GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 15 October 1913, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

THE COLONEL'S RETORT. The Palis Excelsior, the Mail says, relates the following story from the Tehataldja lines:—The Bulgarians were attacking the lines. A regiment hitherto held in reserve was about to bo sent to what appealed, to he certain death. ''Your regiment is the first in the world," said General Savoi'f to the colonel,in command oil" the regiment. "General," the colonel replied, "it will also be the first in the next world." WALKING IN A FOG. Why do civilised people walk in a circle AvhcMi lost in a fog? This question was raised in the Bonv County Court, when Dv Oxley said that they knew that lWst people had one leg longer than the other because when lost in a fog they 'wandered in a circle. The judge (Judge Smyly) then asked whether the wandering in a circle was not due to the development of tho-brain. "Bed Indians, to*instance," he pointed out, "can walk straight in a fog." I)r Oxley's replywas that the Red Indian walked with his toes straight, whilst civilised people turned their toes slightly outwards. WHY THEY KEPT QUIET. Mr Roosevelt, in his autobiography, relates that when he was nominated for vice-president he addressed a. meeting in one of the States of the high plains of the Rocky Mountains. Bryan was tho favourite there. The audience were rough and troublesome, but they listened to him attentively. At the. end, Mr Roosevelt remarked witii pride to the chairman : "I held that audience well; there wasn't an interruption." To which the chairman replied: "Interruption. Well, I guess not! Seth had sent round word that if nnv son of a gun peeped he'd kill him."' Seth had been sitting behind Mr Roosevelt with a gun on each hip, his arms folded, looking at the audience, fixing his giize with instant intentness on any section of the house from which there came so much as a whisper.