Our Contemporaries
"Evening Post": "Elephants always sleep standing up and horses usually do the same. The sloth, which lives in South Africa, sleeps; hanging by its feet, with its head tucked in hanging by their hind legs, while head downward. Hares, fishes, and snakes sleep between its forelegs. Rats also sleep with their eyes wide open . . ." The linotype operator must have been sleeping with his feet on the keyboard! * # # "New Zealand Observer": "Social Notes: An Enjoyable Party. . . . Dancing took place in the bathroom, which looked gay with streamers and balloons." Some of these parties will be getting into hot water before they've finished. '_ # ■ * • "Otago Daily Times": ( "Bankrupt had faced without complaint a serious loss. The takings fell immediately from £50 to £70 when he fell ill." No doubt his creditors congratulated him on his heroio selfsacrifice.
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NZ Truth, Issue 1142, 20 October 1927, Page 1
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136Our Contemporaries NZ Truth, Issue 1142, 20 October 1927, Page 1
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