INTERESTING ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 343, 8 March 1911, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS.

A new kind of cigarette which lights on the box is about to be placed on the English market. The Bishop of Marlborough was fined 2s 6d at Exeter recently for allowing his chimney to be on fire. A suggestion that Edinburgh should have its municipal military band is being considered by the corporation. There were 96 cases of cholera and o7 deaths in Madeira from the 6th to the ]2th of January. No English were affected.

Madame Calve, who is in India, has had sent to her by a native rajah the weighty present of two elephants. The Cunard Company last year carried to New York and Boston 17,222 first, 21,970 second, and 66,350 third-class passengers. A cobbler's advertisement in Liverpool is woriying the youth of the district. It runs: "Rough boys and girls well leathered." The preliminary official count of the census of December 31st, 1910, gives Vienna a population of 2,001,291, compared with 1,1348,335 in 1900. Thre Australian citizens are each contributing £IOOO to Dr Mawson's Australian Antarctic expedition. Other generous help has been promised. The French Senate has adopted by 137 votes against 122, a Bill limiting the number of establishments at which alcoholic drinks may be supplied. Or, account of the damage done to the clover roots in North Shropshire by wood pigeons, shooting parties are bain o, organised to reduce their number. Miss Edna May (Mrs Oscar Lewisohn) is emerging from her retirement, and is now rehearsing for a revival of "The Belle of New York" at the Savoy in this month. The Supreme Court of America has upheld the Alabama law forbidding agreements and combinations by fire insurance companies for the purpose of fixing rates. The driest part of the British Isles last year relatively to the average appears to have been in the east of Berwickshire, where the deficiency of rain amounted to 15 per cent Mrs Elizabeth Jarson, a Leicester centenarian who has died, was a confirmed smoker, and was presented on her 100 th birthday anniversary with a pipe and silver tobacco box. The lace school in the little seaside village of Shaldon, South Devon, has been honoured with an order from Queen Mary to supply a quantity of lace for her Coronation robes. A writ has been served on the Australian Commonwealth Government,on behalf of Mr Osborne, a North Sdyney landowner, attacking the validity of the Land Tax Act as ultra vires. In their attempt to secure pure milk for London, the Metropolitan Borough Councils have, in twelve months, removed no fewer than 1290 names from the register of milk vendoi'3. Members of the fire brigade of the town of Kaluga, Russia, have conveyed their regret at the injuries received by members of the London Fire Brigade during the fire in Sidney street, Mile End, in connection with the Houndsditch affair. The Australian wheat harvest for the season 1909-10 has easily established a record (the American Consul at Sydney reports). The latest official estimates give an aggregate yield of about 56,000,000 bushels. During the first six months of his vicariate at Braintree, Essex, the Rev. Thomas Eddleston has established a record. He has knocked at every door in the parish, and has had a chat with every householder. General Botha, the South African Premier, will arrive in London about the end of March, and will afterwards proceed to Kissingen, where he will stay some time prior to the meeting of the Imperial Conference. A man r.amed Kieser, who possessed an abnormally large head, who has just died in the Zilier Valley, Tyrol, sold his head during his life time to a scientist for £6O, and it has been duly forwarded to the purchaser.