GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2080, 20 January 1920, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Here is a puzzle that puzzles everybody: Take the number of your living brothers, double the amount:, add to y three, multiply by hve, -add to it the number of your living sisters, multiply the result by ten, add the number of deaths of brothers, and subtract 1,50 from the result. The right figure will be the number of deaths, the middle will be the number of living' sisters, and the left, will show the number of living brothers. Try it and see. During the recent licensing campaign some ardent prohibitionists in a country district near Ecilding plastered the water trough opposite (he hot|} with propaganda, says the Star. This so aggravated the licensee, from whose artesian well the water was supplied, that the trough has been dry ever since, much to (he annoyance and inconvenience of wayfarers. The licensee is now only prepared In supply water, like beer, at a price. The price was before the Oroua.County Council tliis week. It was decided to make enquiries from, the man higher up before considering terms. When the son and daughter of two neighbouring dairy farmers got “spliced,” the arrangement was (hat they should reside with (lie bridegroom's -parents and help to work the place. The day after the wedding a friend dropped in about cow time to have a pitch with the old man, and was surprised to see the newly-weds hard at work milking. “Didn't they have a honeymoon?” he asked. “Honeymoon!” said dad. “No time, to go honeymooning, but they missed two milkings.”