HUMOUR

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 48, 27 February 1939, Page 3

HUMOUR

Safe Enough The dear old lady had recently called at the radio shop and asked for a man to fix a wireless in her house. “Are you the wireless man.?” she said, as she stood at the door of he? house. “Yes, ma’am,” replied the electrician. “Now 1 want you to be careful while you’re doing your work; my floor is highly polished.” “Oh, don’t worry about me, ma’am. I shan’t slip. I’ve got nails in my boots!' ’

Ssason! Two brothers who lived in a. village used to travel daily by train to business in a nearby town. One of them died, and his brother made arrangements to have the funeral in the town. He called at the station and told the stationmaster that he intended taking his brother’s remains by rail. “Then,” said the official, “you’ll have to make arrangements with the undertaker, and get a special ticket.” “Special ticket'.” repeated the bereaved one. “He needs no special ticket. His season-ticket doesn’t expire for a week yet! ’’

A newspaper correspondent in Hollywood was heartily sick of his job. Hfl decided to take a holiday, and when 'someone asked him where ho was going, 1 lie replied: “I’m going to paste a big picture of Clark Gable on the outside of the car <>nd drive until someone asks, ‘Who’a 'that?’ That’s where I’m stopping.”

Said the obi lady, tasting beer for the first time: “My word! ]t tastes just like the medicine my husband has taken for the past forty years.”

Aluseum. Near Kings Lynn in Norfolk the excavation of a round barrow has resulted in the finding ot much pottery dating back to the Early Bronze Age, about ■lBOO B. C. A curious discovery in this barrow was that of a bead and pendant [of blue-green faience. This is like simi ilar ornaments found at Tel-el-Amarna in Egypt and dating from 1400 B. C. They probably found their way to England in the course of trade.