Topics in Brief:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXL, Issue 20261, 9 November 1935, Page 12

Topics in Brief:

Readers are invited to furnish for publication In this column, pertinent and witty extracts (the briefer the better), from newspaper and magazine articles, such as: "A new tool, using gunpowder for power, drives rivets through steel without the necessity of drilling.” But can it fit studs to a dress shirt?”—“The Detroit News” What this country needs is some method of increasing the price of everything without adding to the cost of living.—“ The Jackson News.” Some people get education late in life, and some have no children to bring them homework. —“The Brooklyn Times.” Conscience is a still, small voice that tells us when we are about to get caught.—Arizona Producer. Conversation is said to be coming back into fashion. Soon everybody will be talking about it. — Punch. Women, says one authority, are greater gogetters than men. Well, after a fashion, they are. —Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. A Louisiana woman, it seems, is in pretty serious trouble, having shot a man, who, it turned out, wasn’t her husband.—New York Evening Post. A cadet, two years in West Point, was dismissed when it was found he had entered matrimony. It remains to be seen whether only two years of military training were enough. — Detroit News. “Life is a heterogeneous collection of itreconciliable phenomena” says a Scientist. Film producers have knowtt this for years. — Punch.