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Evening Star, Issue 18885, 9 March 1925, Page 12

A high building was being erected _ in Dublin, when a workman lost bis footing, and fell from the roof. In his fall ho managed to grasy a telegraph wire, which still left him in a perilous height from the ground. “Hang on for your life!’’ shouted his fellow workmen, and some of them ran to procure a mattress on which he could drop. He held on for a few seconds only, and then shouted: “ Stand from under!” and dropped. Ho was picked up senseless and taken to hospital. On his recovery he was asked why he did not hang on longer. “ Shure,” he said, " I was afraid tho wire would break.” A Milan tailor named Gritti has found a successful way to make a reluctant customer pay, says a Rome correspondent. The customer, a prominent music hall actor, appeared to try on a new suit, accompanied by two girl friends. In tho fitting room the tailor said that the trousers of the new suit required alterations, and disappeared with them and his customer’s old trousers as well. When tire tailor reappeared he declared that no trousers, old or new, would bo forthcoming until the actor paid a long-standing bill. Tho trouserloss young man declared that he had not sufficient money with him, whereupon Gritti offered to explain the difficulty to the waiting girl friends. The hill was paid at once.