NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume IV, Issue 1135, 16 March 1910, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

( A mill will shortly be established in '. Sweden for spinning yarn from paper. ! ;£ ■ 1 A court of law is a place where jus- | tice is usually dispensed with, says ' the cynic. j '* ! About ono in four of the deaths in < ■the British navy are due to drown- s ing. 1 Billheads, memo, forms, letter '; heads printed at the Star jobbing ' ] office. j * !i An ounce of thought-fulness is ' ( worth a pound of apology. ] Choice new suitings and costume € tweeds at John Cobbe's. t Grown from the pip planted in "1850 j an apple tree at- Newbury has just produced about 20 bushels of fruit. j . . ■Sr t Despite tho advance of steam, x there still are nearly 66,000 sailing t vessels in use in the world. i Lake Superior, the largest body of j. fresh Avater in the world, is' about j equal to Ireland in area. -? * i Youngwed: I always crack up my wife's biscuits. Mr Bachelor: Heavens ! -Are they as hard as that? * i China's postal routes cover 88,000 , miles and there are 3493 post offices, " as compared with 176 in 1901. •'Did you have a good birthday dinner, Jimmy?" "I should think I did! I had to take four kinds of medicine after it." It was stated at a recent meeting 1 of the Lancashire County Coun-iil i ; that 100,000,000 mussels were con-J i sumed in the county annually. ( f See the window display of nesv c gopds in John Cobbe's 14 windows 1 this week. 1 How about that little job for the 1 printer? If you want good artistic c letterpress and careful work, send : t 1 along to the Stab office. i •3f < Attempt, strive to be original. So '< long as you keep trying, you'll keep i progressing; no effort is wasted; < striving is exercise, and adds to 1 strength. 1 •5v Judge: Do you swear to tell the 1 truth, the whole truth? Fair Wit- ' ness: It will be just perfectly lovely if you really have the time to listen. 3 * ] Lovely silks just opened at John Cobbe's. * < •3f i ■Mr Will Crooks was recently pre- ] sented by members of the Brown im ' Settlement Brotherhood, of London, ' with a silver medal inscribed "Will" l Crooks, Champion of the Poor." ' * 1 "Does your husband play cards lor 1 money?" "Judging from practical i results," answered young Mrs Tompkins, "I should say not. But all the ! other men in the game do." j A total of 48,627 lives have been ! saved by the lifeboats of the Royal I; National Lifeboat Institution, or by special exertions* for which the institution has granted awards, since it was founded in 1824. Inspect the new blousinge at John Cobbe's. Epitaph from a cemetery in Tasmania— Underneath this pile of stones Lie the remains of Mary Jones; ; Her name was Lloyd, it was not Jones, But Jones was put to rhyme witTi stones. Conceited Amateur: I learned to play the violin when I was ' eight years old. Crusty Professional: Indeed! How old were you when you forgot? To business men: You, want to bring your printed forms up to date. Do not send 1909 out-of-date memos, to your clients. Get your work up to the moment. TJp-to-date printing is done at the Stab office. "If you'd assume a more genial manner you'd get along better in business." "Rot I I tried it once, and everybody I met wanted to borrow money." _■ "Just think" of it! One person in every 37 in England is a pauper." i'hy, John," she returned, "it isn't so. I met more than 87 people in London last summer myself, and there wasn't a pauper in "the lot." •3f Be sure and save John Cobbe's cash coupons; they are worth one shilling in each pound. The amount of British money invested in Canada is estimated et, £250,000,000 in bonds and listed securities alone, exclusive of investments in land and industrial undertakings. "We did not have women moneylenders before the passing of the Moneylenders Act," Judge Bmden stated in the Lambeth County Court; "but now we have them in almost every court." A teacher in an elementary school at Graz, Austria, received a letter from a mother who explained that she had been dangerously ill with . atheism and rheumatism, and had ■ kept her little girl at home to nurse i her. Junior Partner: I see you have en- . gaged a new clerk. Is he a good , salesman? Senior Partner: Good salesman? Great Scotl I had to send for the ponce to prevent him . from talking mo into taking him into the firm. New dresses and trimmings at ! John Cobbe's. I * "Here, I say! Be a bit more careful with that razor; that's the second tinra you've cut me." "Well, 1 well, so it is; but there! I always deduct a ha'penny for every cut. Why, it's nothing for a man to go out of here having won fourpence off me." ' More Howlers.—The whale_ is _an Amphibious animal because iti lives on land and dies in the water. A parallelogram is a figure made of four parallel straight lines. Horse power is the distance one horse can carry a ' pound of water in an hour. The magnesium salt in the sea creates the effervescence when the tide comes in. amiiLi_^jwmiiifimßi_mn___