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Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 61, 6 December 1926, Page 18

There is a quaint harvest custom in parts of Northumberland. The last few stalks are cut by the prettiest girl in the field, carefully gathered up into something like human form, then dressed in a white frock, and carried to the farm to take the place of honour at the supper.

According to a London bus conductor, an infallible portent of wet weather is the softening of the indelible _ pencils which lie and his colleagues use in making those notes which are, to the passenger, such a mysterious part of.the job of conducting omnibuses. Rain is sometimel: signalled, in this way, as much as 24 hours ahead, he says, and his view justly or unjustly, was that the indelible pencil had a more accurate notion of things meteorological than the experts. Ho evidently docs not know of the daily use made of wet-bulb thermometers.