Mr Fillmore, once vice-president of the United States, was a teetotaller, and gave his guests nothing spirituous or fermented. While soda water, lemonade, "et id genus omne,” popped and fizzed on every side, the guests, with an assumed hilarity, discussed the pros and cons of total abstinence. Presently a moroselooking man, who had watched his opportunity, took advantage of a pause in the conversation and, with a nasal twang, said: "I tell you what it is. Mr VicePresident, you have no authority in Scripture for these views of yours; there was only one man in Scripture who eTer asked for water, and was in hell!"
A little crowd was fonnd looking through the window of a tenshop in the Strand, London, the other night. Inside 100 rats were eating np the fragments on tho floor.
London Ig experiencing a shortage ol ' children four and 3v» years old: this is due lo tt.c i-tnormall.v low lirth-rate of tho years 101 S and 1919- *
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New Zealand Times, Volume L, Issue 11685, 24 November 1923, Page 14
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