NEWSY NOTES.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 1727, 23 February 1912, Page 1

NEWSY NOTES.

■ -•. __— ] Blame yourself first, then others. J -"* Painted water has no wind. I You can't eat hot broth in a hurry or hear a story on horseback. 45- ---. The Feilding Star does "job printing well and cheaply. ■}{• A steel rail on a main line seldom lasts more than 12 years. The drum was the first musical instrument used by mankind. mi Ihe motor omnibuses used on the London streets cost £500 each. Letters patent to a duke cost £350 marquis £300, and baronet £100. The dumb can tell when they have eaten. The first English Bible printed in the United States was iii 1728 in New York. •jf More than 37,000 children are officially recorded as street traders in England and Wales. Of 31 ocean-going steamers with a speed of 20 knots and over, Great Britain owns 14. Of 1000 children born in Russia, about one-half only stand a chance of reaching the age of five. •&■ A pearl necklace belonging to the ex-Sultan Abdul Hamid has been sold in Paris for £36,800. ■ft- ) When a young widow meets a man ' after her own heart, she begins to j sit up and take notice. ■Jr Mistress: Have you a. reference? Bridget: Foiiie; Oi held the poker over hei' till I got it. ■9fr About the only time a woman is speechless with astonishment is when aanan gives her his seat in a crowded ear. (~„. "H" J-here are only two classes in the world; labour \ men and lazy men— ! th& working class and the shirking class." , Madge: Was Georgo fooling while you were playing golf? Marjorie: Gracious, 1 hope not Why, I accepted him. "This is the fourth season I have met you at this watering-place, Miss Brown, and every, time you appear ten years younger!" ■3SA farmer who farms his farm with care, *No doubt, quite often seeks A plumber to make his plum trees "bear, 'And to-fix his garden leeks. It is said that the man who won't buy a, paper because he can borrow one lias invented a machine by which he can cook his dinner by the smoke of his neighbour's ohhnnev. Of the six million children registered on the hooks of the public elementary schools of England and Wales 10 per cent, suffer from defective hearing. ■Jf Thunderstorms are more frequent in lowa than in any other part of the world. The average is about one every fourth day, .Sumatra has S6 in a year and Rio Janeiro 51.