NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume II, Issue 534, 30 March 1908, Page 4

NEWSY NOTES.

PACTS AND FANCIES FOR STAB READERS. Now is tho time to advertise, and tho Stau ,is the very best medium in this district. A Missouri stock breeder recently bought a Jersey cow at Sterling, llllinoiSj for tho record sum of £520. After standing for 857 years, the firao old Church of Maizeard, near Ripon, was burnt down last month. Magistrate: I hope I sliall not see you hero again. Old Offender : Why, you ain't going to resign your office, aro you? British industries were responsible for 1179 fata 3 accidents and 123,230 non-fatal accidents in 1907. There were 707 cases of industrial poisoning. Shopa in Marissa, Illinois, were closed while men armed with guns hunted a mad dog in the streets of ' tho town. The animal had bitten eight persons before it was killed. The Anarchists of Italy have decided to starib a daily paper, in which their views will bo freely expounded. Enrico Malatesta, who has been living in , London, will bo editor. A young man in Vienna, who discovered that his fiancee was in the habit of speeding nearly £800 a year on • dress, broke off the engagement and married the dressmaker. To the business man: When you have urgent work, needing accuracy, and neatness, send for Miss Mills, Shorthand Writer and Typiste. Apply I Star Office. . Augusta Ferrol, a clown in a small show in Paris, Woke off his engage- : ment with Jeanne Leclerc, a dancer, because she cailled him a clown in a fit of anger. A food grandfather and father were ; admiring the new baby. Fond Gr-and--1 faifcher: I declare! that youngster is a great deal more intelligent than you were at his age. Insulted Parent: Naturally ; he has a great deal brighter father. An Act. has just been passed by the Oklahoma Legislature making it a punishable offence for the proprietor of any hotel in the State to use bed- • sheets less than nine feet in length, or to expect his customers to use . cracked china-ware. ■ Printing — not slam-bang, hit-or-mLss, go-as-you-please printing, but printing planned to please— printing that fits ithe case — that is the kind of printing that is done in <the Feilding Star Jobbing Depairtmont. Good work at cheap nates. Write us for samples or prices. Mr D. F. James, second officer of the /transport Rewa, wias presented with the Royal! Humane Society's testimonial at Southampton on Saturday, Feb. 8, for diving into shark-infested water in semi-darkness at Karachi and rescuing a soldier who had fallen overboard. Here is a telephone story : The tele, phone girl had married well, and was staying at a Brighton hotel. "Why didn'it you call me as I instructed you?" she asked of the chambermaid. "I did, ma'iam," was -the reply; "but when I said 'seven-thirty," you replied 'Number engaged, ring again !' " According to the American Consul in Paris, the oosit of domestic service of all kinds in that city has advanced at least 25 per cent, since 1900, and tho "sou system,'! under whioh the servant who does the marketing receives 5 per cent, commission from dealers, 'has become the despair of frugal (housewives. It haa been reported to fbhe Bairrow-in-Furness Guardians that an inmate named Moore, an Orangeman, Who died recently, had been buried by a Roman Catholio priest in enror. The clergyman who officiated said it was a most serious blunder, and 'he was Shocked to find that ihe had buried an , Orangeman. : Referringto the fact that the Farm Labourers' Union has cited 7300 farm- ; era in Canterbury, Mr R. Evans, in ; the course olf evidence alt the Conciliation Board at Rangiara, expressed the opinion that the Union had not cited nearly a3l the farmers in the Provin- | ] ciail district. 'At the lowest estimate 1 «««•© were 8000 farmers, but i»e thought there v.wo 10,000. '