More "Howlers"

Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 October 1915, Page 4

More "Howlers"

» — The following "liowlers" appeared in j a recent issue ■oi tlie '"'i'aily Colonist," ! Victoria, Vancouver Island: , "The Tropic of Cancer is a painful, ' arable dfeeAM." "Tho Mediterranean and the Red Sea are cownccted by tho Sewage Canal." "James I. claimed the tlirono of England through his grandmother, because ho had no father.'' is the state in 'which a man has but one wiTe." "Romulus and I?emus were a couple of Siiuncese twins who made Rome howl." ''John of Are 'was the wife of Noah.'' "Julius Caesar had a cadaverous appetite, and bßl'oro he died ho ato t'.vo brutes." "The barons made lving JoTm sing Magna, Charta." "In tho London parks tho law of gravity is twelve miles an hour/' j "Gastronojuy is tho study of tiho <stars | and 'heavenly Tf&lits." j "Quinine is tho bark of a tree; can- r ine is tho bark of a- dog." jj "The appendix is a part of a book j for which nobody has ever yet discover- t ed a use." j;