TOPICAL TITBITS

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 128, 20 August 1927, Page 25

TOPICAL TITBITS

Traffic Sign. 1950: Keep to right around cloud.—“ Christian Science Monitor.” Henry Ford's -favourite Bible text now seems to be, “Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem.” —Springfield Republican. Henry has apologised to the Jews. He owes apologies also to history, art, the cow and the horse. —Dallas News. “There is always rubbish in the air.” says a scientist. Yes, but you’re not obliged to listen to it. -—Punch: “Dive dangerously from to Monday,” advised the romantic Robert Douis Stevenson. How “R.D.'S” would have rejoiced in the automobile .era:! —Chicago Daily News. It is funny none of. the ocean flyers has shaved en route, considering the splendid facilities for getting rid of the used blade. —Detroit News. The old-fashioned fellow who never thought anything of walking 18 or 20 miles in an afternoon has a grandson who never thought of it either. —Detroit News. “A certain South American insect,” says one of the scientific magazines, "has a white light at its head and a red light at its tail.” And we had thought all along that they came from Detroit.—" New York Evening Post.” “Shirts that laugh at the laundry” are advertised by a certain firm. One of ours, bought' elsewhere, has such a keen sense of humour that it arrived home the other day with its sides split.—“ Punch.”