POSTSCRIPTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1938, Page 8

POSTSCRIPTS

Chronicle and Comment

BY PERCY FLAGE

"What do Scotsmen do with their old safety-razor blades?— The answer is: "Use them"J HAW! HAW! HAW! » •■ * » . Don Junice. —Does that old copybook maxim, "One Briton is worth ten Germans" still hold good? # * * Omadhaun.—Well, my Bolshie breth» ren, that's that. Adolf has won. What about next Sunday as a day of national humiliation? '* ' MORONIC. We submit that every hooligan Should be made to go to schooligjan. * * ♦ " CALLING MR. SEMPLE. ' , Dear Sir,—As "the sky is the limit,*;. several of my friends have been wondering if the Hon. R. Semple could > arrange a specially early sunset for th« benefit of those electors whose religion prevents them voting on their sabbath. Perhaps something could be done if the hon. gentleman's attention were called to the matter. • - IVOR NOTION* • * * . WHO WROTE THIS? "In men whom men proclaim divin*. I find so much of sin and blot, In men whom men condemn as ill I find so much of goodness stilL I hesitate to draw the line Between the two, where God hat riot." '- Have you, or anyone, any idea who wrote it? Please! Your appreciative 'reader, . ARGYLL The lines are familiar to us, but the name of the author escapes us. Is there a y postscripter with a more reliable memory? • «• * * BOUTS RIMES. We are after these Dictator boyspursuing them with- a feather duster and a copy of the Government's election manifesto. If you don't care a hangava lot for, say, II Duce, here'f your opportunity to get one back on him. Don't spare % his feelings— bm hasn't any:— ............... *•, " Benito ..,.,,;. blows mosquito nose pumpkin ■...•.......- blue bumpkin— true Off you go! ''■■-.« ♦ * BRAIN TEASER. (Not so tough as it looks.) "Piqued by the rapid solving at Pomb's problem," writes Spen. o* Lyall Bay, "I have also stitched together one more problem." Regard it— " E3A4X 8 G 1 H O 4XOG6 BOJ 8 G . , B 5>E 9 D 5 A 2 X 6 - | »DDOEFHJDJJ To give solvers a start O = O. Try your luck. - * ■ «■ ♦ SCHdOL'S 1N.7 V J': Do you know that — (1) When the volcano island, Kra--1 katoa, blew up in 1883, the rush of air caused by the explosion wrecked • houses in Java, 100 miles distant? (2) Ordinary methods of shooting 1 and trapping^ having proved ineffectual, crows are being hunted with ■ dynamite in the U.S.A.? . (3)' Tobacco-growing was a staple industry in thirty-one English counties before it was prohibited. in .1660 for the benefit of England's American colonies? ..(4) The oldest working man in the world is Roderick Mac Donald, 105 years of age, and the spry and activ* , harbour-masfer of Richibucto, New . Brunswick, Canada? [ (5) One of the major accessories pi . Packard cars back in 1900 was an ammonia squirt gun used to discour- , age dogs who disturbed drivers by barking or nipping the tyres? , (6) The costliest fur . coat in th« world, worth £20.000, is composed of 95 silver skins of the albino mink; which took sixteen years to collect? (7) The ancient Greek believed that the brain's sole function was to act as a kind of sponge in cooling the [ blood, and thought that the emotion ', of lovejiwas located in the heart? (8) The highest shorthand speed [ known to have been achieved by a blind stenographer was iflfe words in a test in England? (9) A bar of steel may cost only £1, but made into watch springs if valued at £50,000? (10) The death roll in the 1914-18 war was 8,538,315, but at least 25,000,000 persons were destroyed by the Black Plague in the 14th century? # . .♦ ." ♦ THE SUM OP THINGS. This is the sum of things—that we A moment live, a little see, Do somewhat, and are gone; for so The eternal currents ebb and flow. x This is the sum of work—that man Does, while he may, the best he can; Nor greatly cares, when all is done, What praise or blame his toils havf won. , • This is the sum of sight—to find The links of kin with all your kind, And know the beauty Nature folds Even in the simplest forms she moulds. This is the sum of life—to feel ; Our hand-grip on the hilted steel, To fight beside our mates, and provt The best of comradeship and love. This is the sum of things—that we ■ A lifetime live greatheartedly, See the whole best that life has meant Do out our work, and go content.. I ARTHUR W. JOSE. « • " « WONDER OF RELATIONSHIP. Dear Percy Flage,—l read your column with interest—what do you think of this one—found in an old scrap book, dated 1889: A wonder of relationship: a man proved to be his own grandfather. The following remarkable genealogical curiosity appeared originally ia Hood's Magazine, and. is a singular , piece of reasoning:—There was a widow (Anne) and her daughter (Jane), and a man (George) and his son (Henry). The widow married the son, and the daughter married the father. The . widow was therefore mother Gn law) to her husband's father, and grandmother to her own husband. By her husband she had a son (David), to \vhom she was also great grandmother. Now, the. son of a great-grandmother musi; be grandfather or granduncle to the person to whom his mother wag great-grandmother; but Anne wai great-grandmother to him (David); therefore. David was his own grand* . father. Wishing you all the best, • ■ ' R i Northland. «j*