ODDS AND ENDS.
A submarine boat, that is destined to enact an important part in warfare, has been tested by Prince Waldemar, of Denmark. In form it is like a fish, and can descend below submerged chains in harbours, and can cut cables and wires with shears at its keel. Two men, who work the vessel, have stayed in it several hours under weter without inconvenience. They take with them a supply of oxygen, and they can eat their meals quite comfortably. ' "Papa, dear," said old man McCan's eldest daughter as she bent fondly over him during his last birthday," forgive me for asking you, but what are you going to leave your darling daughter when you die?" "Fatherless!" cried the irascible old war horse, as he rolled over with his face to the wall and kicked so hard that he almost fractured the footboard. , Within the last few months the trustees of the British Museum have become possessed of. a Chinese bank note, which was issued from the Imperial Mint just 300 years before the circulation of the first paper money in Europe. The note is one which was issued in the first year, or one of the first years, of the reign of the first Emperor of the Ming dynasty. The' interest attaching to the note is very great. It is older than the first real bank in Europe—that of Barcelona (1401); exactly three centuries separate the date of issue from the establishment of the Bank of Stockholm (1668), which was the first bank in Europe to issue notes; and it is only a century later than the pieces of stamped leather—the prototypes of European banknotes—which were issued by the Emperor Frederick 11. at the seige of Faenza in 1241. The man who is able to travel extensively can generally learn enough in a year to make a bore of himself all the rest of his life.. " What a wou-n-der-ful thing!" What.the world wants, says somebody, is a new religion. Wedojibtit. Some people are nbt~ willing to pay-fof.what:they'regetti«g n0w..:.;. i'; • Trenjißjdous: excitemeoi has been caused in a we,U.knQ#n Udies'ckb inthe metropolis by one of its {air njove t j^ t a separate; rolom be provided for smokers and another for billiard players!
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Jubilee : Te Tiupiri, Volume 1, Issue 2, 11 January 1898, Page 7
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374ODDS AND ENDS. Jubilee : Te Tiupiri, Volume 1, Issue 2, 11 January 1898, Page 7
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