Bourne High School - Canal Currents Yearbook (Bourne, MA)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL ECHO. A NEW ARITHMETIC. 1. If a cyclone trav els three hundred knots a minute, how long would it take an Egyptian mummy to fry a batch of dough- nuts? 2. If an insect has six legs and another has eleven, how many hornets does it take to lift a boy out of old man Sabine’s or- chard ? 3. A merchant bought four barrels of sugar, seven of molasses, and two of meal. Find what per cent, of beans he mixed with his coffee. 4. A beggar met two boys. One gave him eleven cents and the other gave him eight cents. Find the name of the third one who hit him in the ear with a snow-ball. 5. A tramp got two kicks at one house, a cold shoulder at another and a bite from a dog from a third. How long did it take to get into the workhouse for sixty days. 6. A father agreed to give his son four and one half acres of land for every cord of wood he chopped. The son chopped three- sevenths of a cord, broke the axe and went hunting rabbits. How much land is he entitled to? 7. A woman earned forty-two cents per day by washing and supported her husband who consumed four dollars worth of pro- visions per week. How much was she in debt at the end of each month, up to the time he was sent to the workhouse. ? 8. If a young man owns a little cane, a rat-and-tan dog, a pair of lavender pants, three flashy neck-ties, a frail mus» tache, a flirtation handkerchief and parts his hair in the middle of his senseless head, what will it cost to board six idiots at a third rate hotel for a year? 9. A certain young man walks five- sevenths of a mile for seven nights in a week to see his girl and after putting in 1 1 2 nights he gets the bounce, how many did he hoof it altogether and how many weeks did it take him to understand that he wasn’t wanted ? 10. A plumber is called upon to mend a leak in a water pipe. He sends an em- ployee who surveys the leak ; another who courts the servant girl ; a third who tries the new organ ; a fourth to look alter the other three. At this rate, how long will it take the plumber to secure a mortgage on the City Hall? TEACHERS’ TROUBLES. In our school-room whisp’ring’s suppressed, Eating apples and all the rest — “Five hundred words in one essay,” Waits for all thae disobey. Expulsion from school is laying low — P ' or the fellow that throws the snow At the building or in the hallway. And to him the teacher’ll say : “We do not want you any more. As you throw snowballs at the door ; . fter I commanded you to stop. Then you pasted it red-hot. “If you do not mend your way, In my school you can not stay ; This is not a primary school. But you persist in breaking rules.” Then to the boys he began to preach, For he could do it as well as teach, He would show us where we’re wrong And then would lay the law down strong. Then we would decide to see • ' ’ If we could not better be ; But before the school hours passed The teacher had us hard and fast. Bess; “So Jeannette married a farmer. I thought she said she would-- marry only a man of culture?” ' Nell “And so she did — a man of agriculture.” — Chicago News. Mean Way to Treat Neighbors. — “Those people across the hall must quarrel.” “Why?” “They keep their transome shut all the time.”

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UP-TO-DATE CLOTHIERS. The Boston One Price Clothing House, F. J. CASEY, MGR., WAREHAM. - MASS. Men’s and Boys’ Glothii]g, flats, Gaps and Ger]t.s’ Furnishings. CqU on A. P. WING, . Sandwieh. Mass. A bl CH I take pleasure in announcing to the public that I have the agency for the famous “QUEEN quality boots for Ladies, in Box Calf and Dongola: also Stout ' s patent Snag Proof Rubber Boots and Gold Seal Rubbers. F. F. JONES, SA-NTD-WICH, DIASS. O. K . © WIIFT, Newsdealer, Also Dealer in MUSIC AND MUSICAL MKRCHAXDISE, BOURNE, MASS. LAUNDRY- Agent for the district of Wenaumet, Cptaumet and Megansett. FRED F. GREER, CATAUMET, MASS. WHITMAN, SPARROW CO., DRY GOODS, Middleboro, Mass. IsadieA (Syentfemen Of the Graduating Class of the Bourne High School are most cordially invited to place their orders with us for their graduating outfit; assuring them the latest up to-date styles and such fabrics as will be adapted to the occasion. B. F). 0ir)ps0: S £ 0 ., Wareham, Mass.

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Consolidated Mica Co., CAPITAL 5,000.000, Now offer a block of Treasury Stock at 75 per cent, per share; full paid and non-assessable. Mica is the only perfect insulator for Electricity and the only mineral in the world for which no substitute can be found. For particulars, address, F. M. Lawrence, CATAUMET, MASS. FOR The largest and best line of Stationery, A choice line of fresh and high grade Confectionery, And everything for Kodaks and Cameras, Go to Y. C. POST OFFICE BUILDING, Buzzards Bay, Mass.