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Dunstan Times, Issue 3132, 28 August 1922, Page 7

A story is being told of a lucky speculator who bought from the British Disposal Hoard the <IOO,OOO Bibles remaining after the war. and earned ((iiite a fortune out of the deal. They cost him about one penny each. He advertised Hie Bible as a hook which every married couple ought to potssees. and every person intending to marry should read, and sold the lot at 2s 6d each. i have never known the Prime .Minister to take alcohol except on medical advice,” writes Mr Shakespeare, Mr Lloyd (ieorge’s secretary, to a temperance advocate at Mansfield (Kng.). What led to the correspondence was the assertion of an anti-pro-hibitionist, who said lie bad lunched in the same room as the Premier, and the latter was not drinking water. Karl Haig apologised at a luncheon in Northampton (Kng.) recently for his wife appearing there with a black eve. The fact was, said the FieldMarshal, their little son, while playing in the garden, threw a stone at his mother. He thought he ought to make that explanation, because he did not want them to imagine, that Lady Haig always went about with a black eye. When the knighted had died away. Lady Haig said she felt compelled to rise, if only to speak up lor her small sun. He did not throw the stone at her, hut Look it up, as any child of four might, and by mistake threw it backward instead ol forward. laird Haig joined heartily in the applause that’ followed his wife’s vindication of his little heir. Mile. Marie. Don, aged So. was buried at Bagnieres de \ igor (I* ranee l ), in a eofiin which she had had specially made for herself almost hall a century ago. The coffin, while waiting for its mistress to occupy it, was used by her as a. wardrobe and as a dinner table. Mile. Don always took her meals on it, and scorned a tablecloth.