W. S. Gilbert.

    It is possible that the Giddy Globe has read the above clippings and, realizing that she has been discovered, spins round with all her might to avoid being photographed for the Rogues’ Gallery of the Universe.

    Appearances are certainly against her.

     When I am moved to contemplate

     The rude and unregenerate state

     Of that rampageous reprobate

      The World at large,

     And as I mark its stony phiz

     And see it whoop and whirl and whiz,

     I can but cry—O Lord, why is

      The World at large?

     CLIMATE AND WEATHER

    Climate is a Theory. Weather is a condition.

    Or, to make it clearer to the reader, Climate is a Hypothesis and Weather is a

     Reductio ad Absurdum

    . This explains why it invariably snows for the first time in years whenever one goes to California.

    What is the Weather for?

    Everything in Nature is designed to contribute to the needs or pleasures of Mankind.

    From the tree of the forest we get the wood from which the nutmeg is made, the wood-alcohol for our Scotch high-ball and the pulp for our newspaper, which, in turn, is transmuted to leather for the soles of our soldiers’ boots.

    From the sands of the sea we make sugar for 

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