The Graphic FUNNY LEAF

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXXVI, Issue 17, 28 April 1906, Page 64

The Graphic FUNNY LEAF

MIGHT BE WORSE. First Spirit • disconsolately •: “Do you think we will ever progress out of this terrible place?" Second Spirit: " There is a tradition that we do get out after a million years or so. It's an awful punishment." First Spirit more cheerfully : "Oh. not so had as it might be. When I was alive I used to send manuscripts to magazine editors."

The " ( hronicle" b.-ing the least damaged of the newspaper offices. the various staffs combine 1 to issue a news sheet from there, but even this laudable • Tort to keep the public supplied with news ha 1 to be abandoned. I e ,il '■ nett' >iper office, also known a- the Spieckel- building, as lieen the subject of curiously conrtieting reports. 1: was first intimated that the structure wa- one of ti e first to go. and a later able, in detailing its destruction, said it ••collapse 1 like a crushed egg." Tuesday's message asserts, however, that t le bui ling being of steel withstonel the shock, the framework still being intact, though the interior is ruined.