NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 528, 23 March 1908, Page 4

NEWSY NOTES.

♦ FACTS AND FANCIES FOR STAR READERS. The Countess of Sefton, who is with tho Earl's party in Abyssinia, has killed her first lion. Papa: I never told lies when I was a boy, Willie. Willie: When did you begin, papa? The record for continuous bowling has been broken at Washington by Harry Krauss, who played for twenty four hours without a rest. The earliest known rain gauge wss made by Sir Christopher Wren, said Dr. H. R. Mill at the Royal Geographical Society recently. London's total supply of electricity for the past year was 213,174,279 unit, says a Board of Trade report. The cost was 2.839 d a unit. A chased gold box fetched £180 at a London sale on February 6. A Louis XV. box realised £165, and a Louis VI. snuff-box £110. To meet her by moonlight Costs nothing, my honey. To meter by gaslight Costs money. To the business man: When you have urgent work, needing accuracy, and neatness, send for Miss Mills, Shorthand Writer and Typiste. Apply Star Oißce. Young Poet: Can't you tell me how I'm to become a good poet? Old Poet: First of all you must die, because all tho good poets died long Client: Didn't you make a niutiiKß going in for law instead of ihc army? Lawyer: Why? Client: By the way you charge, there would Jo little left of the enemy. Teacher: I can't under stall, Johnny, how it is you don't know your letters yet. At your ago I could read nicely. Johnny (inno;>ntly): I expect you had a better teacher." While cycling near Halesworth (Eng.) recently, Henry Keable fell, and his clothes were set on fire by his bicycle lamp. He was found lying unconscious next morning, and died on being removed home. Excitement was caused in Huntingdon on February 1 by the Fitzwilliam Hounds chasing a fox into the heart of the town. The fox was lost in a doctor's garden, but was afterwards discovered in a cottage outhouse and captured. The German Express has presented the national award for long domestic i service, the " Gold Cross of Remembrance," to Miss Wilhelmina nloftgen, who has been for over forty years in the family of the He?. V illiam Davids of Exeter. The International Eucharistic Congress^—the greatest gathering of Roman Catholics since the Reformation —is to be held in London in Septem- I ber. A Papal Legate —the first in England since the Reformation —will attend, with 200 cardinals and bishops. Clementine Rocher, aged sixteen, on February 6 threw herself into the Seine, opposite the Palais Bourbon. 1 Before assistance could be given she j had regained the bank, and informed the terrified spectators that she was rehearsing for suicide, as she proposed to take her life by drowning. She was arrested. • Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, the president of the Canadian Pacific Rail- j way, has just issued a circular stat- j ing that 'pension regulations have been arranged so as to provide the , minimum of £50 a year to all who have been in the service of the company for ten years or more, and have reached the age limit. "Your family plays the piano later svery night," said the visitor. "YfV answered the suburban resident, "we're trying to keep the people next loor up so that they will be t.io 3leepy to mow the lawn in the MOining. And they're trying to mow tht lawn so early that we won't feel like playing at night." Thirty Arabs, attired m flowing tvhite robes, witnessed the marriage | jf Mohamed Ben Mohamed, iho Jealer of a troupe of acrobats, to i is-s Vfary Hart, on February 1 at the Birmingham Registry Office. Eight ; pars ago, while Mohamed uas \ or- ! :orming in Budapest, he bee une i • j juainted with Miss Sally Hart, and le first met her sister Mary on gong to Birmingham some months ater.

Two Thompsons lived next door to each other, and, (having to call 011 on© of them, Green, of course, went to the wrong house. A crabbed servant answered the bell, and on Green asking, "Is this Mr Jolm Thompson's?" she. replied snappishly, as if she had been bothered with many such inquiries: 'No. it ain't,' .and slammed ftie door in iris face. Green walked on a few yards o rso, wiien a bright -thought struck ihim. He returned a* onco and rang the same bell. Again the crabbed servant appeared, "Who said it was?" asked Green, and triumphantly walked away.