BY THE WAY.

Mataura Ensign, 24 February 1909, Page 4

BY THE WAY.

A new need has made us appeariinee on at least two farms in llie Wan-pa district, in the shape of Star thistles.

I he cost ol the general election in the Gcraldine electorate, in which there were two ballots, was toil.'l, exclusive of the cost ol priming and advertisiw'. and as these items will make up about tIOO the total will lie about .(.'"00. t liiler the title "War of the future with Count Zeppelin's airship, a harmless toy with explosion-effect." an amusing little device is being sold by hundreds oi Thousands in the streets oi llerliu. it consists of a fliin paper, about postcard size, showing the Zeppelin airship in lurioiis combat with a tleet ot battleships and torpedo eralt. At a point just beneath the airship marked by a star i|\e purchaser applies the end of a lighted eigarelte or match, and the flame .smoulders slowly downward to the deck of a battleship until suddenly a sham dcionalion announces the explosion oi the vessel's magazine. Ihe \\ ashingiou llureau of Manuf:iture> states that a company has been iornied in the I niled Slates, with a capital ot 1100,000. lo manufacture paper Irnni cotton stalks, which have hitherto been regarded as a useless byproduct. 'I li« eosl of manufacture is said lo lie (;;! pei- ton A sixth mari|iiee lias been erected on ihe Addinglon school hround to supply the place ol the school recently destroyed I>v firi'. and the attendance continues to improve. As a matter of fact there are now mure scholars in attendance than prior to the destruction of the school.

In oiilv uiu' place ill North A morion, it is U-lioved. am there women Imrteuderv ihi> ts in St. John's. Newfoundland. «uid they have peculiar temperance methods Minn* too. Over every >aiouu liar there is ported weeldv a list ol all persons arrested for dninkoune.ss. No one is allowed to sell any such person a drink lor a period ol two weeks, under penalty of a heavy line.