NEWS IT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLII, Issue 24, 28 January 1911, Page 16

NEWS IT-BITS.

The" Quaker V» ne t (cays a fashion riter)=ie goW° have a vogue. There are sai£° be more than 200,00 ft v ;aliana in Ne/* ol^ AChinese lately discovered' roves that were used ia hinasevent" l hundred years ago. Dudley ihMed the weightiest, voter j l the lastMtish elections. He'tamed •"•' he scale ? 3 * stone. A ,, darW"Q ,over dog made a, fatal »tii ;mpt toA ew ne **tive "tail of an aero- '■ It is/rol>a i ble (eaya an aeronaut orregp/dent) that during 1910 from 0,006 a SO. 0 ? 0 niiles were flown. Thecal bill of the fourteen principal ailw/ 8 in * ne United Kingdom for B i On 4 totalled £5,603,400. ~ pis is taking time by the foreloefc exhibition in the jear Wis already being '■ considered.. / \ .hgland is surely a trying clin/ate. ji'a Polar bear which was born a; the "idon/Zoo the other day is suffering jm pneumonia. '/ /. the Ware estimatedto be 38,O00,OWrat'a England and Wales, costing .ai least 6 a/year each to keep, or a iotal ol Uiso/wo. "_':" ■■ ■ ")' : :'^y\-By ; - ThJ report that 300 police tnhcheoni erejdamaged in the Welsh riots led a lou/htful contemporary to aski "What ioiut the heads t" j ■ yln can always please a «pman' by •ltog her she looks like a pisturer-aU hugh she must know there 'are some (Aid: pictures. j , ■ • . /celand has only one policeman, and! f .beat is in tae capital, Reykjavik. The . Indents are so orderly that ihe has lite todo. '■ ■ ~- " ; ■■;■ _ "Aβ lotteries are illegal, would the oath ■„ date support a bill for the abolition at arriage T" .was a query put to one' of the, ( ast Eenfrewshire candidates at the nt British elections. Atondonprisoner, wlo was described'; ie other day as "a photographer in. rinmer and a iburglar in winter" eeem< ) have been bent on "taking" things al ie,,year round. . ...... ..;.■ .■ J'A defendant insiatea on addressing [onor in the Shoreditch County Cout» iondon, as "Reverend. Judge." ■ "fV on't/' said Judge.Sjniley,"you annexe ; 'The whole truth and nothing buwie rutltf so God help us/ was the noveWer- , ion/Of the oath given the other d* hy i voman who apparently ■ undeytooa ruih's terrible nature. 7 ■ ' '• i.' doctor publicly announces t*t in« juests do patients no good. Asl mat- ,| ter of fact, it is to be presumed »»t the : 'Jaiients" "are generally past doPg anyfhing for, before the inquest isAeld., ' •Man used , the horse as, an ftiole^of .., ;6bd only for an enormous peri* °* time -r-perhaps 100,000 yeara—befae,he disjovered that the- animal; -wa/far ,mors ;: servioeable as a. means of transport. An egg 10,000 years old hk justjbeea linearthed in some Roman/foundataonsi tear Mayence; Large sum/ are said to iave been offered for it by fnous 'Wpoldje English purchasers on j»e eve of the ppii. / .-.; Tlie Duke bf SutherlanAas authorised- - i retrial of the area w; ' 3utherlandsMre in the itoing year. TM i| ast g6ld rush in thi/ district was m 1868, but the miners/efforts were «r , warded with very smai returns. Owingto a strike /printers in Monfrf luconrFrance, only*ne newspaper wu; published there for&omedaye, that being produced by Vhiniiber of amateur w Uen compositor collected by the edf' tor's wife. / ". "Are you in fWour,of providing eacft. member.of the of ( Loids with a ■ corkscrew to *aw his ta*?**"?**". wasfone of hurled at the, Unionist canSaate for in December./ Police sixteen fortune jfteUert, in ifew anJnvestig*Mon cot.,, erin» eeveril weeks: Thelact that they were aU ai home when the policei.arnvedj doesn't cen6borate = their claim of being able to read the future. i '.„,,-''] i Becauße^'New Yorkers ere alleged-t» 4 have-eaten 28,000,000 egga Jn one a contemporary jumps to £g!.«B$B"an : that New' York is the best-fed, cty in theworid: ,'Much,.one should fancjr, would, depend on quality of the eggs. ;;-. ~ A .bronze circular plaque of 10th ) century Italian work; i London in December for 700 <fP™»*\ had till lately been used as a playthwa, ttf the daughters' of Us recent deceasetl. owner. ' .''■' 'v _ A Ixjndbn lady got judicW eeparahoa- v from her husband the other ataoe* as quickly as one could cough. The man s ■ nanle was Whymper but, instead of Bj-, • ing up to it, he had it explained on h> behalf that he was; just as anxious fol separation as his wife! - A young Italian peasant and his bride, iof Mbndovi, entered a train for the fir t time in their lives in order -to > their honeymoon in Turin. But they eso terrified by the. tram's motionjiat they jumped out, the bridegroom being sen . ouslyhurt. ■ • | The headmaster of a school, recentty put up a notice date:, he would lecture on "Our Eyes, and How We See Through Them." + Shortlj 'Jfag ■wards he was find wrriten ; underneath, "Or, Our Pupils, and Howj They See Through Us." ' ' '. ' .J •'Mr. F A. Bellamy, of the.Universit:| Observatory, Oxford, lecturing in.Lop don, said that though ' there, probabj were about a thousand' million oTeto the greater number that could db cerned on the clearest night wthout tt aid of a telescope wa» only eibout 17^ The official result' of A'eW ol!f United States, including Ahtska E*rt , and Porto Rico, sKows.a total poputaff of 93,402,151, being ■**■?*?*".£ n ! Der cent. The population of the ." Lenta" United States, amountsjo 92,072,266, 'being an mcTease pi -V«"The treasurer of the Itoyal Aif« polcgEcal Institute has »■;■ machine by which the measure human mind may be taken. By eg£ ting himself to it a man thither he is a wit, a genius, or ? ™£ But, asks a eelf-conscious mat™ , wants to know if he.is a iool? f At San Francisco the /t he g d * jury of women were caUed in s>«s' whether a divorced husband orj <™° was entitled to the custody ■ ,■ of their marriage, the wfife _ _ ready got custody of a daug?F- A ladies took only 20 seconde| Qecmu against the man. ,5 •■ Apropos of the big * n . W -. lUh Army officer at Montef Darn-borough, an t ■ ; cently netted £80,000 Carlo tables, was winningff 4 ". the last feailleft. t he made £6400. ) lucky number, and every f lu ™~ ' ..'■ m lie -yton £2000. ; ; I i