Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 12 July 1947, Page 4

Oddments

A soap-flakes ad. says one box of it will raise suds 52 feet high on a ping-pong table. But we haven’t had a ping-pong table since goodness knows when. What’ll it do on a bridge table? —Ottawa Citizen. •It A A A

In the little town of Fairbanks, Alaska, is a salesman who- should be feeling downright ashamed of himself. He has deprived the 141,362 professional comedians who walk the earth of a gag which each of them fondly imagined was good for a laugh until the end of time. He has deliberately robbed them of a joke which has been delivered since early Roman times, not only in the 22 mother tongues of the world, but also in the 7118 dialects into which they have disintegrated. He has sold six refrigerators to the Eskimos. s’: £ * *

“I will be very disappointed in the committee if it values this section at anything less than £l,” said a valuer witness to the chairman of the Westland Land Sales Committee yesterday. The committee was apparently impressed by his appeal for it reduced the price sought, but not before the chairman replied, “We are often a little disappointed m you too, Mr .” ■J.-. ft ft ft ft Beer is all the payment the noted American author, Mr H. L. Mencken,' will receive from a Canadian film company for the movie rights of his essay, “History of the Bath Tub.” Under the contract, signed recently, the film company undertook to arrange for an Ontario brewery to supply beer to Mr Mencken for the rest of his life. And he’s only 59,

Sir Leonard Isitt, chairman of the National Airways . Corporation accompanied by Mr Maurice Clarke, general manager, approved the use of the Greymouth aerodrome by taking off for Hokitika in a National Airways Rapide on Wednesday morning with an easterly wind blowing. They later returned to Greymouth, landed, and took off again to continue their journey to Wellington—and an easterly was still blowing. -—The Seeker