ANOTHER CHOP OF "HOWLERS."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 184, 25 July 1908, Page 3

ANOTHER CHOP OF "HOWLERS."

Here are some diverting mistakes from the schoolroom:—

Shakespeare wrote a, play called ' The Winter's Sale.' The Crusades were a wild and savage people until Peter the Hermit preached to them. Shakespeare is indebted to Sir Oliver Lodge for the plot of ' As You Like It.' The modern name for Gaul is vinegar. A volcano is a hole in the earth's crust which emits lavander and ashes. The battle of Trafalgar was fought ' on the seas, therefore it is sometimes called the battle of \Vater-100. President Roosevelt invented shorthand. A roadstead is a roadside cottage or farmhouse. The two races living in the north of Europe are Esquimaux and archangels. The king carried his sepulcher in his band. The Rhine is boarded by wooden

mountains. On the lon' coast plains of Mexico yellow fever is very popular. In the year 1503 every parish was made responsible for the supply of its own deserving poor. During the interdict the poor wen -buried in uncreated ground. Chancer lived in the year 1300-1400 ' lie was one of the greatest English poeti after the. Mormons came to England. ' An unknown kind threw a harrow a ' Rufus and killed him dead on the spot [ A volcano is burning mountain with i creature in it. j Subjects have a right to partition tli

king. . „ . . . The electrical prince ot Bavaria claimed the throne of Spain. Duriii" the Reformation every clergyman was compelled to receive thirtynine articles. Some of the West India islands arc subject to torpedoes. : The imperfect tense is used (if 1 French) to express future action in past time which does not take place at all. Becket put on a camel-hair shirt ana his life at once became dangerous. ■Vrabia has many syphoons and very bad ones; it gets into your hair even with your mouth shut.