OUR CURIO CRANKS.
Enthusiast (to diner who has just told a good story). "Would you mind repeating that? It has been so well received. I wish to add it to my collection of Records of Good Things."
Doing the Hat Trick in Two.
"H. S. O. Ashington, who won three events last year, was expected to repeat the achievement yesterday. He figured in the hurdles, high and long jumps, and if he had not taken the high jump, which he won at 5ft. 8in., the probability is that he would have done the hat trick. His initial exertions, however, told against his hurdling."
Daily News.
Unfortunately the absence of them would have told still more against his high-jumping.
"Dr. John A. Bassin performed a surgical operation at Poughkeepsie, New York, on a boy whose heart was too weak to permit the use of an anaesthetic, and who was lulled into unconsciousness by the strains of 'Highland Fling.'"
To make this story more credible the Singapore Free Press heads it "Dacoits in Burma."