QUAINT ITEMS.

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 33, 21 January 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

QUAINT ITEMS.

Bazaar Opened by Phonograph. A Wesleyan bazaar at Croydon (England) was opened recently by “absent j fr.ends.’’ Their speeches w ere deliver- • ».d by phonograph. I’;*, rmyn rd Fash ions. i A woman created a sensation rceent--1 ly in the streets of Bocholt, Germany. J by w* arir.- a hat which was the' exact copy of a bird’s nest, with a large hen m it. '■.Shadow Worth £BO a< Year. ; Mm«*. Lacroix, of Paris, is suing her landlord because he refuses to reduce the rent aft r having cut down a large tr.s* in front of the house, who.** shadow, she maintains, was worth ISO of t t ■ to:.al n nt. S.e.el by Elastic Ribs. 1 humus Slater, a gio -er’* assistant, win ji.v. award d £5O damages at the . Marylcb ne C-imt*. C<-irt. was said to !:*vo !,. u; run over Ly a motor van .«< ighing a t**n. belonging to Mc.sm-s Tmlor Bioth* r. < 4 Knightsbridge. But, lor th * clastic <■ m'ition of his ribs h» * would have been killed. i ; Chain >*f Snic d.t.. ; A man named Juravlof committed ' f' 1 becan.e he had ix*en l i t d bv I « ,dow . Mme. Grib.,l..va. 1 "* H ’ n S,R ' h, artl th’’ news she swallowed poison. Hus caused another r.f |.w admirers to sbo.it hims.-lf. and finallv the latter s mother put an end to hcA- life Remise she could n**t survive her only i ! The Bedroom Dr.a mi I _ It hv l*een declared that ‘-he drama ■is gong to th* dogs,” said Miss (■k.d’B

Unger at the ai nual dinner r.f J e London diitnct of the Institute of Jourua--1 sts. ” 1 deny that it is going t- the dogs, out in twse days of bedioo n and pyjama f lays it has a tendency to go t*j bed.” Lived in Six Reigns. Many visitors to Lincoln tail cn Mrs Ann Speed, who is said to le the oldest woman in England. She is 101. tends her chickens every day nnd docs the hoitse work, walks six .’miles to market and back oneo a weak. rt*?.i--, writes, and is as spry as many a woman ball her age. She was born on the farm she now owns, and her family live*! these for one hundred years before she was born. Mrs. Speed has ]iv<d in six Kov.nl reigns. She remembers the fun.-rnl of Princess Charlotte. She was born ;i> Hie rtign of George II IN The aged woman says .she. has no special diet, and attributes her longevitv to pure countrv air and plenty of good plain fond. Sim .*as n clock older than ]i<rs--lf. Her grandmother got it as a wedding *ift when twenty-one. Mrs Speed’s somTall work evorv day in the week, and she Inins Lor granddaughter got their meals. Her age, her activity and Imr acccmph.shm< nU are her delight She reads newspapers every d.nv. M-ns the forms for her old age pension, has a K„Jr from the late King Edward and ha> lived all h-r lite in tho suburb of Heighington, except for a period of twelve vears Sh~ in a clear, firm v.*i..- ‘ She *„t' lerV-~ from all over tho world. ” ’ A Word Picture.

The Rev. E. Lipkin, of Oudtshoorn, Cape Colonv, has completed and presented to the King a remarkable portrait in words of King Edward. The lines which make up the drawing contain about 85,000 words, being a history of the late King’s life.