A SLIP.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1629, 21 December 1912, Page 15

A SLIP.

Tits boys Lad mado good use of the steep hill in their search for winter sport, and their sleds had worn a track, where the snow had- turned to ice. A gentleman, whom we will call Mr. Chesterfield (he was really very polite), collided with a fat woman just at the brow of the hill, lost his footing, an« fell; the woman fell also, landing on top of the polite gentleman. And down the hill thej- went, Mr. Chesterfield forming a toboggan on which the lat lady rode in safety. Faster, faster they went clown the icy incline, not stopping until the foot of the hill was reached. Then the fab lady heard a very weak voice saying, "Pardon me, madam, you will havo to get off now—this is as far as I go." Germaii degeneracy. 13 now being blamed on the feeding bottle, which is iienoeforth to he manufactured and sold only bv the Government, and to be produced for Government inspection on demand. ! To build a battleship on the Thames would cost more than in excess of the expense at other shipbuilding centres. The steel exports of the United States Mr. 0. I*. Austin, assistant chief of tho Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, announces, now amount to the enormous total of a million dollars a daj.