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Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 1693, 3 July 1929, Page 5

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The weather experts predicted snow last week and we had it. Coincidences like this are bound to happen.

It is not surprising to hear that Professor Forbes says the moon is made of ice. That's what conies of stopping out all night in the cold. .

"The idea that relativity disposes of ether is only true mathematically in the sense that you do not have to talk about it," says Sir Oliver Lodge. Very well; we won't.

Mr Ford has invented a new and cheap monoplane.,. AH bolts and nuts are said-to be fitted with miniature parachutes to ensure a safe landing for them.

"If you want to be healthy lie down with your back flat on the baro boards," advises an English daily paper. Some of their heavy-weight boxers have given this scheme a good trial, but complain that they wake up with a bad headache.

Since tlie strike of artificial-tee thmakers in America many people over there have been reduced to chewing their own gums. \

From Limerick: — There was a young lady of Keighloy Whose principal charm in hor teeth

lay; When they fell on her plate She called out, "I hate Mishaps of this kind, they are beathly,