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Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 146, 20 June 1906, Page 2

The American unions are taking an example from the success of the New Zealand Labour Legislation, and we find that since "Amendment number four" to the constitution of the State of New York, which provides that the statutes may comprise such laws as will aim for tbe bettermeut of the conditions among working men, has been carried, it has been impossible for the Courts to annul laws of this kind as "unconstitutional." That the trades unionists of the Empire State are not going to be satisfied with merely the passage of this amendment is shown by the action of the Central Federated Union at its recent meeting. A committee of five has bepn selected to co-operate with a firm of noted lawyers in drafting labour measures to be submitted to the Legislature of the State. Tho greatest electric searchlight in the world has a beam of light which is nine feet in diameter. The dazzling shaft of white light is so blinding that it cannot be looked on at short range, and it even hurts the eyes when they fire closed. It will illuminate an objoct one hundred miles off, and can be seen on the clouds at even a greater distance. This monster searchlight guards the entrance to Chesapeake Bay, on the Atlantic coast of America. Travellers in the celebrated Death Valley of California have described the wonderful contortions of the sand pillars that small whirlwinds sometimes send spinning across the hot plain. Even more remarkable are the "dust devils" Been by an exp )rer, in the valley of the White Nile. Sometimes two of these whirling columns, gyrating in opposite directions, meet, "and if they be wellmatched the collision stops them and a struggle ensues as to which way they shall twist. Gradually one gains the mastery, and the two combined rush on together." Some of these whirlwinds will strip the clothes from an Arab's back, or send a goat spinning round and round like a top. 'Paste" from which imitation precious stones are made is widely known, but few are acquainted with the ingredients though it is generally understood that the paste gains its brilliance Irom the lead it contains. Formulas vary for the paste, but all contain rock crystal, which also contributes to the brilliancy! red lead, carbonate of potash, borax and Sl a Tn\ K f TCC l U,red that these rkv 11 rl &Yl ** ° f a W * h ade of P*that' iL . er6 1S a T sldPrable warte, «, that the K e.rns made from "strnss,- as the eompomtion i B technically known, are ■y no means inexpensive. "%mmm\\