards don't spoil the scenery when seen from the top. . .
Natural scientist makes a diamond out of sugar. Maybe the sugar industry won't need a high tariff much longer!
A system of identifying dogs by their noseprints has been tried in Paris. Our plan is to whistle. If the animal takes no notice we know it is ours.
Fourteen inns in the county of Surrey, England, are called "The Jolly Farmer." They are thought to have been named when wheat was 10s a bushel.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 26
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216BORROWED BREVITIES Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 136, 5 December 1929, Page 26
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