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Evening Star, Issue 19442, 28 December 1926, Page 1

I count a secretary wholly incompetent if he allows his principal to get into any trouble at all.—Lord Birkenhead. Grandism (24): When you have tried everyi where you are pretty sura to get it at th# Grand Hotel Bottle Store... A Russian electrical expert is said to have invented a battery which can be carried in the pocket, yet contains enough energy to drive a motor car for ten days. When a man walks a mile he takes on an average 2,263 steps, but when he rides a bicycle with an average gear he covers a mile with an equivalent of only 627 steps. Most people mean just what they say at the time they say it. I say that I’ll nave a Dewar’s Imperial, and I mean it... Four men, whom the judge at Dover, Ohio, pronounced to be habitual drunkards, were sentenced to consume each a gallon of water a day for ten days consecutively. Cloves, used so much in flavoring food, are the dried flower buds of an evergreen tree which grows in tropical countries. Lough Neagh, in the province of Ulster, Ireland, is the largest lake in the British Isles. Jt is eighteen miles long i§nd eleven miles wide* ,