"EVERYBODY'S BABY."

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18553, 10 November 1923, Page 3 (Supplement)

"EVERYBODY'S BABY."

A MESSAGE FROM THE SEA. Clergyman (examining paper found in bottle): " I should, say undoubtedly a hoax—a very poor kind of Joke, and sometimes rather cruel, I think." Salmon Fisher: "Ay, ye're right, meenister, it's varra cruel— thocht it was whnsky."

Twenty-five members of the Piano Club of New York, all of whom are piano manufacturers, wished to present a piano made by their own firms to the club. •In order to avoid dissension it was finally decided that all the manufacturers should combine in the making of one grand piano, each contributing a share of the materials ard workmanship. The finished piano has just been installed in the club, . and is the embodiment of all that 13 best in each of the 25 firms. l The instrument has been nicknamed Everybody's Baby. •

but the tortoise refused to take the hint. This was getting a serious (and expensive) matter, so a letter was sent to the curator of reptiles at. the London Zoo. Discussing the problem, the man 01 science confessed that he was rather baffled. " You can butcher a tortoise in several ways," he said, "but in this case a painless humane/ death is needed. If you cut the creature's head off it wanders about indefinitely. I . suppose that a steam-roller' is the most sensible way out of the trouble if the society would adopt such a method." " I have heard of cases where the head of a decapitated tortoise has inflicteu a nasty bite, and it is on record that the head of t* snake has bitten after being blown off by gunshot." There the proHlem - rests for the moment* '