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Otago Daily Times, Issue 15824, 24 July 1913, Page 11

— Some people appear to have the happy fcnack of nibbing along without working to any extent. A Kingston policeman, giving evidence against a man, declared that "sitting in a public house is tlio only work ho ever docs"; at an inquest on a Manchester man it was shown that he had been drunk every day for 12 years; and at Preston another man was stated by the chief constable never to have done a single day's work in 1v.6 life—though lie is nowover 70! — The yucca palm tree, v/liich grows in the south-western part of the United States and in Mexico, is put to a curious U6O by the natives. They cut the palm down, ejiw it into sections, and nrnkn them into pinct'shions. The eponp pith serves to keep pins and needles bright and clean.