NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 612, 1 July 1908, Page 4

NEWSY NOTES.

2Se\vspaper advertising began in 1(352. It would take more than yeast to make some ineii rise to the occasion. A man cannot serve two masters, and ;yet some men commit bigamy. Have you anything to sell V Advertise it in tire Star. It is seven years since the Prince of Wales visited New Zealand. Fashionable furs, real good skins, at John Cobbe's. The successful poot is one ivho Ja able to earn a. living .at something else. It's a good plan not to give away your horse till you : have paid for your automobile. Some women are never ihappy unless they are feeding sorry for some other woman. '•l'ale ale" is the description of a new dress colour. It is described as "most beautiful." 'Advertising for a lad the other day, a London firm received in a few hours no less than 600 applications. C. and J. Clark's dainty English footwear for ladies, big variety imported direct by John Cobbe. Borthold Pusch, nineteen years old, a, new baritone who will appear this 'month at the Royal Opera at Berlin, is a- bricklayer by trade. You want winter firing, you want groceries, you want clothing — look up the enterprising firms that advertise in the Star. That's one good way to support the local paper. "It is my twenty-first child," pleaded a parent who was summoned at tha^JNorth London Police Court recently under the Education Act. lUie summons was then withdrawn. A cat at Knole Park, Almondsbury, which was deprived of heir kittens, ihas adopted three little rabbits and a duckling, all of whom 6he cares tor in a bos. The Star as an advertising medium continues to receive testimonials. A "Wanted," costing only Is, brought seventeen replies from all parts of the district. Mr !•'. \V. Gregory, Mayor of Tellby (England), has resigned. He lias beeu away from the town since the early part of the year, having gono back to the stage. Choice blousings a,t John Cobbe's. See window opposite bank. John Furr, who was digging «\ grave in the Nottingham a-oad cemetery at Derby on May 11, was buried by a auamtity of earth which fell on him. He was badly injured. An ambulance surgeon who was called to attend a woman who had fainted, [restored her to consciousness by cutting iher corset strings. His diagnosis was "tight lacing." Hubby: Awfully sorry I'm so Jate. dear; been detained on business with JNowcombe. Wafey: Yes, darling; Mr ISewcombe lias been waiting here for you since nine o'clock. To the business man: When you have urgent work, needing accuracy and neatness, send for Miss Mills, Shorthand Writer and Typiste. Apply Star Office. According to the Novoe Vremya, an enterprising Norwegian -ii£lier-man lias fitted -up a telephone apparatus on his boat which enables aim to hear the fish approaching, and even make a guess at their number ! First Lunatio (after helping companion up on wall to escape from "asylum): .Now, how am 1 to get up? Friend: 1 think you had better stop for a month or two. I don't think you are properly cured yet. At a meeting of the council of the Armstrong College, Newcastle, on May 11, an offer from Lord Barnard to place £1000 in trust for the benefit of the agriculture department of the college was accepted. Alexander Schick, of Chicago, has traveled 6,000 miles as a tramp to win 4s (one dollar) offered to him by his uncle if 'he had "arerve" enough to stay away from nome for four days. He stayed away for three months. The following advertisement appeared in a Vienna journal: "Wanted, by important firm, a commercial agent ; good talker, arrogant, and unscrupulous; good salary, with prospect of increase if satisfactory all round." John Cobbo's sale will be announced soon. Wonderful bargains for ready money. In sentencing a, peasant named Hojosh for a theft from the parish priest, the magistrate of Nevgrad, Hungairy, reproved hian for his meanness m stealing front a person who, ho/*fcnew., could not steal from him in return ! Former /Slaves, or their heirs, will receive £200,000 if <a Bill favourably reported by the United States Congress Committee on Banking and Currency, to reimbuse the depositors of the Freednien's Bank of ~ Philadelphia, which failed forty yeairs ago, becomes law. 'Hie report read at the twentyseventh annual meeting of tlie Church of England Incorporated Society for IVividmg of Waifs and Strays last month states that at the close of the year there were under t(he society's care 1,802 boys and 1,967 girls, making a total of 3,769 children, compared with 3,610 at the end of 1906. The Liverpool Journal of Commerce states that Messrs Elder, Dempster, and Co. lhave decided to ■ start a new passenger land cargo service to Morocco, via the Canary Islands, and to build several fine hotels on the Moroccan coast. Combined steamier and ihotel fares will be arranged. The tourist will render handsome ransoms for the local Itaisuiis.