NEWS TIT-BITS

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 31, 5 February 1910, Page 14

NEWS TIT-BITS

• Bavarian babies are tauzht t "i' lantie cable to the other! At Asosan, in ' Southern '■ J aßa7l v largest, volcanic crater in t he J?u **• measures 14 miles o °* *«&. It j more than 10 miles the other. y, *"* i Stock Exchange men, wn»n «■ , on tte probable result of th e gfa tl^ It came out at an inquest in T^i the other day, that iO^S^'^S and family o f two had to &S J* ! paying the rent was 5/0 a -week, -^' They are now using bieydee m KkL turn, winch is, now-a-dayg e pell ed J^* vowel when the tyre bureti. I The leopard, which was formerly W ous for its consistency i n -J™* clinging spots, has now got aWtS from Mr. Roosevelt to the effect flat itu tie most courageous wild animal; : Expenses connected with "file Kins n l Portugal's visit to London anuraaSi * ' £ 1793 12/5. Fifty guinea, ggt* by the Corporation to clerics for W : : time. ! An Arizona cowboy stopped a stattf-n j of passengera, and made. them alf while he read a poem of 32 vena dedt cated to his Mary Jane. Tljeie'are 3ome things as bad as shootjng. j It is now reported that the ]*ay\(ia gave £70,000 towards: the Sakeewj,, memorial theatre in London aaonVieoielT is Miss Mary Headley Boage.arjch.Ani*. rican lady with, a home jaLjndQi). I A special appeal for a diver collection !at an English Church sacred cqiteri t* cently brought out 976 coins, and that only 568 persons had tie tonttoaght to provide themselves with tjowpeisy pieces. A. special traia, eontainiig l£lg fcrm chesse, worth JE'2,r,00 3 frJ wiping 73 tons, was dispatched % m of cheese factors ol lira ton, Qttsttr, to a firm at Bradford tfic the. Cfcritt mas market. The late King Leopold wedaiiet; Teu gloves, or even a hat if it could be lelpd, I Tobacco he loathed, and he'tonkiijto : ,by choice. He was passionately tati of I pictures, bat hated music, and ihaßßrt the opera and the drama. "':■:■■ ihc catch of henii)g<i Uii» mug o» the East Coast of EDgisnd )»• ? / jteH r ed jn a delivery ot "¥annoutji -sai Low*. at.oit of 800,000/ WO heirm|u »'t»Ul r»ther in exca» of last yearij ipm. Tlio earnings of the Bcetch fleet ia But An&'ican waters in\e also Vα feed. A well-known Brooklyn who has acquired a pearl nceUaet Mtt to be worth £40,000, hu JMt kpftiitri J a stalwart young man ef rpwllfat faailj Ibo act as 'her boHyjs*rd and te iranapany her to all tUe receptions wiere A* ; wears this splendid ornament. { An old gentleman was atktd at til J Bethnal Green Coroner's Court, Loedeo, I how old he was, and answered, "Awiy i over 70." The Coroner: "Derft yw ; know your agel" "NoJ.I limaMtft 1» 1 sure as to a year or two; bot I vi ; away overr.7Q." _~ ..... 6as .v!' The following dialogue \ujt a Loata [ correspondent) actually took piece in * ' Midland town: — Lady Onrosw: "'Jβ M? ! Smith at home?" Occujjtab "Cftkl >A. jdead." Lady Canvasser (r»4y *\ttt ft !cil and card for new addreti) t "Qtt J?l 1 tell mc where ne'e gone tot" I A Prohibition candidate in New Zμ- ' land had so much campaign lHeritw left over that he stored it in hi* Inn, not thinking about the cows. Thteofl ate the Prohibition literature, tidiiWT cow on the place went dry*—"jjaetnlie Paper." five years ago there irere oely tm inotof cab* in London; to-d»y tti^* 1 !!! 4,000, and hundreds more are hung hit for the special-needs of London trafc 1 Both four-wheelen and hansom eil are fast disappearing. Omnltnuei, t«fc are being replaced by motor ■ tait; While presiding over t lunetaen ]4 Dublin in honour of Sir Ernest Shaddfr ton, Sir Charles Cameron cauied imA amusement by reading a telegram vUet, he said, he had just nceived.','. : discovered South Pole. Kindly aim«xi» to Ireland.—Cook," j Most of us remember th»t "eeeifaa* applied to roadways is m. memorial 1c the memory of the man wko intfodnM the: system to the country roads, but nwt of us have forgotten that "tramway" ii» contraction of " Outranrway," Mr.Jam* Outrain being the pioneer in the adojti« of that eystem. While there are now about members of the great family of Sana in Britain alone, in Old : Teetunet times, according to the first b«>k "» Ssiar.el, "there vrn no Smith tfcioop' out the land of Israd." This tu»* lats Bishop waberfvee spotted *««• hardest one in the Bible to quote *i» smiling. : Working on the theory -that-ear*. I quakes are preceded by certain electromagnetic disturbances, • Padre ibtdom, an Italian savant, has invented an «• strument which gives warning w** minutes before a shock. Witti it ke -W received notice of two earthquakes occurring about 10-miles from his ltbortt'ory four minutes before the earth w«» affected his seismograph. The New York Central Eaflway W decided to abolish the white light figm It is said that engine-drivers confuse tto lights in housee near the tracks with f clear road signal, and many instances < wrecks due to this cause are repbrte monthly. Hereafter a yellow light *" be used to show a clear track, the .1* light 'being continued for danger. ~ Japanese norses wear sandals of, ri» straw, bundles of which are attached M the saddle, to be renewed when neeessar The Iceland peasant shoes his pony w» shee-ps horn. In the upper Oxus vaUeji horse-shoes made of the antlers of t» mountain deer, fastened with horn pi* are employed. Horses in the Soudan g» in their stocking feet—their socks & of camel-skin. The Maharajah of Nepal has gto» away his weight in gold, in accordai»S» with the custom of Indian princes, *ao often make Vows —for example, on-.lf. covery from some great illness—ft<* •which they liberate themselves by t» ceremony called "Tula." The pera* weighs himself in gold, or, IT not ««7 rich, in baser metal or grain, and U* amount is distributed among the poor. It is a enrious fact that no JapAne* ever sleeps with his head to the north. The reason is that the dead in Jai*? are always buried with their heads*, that direction. Consequently, in .«•, sleeping rooms of many of the privet* houses of Japan, not to speak of hotea in larger cities, a diagram of the poiiw of the compass is conspicuously po on the ceiling for the Information »