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Dunstan Times, Issue 2712, 27 April 1914, Page 8

Rear-Admiral Peary’s daughter. Alary Agnighito, who was born 10 years ago in the Admiral’s winter quarters in' Greenland, when he was on one of his earlier Arctic expeditions, has made her formal debut into society, says the Chronicle’s New York correspondent. Airs Peary was the first white woman to winter with an Arctic expedition, and the child born was named by the Eskimo Agnighito, which means "Snow Baby.” A new public office, said to be the only one of its kind in the history of civilisation, has just been created at Los Angeles. California. Its holder is called the Public Defender, and his duty is to defend any person accused of crime as diligently as the Public Prosecutor conducts the prosecution. The first incumbent of the office is Mr AV. J. Wood, who was formerly connected with the office of the Public Prosecutor, and who was appointed after a competitive examination. “The little kindergartners were asked to tel! what they saw in the schoolroom that interested‘them. One tiny miss, wile lisped, offered the following—and,” says the Western Advocate, “certainly no one can find the smallest lack of orthodoxy in it ; “ ‘The gohl-fisth thwimrneth in the

bowl, The robin thiths upon the tree: What makes them tint the eathily—

Wlio stuckth the fur upon their breasths ? God ! God ! —He done it ! M ‘’The attention of lady passengers is drawn to the danger to other passengers and the conneil’s servants through the practice of wearing hatpins with unprotected points.” The above notice, signed by the chief officer of tramways, was posted on all the London County Council tramcars recently, owing to the complaints that had been received of injury caused to passengers and 1 others by the dangerous hatpins which are used by ladies. The notice on Loudon tramcars is only a naming, but on the Continent more drastic measures have been taken, the Prefect of Police in Paris having prohibited the nso of unprotected hatpins in public places within that city.