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King Country Chronicle, Volume XIX, Issue 2061, 30 December 1924, Page 3

Boss (engaging office boy) : Is there auyjthiug you can do better than anyone else? Boy: Yes, sir; read my own writng. The Earl of Meath, founder of the British Empire movement, in bis recently published "Memories/' tells or u Presbyterian minister in a pioneer town in Bnitsh Columbia who had taken an active pant in the Prohibition movement. After the Bill became effective, he wa;s horrified to receive the following note from the local station agent: "Reverend and dear Sir: Will vou kindly remove your box ot boolis as quickly as possible, for they are leaking badly?"

When necessity ends, curiosity begins ; and no sooner are we supplied with everything that nature can demand than we si'ti down to contrive a rti ficiii 1 appetites.—Johnson. The dentist was telling about his plfeiekiest patient. "He came initio the surgery and began to tell me be had no faith in gas, ethe ror cocaine. 'The tooth's been giving *mi awful dot of trouble,' he said, 'and all you've got to do is tb hunk it out—hunk it out.' I congratulated him on his pluck, and asked him to sit down in the chair. 'Oh, no!' he exclaimed'. 'lt's not for me—it for's my wife. She's in the waitng room.'"