NEWS TIT-BITS

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 50, 27 February 1909, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS

•^i*»!r*sss-*-■■: fully expensive. * f f to adr ■ While earring tt roast turkey for^; n ' ret a woman in Vienna namedffllt found In it a gold piece worth l^^* 1 . A proverb of the day is that V ■' w«t a man done This la a maxim for the "sharp" ™* , SENSES*-** 4!. An actress-Socialist in an oratir», „ ' her troubles at Sheffield the %t said that "a third «nTu fcfe^S^ head hke the sword of It is now asserted that the ancient stone circles and avenue*, commoTht various places in Britain were 3n.0? |d by astronomers about 2000 years Ro I In the Board of Trade and Forei™ becoming increasingly popular there and ' atout 300 are in use I existence the Women's Social and Po™ facal Umon have spent £30,000, said Mrs. Pethick Lawrence , at the Queen'i Hall. London. monEhj and e th « Ue they intend to spend £50,000. It was announced from the Local Go. vernment Board, London, on January 0 that under the Unemployed Workmen Act the total amount dsbureed to distress committees out of the Paliameni ' tary grant up to date is £187,163. The work of fixing the side armour of ; the turbine battleship Oollingwobd at Devonport, Engiand, was completed in ■the remarkably short period of day«. In this short space of time over 1..000 tons of armour plates of varying . thickness were fixed on -her sides. . Setting out early in June Mr. Morrii' Howlett, the professional four-m-hani whip, intends to drive a coach from San Francisco to New York. The length. 01 the route is 4,000 miles, and he cxi pects to complete the trip in less than ninety days. ' It is reported from Kirkintilloch, Scot* land, tliat the other day, whilst a servant girl was eating her dinner, she discovered inside a potato a beautiful gold ring, eet with rubies. That same night a wed* ding took place in the district, andiht : . ring was used, at "tlxe ceremony. A young servant of Cromeaux, neif Si. Etienne (France), made a foojlrij ■bet that he -would drink a glass of "win* and then swallow the glass as w«lli Hp-. broke the glass into Email pieces, ani swallowe* the greater part of the frag» ments. He is now lying in. hospit»l,"»ni is not expected to recover. An Indianapolis farmer, after having' been married for thirty-four years, wantf a divorce on the ground that he, is he* pecked. The plaintiff aays that he is no* . only henpecked by his wife, bub-that daughter, thirty years old, assist* Jβ pecking, encouraged by her ans that iife with them is unbearable..; ' A strange haul has just been mad* by the crew of a, North. Sea.stewe trawler. While fishing off'the-Dogge* . Bank, they brought up in ''wj/tc. nets ft ' butt of wine, •which, they have lanlei ai Boston. The cask was found to' centals , 120 gallons- of claret in "excellent: cpa- , difcion. Lady Auckland has offered a prize oi 500 dollars to any American reporter wjwi ■■:. interviews or even identifies her when. eh« . lands in New York. She is : agreatl ..• granddaughter of Sir Richard Arkwright the inventor of the spinning frame, anil on her mother's side is descended from •Mrs. Siiidonsj the actress. '." During last year 194,000,000,000 cubit feet of gas was sold, as compared witk--189,000,000,000 cubic feet in 190?", ao- | cording to the new issue of the ."GM-/." World Year Book." Taking an averag* j price of 2/S per thousand cubic featj■..-;. last year's consumption of gag cost: £24,250,000.—"L10yd's Weekly." . M The "Matin" publishes the reply of: Senor Castro, who was asked to say what wishes he formed for the new year. H« ! * said he did not wish to act any more. as a public man. He only desired solitude ' and isolation, in which he would ever pray for the happiness and prosper* /: ity of his country. Saying this Senoe: | Oastro broke into sobs. It is alleged that snakes are skinned alive by Dutch traders in Java in order... that the sxins may remain eupple and' : be used as a substitute for the'finer kinds of leather. The French Society. . for the Protection of Animals" is coa-. sideling the question of addressing ft protest to the Dutch authorities. ' r :V The steady increase in drunkenness , in Scotland, the land of early closing; ■which has been a marked feature of th» judical statistics for,three years pastt was continued last year (says a London , exchange), the total number of personi arreeted being 55,206, or more than above the total for 1900. During the past year Frenchmen smoked a total of 556 millions of cigars, representing , a daily consumption of 1,633,000, says the "Tobacco Weekly I Journal." The revenue to the State" from the sale of cigarettes was more; than 3,000,000, and the total profit to the State from tobacco exceeded | £ 16,000,000. Mr. E. J. Kenny, speaking at the conference of teachers upon the "Teaching of English Composition," said some amusijig - results frequently occurred. For ii- „ stance, a boy described the Prime Minister as "the chief clergyman in our Church." Mr. Kenny quoted the boy who referred to patriarchs as partridges, . ; and Sydney Smith's commentary, "It in ( evident that this boy was making gam* •; of the patriarchs." Sir Gorell Barnes, president of th» Divorce Court, made a statement with ■ regard to the form of taking the oath by witnesses recently. He explained that wtnesses who desired could take the-; oath in the Scottish fashion, and notion had been posted to that effect in tho/ court, but except in the case of Scottish people witnesses rarely took advantage of it. He had also provided Testaments specially bound so that they could be . cleansed for those who were sworn in the usual way. Mr. Kudyard Kipling is probably tfc« ■ ; only English writer who has been "doni? ,, .: in "truo American style. While in his • study a gentleman with two school bpysappeared at his door. Without - aries he asked—"Are you Rudyard Kip:-; ling ?" " Yns." "Boys, this is Eudyard Kipling." "13 this where you write - " Yes." " Boys, this is where he ;' "Is this house your own?" "Yes." .; "Hoys, thia houao is his own." And be-, fore the bewildered novelist had time to - ask them to be seated they ruahed *»•«•