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Corn stalks are extensively used for ensilage and feed for animals. From the corn cob is extracted a synthetic resin which is extensively used in making telephone receivers, pipe stems, electrical equipment formerly made of hard rubber, buttons, glue and similar objects...
...that august and venerated gentleman return, for a few loose minutes, to visit the pit of a Manhattan theatre he would doubtless laugh roundly at them. For it is the peculiar genius of Mr. White to make an act out of an anecdote, to spin an innocent jest with pipe, tabor, scenery, and bring down his curtain on a guffaw. He does not spare expense. There is a notable scene wherein members of the chorus parade in a fur shop, clad in robes, scarfs, peignoirs, polonaises made of the furs of every creature from a seal to a mongoose; good...
Country mice, people have declared, are fatter than city mice-the old oaken bucket is a better vessel than the iron water pipe-the rugged farmer's lad, how he bulges beside the spindling sallowling from the city...
There is a rule common to most, if not all, foxhunters, that there must be no smoking while "in the pink" (dressed in the scarlet hunt coat). Last week, Prince Henry, the King's third son, absentmindedly pulled out his pipe and lit it while waiting for the hounds to pick up the scent. Members of the hunt looked aghast, but their amazement quickly changed to delight; and in five minutes some 20 pipes were going. Thus was another precedent created...
...Paris, 30 smokers, each provided with a spittoon, cuspidor or bowl, met at the annual open-air smokers' tournament, established many records. Marathon money went to one M. Lenoble, who made a pipeful last 51 min. 11 3/5 sec. (without going out); speed prize to M. Bibendum (President of the Fat Men's Club) who, with perspiration-beaded temples, finished a pipe in 1 min. 10 sec. Cigaret-smoking contests for speed, for endurance, were won by M. François Fratellini (member of a famed clown family) whose performances were: 1 min. 3 sec., 38 min. Cigar...