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Evening Star, Issue 19763, 13 January 1928, Page 8

RAILWAY PROGRESS. In deference to the wish of superstitious pasfrjngers, a railway company has decided to_ abolish the number 13 on their sleeping cars. Experiments continue with a view to finding a saltcellar that won’t turn upside down when the train negotiates a bend. Visitor; “Plow does the land lie out th's way? ” Native: “ It ain’t the land that lies, it’s the real estate agents." A man who found a button in his snled remarked, with great presence of mind: “I suppose it dropped otf while the salad was dressing.” “ Agnes has discarded the lover who wrote such beautiful blank verse. “Yes; she has accepted a man who writes beautiful blank cheques.”-