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Northern Advocate, 18 November 1919, Page 3

"If you steal a loaf they put you in gaol," stated Mr R. Sample at Brooklyn; "but if you bust a bank they make pou a baron. My experience in Lyttelton Gaol showed that they put the little thieves there, but they put the majority of th c big ones in Parliament." (Laughter.) A voice: "It doosrjjjt suy much for you, then." (Laughter.) Mr Sample: "Oh, I only said some of them." (Laughter.)

A man in a railway train may do one of four things:—Read a newspaper, road somotiiing else, sit ana think, or -it. He usually re:uU tiv newspaper.

II i s siMtl that rats hav e recently b ! on .seen crossinu; ihe str>'ot* of London on the telephone wires, and a Press representative, being sceptic.il of its iruth, mad' , inquiry at the Hoard of Agriculture. An official s.;id: "1 sep no reason to doubt the r:,th oi" the report, in view of th" IV.:-t that information has reached us 1,,' a lar.'i'e increase in the City of Aiexandrinus rat—black rat which ci.mes from the East_ and is known i.: its native place as the roof or tree i'i:t and is famous for its climbing abilities." The reporter suggested that the climbing rat might possibly b(> oti c of the causes of the bad telephone service, and received the reply that it was quite possible that a ca- ,,- tain amount of damage was don e to t!ie cables, as the insulating' material is partly composed of fat, which has :i great attraction for rats of all kinds.