Degrees of drunkenness have been listed by an American doctor, who complains of the difficulty in trying to prove that drivers are drunk. * lie gives the six stages of drunkenness as: (1) Dry and decent. (2) Delighted and devilish. 3) Delinquent and disgusting. (4) Dizzy and delirious. (5) Dazed and dejected. (6) Dead drunk. A flesh-eatin-g plant has been discovered in Seattle, U.S.A. In summer it feeds on grasshoppers; in winter it wi’l take meat, preferably sausages. It will save farmers thousands of pounds every year by banishing the grasshopper menace from cornfields. It looks like a cobra about to strike, and has an open “mouth” full of honey, which tempts the grasshoppers inside.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 4
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114Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20906, 11 September 1939, Page 4
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