Oddments

Greymouth Evening Star, 26 April 1949, Page 6

Oddments

The penalty for a stolen kiss can be a life sentence.—Saturday Evening Post. His wife was under the impression that the burning of a marriage licence automatically dissolved the marriage, said her husband'in the Brisbane Divorce Court. In a desertion suit, he gave evidence that when she returned her wedding and engagement rings, he rang her up, and she told him that she had burnt the marriage licence, and, naturally, they were no longer man and wife.” A' Sydneyite took his laundry to a wash-while-you-wait-place and went off reflecting on the wonders of the modern world. “Fancy,” he mused, “a machine that washes, boils, rinses, and damp-dries without human hands touching it.” When they dragged the stuff out the operators found some green and red confetti-like material in the strainer. It looked like notes, so they took it along to the scientific department of one of the big banks. The bank was able to tell the man he had left £3 10s in one of the pockets. More than that, they .made the loss good.

Alcazar, a mildly sensational Mad-' rid evening daily, recently published on its front page an account of how some apache in Paris had murdered a couple of girls in a taxi. Inset was a photograph of the gentleman himself. He was younglooking, somewhat dark in appearance, and might have been anything from 20 to 50.

In fact, the paper had used a photograph of Sir Oliver Franks, British Ambassador in Washington, which the Information Section of the Embassy in Madrid had given .to Alcazar some time ago. The slip was pointed out to them. —The Seeker