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Ashburton Guardian, Volume XXXI, Issue 8446, 14 August 1911, Page 5

Zoophiloais, or an inordinate love .for animals has been classed by savants SSep over-the sight-of a dead cat in. flutter, or express deep emotion trir » dead sparrow have it moderately- • ' + In order to encourage marriage at church instead of through the cheaper medium of the registrar's office, the rector of Devices, Cornwall, has decided, with tho 1 approval of tho vestry, to reduce the wedding fee to bs bd. Hearino" groans and a sound of -thumping from the grave of a man who had been buried the day before, , some inhabitants of a village 1 in Rdumania took to their heels. Later an exhumation was ordered, and the doctors found that the'man had been buried- alive, and had died of heart failure just before the grave was opened. Some strange stories come from ■time to time from Bochum, in Germany. The latest is that of an enterprising caf etier.", who recently announced that," beginning on the following Sunday, all his patrons would be at-, tended by ladies in the jupeculotte |Lstyl© of skirt. All went well, the cafe was crowded, and the cafetieor was pleased with his, idea, but he has notj had the last laugh."' This was the j privilege of the municipal authorities, j for they mulcted him in a theatri- j «al lipense for giving public perform- j a,noot. -'."'■ " ' '■■ ■' ' ■ ]