NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume III, Issue 830, 17 March 1909, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

A fast locomotive consumes about 12 gallons of water per mile. Belgian girls are taught to do housework and marketing as part of their school lessons. •* Four hundred thousand diamonds are cut every year in one Amsterdam factory alone. Korean tailors do not stitch garments. They paste tlic <-dges together and press them down. ■K Li takes ;i Persian rug weaver about 20 days to weave a sqmue foot. ■XWhile it takes England two years to build a battleship, it takes France live. City air, scientist-, decline, contains 11 times a:s many microbes as country :iir. ■* The hide ol ;i cow produce* about ',i-')\U of leal her, lluit of ;i hoix: about I SI b A mini's chances of sudden <l(ath iij'o eight times ;»s great as a woman*. * In China a father cannot leave more, property to one son than to another; all must have an equal share. ■* Manager: What sort of play k- it —a character playy Playwright: Xo. sir: not a single person in it has a shred of character. For shorthand and typewriting, quickly done at reasonable charges, Miss Mills, Manchester-street. -rr A library of more than two thousand volumes relating to the game of chess was sold at Sotherby's Rooms. London, last month. 'Bertha : What is the height of your ambition, dear;' Marie (blushing) : Oh. something between five and a-halt' find .^ix feet. •* •There are now 8.71)0 horsed cabs and 2,1)23 taxieabs in Paris. A year ago the. number of taxieabs was 1465, and there were 9608 horsed cabs. •* Mr K. T. Stotosbuvy, a Philadelphia banker, has given lii.s daughter a cheque for £200.000. in addition to jewels worth £100.000. upon her marriage A young collier named Henry Briggs was .sentenced to a month's hard labour at Mansfield. 'England, for forcibly kissing a girl in a tramfar. Anne Kobbins. aged eighty-two, was found at a Bournemouth inquest to have poisoned herself while temporarily insane, on the eve of her removal to tho workhouse. 4CThe Tourist Committee of the Royal Automobile Cluh has approved of a scheme by which deaf cyclists will carry discs on their machines a,s a warning to motorists and others overtaking them. •K According to the Tailor and Cutter there is something like a revolt at Cambridge University, whore an attemut is being made to compel undergraduates to wear their trousor bottoms turned down. All dogs in tho couutv of Middlesex will he seized in future unless they are under control between one hour after sunset and one hour before -iim-ise. This monns that nn dog must he out after dark alone. •56After an absence abroad of twentyone years the Ist Devon Regiment, reached Southampton at the -:id of January from Burniah. Twentyone of the men who loft England with the regiment ivere among those who landed. ■SCIf you have one or 100 articles you'd like to turn into money — advertise in the Star. •*• During tho five years ended Juno 1908 the Co-oporative Wholesale Society of Manchester contributed £6,---639,208 in duties to the national exchequer. The largest sums were paid in respect of sugar, tea, tobacco, dried fruit, cocoa^ and coffee. •XA witness stated in the London Law Courts that he had changed his name because he objected to people thinking he was a "Welshman. He was followed in the witness-box by a solicitor who declared that he was a AVelshman, and very proud of it. •X---"President Taft is a man after the tailor's own heart — and art," says the Tailor and Cutter. "He is bulky, certainly, and his chest is rather low down, but his physique is of a fairly regular character, and there should be no great difficulty in fitting a man of such proportions." Six Victor Horstey, the famous surgeon, who gave evidence in a case heard at the London Law Courts recently, declared that champagne was bad for a neurotic person. "Alcohol Ls extremely harmful in those cases," he added. "I should give hot milk." * Mr W. A. Appleton, secretary of the General Federation of Trade Unions, has prepared statistics which show that there were about 11,560,---000 workers in Great Britain who were capable of organisation. The total number of trade", unionists is calculated at 2,106,283. A French deputy, who had been elected two years and a half ago, paid his first visit to the French Chamber of Deputies at the end of January last. He spoke, left the Chamber, and it may be another two years and a half before Ec is seen there again. We don't agree with the President in some things which he advocates in his message, and we might as well say it right out in print, even though it will pain and grieve the President when he learns that we have took exception to certain things which he has wrote. — Bingville Bugle, U.S.A. * A man was tried for murdering his wife at St. Mihiel, France on January 27, and at the end of the trial two questions were put to the jury —"Did the prisoner murder his wife?" and "Did he premeditate the crime?"' The jury replied "No" to the first question., and "Yes" iio the second, and the priaoner was ao-