The first accurate clock was set up in England at Hampton Court in 1540. Up,to that time members of the Royal suite used hour-glasses in their private rooms. A witness at Southwark has laid it down that a man who falls in the gutter and is then under the impression that he is safely tucked up in bed can be fairly considered drunk. Willesden Education Authority has decided to start cookery classes for boys. Little Willie’s preliminary essays with the omelette will probably do nicely for pin-cushions. A woman at Lisbon, Ohio, has been granted a divorce because her husband harnessed her and her brother to a plough and drove them like a team of oxen over her fields. Russian Podka bar-keepers will henceforth be supplied by the Government with entertaining books, the sale of which they are urged to push among their customers. 'f
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3768, 1 March 1913, Page 8
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