NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1403, 30 January 1911, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

The average amount of illness in a'< human life is nine days a year. * I Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing. * . Everyone is born a king, and most ! people die in exile, like most kings. To have faults is natural; not to strive to correct them is a deadly sin. If women wore obliged to think or something to say they wouldn't talk so much. The value of pictures in the National Gallery in London is about £1,250,000. ■&• All the other rooms being taken, a single room is said to be <a double' room. The heart beats 10 strokes a minute less when one is lying down than in an upright posture. -ft* Death and vulgarity are the only two facts that one cannot explain away. Frost: Are the descriptions of scenery in Bestseller's novel good? Snow: Great! The best I ever skipped. *, , " Maid: There's a man at the door with a wooden leg, mum. Mistress: Oh, tell him we don't want any. A wrangle is the disinclination of two boarders to each other that meet, together but are not in the same line. ! * . , Six aerial guns are being made at the Krupp works in Essen for the special purpose of destroying flying machines. * "Henry, sometimes I'm sorry you are not a sailor." "But sailors are away from home so much of the' time." "Yes." ' Professor: What charming children 1 They are twins, I presume? Fond -Mother: Yes. Professor: And—er— are they both yoursP * "Many people talk more agreeably than they write," said the literary person. "Yes," replied M_.Owington, "My tailor does that." . . # Bill: Jake said he was going to break up the suffragette meeting the other night. ~\X ere his plans carried out? Dill: No, Jake was. The landlady of a boardinghouse is a parallelogram—that is, an oblong angular figure, which cannot be described, but which is equal to anything. A German jeweller has designed a ring for divorced persons, a plain gold affair, with a stripe of silver or platinluim inlaid to indicate that the wearer's marriage tie has been parted. Who sees me chop the morning wood, And then informs the neighbourhood, She thinks my husband "can't be good"? ■My neighbour! •2S 1 "Prosperity has ruined many a man," remarked the morahser. "Well," rejoined the demoraliser,. "if I was going to be ruined at all I'd want prosperity to do it." In the last four years no fewer than 15,141 pianos have been imported to New Zealand. British made pianos last year exceeded tho foreign made in number. "It must be expensive to get up these moving pictures of warfare/; '•'Yes, actors and costumes cost a lot. "Wouldn't it be cheaper to finance a South American revolution?" In a lecture at the Selborne Society, London, Mr F. 'A. Bellamy said that, •according to present calculations, the total number of -uown stars amounted to about 4000 millions.

There w<as a strike of printers m Montliucon, Franco, last month, and the only newspaper published there was produced by a number of amateur womon compositors collected by the editor's wife.

The managing director of a petticoat manufacturing company complained at the Bankruptcy Court m London last month that his company had failed owing to a change in fashion. "In other words," said the Official Receiver, "ladies have given up wearing petticoats.''

Seventeen French warships of all ages, shapes, and sizes were sold by auction -at Toulon. The total sum realised was £67,000. Among tha ships sold was tho wreck of tho Jena. Tlie cruiser Richelieu, which cost £1,200,000, was sold for £15,000 to a merchant from Amsterdam.