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The Strand Magazine/Volume 4/Issue 22/The Queer Side of Things

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The Strand Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 22
edited by George Newnes
The Queer Side of Things
  • Pal's Puzzle Page, by Jean de Paléologue.
  • Pictures of a Diver.
  • Polo in the Water.
  • Soldiers of a Century.
  • Miscellaneous.
4201267The Strand Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 22 — The Queer Side of ThingsGeorge Newnes

The Queer Side of Things.


Pictures of a Diver.
From Photographs by Charles W. Meldon.

Polo in the Water.
From Photographs by Charles W. Meldon.

A Vegetable Oddity.
This potato, which forms a face as it stands, and another if turned upside down, was grown by Mr. Chatt, of Frimley, in 1889, and was sent to us by Mr. William Spurge, of Twickenham, its present possessor.


Father: "What! You have tumbled into the pond with your new trousers on?"
Son: "Please, father, I hadn't time to take them off!"


The coal-hole, and how tommy didn't jump it.