NEWS I BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 170, 11 April 1908, Page 10

NEWS I BRIEF.

r "Hair cutting'.and shaving. while yen wait'-' is'a:.?jg>Kt° t bo' seen inva,v|Sh'op --ab Yarmouth. . ,u;. C.-'tv;'■/-•■;•■ ir;;:.' •.•■> , ; At a yillage - near .'Exeter the wife of a farm -labourer has given' birfcli to her twenty-, second child; .'All;tlio family; are alive and , ' 'well.''" '■ :- v >V ; . ; ,' ' . j.The Lambeth Boarc! of Guardians lias accepted : a contract:for the. shaving- and hair-, cutting:' of, the.-!1800/paupers tin;, their two workhouses attthe-.raW.or:£so:a' j r ear.;; Dnring-a'.>run-"with■■■the' Axe Vale (Devon) Harriers lh% hoiiiids became wedged in • a ,■ culvert '.in ..whiclr the fox ;had' talfen refuge. • Shortly afterwards;, the pack killed a. badger weighing 301b. ' . :'' V;.' V ' Dutuit,,who;dicd'in Paris in. 1902, left ; a.'large'part ,of .his' wealth to all those who . could legally: claim , kinship with;',hiiri.; TM court recently/rejected . the, claims ' of tha 747 th. "friend." • . . : ... . ' ■ •. .;A." schoolgirl:'At,'thirtwyi .years l voted ro. ceiitly ,in an- election ;of guardians 'at; He- .. ,wood, Lancashire. ■ Her .name was placed on the list; of voters as a- joint occupier: of a dwellinghouse. ;•••■''. ;'. Speaking at a ' dinner' ,of .London mayors, "; at the\Rita-Hotel,i the Lord.jMay6r._of Lon- 'S. don - said that.'during the; past; twenty-five " years the,'Cityr had .'given: £1,250,000 , for - • technical education. , V' ;. , ■'Att.Yarmoutli.'-Eolico Court*.; the ; ,;' Mayor.; . presented t monitors' of;..the Caister- lifeboat crew' with medals' which 'had'-been .awarded them: by ".the for bravejy saying; sis of . .: ■ the crow. of a Russian. ship. V; ■: : - 1' ■ •.'At.United "States'. Consular . report - states : that :.tho total number, of. vessels arriving. at;'\ tNcw .York-from foreign ports, during 1907 ' was 4749. ■ Of these .only 726. were' American, while 2030. were British and 710 German... I Tiie King and tho: Queen were represented at tho funeral in .Brampton-Cemetery of Jlr.- . Charles Taylor: who was an inspector in. tho >; \Lord Chamberlain's' department, and ; ; liad'^ been in. tho royal -service ';.for'; forty-eight' . .VC.U3 _ ■ , "It -isT a noblo'old game," writes Lord RoscbciT in agreeing to become a pation of tho'English Bowline" Association.\"l", hayo' •• a peculiar'-interest m 'it from;the fact that I own the lawn where Evelyn and Popys used to play." • . : .. In agreeing to allow lectures on tho evils of cigarette smoking to : ho. given.-dining school hours in, their, bovs' schools, the.East / Suffolk Education Committee have asked; the teachers to refrain from . 'smoking.;, on tho school premises. . •• ' - , ' 'Georgo'Chester, of West Livingston, New Jersey,' dreamt-: throe .times; that ho sat down tto rest at. a snot, on the ; roadside, and -.. that when lie rose his heel .slipped;..movinga - stoliej and .revealing his wife's lost wss!- , ding ring. He at length'put tho'dream to tho. test, and the • ring was found in tho • . . exact-spot'lie had. dreamt about.-'•';■ ' , - ■ Iu pursuance of its' plans for' 'introducing , modern methods' v jn'to ";'the' country, . tho J. . Chincso Government spent .£23,065,1a5t year- . for tho purposo ; of ' allowing youiig ; Chinamen ■to.-,.study in' : foreign countries. . Tho 'greater riuiiibor, of ' these students went to Japan, ■ whilo.';'others,': .'visited "Arcericaj; . France, England,' Germany,' Russia aud.; Y Belgium. •Y./i' -■ ' After theatre.at Norfolk, Vir-. ginia, between the acts, .ostensibly to obtain a V'so'da," Miss Sadie Sherman and.Jlr. H. E. "Ath'erton went to the house; of a .clergy-; man and got married. ; They ;thcn .returned .and broke; tho news to Miss ' Sherman a father,: whq had .beqn persuaded ■by his son',' ,to remain in his .seat. ' Lecturing''before i the Royal Piiotographio Society, ill'. K. J. Tarrant, -F.U.AtS., said one of the most curious things about the photography of. lightning flashes or-othei. electrical discharges' was the' frequency Ayith which tho photographic; plate, would, lly into , many pieces pf- most fantastic' shapes '.on. esposure.. The'.effect, lie stated, was doubt-; iless due ; to ..intensa strain on the glass., i; - I t'lVomo'n', of. tho town pf Kraiiichfcld, which . lies partly in .Woiniarantl- partly in Menungen,. have sent a jwtitioii (j,.t.h'o Governments'', of both principalities asking, that soniething •may.; l>p done to regulate tjie'closing hours of 'the public-hou-ps. They coin))lain that; : after their husbands have been turjirtd out •of the public-houses which! lio'.-in 'Weimar. l they merely cross the street to 'Memiugeo, where the closing, hours aro much later.