Little Slips of Schoolboys.

Waikato Argus, Volume XXVIII, Issue 4322, 10 February 1910, Page 2

Little Slips of Schoolboys.

The schoolboy “howler” is always popular. The following selection from a large number which were sent in for a prize competition are excellent examples of the mistakes which pupils perpetrate;— Women’s suffrage is the state of suffering to which they were born. The earth is an obsolete spherroid. Lord Raleigh was the first man to see the Invisible Armada. Shakespeare founded “As You Like It” on a book previously written by Sir Oliver Lodge. Tennyson wrote “In Memuandmum.” King Edward hud no claim by geological right to the English throne. George Eliot left a wife and children to mourn his genii. The capital of Russia is St. Petersburg on the Duma. The Test Act of 1673 was passed to keep Roman Catholics out of pub-lic-houses. Henry I. died of eating palfreys. Louis XVI. was gelatined during the French Revolution. The Rhine is boarded by wooden mountains. Gender shows whetherj a man is masculine, feminine, or neuter. An angle is a triangle with only two sides. Algebraical symbols are used when you don’t know what you are talking about. Geometry teaches us how to bisex angels. Parallel lines are the same distance all the way. and do not meet unless you bend them. The whale is an amphibious animal because it lives on land and dies in the water. A parallelogram is a ligure made of four parallel straight lines. Horse power is the distance one horse can carry a pound of water in an hour. The magnesium salt in the sea creates the effervescence when the tide comes in. If the air contains more than 100 per cent, of carbolic acid it is very injurious to health. Gravitation is that which if there w ! ere none we should all ily away. The Press today is the mouth organ of the people. A vacuum is a large empty space where the Pope lives. Martin Harvey invented the circulation of the blood. A deacon is the lowest kind of Christian. The isles of Greece were always quarrelling as to which was the birthplace of Homer; Choas has the most right to claim him.