" ELIJAH THE FIRST AVIATOR.” Lord Charles Beresford, speaking at the annual dinner of the Royal Geographical Society, said that if it had not. been for the sailors the geographers would have had no land to discover. The sailors had an illustrious ancestry. The first sailor was Noah, who ran his ship on a rock, but whether he was tried by court martial history did not relate. (Laughter.) Jonah was the first navigator of a submarine, and Elijah the first aviator—(laughter)—although, unfortunately, he \ had not returned to earth after his first j flight. i “ What is an epistle. T” asked a Sunday school teacher of her class. “The wife ct Isaaat agosfcje, 1 * jg&eA-.
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Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 9
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113Page 9 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 14626, 24 July 1911, Page 9
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