NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 153, 27 June 1908, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS.

: The late Marquis of theatre at Anglesey Castle has been convert, ed into a chapel. - (.The, man who puts his hand resolutely to the grindstone will find no necesai for keeping his nose there. A peasant named Bewart at Aiseaa (Belgium) has been sent to prison lot • sticking needles into the fruit on his pear tree to prevent the neighbours' children from stealing them. „ '■ An ambulance surgeon who -vros called ' in New York to attend to a woman who ' ■" had fainted restored her to consciouaby cutting her corset strings. His diag- ' nosis was, "Tight-lacing." , Sir Thomas Dewar stated- that thera is at'present enough whisky in the world ' to meet the consumption for four and «- half years, though not a gill more it made in tho meantime. Although a serious fire broke out in th* Protestant Hospital at Washington while, ■an operation: was the surgeons successfully finished their task. The foundation-stone of the first "sky. scraper" in England was. laid at Liver- .- pool last month. The new building will be 300 ft. high. A Newcastle (England) street tinwhistler confessed that his average earnings were : 8/ a; day. Prosperity] spoiled him, and he got drunk. . , ■ The statue of Cobden was decorated recently ", to a London pape» t - with a wreath of: immortelles made t |jll-L G*S»aany. Mr. Alfred Butterworth/ an Engliak ; - ! '~ financier and cotton manufacturer, estimates that the annual cost to the United ffirigdom of a 5/ pension at 65 for the i indigent poor of the nation will be £20* 850,000. The Goodwood Cup of 1842, weighing ' 3300z.,• which was.won by Major Hay's ' Retriever, appeared for sale at Messrs "•„ Robinson, Fisher and Co.'s rooms,recently, and was knocked down at 2s 5d pet ounce. y~Z- -\-' Despite the Bishop of Norwich having spoken strongly for the British Lacensirig Hill at the Easter conference -«< the■■■• clergy and laity of the Norwich dlooase,aa amc'idment apuinst the bill was carriad by an overwhelming majority. In a Vienna newspaper appeared .the:■: j following:—"Wanted, by important firm, a fommercial agent; good taiker, arrogant, and unscrupulous; good salary, with prospect of increase if satisfactory; * all round." Statistics taken by Sir John Brumes : go to show that the contentions of a#cident insurance in regard to the extra risks of workmen over 60 years of age wttiW'i' erroneous: The statistics suggest that -||1§ careless or inexperienced youth is a much more dangerous period. The average sperm whale is about 59ft long, and weighs 140,000 pounds, and will yield 60,000 pounds pi blubber (from (Which 48,000 pounds of train oil can b» - made) and 3000 pounds' of whalebone.-*'#£raS| A Pennsylvania girl who eloped recent- ','■'*• ly, climbed out of a window to get to hefe'g>j|§£ her beloved, and left her Easter hat behind because it wouldn't go through the " window. After, such proof no one can ;|* doubt that she really and truly lovei; rp|l| the man. ' , In Toronto, Canada, half-a-dozen C'lpi j sandwich-men, "made up" to appear to-v'lj | tally blind, have lately paraded the ,- streets carrying boards .with.this "I would give 5000 dollars to see • son's Burlesquers at the Star Theatre \ to-night." This method of b»s yet to reach this country. '.':_ 's||§| So small was the quantity of arsenia in hops, said a witness before the British Parliamentary Committee on the hop ! industry, that a man would have to drink 36 gallons of beer a day. for. many yaws -%" before it would barm him. The big political fight at Dnndie last month was productive of some good rsparte* between tho suffragettes and boom - of their opponents. At a meeting where one of the most voluble waa speaking, a man. shouted out to her, "How would you like to be a man?" She replied Una a shot, 'fHow would, youf' Among 700 scattered over the ■. United i Kingdom who have been granted pensions Of £20 per annum by the Royal Hospital for Incurables at Putney was ~..'""; one at Dover, who, though suffering from ab incurable malady, has- rec*?»d tho gift for forty-eight years. Two have had it for forty-six years, four for fortyfour, and five others for over forty years. A. lion severely mauled a girl of 14 •who was performing in a menagerie at Moiitpellier, France. The girl was in a cage with a lion and two lionesses, when the lion attacked her from behind and tore her back with a blow. The girt cowed the beast with her whip, and wh ■■•■•■■', helped out of the cage fainting. To evade the laws of California, which forbid such marriage*, a Japanese student named Katow has been wedded to an American girl on a yacht in the Santo Catalina Canal, "beyond the threemile limit. It is reported that, as be j put off from the-shore in .order "to reach . tbe scene of the ceremony, he remarked, , / "Once aboard the lugger, and the girl is mine." , The King has a large collection of walking sticks, but it cannot compare With that of her late Majesty, who had , j an entire room stocked with them, many ( : favourite stick was one -of great his-' toric value, having been presented to ! Charles H., by a member of his Court But she used to add the remark, -1 do not like Charles II." a goose in tbe poultry yard of the Balnagown Arms Hotel, Ardgsyt laid an egg, the vertical and lateral dr*. "cumferences of which were 9J inches and 7J inches and the weight 7J ounces. In , the same yard a duck laid an egg, of : which the circumferences were 9 inches by 7J inches,*'and weighing 5} ox. -The combined weight was thus 13 os.' The ' duck is to be congratulated on its pluekj attempt to rival the bigger fowl. '.;. Tosha Handritch, a Belgrade lawyer's. ! clerk, was leaving a tram-car When ' ho stumbled over a woman's eightecnbuttoned boot. He took it home and advertised, requesting to be allowed to: deliver'■■ it in person. Miss Karkash, who had removed it because it was half a size too small, consented to receive his visit. Tlie wedding day is now fixed, and a modern, Cinderella unearthed. - To encourage the (natives of Papua in habits of industry, they are compelled to ■work; for the Government one month in every twelve without pay, the alternative beingiimprisonnient with hard labour tor a. period: not, exceeding six months., Th»; method of encouragement seems; at least p*Culiai% and rather reminiscent of thi fate-of Admiral 'Byng; but it cannot fail to impress the savage mind—and who would not be savage under the cir. the inestimable bone, fits secured ;by: living under the British .flag. My sympathy is ; with the mission, aries who have to expound that porting of the Scriptures in which it is stater? that the laboiircx is w-ortliy of His hirsv