In the Uni ten States geese for mancet are kept in a dark pen, andi daylight let in every few hours. The stupid fowls imagine it is time for breakfast, and so snap up a meal six or seven times a day. A curious photograph of a brown trout with its mouth wide open in the act of yawning was shown by Dr Francis Ward, at the Camera Club, London, the other day. The fish had been given a meal consisting of 100 worms, and had eaten them all with avidity. Then it yawned for two hours, evidently enduring the pangs of indigestion. The following, “The Express” tells us is an extract from an obituary notice in a French provincial journal.“The deceased was an excellent wife and mother, and had) buried her fourth husband only a few weeks before, her own death/’ So different from the butterfly wife who' buries only two husbands and) mislays the others.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3443, 7 February 1912, Page 10
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157Page 10 Advertisements Column 2 Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3443, 7 February 1912, Page 10
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