GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 40, 17 June 1915, Page 8

GENERAL.

A correspondent of, the Lyttelton Times, referring to 1 the ridiculous buffalo story which somebody took the trouble to, cable the other day, says: “By the way, l)e Wet patented this idea in South Africa, although I doubt if he used the serum intoxicant. The idea of bursting up the enemy entanglements with “serumed” beef “blown to pieces,” by the so to speak and guzzling it afterwards, is a mas-ter-stroke in domestic and other economies. It reminds one of the Yankee bone-picking machine. “I’ve got a new machine (gun),” said a Yankeepedlar, “for picking bones out of fish. Now, 1 tell you, it’s a leetlo bit the darndest thing you ever see. All you have to do is to set it on a table and turn the crank, and the fish flies right down your throat, and the bones right under the grate. Well, there was a country greenhorn got hold of it the other day, and he turned the crank ß the wrong way, and, I tell you the way the bones flew down his throat was awful. Why it stuck that fellow so full of bones that he could not get his shirt off for a fortnight.” With such risks, it would be well for J)onohoe to caution tbe Italians to use only dehorned buffaloes, unless they are exploded in the enemy lines.”