NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 177, 26 July 1913, Page 15

NEWS TIT-BITS.

The disposition of wealth, says Mr. Carnegie, is too unequal. He ought to know. A prisoner at Kingston the other day declared that he was " *fed up' with being hungry." *"J served the defendant with a summons just as he was kissing his sweetheart." said a creditor in the Bow County Court. The backs of banknotes are heing offered to advertiser,, in Sweden. Sue"! as accept may be sure that their efforts will not be thrown away. "The first cycle closed tafct night with Gotterdammerung."' says a contemporary. The first cycle ride usually does close with words to that effect. At the King's official dinners not more than six or seven courses are served. If you are still hungry, you can always fat! back on the bread and cheese. A Hungarian husband has ,-ued for divorce because his wife insisted on his inking his heels to obviate the necessity for her using the darning needle! The cost of the late Mr. .1. Pierpont Morgan's funeral from his house to the grave was. it is said, over £100.000. Phrpont always wa« extravagant. Aung Kwei cubing, a convict in a Shanghai gaol, after a six days' hunger strike as a protest against being deprived of opium, is now being supplied with the drug daily. Miss Mary M-inty. who emigrated to Toronto from Aberdeen two years ago. has been appointed the Hist policewoman in Canada to deal with female pri-oners. She is nearly .six feet tall. "' It seems so much easier to be disagreeable on the telephone than on paper." said -Judge Lumley Smith in the City of London Court. "Ye--*," replied the solicitor hefore him. "and it is cheaper." A Manchester suffragette has been fined for trying to push a policeman under a tramway car. tiie naughty girl I This is to certify that if ever she does such a thing again she will be severely cautioned. While at work sine day recently a Fremont tI'.S.A.) 'boilcrniaker dropped a hot bolt inside the waistband of his trousers. If they had been on the scene, tango dancers might have acquired a lot of new ideas. " Any man can marry a girl if he holds her image in his mind," says Mrs Julia K. Sommer. lecturer on scientific theosophy. bin the average young male person much prefers to hold the real thing in a ham-mock. " All of us." said Vice-President Marshall in Washington, the other day, "al! of us may win fame. If we cannot do great deeds, let u- firmly resolve to live long enough to get to be the oldest something or otlier." A French lady has been awarded C2O damages against a Pari-- hair-ilre-i-er who treated her hair with a liquid which, instead of restoring her tresses lo their pristine beauty, made them a vivid green. "If we pressed a laiTy or gentleman for their proper names it would be. considered an in.-all. It is the regular custom for a pawner to give a wrong name." s.iid a pawnbroker witness at the London Sessions. The second wedding of the thirteen-year-old daughter of llaricharan ( hakrabarty—the first Hindu widow who has ever re-married—took place at Chitt.igong. India. Her first husband died when she was six years old. Cn.ahle to gi\e a icason why bis son had been guilty of begging, a" man at Obi Street (London) Police Court stated thai hefore the boy left home he "had a good tea of bread and butter and jam, salmon and whelks—and a thrashing." The London "Star" describes Ethel Maud Nash, a girl who is missing from Homerton. a.s -"wearing a dark green coat with panel back, and wailor collar, and large Ida.-k hat trimmed with pink sateen." Perhaps she went out to buy a skirt. ''What, no! asleep yell" said a burglar in sharp tones on rntering a bedroom at Oraulord College. Maidenhead, and unexpectedly finding a pupil awake. The latter thought the visitor was a master, and went lo sleep, ibe burglar escaping with £10. Tempus fugit: ,\ Hungarian girl living at South Bethlehem. Pennsylvania, who talked on the telephone for fiftveigbt minutes to her fiance in Cleveland, Ohio, was presented with a bill for £11 11/. She declared that she had used the telephone for only four minutes. Most householders have experience oi the mischievous urchin who scribbles on front doors and door-posts, but not nranv of them go to the length of a resident in Maids). Yale. London, who displays the following:- •• Warning.—Any boy caught writing ou this doorway will'be i'ollv well thrashed." This is worth passing round. Someone has dug up the following from the Chicago "Inter Ocean " of December 111. 1802: - ' Ooorge M. Pullman, of the firm of Pullman ayd Moore, bouse raisers, is experimenting with what he calls "a palace sleeping-car." Tbe ' wise ones' verdict it will he a failure." A cat with a. mouse in its mouth walked on Uie stage at the Croydon Hippodrome, iyondon, during a performance of " Ready Money." ITie cat released ;he mouse, allowed it to run ssome distance, caught it and returned to the wings to the accompaniment of applause, from the audience. A black cat was the cau.se of the indefinite postponement of a riuiaway marriage at Wellsburg. West Virginia. The couple were about to step to the altar when the cat ran in front of them, hesitated a second, and went on. The woman stated that the cat's act was an ill omen, and she refused to aliow the ceremony to be performed. "Oh. sleep, it is a gentle thing, beloved from ]K>le to pole!" But people who indulge in forty winks at the wrong moment, sometimes get into trouble. So found a Paris magistra-te. who, being aroused by tbe toe of a colleague gentlv pressed against his calf, murmured "' Is that you. Eugenie;" and woke to wonder why the Court- was dissolved in laughter. People who keep hens should endeavour to make them see red. Charles WorthingtoJi. of Denver, Colorado, hearing that hens were lovers of gaudy colours, painted his hen coops red. and donned a red robe and a red mask when he went to fed them, with the result that the yield was doubled. This must be so —an American paper savs it is. The "Woman's Question " crops up du the most unexpected places. Outside. Kennington Ova-1 The other day (says the "Pall Mall iMzette "i, a r_ddle_ged lady suddenly stopped dead at one of the minor entrances and pointed a scorniiil and protesting finger at a noticeboard above. A small crowd instantlv colled ed. and read with some amusement the legend, " Ladies and Bicveies Onlv."