NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 183, 1 August 1908, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS.

It .that Paderewski, dnrimhis visits to the\ United States t<2 ? £200,000 out of the country. ' A Virginia shilling, bearing the i«a I of George 111., and ,the date WO, i sold by auction in New York for £ l(Ml The Do-wager Emprees of China (gjy.' [ Sir Robt. Hart) has the musical voiL , of a girl although she is 74 years pid/ - ; Paris ,has now accepted a cast -of *fc i diplodocus from Mr. Carnegie. A, » docus.is much easier supported-hy^L * ratepayers' than a free library. ' '.T^ '• Mr. Anthony Comstock,.the-iNew-.-YttfW-"purity" crusader, threatens to «nS'and prosecute any woman publicly pearjng in a Directoire or sheath ■drejii/ A New York girl named Rosa 7 1 has been discharged from -one ..pi' thi I * largest stores in that city because ifce fa--. ] 3 too beautiful. During 1907 the sum of . was donated by private individuals to the ] universities and colleges in the Uaitrt 3 States. ' The Manitoba Provincial Government. 1 in June Reported that 24,642 farm ? and 5077, female servants were requi«a in the province. a, i * There are 70 mills in Germany'm. 3 exclusively in the manttfactiurt! ? :of - tissue paper. Germany turns"put niort t tisstie paper than any other conutiy.C. The "carat," . which is a weight thjit ' varies in different countries, is .no\r;to . be made uniform, and will represent;* *_ -"double cfiecigramme" in weight. l ■■■.■. On the JBurmo-Chinese frontier, thai J is a species of caterpillar in splendij 1- but poispnous uniform, which insisted spending the cold nights -in out , ! blankets. Wben the new Police Court at'Oe»etl^ : Yorkshire, was opened, the first prisoner. l t a beggar, was sentenced, much to 'fij; ~ astonishment, to receive a. good squan \ meal. 3 They were smart people these anicieit j> folks. At Gezer, La Palestine, a tiins(i '" like a two-penny tvtbe, attributed jtp..j|t; : jj period almost 2000 years 8.C., has s discovered. a Frau Rappaport, of Wabring, Bohemia, c and her two daughters attempted toi commit suicide because the local' neire-' ii paper had hinted not only that thqn . were extravagant in dress, but that jth^y pressed with bad taste. [') . beyond his years was,a youngster • taken £° Court for the heinous-crime; j)fv playing W-U in the street. Asked if. ■%*'•'; cnew who ftwned the streets, he esufßedj his discharge by replying, -De autoßH* biles." ..?■'.-: ■ . Before a married" "woman was flned ;§tl- ' Wept Ham for druoi-enness,. the «lp^cj aaid he had received * letter from her: husband asking Chat his wife might :J*s-v sent to prison. • The magistrate: It i» ; :.: very considerate of iim, I'jn sure. 7 X . A sctentist has been investigating inttt 1 / the business hours, and habiis .«-> microbes, and he finds that nine ' in the morning and nine at night aie .t£» '■'. ■ two periods of the .day when they «*i r ' most busy and malignant.. 'i 4 j Pampered pet-dogs are now to' ami fcSding beds, which can be cairied ilkmiV ' Ti«se little beds resemble glorified daV^j • teifl& They are upholstered'in smartjWid^ ! attviwtive styles, and some <rf-them eiam^. have' gilded tapestries and binfting3. .-iJffl- ! has computed'that &»; ; ;. '■ peoples of Great Britain pay £66,OOO,()00 in doctors' bills during -the course oi'4i£| ; I year. Jsi\iH-health, .time, and money, tSsjf i same authev ri'ty estimates the cost taJS*;; United Kingyiqm is jfilOT.OCkyjOp. ' ; :p : Gold worth eighMwo .millions jSterKaig i was produced by the worli's mines ja|; - 190bv nearly 61 percent of the outpiik; being supplied by .the Britdsh Empire. Tfce v i total vXlue of the woricTe 'output of nnj« f • erals was\a>bout 849 millions sterling. : . Vi Testimony to *he world;s ,iacesauit . * military aria\ naval preparations^μi-.cm-:;.. j tamed"m tho* anßWSuncemenfc , t Jiat $$m '. Krupp work£ c compelled to public loan of .&r : the ,pu-~ : I pose of enlarging ihcir caanon $Ay -| armour-plate factories. ' _ , g Wilhelm Hahn, a ' stopped as he was ■hur.TiriK? ? l W;v | r Dresden National Museu.'Q i mond-studded saddle of Aug%«wis .Wipi 1 Strong. He was arrested in sp. , r assurance that he only }9 1 row it in order to rtake a copy. r ■ The tribunal of Domodossola, Itafffii^S 1 s fined a wealthy merchant of NalAE 8 *;:; l named ..Indaco, £24,800 for snruggS*^ % c 13901b of saccharine tHrough the'Shnpie««4K y into Italy. This is the heaviest fine -ev*r^ c inflicted in Italy at the inttanco of tiift-.-a Customs, authorities. At a sale of old vlolinSj violas, eirf-S' violincellos at Puttick and Simpson's rje-^ . So centh-, £2625 was-maide altogether. «'2*fciJ c was paid for a very fine old violin by-?•> :J 0 B. Guadagnmi, £115 for a specimen hy--|r a Euggeri, of Cre'inona '\datet £. a 170CT), and £75 for one by d Camilli. J :!v •■ n Uruguay is said by the "Review of fig ';; y River Plata" to be increasing her OBl".:S.j '*• put of wheat in consequence of the A*?'.^p J velopment of her railway system. 11l ißQfi'i' ' the exports, including flour, v?ere^Wß*, ; ■. ,c than 3000 -tons, and -in 190.7 no- more4t»* ■ 1 21,000; but the estimated surplus of 'Hβ* s^' ' year is 190,000 tons. ' ' t|^S At the annual meeting of "Liptpnr Ltd., held in London recently, the, chair- . man, Sir Thomas Lipton, announced th»t :' the volume -of business done during th& ; . year juat closed exceeded by £1,000/)Oe rs that of any other year. A S aI averaging 8A per cent per annum was <?** p it clared. J s Plans are now 'being made for two , -' rf great British steel combinations, uwolv-v : , d ing a capital of at least £140,000,000, ■ says a London exchange. One _propo«*l '. j. -leombine ds that of companies yrhich ,; . manufacture steel for certain railway-;;" is structural purposes, the -other of .firjni'yj Ik which manufacture steel ,for shipbuilding", " After 15 y«ars of labour, Erofessof .' ls 'Brown, -of Yale Uaiiversity, has colli* . ' a _ pfleted a series of many thousands ■•'.o£- ! r. minute observations by means of whicfc in 'he hopes to determine the exact position: ■of the moon. He is about to "retire'to. :t 'his house in Maine to begin the work in of calculation, which he estimates i will is occupy at least ten yeass; ■ ' ; ', r Cash registers -have been placed >ins*ie each entrance of a fasihdoeiable Rom** : le Catholic Church air Wbroester, » y ( Worshippers, instead of *§» i<> a collection in the .ordinasry way during ie the service, are expected *o makeutheir V a- donations as they enter the building, and b, to register the "amount. The result i» M I reported to .be eminently eaJfcisfactpry. m One of the-taest reimarkabk freak news-1 papers ever printed was the "LuminaTa,' , published in Madrid. It was printediflriti./ ink containing phoephorus, so that -.the ■. £c paper could be neafl. in the dark. AnoQiT. curioetty Vvae ea4Vedvfche -printed lo with aon-poisonoras ■iat S ;<3!n .of dough, which couild he eaten, &iaa hue* w nishing nourdshmw?nt .ior body as $»B ' ■an raiiwJ " v,^« a