BREVITIES.

Evening Star, Issue 13091, 26 October 1908, Page 8

BREVITIES.

Dunedin Hospital returns ;—Patients admitted last week, 32; discharged, 26; remaining in the institution on Saturday, 138. There was one death A memorial service in connection with the death of Canon Dodd was held at St. Paul’s Cathedral yesterday morning. Bean Fitchett- was* the preacher, and Mr W. E. Taylor played the Dead March in ‘ Sank’ The stoppage of the cotton mills of Oldham (Lancashire) foil this year’s “wakes” cost the employers £50,000. A German inventor has patented a new shirt front made of enamelled tin plate. In July ’ast 101,273 dozen dressed and undressed hats and bonnets (valued at £42,842) found their way into Great Britain from France. When Hayes, the winner of the Marathon Race, made his appearance in New York 5,000 school children sang to him *My country, it is of thee.’ An official return shows that during 1907 forty thousand million feet ol timber was felled in the United States. Edible snails are becoming so scarce in France that it is proposed to have a close time for them. The Corporation ,of Dublin presented a congratulatory address to the Pope on the occasion of his jubilee, but the expense of engrossing, etc., was defrayed privately by the members. A native hospital assistant in India, finding his patient sinking, carried out his instructions to wire any change to the doctor by telegraphing “Patient in the sink!’’ Camel flesh m the newest delicacy. But what about the customer who gets “ the hump”? Small ties of gold, silver, a black velvet ribbon, finisehd with bows and tassels, are ■worn in London with all the latest tailormades. Two women billstickers and a woman painter perched on the top of a ladder are among the sights to be daily witnessed in Paris. A sapient policeman told a London magistrate the' other day that hia prisoner “ had nothing on, your Worship—only his shirt, socks, and trousers.” It lias been estimated that the cost of a medical education in England runs into £I.OOO. The Queen of the Hellenes is the only woman admiral in the world. She holds that position in the Russian Navy. Nazairo, the famous Italian motorist, recently put a record for a long-distance road race, averaging over seventy-four miles an hour, over the Bologna circuit.