CONSISTENCY THY NAME IS WOMAN.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XXII, Issue 3872, 11 May 1906, Page 4 (Supplement)

CONSISTENCY THY NAME IS WOMAN.

The young lady and the professor were walking in the sylvan lane, fill 1 of the chastened joy of life which the dawn of spring ever brings in its tra-n. Anon, they happened upon a peasant youth, who was just about to slim up a tree.

“ Why do yc-u climb tliat tree?” asked the professor. “Birds’-nestrn’,” said the unblushing youth, jerking his thumb towards a nest in the houghs, within which it was just possible to discern throe little speckled eggs. And then a gentle fire came into the lady’s eyes.” “You heartless hoy!” she cried. “Take heart and desist. Don’t do it. Think how the -.mother bird will grieve over the Joss of those eggs.” ”Oh, no, .she won’t,” sniggered the youth. “You’ve get her in your ’at.” And, taking note of the feathered headgear of his young companion, the professor sighed, and pondered on'the inconsistency of women. •*- Dick: “Oomo on and go down the street with me, Jack.” Jack: “All right, old fellow. Wait till I finish this letter to my dad.” Dick: “Oh! If you’re writing to him, , don’t come. I haven’t got any money ] cither.”

MARS MAKES A STRANGE PEACE OFFERING.

An extraordinary 'peace offering was made In South Africa recently. It was the destruction within the sphere of the late war operations of the wasted unexploded shells, cartridges, etc. All these 'were collected, and having been made into heaps were exploded. The final sacrifice was quite a grand affair, the particulars of which will we road with interest. A pit was dug twenty feet square by twenty* feet deep three miles away from Bloemfontein. Into