Topics in Brief:

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLV, Issue 21090, 16 July 1938, Page 12

Topics in Brief:

Readers, are invited to furnish tor publication in this column, pertinent and witty extra ts (the briefer the better), from newspaper and magazine articles, such as: Well, the bandit business seems to be holding up.—" Ohio State Journal.” The return of prosperity will, in a manner of speaking, lipset the applecart.—‘Arkansaw Gazette.” ..A "lame duck” doesn't use a crutch or anything. That isn’t where the lameness is.—" Everett Herald.” It might be remarked in passing that the world is bossed by men who couldn't work a ninth-grade algebra problem. —"Publishers’ Syndicate.” Our advice to the meek when they inherit the earth, is to unload the oil interests at once.—" Ohio. State Journal.” "Opera is not dying,” says "The Literary Digest.” The last one we heard sounded like it.—" Southern Lumberman.” It is said many modern novelists write entirely for their own pleasure. We gladly accept the explanation.— "Punch.” There are archdukes and grand dukes all over Europe now, but the shooting of one of them would never start another war.—"St. Louis GlobeDemocrat” "'lore and more people are having their ears pierced,” says a jeweller. So many of us have neighbours with daughters who fancy themselves as vocalists .—"The Humorist.” "The world is so full of a number of things, I’m sure we should all be as happy as kings” wasn’t written of Alfonso of Spain and Haile Selassie.— "Louisville Times.” •> ❖ *> ❖ ❖ •> ♦>