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Otago Witness, Issue 3244, 17 May 1916, Page 9

Wealthy Old Spinster (to her young' fiance, who is toying with her hair): "There are two or three 'silver threads, among the gold,' darling. Doesn't the fact make you regret your promise to marry mo?" Her Intended and* Intending: "Not tho least in tho world, my love . , . (sotto voce) I can put up with a 'ot of silver threads for . tho sake of the gold!" '

—A 1 wind storms between 20 and 55 miles an hour are " gales," 20 to 30 miles as. hen- being a "moderate Rale," 30 to 40 iriUes a "strong 1 gale." and 'l-0 to 55 milea n ' whole gale. Not until the wind hustles along at over 75 miles an hour (when the. pressure is equivalent to 281 b per square foot) do meteorologists recognise a "hurricane."