From a company's report:--

"Interim dividend on the Ordinary snares for half-year ended July

31, 1917, at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum, less income

tax."--_Evening Paper._

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"A twelve-year-old boy was at Aberavon on Thursday sent to a

reformatory school for five years. He was charged with stealing

5-1/2 6-5/8 Nbegetable marrows from an allotment."--_Western

Mail._

It is supposed that he intended to reduce them to decimals.

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