A S H Smyth

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A tax of 6d per head is levied on all passengers landed at the Isle of Man.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, September 27 1906
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While still a teenager, James Crichton challenged professors at the Collège de Navarre to interrogate him on the liberal arts and science, in Arabic, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Latin, Slavonic, Spanish, and/or Syriac.

At Volkswagen if you want a pen you need three signatures.

Australians spend as much as $25,000 on their honeymoons.

Even rough miners love manners.

Neurons don’t take aeroplanes early in the morning.

So many people have now owned the internet that shares are worthless.

Hanne ‘Kim’ Norgaard is Idris Elba’s ex-wife.

Faint heart never won fair lady.

60% of all humans who’ve ever lived are still alive.

What the world cares about is maintaining a reasonable semblance of order.

Venetia Bridges and Naveen Fernando had birthdays yesterday.

In Indonesia it is OK to eat cat; but it is not OK to eat your neighbours.

It’s snowing.
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In China the dials of a clock turn round instead of the hands.

— The Nelson Evening Mail, September 8 1908
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Benedict Cumberbatch reads Oryx magazine.

A piece of pasta (dry) weighs essentially one gram.

A man can only care about so many things.

Labels are for clothes.

In Bosnian there are no words for fiction and non-fiction.

The eating of grapes has killed several Englishmen by throwing them into fluxes and fevers.

Allah does not like hearing the word ‘Allah’.

The shooting schedules in pornography are quite brisk.

Darryl Gerrity loves people, perhaps too much.

Washing machines live longer with cows on.

It’s all kicking off in Jamestown. 

Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky died on this day in 1987.

Two childhood friends in Honolulu have recently found out that they are brothers.
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Stocks were first used in England about 1359 A.D..

— The Nelson Evening Mail, January 18 1907
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Women leaders are more volatile than men.

The cause of alcoholism is unknown.

They’re selling hippy wigs in Woolworths.

In Togoloese, ‘fofo’ means ‘revered big brother’.

White people, lacking community, must make do with property.

If extortionate fares are demanded, as they often are, the Ceylonese rickshaw driver should be asked to produce the fare table, which he is bound to carry; though no one is likely, if well served, to object to an advance, by way of a pourboire, on the strictly legal fare.

Elvis Presley’s last words were: “I’m going to the bathroom to read.”

Nicodemus the sleepwalker is on his way.

The Devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.

In 1928 the Tate Gallery was drenched in mud.

A destitute is someone who will have sex for money.

It is unsafe to have one foot in the world of social media.

There are no heroes without wounds.
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