THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW.
GEMS OF THOUGHT FROM SCHOOLBOYS. A rich collection of schoolboy “howlers” was given *in the University Correspondent recently. This journal offered a prize for Ihe best collection of amusing schoolboy mistakes. Here are a few of the best: v William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings ordered his archers to. shoot at the thickest part of so they shot upwards that the arrows might fall on the English men’s heads. In the reign of Henry VIII, the head of the church, fell into the hands of the king.
The Duke of Marlborough was a great general who always commenced a battle with a fixed determination, to win or lose. Magna Charta said that the King,was not to order taxis without the consent of Parliament.
The Fire of London did a great deal of good. It puri'ed the city from the dregs of the' Plague and burnt down eightynine churches.
Simon de Montfort was a true Englishman because hy fought against- the King and put him in prison. Charles II told the people that they could get drunk or gamble or do as they liked. This was called the Restoration. Here are few gems of general information from the examination papers. A. vacuum is nothing shut up in a box. Sir Walter Scott wrote Quentin Durward.llvanhoe and Emulsion. A candidate for the Civil Service. must be a neutralised British subject. Examinations may he written or vice versa. The .cold at the North Pole is so great that the towns there are not inhabited. liberty of conscience means doing wrong and not worrying about it afterwards. If care is not taken with dusty corners microscopes will Id reed there.
A distinctly cute letter is published in the “Autocar” from a gentleman who had'his overcoat stolen from his car. He plaintivly remarks: “Would the person who inadvertently removed a blue overcoat from a two-seat-er car outside 2 Nottingham Place kindly return it to Dr H. S.aGr., the owner is feeling the cold severely after his recentattack of small-pox, accompanied by severe and extremely infectious manifestations of incurable complaint
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Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 649, 12 July 1921, Page 8
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351THINGS YOU OUGHT TO KNOW. Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 649, 12 July 1921, Page 8
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