NEWS TIT-BITS.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 128, 30 May 1914, Page 15

NEWS TIT-BITS.

Tiie winner of the first prize ill ihe ! latest Italian national lottery— £1:2,000 I — w -'s a peasant living near Romp. ■ New tork milkmen have received ; orders fiom the Milk Commissioners to sliave off their beards, which are declared in be prolific agents for the conveyance ( uf germ-. * "Widcomhe Manor is one of thp smaller ' house, erected by Indigo .lones." says the j Manchester "Evening News." if thej gentleman in question could read this ltf»lj would look blue. P Two gendarmes, who wore dispatched from Hazebn.iick to Saini (liner. 1-Yance. 'to arrest a m.tn <f,.r failing la. re7>ori for military service, discovered That ' he had diinl eightepii years ago. ' The London County Council proposes , to continue the widening of that very crooked thoroughfare the Strand to 80ft, by purchasing from the Duchy of Lancaster various houses between SavoyStreet and Terry's Theatre. , Margate may now be reached from London by motor-omnibus, the following . towns having been linked up: Dartford, Ciravesend, Chatham, Sittingbourne. Faversham. Canterbury, and Margate, a distance of -about seventy miles. A iißin who paid threepence to go intu the (iiiiety Cinema in lirixton Road. Lon- ' don. didn't like the show, and when he was refused his money back he assaulted I the manager and a policeman. His pypning's amusement cost him 40/ or a month..: It is just a.-- well for Orlando that he i didn't live at Denmark Hill I London). A ] youth from Putney named Folkard has just been fined .">/ and 2/ costs for cutting on a seat in Ruskin Park the initials of a young lady with whom lip was sitting. "Wlhy did you assault your wife?" a man was asked by the clerk eat Stratford Police Court." "W<slll." was the reply, '•'there's four daughters and the wife, that's five women -areoimd yout so you 'havp got to do something, havpnt you':" | A man nampd Lanipl. living at Rp- ! tournac. npar I_e I'uy, France, called at a ' local carpenter's and ordered a coffin for himself, lip sPlpcted thp wood and discussed the price. The coffin was duly delivered, and. having paid for it, the purchaser hanged himself. Those who believe in the blesspdnPss of single life have a line example to point , tn in Mr. Robert Crichton. for Mr. Crichton is it bachelor (the oldest one in England), and he celebrated the 102 nd 'nnivprsary of his birthday last month at Caterham. Surrey. Thp proposal of the Glasgow Corporation io submerge Rob Roy's country" in Perthshire for the purpose of water storage is mppting with indignant opposition in Scotland. The deepening of Lochs Voil and Dome by some forty feet threatens to desecrate the hero's grave. A society woman living at Canniv won .-•20.-> with a 4/ stake at Monte Carlo. She played roulette, placing 4/ on the black, which turned up. bringing her of. She left the money on black until she had won £207,. Then she put the money in her ha;. Ked turned up on the next spin. The hells and carillon attached to the clock at the Royal Exchange. London, have t.ow been repaired, and the chimes arc again performing satisfactorily. It is stated that when the Royal Exchange was destroyed by fire on -lanuary lOth, ; 1838. the last tune played by the bells! was "There's nac luck about the boose.'' I The centreboard of the Resolute, tbe defender of the America Cup. on which work has been started at Rhode Island, will be much thinner than tliat of any of -the other defenders built-there. The housing will be only threp inches wide. The boat's outer skin will be very smooth, the plates being flush instead of overlapping. One frequently hears of negro men being lynched, but seldom of women. Marie Scott, a negrpss. who. at Muskogee, Oklahoma, killed a young white man, driving a knil'p into his hpart. was j hangpd two days later from a telegraph polp. A m-jskpd mob overpowered the gaoler of the pounty gaol, throw a rope round thp woman's head, "and dragged her out to execution. The applications received last year by the British Patent Office rrom women inventors numbered 4f17. as compared with ("Mi in 1912. There were 1532 applications made by way of communications from abroad, of which 730 came from the I'nited States of America. 421 from Germany. 4.3 from France. 42 from Belgium. .'!.'. from India. 27 from Canada, and 22 from Italy. During the hearing of a licensing case in the Belfast Summons Court laughter was created when the constable gave the name of Ihe defpndant as "Satan." Mr. ' Lewis I prosecuting solicitor!: "What! Satan!" The Constable: "Vuss, sorr!" The !\Ligistrate: "His sorrows now com- I mence!" Mr. Lewis: "Let Satan rome j forth!" A man then advanced towards the magistrates. He informpd the Bench. however, that he was not Satan; his name was Sealon. The Federal authorities have informed the N.Y Yacht Club that excursion boats not having a high sen license will be forbidden to witness the race for thp Ame-rie-a Cup. contrary to previous custom. The stricl enforcement of this and other Federal requirements is expected 1o limit ihe size of the spectators' flpe.t, which is interesting in view of criticism previously passed on interference wilh tbe cornel pcting yachts. Two Liverpool little girls have rpcently added to thp tribe of "howlers." says the Liverpool "Post." One. aotat six. was askpd to write a. sentence with the word dogma in it, and produced this gemt "Our dot: ma has four pups!" The other. ajrpd .d-rin, had been to London on a visit. Slip wis asked to pxplain who Herodias was. and her reply was that the lady in question was a dancer who danced tangoes at Harrod's. The London County Council has decided to enter into an azreement with the Wandsworth Committee of local practitioners for the estabhsehment of a centre in Tooting for dental and ringworm treatment iby X-rays). A table in the annual report of the County Medical Officer gives thp percentages of TPaliv had tpeth among l_ondon school children. The table runs: Entrants (i.e., very yoiiDt. children), boys, lO.rt. girls 10.1; age Hit. boys 17. girls 1f1.5; age 11-12. boys 12.9. girls U.S. A party of sixteen Cerman flirl Guides, dressed in dark gn-en uniforms. last monlh spent a week's visit to England as guests of the Headquarters' Committee |of the English Girl (tunics. This is the first occasion on which Girl Guides from the Continent havp paid a visit to England. The movement, which sprang, directly from the Hoy Scout movement. | hits been in existencp fnr throe ypars. and ; ihpre arc ln.nOO Girl Ouides iii England.! It has gradually spread to foreign i-ountrio.. and. in addition to Germany, branches have been started in France. Switzerland, Sweden, Portugal, and Holland.