SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS."

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 745, 18 February 1910, Page 8

SCHOOLBOY "HOWLERS."

—,:...»:.'.,;.,:;.;;:'v,,-,::;:/ x .UNCONSCIOUS' ■', HUMOUe' IN 'PUPILS*. :-f''.''V'-.' ■,- v.ESSAYS."':';:''", / : ' :The schpolboy'"howler" is:always.popjilar.;' The 'following selectibh'from a. large numher'.which were-sent .in for-a prize essay competition arranged by the- " University Correspondent"-,are,-excellent -examples' of. the .mistakes which pupils per.pe'tr.afe:^..''''-."' v ;/'.;,.\'-..'" : f ''.:;...-,'.-'.;''. ■'■''' '.■'■''." Women's suffrage';is the 'state, of, suffer • ing : to. which.they.' were' born;.;;.'. ;-. ■:.' -i'he earth is, an, obsolete; spheroid.,' •■■'■-•' •'.' Lord/Haleigh,was the first, man -to, see '.' , -, .' ',- 'Shakespeare, founded "As Tou Lite It" oh'a book, previously':':written .by-■ Sir 01iver ; Lbdge. ~.'.,,'.,, :'-.--y.". :' •.'..'''.■'.:',;■

' Tenhysoii; wrote "In'-Memorandum;"-~.'King. Edward. IV had- ho'■■,claim i by. geoIdgical: fight,;to: the :Eriglish ■!. throne..; ■'■'', .George, Eliot ,;left a;.wife and children td.,mourn~his genii.- ', - ' .--.::.-. ■•..■;■ -'

: -'The capital of Kussia is.St. ; Petersburg oh the' Duma,:-; ; ; : :■;: ':'•, ;..;;;; ']:■-..' ■ The' Test Act of 1673 was. passed' io keep.. Eoman. Catholics but of publichouses. "•:" . ' ■

'Henry I died of eating-palfreys. : '..Louis XVI was gelatined during the French' Eevolution. ■'....'".'-. ■-.

.The Rhine is boarded by wooden .mountains. ' '■■%■ >-.-;.■•-:-■■ ■ v : . ; -.■'-.-•'.-:

Gender shows whether.a.man is masculine, feminine, "or neuter. . . • . , .' James I- died' from argiie. ■ -.-...'•

' .Ah angle; is a;.triangle; .with only, two' sides. ~;.;'''•' , ; ',:. •■''" ;■ -.•'"'... -'~)'.. Algebraical .symbols, are' used-'-when you don!tknow:whnt you are:talking about. Geometry teaches' us :how,,to . bisex angels.- ' '~:,-. . : - '~.;'. /Parallel lines are the same; distance all the way, and do; not. meet unless : you bend them.

: ' The whale, is an' amphibious animal' because it lives; on land and, dies in the water..-': v "'•■. ..■ ■

i- A parallelogram is a figure made of four: parallel-straight lines.. ~.. Horse power is the distance one horse can,carry, a;pound of-water in an hour. . The magnesium salt in. the sea creates, the' effervescence when the tide comes in. ! If the air contains'more than 100 per cent., of carbolic: acid-it,« very, injurious to health. :■! , .- ..-■' ;" > Gravitation is. that which if. there were none wo should all fly.'away:.' "; . 1 The press to-day'is the'mouth organ of the. people.' '■'■•■'.. ; v' ■'"'• ■•'. •' '. A vacuum' is a large empty- space where the'.Pope lives. ;. ... -.'.',..,. '-.•'.'"•, ' • Martin Harvey.;' invented the circulation of : the. blood..'','• '•: '; .--.v.:;" !.',.'A !deacon is" the lowest. kind i of .Christian. I '!','" . •'■' ' ' '-.--, lO'.-i.- ■''"; : - The isles of Greece were always.quarrelling' as -to which' was the birthplace of Hpm'eri : Chaos-.has .the; most 'rightvto claim him. . '~-. ■_•_- ■'•." . .'. ',