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NZ Truth, Issue 179, 21 November 1908, Page 5

A festive bloke called "Handkerchief Jack" dived a distance of 40ft. over , a bridge into the river, out Forbes (N.S. Wales), way last week. He landed smuare on his trousers, and joytully oHcred to repeat the trick. But a local John" win him m, and he was (just fancy) fined for being drunk and disorderly. Wnll. the man who would still be 'drunk after divine that distance into the cold water must be a bit of a marvel. It is a feat calculated to thoroughly sober up a rumdrinker m a tough attack of the horrors. "Time works wonders" says the text, and an illustration is afforded m the case of an actress now performing m Sydney but who at one time was out of collar m Melbourne, when she went from door to door selling bottles of -hair dye. Hers was a wonderful concoction, yet it was ncvar- patented. At one place at which she called, the lady of the house said she did not require any hair-dye, but "if it had been a cure for indigestion" . The vendor was equal to the occasion, for she • smartly chipped m with, "I have numerous testimonials at home, showing that it is an infallible cure for that also." She sold a bottle. History does not say if the lady ever took the bottle, but, seeing that she is alive to-day, she certainly did not take the contents.