A widely-known surgeon was just finishing an operation on a. patient when a fire started in a warehouse across the road, illuminating the whole operating room. Tire surgeon turned to the nurse and dryly said: "Nurse, the patient is coming to. I think you had better draw the blinds. That'fire is too suggestive. I don't want him to think the operation hasn’t been n success.'* On all th-» great lakes of China arc found floating islands, which a’o enormous' - rafts nf bamboo overlaid’ with, earth, and hMiring on the surface of the water pretty bouses and gardens. They are in fact acqunlie farms, bearing crops of rice and vegetables. Miss Jennie Fash, placed on the pension list at the ago of ?0. by (ho Now York Bonrd of Education after . r >2 years’ continuous service ns a teacher in one-school m the Bronx, has taught 40,000 children, [including three generations of at least One family.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLVI, Issue 10607, 4 June 1920, Page 7
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