IT MUST STRIKE YOU

Lyttelton Times, Volume CVIII, Issue 12996, 11 December 1902, Page 6

IT MUST STRIKE YOU

that you savfv a second profit if you buy your engagement rings from F. W. Tucker, 228, High Street, as they are made on the premises. X. 3092 Reliable goods at Jones and Sons. X 2497 People are not sufficiently grateful for the banana. Some are even mean enough to object to it, and because it does not wear a gaudy coat they grow spiteful and call it " candle, flavoured with weak pineapple taste." But besides its well-known nutritive properties the banana lias a good effect in cases of acute indigestion. Only see to this, ye knowing ones ; your banana must be ripe. Bilious people are advised to eat the banana the first thing in the morning—that is to say, if they are nob of the class whose morning is afternoon. The specifications of a new kind of boat have, the Vienna correspondent of the " Standard " s:tys, been lodged at the Austrian Patent Office by a Croatian engineer, named Cvetkovitch. The vessel, called an " aero-hydrostatic boat," is tu be a cross between a ship and a flying machine, and is to attain a speed, according to the inventor, which would enable it to circumnavigate the world in forty-eight hours. The principle seems to be that when set in motion the boat raises itself on the.surface of the sea and slides .on a film of water or air. The boat is still to be built.