"A ridiculous fad that some society ladies are adopting at the present time is not to place any month on the date of their correspondence, simply giving the day of the year. Thus to-day will be marked '34, 1914.' This is not very difficult, but when it comes to, say, '271, 14,' it will need more than a little calculation to discover the actual date."
Pall Mall Gazette (Feb. 4th).
Even "to-day" is too difficult for our contemporary.
"Potatoes, Potateos."
Advt. in "Bedale Chronicle" (its full title being "Bedale, Leyburn and Hawes Chronicle," but that would make the name of the paper longer than the quotation from it—always a mistake.)
We don't care for the second helping.
"'Ha! ha!' the others laugh in their native tongue."—Evening Dispatch.
You should hear us gargle in German.