Panoent Pars

NZ Truth, Issue 1185, 16 August 1928, Page 1

Panoent Pars

TT is a black look-out lor that lost * New Guinea tribe. # #■"•.■• PROHIBITION speeches are generally * dry. ••# . : MEW YORK jazz king lives on soup. ** Seeking inspiration for new saxophone noises? •# ■ • A MAGAZINE has been disousaing rt "the three most mournful words m the English ' tongue." A near-winner should be "Pay the bearer!" * . ' .• ■ " •. • "PRESIDENT-ELECT of Mexico Rid- *■ died with Bullets." Mexican Pre 7 sidents seem to come m with the a ballot and go out with the bullet. •- • • "FOUR Votes for £1." Another ex- *■' ample of H.C.L. One time they went for one beer. ; pHINESE criminals are now to be strangled instead of shot. They')! certainly get it m the neck. ; #•-■■»•■ * TABLED that the. Gyppo police have *" sealed up the Egyptian Parliament fqrl; three years. And we regard the Bgyptiah^as ■* AinpCbgf ßssrve t^*%- i**^ \u •~ : " ■„#■■ * •■ * ■;."■ WRESTLER training for one of those " "brutal" matches. * # . # "MICROBE Killer for Sufferers" is A ' A advertised. Give us something to lessen the blow of the rate notices. # # * pITY Council electric light operations *■" — Shocking I #. # # "OPORTING Intelligence." — Not when the urgers whisper. ■■*'.■ * ..*»,• "CTAY Young!" ■ urges a beauty specialist. In these days softie of the old ones are good stayers. * * . *■ T ECTURES on The History of Music are reported. R.B.C. research work should prove useful. ; #.•■.•#■■. * "CGG Exports, 12,000 cases." — Must be *-* an election pending on the Continent. - •. ■ \ : •* # * "pAN a doctor, tell?" asks a daily.— Not often, but he does his best. His bill, however, is very telling. ■•-..#'.■ r~ * • * . "TT makes a continuous and discbrdant noise."—^This is not a description of a politician, but a savant's description of a cigada. ' MELBA is going to take part m opera iVA again. She seems to fare well. '## " # "W7E are only on the fringe of elec- " tricityj" says a daily.— To . cross the- border,* 1 all .-.one has to do is to j touch a live wire. ■ . # ■■■'•.■ #. ■- POOD husband attending to the cop* ** per while his wife does the washing. # * ', ■#•■■■ pUT off m his prime. — The fat bullock. - * * ■* . ■ "W7ATER and whisky will not mix," " says a prohibition paper. — We like ours neat, too. * # * CUGGESTION has been made that cricketers wear sashes for identification. After seeing ,Jast year's matches we are m accord . with the request for more color m the game. * ' * * "COMMERCIAL Parleys." -tt " How much do you varit?" # # # "W7HY taxes soar," was the title of " a lecture the other night. Probably because the taxpayers , get sorer and sorer. , , * * * "MO need to buy city cemeteries," says a newspaper heading.. But we have to bury our civic deadheads somewhere. i * # * ACCORDING to scientists men with *"* delusions can be cured by shock. — What about the income tax assessment, which gives a shock and is no delusion? # pIRLS don't have to take jobs to get *"* men's wages. They merely get married.