POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 114, 10 November 1934, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

«V PERCY FLAGE ,

Chronicle and Comment

"What France seems to,need mor« than a change of pilots is a. really modern ship of State. • • » When you come to ponder it, it's surprising how little money you can kv» on when you haven't any. • » • Italian mothers need not worry. Their bambini are safe from Mussolini's military madness because already; they ere babes in arms. Though it is far from our intent to add to the worries of our indefatigable meat producers, conscience compels us to record that the number of vegetarians in Bntain. increased last year by over 4 per cent. « • « WHEW! Talking about long words, let "Harihaha" put this one in bis'pipe and smoke it:— - . Unhypersymmetricoantiparallehpipedi* ealisationalograpliieally '(59 letters). ' I saw it once in the "Curiosities" page of the "Strand Magazine." Can you beat it !—Yours for fun, ' , SOLOMO3T. ( Foxton. I „ • • '• » ' THE EASY WAY OUT. This'story'concerns an' cxtremelT nervous child. A lady brought Su* little boy to school on the opening day and desired a word with the teacher. , She explained: Little Bcrnie is so delicate. If ho should be naughty—and he can be naughty sometimes—will you lust whip the boy next to him! That will frighten him, and make him behave. * ' • * • ' SETBACK FOB. SUPEESTITION. Those superstitious people who gloomily say that it is unlucky to commence a job, embark on a voyage, and so on, on a Friday,' especially when the Friday is the ,13th of the" month, will be astounded, no doubt, to hear qf the good fortune of a Queensland prospector who, on ,Fnday, July 13 last, took up an abandoned claim on the Lolworth' 4 Creek 'goldfleld in the Charteis Tower* district. So far the prospector has dug a hole 20ft deep on his claim, and from it has extracted 116 tons of stone which has returned £2600 worth of gold—the result of twelve r weeks' work. Experts regard the claim at one of the richest North Queensland, hai known for many years, and they beiieve that it contains many hundreds of tons of ore of great richness. This field is one of Queensland 'a , youngest fields, and since operations commenced three years ago it has yielded nearly £50,000 worth of gold. ' ' ' * * *. MOBE ODD ADS. For' Sale, baker's 'business, good trade, large oven, present owner been in it for 17 years. Satisfactory reasons for leaving. f ' ' To happily-married couples (as a last resource): An appeal is made,by two lovers who, have been engaged for many years, for donations of one shilling to enable them to" seize an opportunity'1 of'being married, which has at long last occurred. v'" Wanted, at a factory, IB girls' to sew buttons orr t l£p' sixth floor.*' ' ' 1 Wanted—a steady,' respectable man to look after a garden and milk'a cow who has & good voice and is accustomed to sing the choir. To the drapery trade: Wanted, a young man to be partly outdoor -and partly behind the counter. s Found in shop, IS Bridge Street, on. Saturday,, purse containing money. Owner can have* same on proving his legitimacy at above address. < Turkey carpet for sale,* the property;, of a gentleman too large for his room.. SCHOOL'S IN. t Do you know that— ' (1) When the Cunarder, Queen Mary, is fitted out it will weigh 84,000 tonsf ' (2) The tallest and biggest /giraffe ever to leave Africa, an animal 17ft high,,recently. arrived in America? (3) A bee flies 12 miles an hour when laden with honey, and 40 miles without? > (4) London 'stfirst, directory was started by King Charles I, who wanted a list of citizens who could lend Mm money? There were 1518 names on the list. J ' ' (5) George II was'the last British Sovereign to ( take part in >a battle— Dettingen? ' (6) It is reported the famous Junker works have completed a stratospheric biplane .which can carry several tons of explosives! (7) On the average the annual British sea harvest amounts to 19,551,261 cwt, worth £15,504,4461 (8) A Mr. Julius Brittlebank, 76, is at present on his 15th round-the-world tour? His milage to date is nearly 2,000,006. > ' ' (9) The late Sir Thomas Lipton, who had six Shamrocks built, spent over £1,600,000 trying to win the America Cupt < (10) The number of bulbs sold last year by British growen was over 14,000,000? •' # • v SILENCE.^ Dearer than loving language, Sweeter than silver song— Would that the sacred4 Silence 'Were only ten tunes as longl Out of the burning battle, The wild inferno of, noise, Into the, utter silence Plunged, legions of gallant boys. ' And where never the grim gun thunders, Or the cruel bayonet gleams, The deep, deep sea of silence Has drowned them in happy dreams. Think! In the year that circles With the sun's path m the sky, Five hundred and twenty-five thousand And six hundred minutes go by. And of all those hundreds of thousand!. Of minutes that come and go, We have captured two tiny minutes For peace on the earth below; For a tribute of silent honour v To the brave who are done with time| . Oh, break not -the sacred silence When "eleven" has ceased to chittel , A. >*' * • THOUGHT FOR TOMORROW. , This noto is from "After the Fire,* one of the "Fifty one Tales,"- by Lord Dunsany. - *■ When that happened which had been. so long in happening and th* -world hit a black, uncharted star, certain tremendous creatures out of some other woild came peering among th» vcinders to see if there were anything that it were worth while to rem««*>«> Thty spoke of the great thing* that th« world -was known to have had; they - mentioned the mammoth. And presently they saw man's"tatolea, and windowless, staring"* Itkf empty skulls. ,' ""f "Some great thing has' b««* nere,» said one, "in these huje-pl«cw" "I* was the mammotn"» eaid one.' "Something greater than he," said another. And then 1 they found that the greatest thing in the world had bern the dream* » of man.