THE NUT.

From a story in _Munsey's Magazine_:

"My father was a clergyman in a college community; and that explains

my home in a nutshell."

It doesn't. The father should have been a vegetarian in a Garden City

community.

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"Captain Roald Amundsen has qualified for his pilot's certificate at

the military camp near Christiania. An officer of the Flying Corps

first took him for a preliminary flight round the course, showing

him what tests were required. Suddenly the elevator broke and the

aeroplane fell nose downwards to the ground 40 feet below. Captain

Amundsen escaped unhurt."--_South Wales Echo._

So he got through the first test all right.

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"SMALL SURREY SCORE.

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