NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XL, Issue 205, 28 August 1909, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS.

A man who has been arrested in Ronw for begging was found to have .£4060 concealed about his clothing. The Japanese are now manufacturing Scotch whisky and Worcester sauce fa* export purposes. During the last three months five ball, fighters have been killed, and 111 injured, at Madrid. So that it appears to han done very well, everything considered. The State of Ohio has -appointed • female official embalmer of dead bodiej out of-148 competitors who were anxioe to accept the somewhat gruesome job. * !An old man who was arrested at Mot* cow for begging was found to posses* § mansion in the most fashionable quartet of the town, America, whence the bulk of our ■Uμ words come, is rather particular abogt its -official language. They have barr»4 out "cat-gut" in the new TariffJßifl |ff jy substituted "animal intestines." China is preparing to take a census of her {00,000,000 people. The census « fct be a thorough one, and after it is don the facts and figures are to b* kept pretty well up to date. .. < Two beautiful silver-gilt goblets, net* Jy 300 years old, realised £I}BQ 4 fe Christie's, London, The goblete, vrhfafc are only seven inches. High, togetkejM weigh lOoz 13dwt. P ;' " The British sloop Merlin has been esgaged on « mysterious quest. Ske fc reported to have been rendering aid t6u American citizen who has been captured by pirates off the East Coast of Borneo, Surely this is unconscious humour frosj the Old Country: ti».<*fcfc at 28, Newport-road, Bamuel Edge, inh|i 65tfi year (veteran head billiard marker), Midland Conservative Club, Waterloostreet. Gone for the long r*st."'i■•'■. -■;;. "This prisoner used very bed i» n . guage," said a constable to Mr.JFlowdee at Marylebone. "To you?" replied the magistrate, "No, to a cabman/ replied the constable. "Oh," said Mr, Plowdtj, '1 think the cabman can stand.'|t." ' The latest to dieegver the. British Buiget iniquities is a London magistrate, who is disappointed to find that though whisky end peer have been increased.» I price, there are as many drunks before him as ever. A new grand Alpiw i«Uw a y over the Hohe Tavern mountains, costing over £12,500,000, was opened last month by, the Emperor Franet* Joseph, The line shortens the journey between .England and the Adriatic by 120 miles, ' / The State railway ■authorities have d* olaed to add a completely equipped firstaid hospftal to «aeh train running through Prussia and Hesse, It will contain three couches, an 'instrument case, and a complete dispensary. ' Someone announces that "» lever ttl roses wnnot be a bad citizen." Then i«, therefore, hope for the early »ornin| mllkboy who not infrequently departs, with the best bloom hV can fed in til suburban garden plot. Negroes are not born black. When » negro Want comes into the world it i» white, with » yellowish tinge, it grows darker and darker each day until th# teflfch, when H l)»s arrived at its deepfi* •hftdn. . . . ~, : . ; ; . . . In order to facilitate toe work of pot* office servants, the Belgian poetal *utho> ritiea propose that correspondents shall in future us* rod envelope* lor all lettetl to Brussels, yellow for the country, ai4 green for abroad. One of London's superior papers. ds> clares that 00 per cent of the BHtisl women dye their hair and paint their faces, and do not care who knows it. They know everything, these Londof folks, and what they don'fc know thijj frequently invent.

The Monitoria, which was launched from the Wear shipbuilding yard ■; of Messrs. Osbourne, Graham, and Co., ]art month, is fitted with wjive-like sides* which, it js claimed, will give, exceptional speed, and will enable her to carry inort cargo at a lessened coal co.nsuißption, .

Hyenas have stronger jawe than »nj other animal in the world. They JutfM large tooth at each aide of the; upper jaw, which bites against the keen edge of a tooth like it on the lower jaw, tin* forming a pair of shears sharp enough to cut paper, and strong enough to cr»ck the thigh bone of an ox. ■ ~

There is keen competition between the Croydon (London) Corporation tr»mways and company mptor-pnroibuiei, ana, in consequence, the corporation hit issued and posted on the hpurdingi *» earnest appeal to the residents to suJK port the trams, and get -'the benefit through reduced rates. *

In captivity elephants stand «p whetj they eleepj but in the jungle, in their own land, they lie down. -The reason given for the difference between the el* phant in captivity and in freedom js ( »Jl. the "Watchword," that the animal neT«f aoquirei) complete confidence in M keeper, and always longs for liberty.

The Scottish railway companies f* cently declined to give tickets at redvwl fareg to a big group who are propo»ln| to attend a country funeral on the pl» that a funeral ia not "* pleasure party. . It depends; if it was a rich old unci* of a tagragging mother-in-law there might be a certain mitigated joy in the journey.

The King at an exhibition of gcottiis tweeds in London the other day bough* several lengths of tweeds of vari<»» colours. The remainder was cleared on* like lightning by others, who were, p«* haps, little in love with the cloth, bin were very anxious to have a pair ■<» breeks like His Majesty's.

The landlord, like the-worm, will son* times turn. At Rhyle a landlord hM; turned out a tenant because he couli get no rent. "Just like you people," s»i4 a justice; "when the poor people cannot pay the rent you turn them out into tfel street." "I will find them a hpuse," re? torted the landlord, "if you will mi them meat!" The justice conducted » butcher's business, and he did not tUfflWl to the offer.

Commenting in his report upon th* medical inspection of school children, Dr. Greenhalgh, medical officer of health fo* Aecrington, Eng., states that since lail year there had been a decided improve' ment in the cleanliness, clothing, aP general well-being of the children. Thert are evidences of greater attention to tß* teeth, and quite a number of schoolgirl* have adopted the simpler, more cleanlji and in every way more healthy practiel ot the hair short.

There may net be mueih in a nantfi but the mfin with a "k" sound in W* patronymic would seem to be born wf distinction in maritime exploration, say? an English writer, Lieutenant Shack* ton furnishes the latest modern installed of thie, whilst names of his predecessor* on the roll of fame en which his owf is now inscribed include Columbus, Ha»> kins, Drake, Cavendish, Oflbot, Coo* Kane, Jackson, Pack, McCllntock, Marlc■ham, Seoreeby, and Franklin. On th» other hand, we have names of softer sound ac Aason and Nansen, so tlitlf is hope for the others. ' ' ,^