NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 1433, 6 March 1911, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

One of the best ways to lose your fears is to find your foes.

To shut yourself up from all sorrow is to shut yourself up to it.

More people live, to be centenarians in warm countries than in cold ones.

Listening, with most of us, is waiting till the other person has finished.

Russian and Turkish baths are to be built by the Southend Town Council.

"All the world loves a lover"— especially the jeweller, the florist, and tlie confectioner.

Fifty young Manxmen are about to leave the Isle of Man to join the London police force.

About fifty lives have been lost_ in French submarine disasters during the past five years.

The law has no penalty for stealing a heart. The punishment of having it left on your hands is enough.

A French inventor claims to have discovered a process of making motor tyres of paper.

"My trousers were too short," said a man at Bloomsbury County Court, Loudon, "so I had cuffs put on them."

"I have to do the best I can for my client—you have to speak the truth." —A barrister at the Middlesex Sessions.

Genius is an inconvenient thing to live with, especially in countries where social conventions are firmly established.

The Buddhist monastery of Ilaine, Thibet, which is 17,000 ft above sea level, is the highest all-the-year-round inhabited place in the world. *

Diggs: I see that they're making brandy with sawdust. Wiggs: Good •gracious, as if the forests were_ not disappearing fast enough as it is!

The incumbent of a living near Baldeck, Herts, was married recently by his son, who is curate of St. Mary's, Hitchin.

Mouse traps that kill by electric current taken from an ordinary lighting circuit the rodents that enter them are a recent invention.

According to the official return, the average attendance of children at London County Council schools last year was 659,127. *

David Kotschmer has been arrested at St. Petersburg for matrimonial swindling. He has married twenty wives in less than three years.

Sarah Malvy, aged 47 years, who was sent to an inebriates' home from the London sessions, had been convicted 103 times since 1884.

The quaint ceremony of "wassailing" the apple-tree was observed the other day by the villagers of Duneton, a hamlet under the Sessex Downs.

A Friendly Conversation. —"Parslow, what is your idea of a gentleman?" "I am one." "By George, Parslow, you always do have original ideas, don't you?"

An official report to the Holborn Guardians states that theTe is at present" an inmate of the infirmary who "eats" all the needles he can find. He is described as a "sane epileptic."

The German postal authorities have decreed that in future, whenever an employee asks for a blue pencil, he must first present the stump of the old one, a* a guarantee against fraud.

Mr George Burne, aged 25 years, of Connellsville, Pennsylvania, has eloped with»his mother-in-law, whose is nearly 50, as a sequel to the elopement a fortnight before of Mrs George Burne with Mr Burns' father. *

I can't afford to drop it;

I find it doesn't pay Without my daily Stab, to go,

However others may. To give me theirs on loan; They don't just say, but mean it— "Why don't you buy your ownP I hate to ask my neighbours