7 MAY 1904, page 11

With Curious Old Prescriptions And Pithy Remarks ; Among The

latter occur the following doggerel verses of which an agri- culturist, who passed as old fashioned at the time he wrote them, delivered his soul :- " 1743— Man to the Plow,......

Scrap - Book Minds.

SOME men seem born with a scrap - book instead of a mind. All their experiences, however gained, remain disconnected, and are merely a selection of oddments, a selection which......