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Show o A store of general knowledge Is more valuable than particular Information Infor-mation becnuso It forms a background back-ground for more Individualized tacts. It also would Bavo tl'o person who ot'ly discourses brilliantly on ono or two subjects n great ileal of embar-(irnniont. embar-(irnniont. For Instance how much' 'o wo all know about our common nntlvo nnlmuls? Wo should obseno the facts about them more easily than about flowers and minerals. A company of people spent some tlmo discussing who would b() the owner of tho egg laid by n peacock belonging belong-ing to ono man In tho yard of another anoth-er The Blmple fact Is that poacockB never lay eggs. Of courso all people aren't taken In by the same Joko. An other tlmo-h'onred gag Ib that tho oyes of a giilna pig will drop out If It Is shaken by tho tall. A guinea pig has no tall to begin with Txits of people peo-ple are saved from biicIi pltfnlls by their Ingenuity, nnd many who np pear wise nre Ignorant, Tho dlstlnc tlon of funny stories Is not tho only use- of a general fund of knowledge by nny means Itl a a good thing to know nno thing veil, of course, but P Is also n pood thing to hnvo n .smattering knowledge of ninny things |