A popular practical joke is being played as a result of an innovation by the management of an hotel in Bournemouth (England). Twice a week the patrons are presented with gifts, such as a box containing- three perfectly innocent-looking golf balls, which, in fact, are made of soap. Recipients have had many a laugh on the first tee by exchanging the balls while the attention of their friends was called to something else. When hit, these balls behave in a remarkable manner, and fly anywhere but in the desired direction.
That he was the captain of his fate and the master of his destiny was the assurance Qf a husband at the Hastings court when his wife complained of his drunken habits. He asserted that he only drank as a recreation. “ Does that apply to the whole of New Zealand?” the defendant queried when a prohibition order was made out against him. “ Yes,” replied the mag’strate. “Well,” said the defendant, with an air of resignation, “ I can always go to & new country if I have a thirst.”
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Otago Witness, Issue 3996, 14 October 1930, Page 75
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