CONUNDRUMS.
Why is a lazy, young clog like an inclined plain ? Because it's a slow pup (slope up). Why is a spendthrift's parse like a thunder-cloud V—Because it's continually lightning (lightening). What makes the oyster the most curious thing in nature ?—lt grows a beard without a chin, and you can take him out of bed to tuck him in.
Some of the wooden churches of Norway arc fully 700 years old, .and are still in an excellent state of preservation. Their timbers hare successfully resisted the frosty and almost Arctic winters because they haye been repeatedly coate'd with tar,
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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 18 August 1904, Page 6
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100CONUNDRUMS. Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 440, 18 August 1904, Page 6
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