Show do you know how L have kept my umbrellas for years said a new york man one morning to his companion in tho train well ill show you and he lifted up a fold of the handsome silk one ho had in his hand eight in the center of the fold was a round hole farsi thing I 1 do ho said when I 1 set a now umbrella is to cut a hole in it about as big as a cookey close to tho edge hurt the umbrella tor service any but it looks queer and nobody ever wants ii nobody at homo borrows it nobody ever takes it by mistake or if it is taken tho mistake never lasts longer than it takes to open tho umbrella its surer than ones name oven when you put stolen from before it because nobody over really believes that legend you see and it passes for a joke I 1 began putting this mark on my umbrella years ago and ive carried every umbrella ivo bought since until the silk wore out and not one would have been taken off if I 1 had carried it until abo hole out the great whale fc few even among the most thoughtful of the genus homo over stop to consider tho immense aizo sizo of tho great greenland or bright chalo balona L nillson says that it will weigh over tons just think of it pounds at that rate tho gigantic creature would outweigh 83 of tho largest elephants or grizzly bears sliced in chunks of 1000 pounds each his carcass would load a freight train of eleven cara to its fullest capacity the whalebone in such a chaio would weigh as much as abreo of the largest norman horupa and his oil would fill kerosene barrels |