["According to an enterprising American scientist a man's
character can be told from the way he smokes a cigar."--_Weekly
Paper_.]
For, instance, a man who snatches a cigar from somebody else's mouth and
smokes it himself may be assumed to be of a grasping disposition.
The man who while smoking a cigar burns his finger is a man of few words
and quick of action. Plumbers never burn their fingers like that.
The man who smokes his cigar right through without removing it from his
mouth is a deep thinker. Lord NORTHCLIFFE always smokes one cigar right
through before deciding what England really wants, and two when he has
to decide which Cabinet Minister must go.
The man who accepts a cigar from a friend, lights it, sniffs and drops
it behind his chair has no character worth mentioning.
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Mem. for Agriculturists.
Protect the birds and the insects will be in their crops. Destroy the
birds and the crops will be in the insects.
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"S.P. (Lincoln).--Humming-birds don't hum with their mouths. The
humming is the vibration of their wings while flying--for the
same reason that a blue-bottle or an aeroplane
hums."--_Pearson's Weekly_.
So it is not the pilot rubbing his feet together, as we had been taught
to believe.
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[Illustration: _Uncle_. "BY JOVE, THERE'S A NICE QUIET-LOOKING GIRL JUST
COME IN. WONDER WHO SHE IS." _Niece_. "HAVEN'T THE FOGGIEST. MUST BE
PRE-WAR."]
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