That it is hard to find any one in Hoboken, N.J., who can speak English. Sec.253 That the head-waiter in a fashionable restaurant has better manners than any other man in the place. Sec.254 That a girl always likes best the man who is possessed of a cavalier politeness. Sec.255 That the most comfortable room conceivable is one containing a great big open fireplace. Sec.256 That brunettes are more likely to grow stout in later years than blondes. Sec.257 That a sepia photograph of the Coliseum, framed, is a work of art. Sec.258 That every time one crosses the English Channel one encounters rough weather and is very sea-sick. Sec.259 That the Navajo blankets sold to trans-continental tourists by the Indians on the station platform at Albuquerque, New Mexico, are made by the Elite Novelty M'f'g. Co. of Passaic, N.J., and are bought by the Indians in lots of 1,000. Sec.260 That appendicitis is an ailment invented by surgeons twelve years ago for money-making purposes and that, in the century before that time, no one was ever troubled with it. Sec.261 That a theatrical matinee performance is always inferior to an evening performance, the star being always eager to hurry up the show in order to get a longer period for rest before the night performance. Sec.262 That John D. Rockefeller would give his whole fortune for a digestion good enough to digest a cruller. Sec.263 That a clergyman leads an easy and lazy life, and spends most of his time visiting women parishioners while their husbands are at work. Sec.264 That it is almost sure death to eat cucumbers and drink milk at the same meal. Sec.265 That all bank cashiers, soon or late, tap the till. Sec.266 That the members of fashionable church choirs, during the sermon, engage in kissing and hugging behind the pipe-organ. Sec.267 That women who are in society never pay any attention to their children, and wish that they would die. Sec.268 That if one gets one's feet wet, one is sure to catch cold. Sec.269 That all French women are very passionate, and will sacrifice everything to love. Sec.270 That when a drunken man falls he never hurts himself. Sec.271 That all Chinese laundrymen sprinkle their laundry by taking a mouthful of water and squirting it out at their wash in a fine spray; and that, whatever the cost of living to a white man, the Chinese laundryman always lives on eight cents a day. Sec.272 That if one fixes a savage beast with one's eye, the beast will remain rooted to the spot and presently slink away. Sec.273 That if one eats cucumbers and then goes in swimming, one will be seized with a cramp. Sec.274 That hiccoughs may be stopped by counting slowly up to one hundred. Sec.275 That newspaper reporters hear, every day, a great many thumping scandals that they fail to print, and that they refrain through considerations of honour. Sec.276