FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

Waipawa Mail, Volume LXVI, Issue 142, 26 August 1938, Page 3

FLOTSAM AND JETSAM

PICKINGS BY THE WAYSIDE. (By “Touchstone”). A “privilege” is something which you wave about inside the House, but which Mr Speaker will not allow you to waive outside the House. 1 have it from a very unreliable source that ii* the B.M.A. declines to carry out his health scheme, Mr Sa\age intends calling on the waterside workers to doctor the people. lL (or should I say when) the Medical Practitioners’ Union comes o jt "ii strike is it the intention oi' the (jo\ eminent to introduce “strike rifiikers”? And, if so, what will be the attitude of unionists generally to 1 mean “free labor”? Oh, shade ot \Y. S. Gilbert! What will happen to "iir aching teeth if the “Gum I>i_: rs’ Union” comes out in symili with the medical practitioners? A census has been taken of 100,000 ors and 100,000 spinsters over od' nl years, and it was found tlmi >!ie number of deaths each year v;.- -IS and 1039 respectively. In tin- . •• of the same number of married n and women it was 856 and 857. Statistics also show that bachelor* "limit suicide in greater number? Ann do married men, and also that i(h by accident in the case of sinjrle persons is 65 per cent, greater than i the case of married. So it seein- iat married life is not such a risk, after all. Sem mtics is the study of the seieuc* of meaning. The little girl who ;i wered, “Please, teacher, he imeil u her,” when the class was j«ked hat Henry the Eighth did to Anne i deyn, was wanting in semantics 1 d not in wits. “Ironed on her! What do you mean, Mabel?” |“Ple«> teacher, it’s in the history book.' Indeed! Bring the book and *1; me.” Mabel sped off like hi an and returning like one, proud 1; -bowed her teacher the plain , rTatein* i : “Henry pressed his suit a Anne Boleyn.” It i- mazing the length to which ■ vdip « uinals will go in their pre- ] piratici- to outwit the law. Among i the ini'i uiously forged notes and l deque- • t all denominations in the rime > cum of Scotland Yard is a list -in rising exhibit. It is a postal order f> :js 6d which one forger must have s|• i:t many hours in altering to Mil. it was not a mere matter of faging the large black figures, but of re-di..wing the minutely-printed < her IV. me composed of “three and 1 opener, three and sixpence” repeated over and over again and sub- 1 srituted “eight and sixpence.” It is » superb example of minute and acnrate penmanship; but, for the sake 5 dthe live shillings gain, a surprising mte ot time unless it was done for 1 iter love of the art of forgery. Rouleffe players are poor mathe- ' ays ‘‘Time”). This fact . sharply illustrated in 1910, when • phenomenal record run of one color Creole. l off in the Casino at Monte , 'rin. Tlu» little ball toppled into n , slot no fewer than 26 times in , wessini By the time the 15th Jfk nm Aer came up, the table was ®ronnd» by a crowd of gamblers, tony of bom placed heavy stakes . - the rci 1 figuring that the chances Winst the black turning up one tte time were billions to one. How- , ftr. since what has occurred before , r - have conceivable effect on any , ::f, n -pAi "f the wheel, the chances EaiiM n ' \ r k turning up once more of the run were exactly k *wno - at any other time —i.e., J tn IR. : i little more than even. "f the frantic red-players Weali*e gave the house a pro- I Mf million francs. hei r >m someone who is busy WinL' p< p on the roll for the ndn? g il election that included hi- ients was a man who noii!,, read nor write, and his vent down thus: his X Y long ago a will signed Ny wi ' a cross disposed of '' ' Fug]and to-day there r “literates who cannot sign their Amu'h .lie wealthy men. AnJ** into r ting recent ease was an T-lington crossing sweeper a “down and out,” will only with his A will need not necessarily Tp a wriMen signature to be ac- ■ ■ Aec.rding to law. mark is sufficient the fpstator is able to write A :i" need the mark be a The ihumb print as a signals now for the first time reN log ; recognition in Great for will made by a Lancai -i.i and signed by his i.lmitted to probate month- - go. This practice has , «1 in some American \ Ps "'Her. even thumb-signed are pted, while it is quite ‘ mr ' n among the illiterate classes hdia. ImAcd, it seemed that the i/ 0r mentioned above made his Sprint signature on the advice a ° Indian missionary. A mere zp of the hand was recently acas signature to a will. A Ches- ‘ ady lay dying, and wished to Her affairs, but she had lost Q(! e of her right hand and could the will which she had dic- . Her doctor therefore read out Hi tile presence of the newitnesses, and asked her to His hand if all was as she l.' This she did, and the doctor m her behalf,