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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2221, 26 October 1907, Page 4 (Supplement)

: Many a girl supports herself and a large family by marrying. -V North Carolina jury dismissed What is believed to be tlie smallest shop London is situated at the entrance to tho Bank station of the retv and South Lonodn Railway. It h kept by Mr. A. Blanchard, a tobacconist, and it measures scaicelj five feet deep and four feet across. 4. law has jusifc become operative.in. the United States which provides •Hint a naturalised citizen who leaves »a ctall. e S -h,™ for five years continuously shall be ie girded as having abandoned his citizenship. It is sand that lo.uuu German-Amerieans, 10,000 persons m Paris, and 8000 in London will be affected by the law.

A bird, at first thought to be a crow, fluttered down the chiminey or a cottage at Newton, Devonshire. For three-quarters of an hour previous to this large quantities of soot had kept falling down tlio chimney, and the family dinner was spoilt. The uninvited guest pitched on the hot stove, then fluttered off exhausted, and on being washed proved to be a pigeon with a marked rung. The bird afterwards recovered. A remarkable-case of suicide mania in one family has occurred at JA Paso. Texas'. Two brothers of Edwird Harvey—who lias just drowned himself— committed suicide last year because they both loved the same jrj.rl, A few years ago then father lumped overboard in the Atlantic Ocean, and about a year 1 ago his brother murdered Ins own wife and daughter and then cut his own threat.

Air. Edward Vanderbilt, tlio millionaire lumber merchant, whose devotion to spiritualism lias resulted in ail inquiry into liis sanity, denied to the commissioners that Bright Eyes,” bis “controlling spirit, ever advised him in business. He stated that his wife, who was formerly Airs. Pepper, a notorious spiritualist medium, forbade “Bright Eyes and other “spirit” friends to send I non anv more telephone messages, as a mark of disapproval of the present proceedings.

The Spanish police have at last succeeded in capturing a gang ot seven persons who have been carrying on wliat is known in every European country as “the Spanish treasure frauds.” The capture was effected through the instrumentality of a Strasburg Pentium an and the German Consul at Madrid. .From documents found in the possession of the gang, they netted during the last 15 months .-614,000 from dupes in various countries. It is believed that there is yet another gangworking the swindle on the same lines.

At Trenen, in tlie neighborhood of Pinneu, a well-preserved copper-hat-chet has been found. Tho expert

tlie prehistoric museum in Dresden places the ago of this find at three thousand years—ito give it the verylowest estimate, for it is considered by the savants who have seen it to belong to the first half of tlie- “two thousand” before Christ, being an example of the earliest work of tlie Bronze Age. The deductions are drawn from the fact of the. material being copper without, or with but a very sin.rll admixture of t.lll, and also from the primitive shape of the instrument.