CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXVI, Issue 18442, 28 March 1922, Page 6

CULLED FROM VARIOUS SOURCES

"What makes you so black, Tilda?” asked Mary Jane of the little coloured girl. "Huh!” said Tilda, "you’d be black, too,, if you was born at midnight, in a dark room, and had a black ladder and a black mammy.’’ False teeth for dogs are being advertised in Berlin veterinary establishments. The veterinaries offer to outfit aged dogs at a moderate price, “without operation.” A cornet has been invented by Private Jowett, of the Rhine Army of Occupation. By depressing the single key and blowing into the mouthpiece the merest novice can produce tunes, a roll of paper acting like the rolls of a piano-player. A woman loses her right to vote in Massachusetts if her husband establishes his legal residence at a club. Her only recourse would be to go to the club and live with him. If the telephone can be associated with felicity, then Stockholm is a 'phone paradise. In that city there is at the telephone exchange a separate staff whose duty i. is to satisfy every possible wish of the subscriber. If he wishes to know the official time he has but to ring up, and he will learn it to any reasonable fraction of a second. “Waken me at 6.30 tomorrow morning, please miss,” a subscriber whispers intt> his instrument on retiring to bed, and miss rouses him to the minute by an effective ring. Lawyers and doctors tell the exchange when they will be in or out during the following day, and clients can therefore learn from the exchange if a consultation can be had If a person is out when you ring up you simply leave the message with the exchange, and he will get it when he returns. And so on—and on. Certainly Stiffy, the white wirehaired terrier belonging to Miss Ormerod, of Littleborough, in Lancashire, has had his day, for he has appeared—though he doesn’t know it —in every newspaper in the land. He is emphatically the dog of the day. Inking his walks abroad Stiffy saw, outside some newly-built houses, something lying in the road that he dimly felt ought not to be there. So he picked it up and carried it home, which is the best place that a dog can take anything to, if he doesn’t quite understand it. Of course his mistress understood, as Stiffy, perhaps, vaguely thought she would. ' She knew it to be a purse, and in it she found £lB in Treasury notes, and a ycung lady’s address The young lady had become so absorbed in looking at the newly-built houses—for she is about to be married—that she dropped th’ purse which Stiffy so cleverly retrieved, thereby finding fame. What a proud dog he would be it he cculd see his act as we see it.