Bits and Pieces

by Nikita Weymann on November 15th, 2014

Man eluded police by flying off in an aeroplane in California. What an aeronaughty performance.

It is said that styles never change in heaven. Imagine, dear lady, going through eternity with one gown.

A fortune awaits the investor producing a soft windshield glass through which one may be painlessly thrown.

“Cats are urban nightingales,” says the New York Sun; must be the kind you try to catch by sprinkling a brick on their tails.

The man with the garlic breath has nothing on the one who seats himself next to you in a lunch house with a platter of fried onions.

It is none of our business, of course, but we have often wondered if red-haired people suffer more in hot weather than other people.

Changing seats in canoes and rowboats by persons who don’t know how, continues to be one of the most conspicuous of the outdoor sports

Paris is now viewing with interest a fashionable shoe with no toe. Can it be possible that the human foot is to be released from its ancient bondage?

The king of Belgium has purchased an autocycle that will go 70 miles an hour. But what’s the use? A few minutes at that rate and he’d run off the edge of his little country.

In the lunch club one can put one’s own thumb in the soup. In the more aristocratic restaurant the gentlemanly waiter is willing to perform the little service for the sake of a small tip.

That more men fail as grocers than in any other line of retail business is attributed by Howard experts to bad bookkeeping. But if the grocers would abandon bookkeeping entirely and make their customers pay cash it might remedy the defect.

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