Judge — August 23, 1924 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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@ oo Rarcett> “Young Willy here sez he'd like to be a musician, and wants to learn the pianner.” “No, let him learn the fiddle; it'll be easier for ’im to play in the street if he ain’t a success.” The Success of Diogenes Did He Find an Honest Man? Complete in This Issue I MET Diogenes with his lantern. It was out, but he was happy. “They told me I couldn’t find an honest prohibition officer,” he said, “but I did! “I hunted and hunted and hunted and looked and looked. Finally, with only a few drops of oil left in my lantern, I found one. “He told me that although he had been a prohibition officer only a year he had managed to save enough to buy a big automo- bile, build a new house and land his wife in society, and,” added Diogenes, happily, “the fellow told me that he still had his year’s salary in the bank untouched!” R aled The Wrong Address Fussy Prisoner—Any chance for a shower around here? Cop—Nothing doing! You haven’t landed in a fountain pen! The Age of the Earth An Astounding Bit of Information! Scestists have not as yet been able to compute the age of the earth. But there is nothing to stop them from having as many guesses as they want. The best guess so far is this: A whole is as old as any of its parts. Therefore find out how old a portion of the earth is. Take a couple of shovelfuls of earth and weigh it. Say it weighs three pounds. A pound is or was $4.86. Three times $4.86 is $15, roughly estimated. That was the way we were taught in school. King Tut lived long ago, al- though he didn’t live long. Firemen wear suspenders. The population of Yonkers is over 100,000. Why? Therefore, the earth is 400,- 000,000 years old. Maybe more, maybe less. 13 comicbooks.com