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244 of Mexico is an area of calm water known as the "oil spot." The sea there is always covered with a film of petroleum from oil springs rising at the bottom.

A bright Bostonian asked the ship's doctor on a big ocean liner the other day how it was that he dared eat so much food, setting everybody else such a bad example. The doctor, who has a complexion of peaches and cream, and eighty years to his credit, replied, "The days of man are three score and ten, and having lived that, my time is my own." Which isn't bad for Prof. Osier to add to his big collection of "age" remarks.

Large rubies are ten times as valuable as diamonds of the same size.

It requires a rare degree of independence and courage and a supreme confidence in truth to break with current thought. Only those who love truth enough to heed her slightest whispers and to obey her every behest can develop those rare powers of seership which make men the prophets and teachers of mankind.

"I met a man in Oregon who hadn't any teeth—not a tooth in his head—yet that man could play on the bass drum better than any man I ever met."—Artemus Ward.

The Rev. Thomas Van Ness says that wars will cease when men realize that they are all brothers. Are we always at peace with our relatives? Are instances rare where brothers disagree?