Bits and Pieces

by Nikita Weymann on October 5th, 2014

Motor boats now make thirty-five miles an hour. The speed craze thus rules land, sky, and water.

Unless that flock of comets can guarantee something more exciting than cyanogen gas it may as well keep on going.

More persons are drowned any day than are killed in airships.

A farmer with a good potato crop would have no trouble in trading it for an automobile.

It is such a nuisance to be a French playwright, compelled to write all of one’s masterpieces between duels.

Dr. Wiley is probing into the mysteries of the restaurant mince pie. That man isn’t afraid to tackle anything.

There is one thing in favor of the iceman. Thus far nobody has been able to invent “something just as good.”

A Tennessee man has absolutely forgotten his identity. The fact that he is not called upon to give testimony in any investigation makes his case especially remarkable.

Society women have taken to diving in a submarine boat, one advantage of that method being that they do not get their hair wet.

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