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Evening Star, Issue 20688, 10 January 1931, Page 9

Tlio blue cent worn by butchers originated from its being the colour of the uniform of n guild; but its almost universal adoption by the trade is owing to the fact that blood stains show less on that colour than on any other. The saying “True blue will never stain”— a 'really noble heart will not disgrace itself—has reference to the fact that blue does not show stains. Bishops wore excluded from voting in the House of Lords on temporal coneerns in the time of Charles 1., 1011. They protested against tlie legality of the" Acts of Parliament which were passed during the time they were do prived from voting, and ten of them were committed to the Tower. In 1 (J4ft Parliament abolished the Orders of Archbishops and Bishops, and it was not until IGUI that the bishops regained their scats.

It wus obvious that the young man standing in tho middle of the street island was nervous. Ho made several attempts to cross the busy thoroughfare, but always something appeared in sight and held him back. After looking uncertainly at a policeman'bo eventually summoned up sufficient courage to go and speak to him. “ Would you mind seeing me across the road?” he asked. '‘Aren’t you big enough ami old enough to see yourself across?" growled tlie man in bine. "It isn’t that,” protested the youth. ” hut I’ve just won £5 a week for life.”

“ Moustaches must bo grown on the instalment plan,” savs a barber. A little clown cadi weofr.

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