NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 28, 1 February 1913, Page 15

NEWS TIT-BITS.

- The first English lady dentist beare the it her unfortunate name of Pain. "A gentleman is one who is indoors by 1.13 p.m.,"' said a witness at Newcastle England). A Yankee poodle has qualified for a lace in the society news by wearing saphire earrings set with gold With commendable forethought N. K. ethi, of Aymer, India, has compiled a alendar up to the year 9900. Gloves are to be provided for the ustmen of Teddington. This should end to uphold the dignity of labour. The very latest novelty in masculine lodes is a pocket at tbe foot of the rouser-leg for visiting cards or tram ickets. A woman at Tottenham, London, said he had two drinks. The Magistrate: How many drink 6 make two?" The Vnman: "Three." "RcmemibeT. you have a man's life epending on how you do your work."' is he motto on the walls of an aeroplane actory at Clapham Junction. Baron Modlgliano, of Florence, h36 left C 1.020,000 to his three nephews "as conolation for the well-deserved disdain villi which I have always treated them uring my life." An American describes a vacation as pending all the money you save in a ear to go away for a few weeks to esape the weather which does not arrive mtil after you come back. The last two swans have disappeared rom the octagonal basin in the Jardin ies Tuileries. Paris. They were an ex•mplary couple, says the "Figaro"; the vale died of rheumatism and his widow 3i" grief. Battle Creek, Michigan, boasts a giant lorse. It is 0 feet 4 inches high. It is •even years old and a good traveller, but io attempt will be made to mate it for louble harness, for it would be a fruitess task. The president of the Cantonal Council it Solothurn, Swi zerland, received by post an anonymous packet enclosing 64 muzzles, with a suggestion that tbe\ might be useful to silence the talkative .•ounc_lors. ■Monks of the monastery of Petchora Russia, have raised funds for a new -hapel by pledging a reputed miraculouf image of the Virgin with a local mer 'hant, who agreed to pay £-50 a week recouping himself by the offerings of thi feasants. A full-grown fox on a leash accom panied a lacy on a shopping expeditioi in Reading (Eng.) the other day. Th< 'iix appeared not the least discomfited In the crowds, and took some interest ir the toy bazaars, but still more in the fat poultry. A bunch-backed Javanese waiter, whe died at Samarang recently, has showi his contempt for the Eugemists by leaving £3.0110 to his nephew on conditioi that within three months he marries t native girl arfiicted with a similar de fortuity to that of his uncle. The Serbs have a grievance agains the English language for spelling th name of their country Servia with : "v," as though it came from "servus, a slave. There is really no such cor nection, and in other languages it i spelled properly—with a "b." Charles Desvaux, a Paris notary clerk, has received an official romroun cation stating that on his furnishin proofs of identity and other document necessitating the outlay of at least £ he will have the right to claim propert left by his son in Morocco amountin in value to one halfpenny. Railway servants on the Boston an Maine passenger service have got a rar chance to strike. They have been oi riVred to abstain from chewing gun wearing brown boots, buttonhole bot quels, or smart clothing, and no en ployee is to spend his time pointing on beauties of 6cenery to women passengen Adrianople, stumbling-block in tl peace negotiations, provides the bul of the trade of the world in attar < roses. Other important exports incluc silks, leather, tapestries, and the d} known as Turkey red. The best wii that is produced in Turkey comes fro the district about Adri_nople, Yon often glean interesting information about local affairs abroad. Says the Glasgow "Weekly Herald": Auckland, New Zealand, seems to be the rare place for the high jinks. Over £50.000 is being spent on a new .building, which will have on separate floors a picture palace, an opera house, and roof garden cafe. The stationmastcr on the Eastern In- ! dian Railway had been given strict ori dcrs not to do anything out of the ordini ary without authority from the superin- | tendent. This accounts for his sending I the following telegram:—"Superintentendent's Office. Calcutta.—Tiger on pratl form eating railway porter. Please wire ! instructions." j "You'll never get it," said in an imi dertone a debtor against whom judgment had been given, as he was leaving : the box at Bloomsbury County Court. j Judge Bray (to tbe Registrar I : -TCindly I make a note of that remark and endorse ,it on the paper." Plaintiff: "That is j | what he always says." Judge Bray: "Don't be impatient. Yonll have him next time he does not pay." (Laughter.) An attic in Paris, which was occupied by the present King of Servia in the days of his Pretendership, is bringing ito the concierge a rich harvest of tips I from visitors. The ageement can alio be seen by which Peter Karageorgevich I hired tbe attic for the annual rental of | 750f. The concierge has been offered large sums of money, chiefly by Americans, for the agreement, which contains King Peter's autograph, but he refuses to part with such a valuable source of income. At All Saints'. Belvedere, Kent, the caretaker is empowered by the vicar and churchwardens to charge wedding parties I half a crown for the trouble of clearj ing away confetti, should any be used. I An order has been Issued from the ! army headquarters at Budapest forbid- \ ding an officer from walking in the ; streets arm-in-arm with a lady, even j though the latter be his wife or mother. | "An officer who is so feeble," the order I runs, "as to require the support of a woman is unfit for service, and should t be superannuated." In the neighbourhood of Leicester | Square, London, a new industry has been established. Here huge consignments of j old, gaudy theatrical costumes are sorted and dispatched to Africa for the use of ; dusky natives w-ho have grown weary of the simple life. The enterprising firm do a large business, and the population of one African village now strut proudly about in the entire wardrobe of a London production, while a Congo belle has become the favourite wife of her chief through appearing in the spangles and ribbons once worn by a • coryphee at Covent Garden.