FIDDLESTICKS!

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume I, Issue 179, 15 July 1911, Page 1 (Supplement)

FIDDLESTICKS!

It is said the beams and heavy timbers taken from old Swiss “chalets” and oth'-r old stylos of houses make tho source of supply from which some of th<* best violins are made. But if asa of material counts for • nyHiing. the violin made by an r ndiar.a mon should eclipse the finest "Strac!.” The body of it, according to a violin paper, is made of a variety of cedar taken from an old log dug out of a Now J.’rsev swamp, and is said by exrerts to bo at least three thousand ▼ears old Th? hack of this instrument i*: from an old Scotch, table that has tearhi'd tho age of four centuries. If age gives fineness of tone, howsi mild a plank from Nonh’s Ark sound when worked into a fiddle?

girl fainted the police had the greatest trou'b? in getting her away from the crowd. It was not prisoners who i;rst raised the alarm about the harem skirts. As a matter of fact none of the ladies wore harem skirts Wren the alarm was raised t seemed to travel like lightning, several womevn uero pushed, and children a.most trampled upon.—The Magistrate: You bave nothad anything of this ‘O't before? -Inspector Brain: No. It was nothing short of a miracle that women lad not been crushed and seriously injured. There were at least six ladies molested.—The magistate said prisoner- had been guilty of on .rag 'ou* lehaviour. It was most disgraceful that respectable girls could not go to the park without being subj**cred to such treatment, and he regretted that he had not the power to send accused to prison without havi ig the option of paying a fine. Tie (the magistrate) did not care whether his action was appoved or not, but he would impose the full penalty, and order prisoners to pay 40s. each, with rhe alternative of a month’s imprisonment.