NEWS AND NOTES

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2733, 15 May 1924, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

A Far Eastern News Agency despatch from Peptropavlosk stated seventeen volcanoes in the Peninsula of Kamshatka, Siberia, were in eruption in March. A police force of 38 Chinese concerned in the recent piracy in HongIvo'ng waters on the steam launch Hwangtak, were shot by the Chinese authorities in the Heungslmn district.

“Yawning is one of the most healthy forms of exercise,” says a. doctor, “It indicates relaxation and freedom from poisons in the system, and does not necessarily express boredom.” So don’t he afraid to yawn. The Wool worth Building, New York, highest skyscraper in the world was sold for £2,220,000. Title to the giant tower, known throughout tlwi world, passed from the holding company of the estate of the late F. Woolworth, “five and ten cent, store king,” to the Woolen Really Company.

An elderly Maori walked complacently along a street of Napier with abbreviated football shorts in place of the longer garments that uncustomary for city wear (says the Daily Telegraph). Above he was immaculate, with collar and tie all complete, and he showed lofty disregard of the smiles with which the sight of his swarthy calves was greeted by passers-by.

A remarkable leal of mirgery war. performed a I the Liverpool Loyal Infirmary. A man liad lost hot.lt eyelids through the bursting ol.‘ a tube of sulphuric acid, lie had not closed his eyes for six years. The operating doctors fashioned new’ eyelids with shin from the man's arm. The grafting was successful.

“There is a tendency in Christchurch to turn the bicycle into a carrier's carl,” said Mr 11. Thompson during the hearing of the plumbers’ dispute in the Conciliation Council. “Carriers have been fixed on the back of the machines, and it is not uncommon to see a limn with a gas stove strapped on the carrier, a few lengths of piping, on his shoulder, and his tools and gear stowed about other parts of the machine. The worst of it is some of the employees introduce a sort of competition among the men and because one man is prepared to load himself lip like this the others arc expected to do it.” Two workers —a man and a woman —who had a combined term of fully 117 years in the service of a Nottingham lirm of lace manufacturers, died within a few hours of one another recently. The wo man had been employed as a member from June, 1862, until September last, and had completed 61 years’ service with the linn. Mr. Walter Wakefield had been employed by Messrs. Berrey from February,' 1863, till December, 1619, a period of 56 years. A fine specimen of the wild cat measuring 43 inches in length, /has been killed at Torridon, on the west

coast of Ross-shin*. The head keeper set out on the track of the eat with a tender. The eat was run to earth in one of tin* vookv defiles peculiar to the district, and put up a game fight against the dog. After a brief straggle it ran out of the defile, but a shot from the keeper’s gun laid it low.

It is reported that each of the passenger""’planes operating between .Manchester and Belfast carries a slot machine from which a passen - ger can withdraw a small bottle <>t whisky, one of soda water and a glass for two shillings and six pence. The licensing authorities are trying to figure out when it will he legal" to operate this refreshment dispensing device, whether on the ground, in the air, or at what point on the flight and-according to wluvt tax levy.

A tenant of a house at Middleton near Bognor, England, suing the owner at the Chichester County Court for incidental expenses incurred owing to the condition of the property* referred to dust which, as fast as it was cleared away, gathered again to a depth of half an inch all over the house. The dust could he seen falling and particles were flying everywhere, even into the food. This so-called dust proved to be tiny wheat-eating domestic spiders and an entomologist gave his opinion that the spiders came from straw that was in the house. The plaintiff obtained judgment for ,C3B 10/-. A fall man walking along Queen St., Auckland the other day became the centre of interest near Fort St. He was carrying two fairly large hand bags, when one of them was knocked open. The wind immediately stirred up the contents and wluit appeared to be hand bills began to flutter to the ground. A short distance behind, a visitor from the country, Mrs Davies, of Birkdale, saw the papers and glancing at them she was amazed to see they were ten shilling notes. Greatly excited she grabbed ns many as she could and shouted “Hi! You are losing all your money!” The man with the bugs stopped and Mrs Davies, who had collected 17 notes, shoved them into the open receptacle, which, to her amazement, was apparently full of paper money. “Oh, thank you,” acknowledged the owner, in a mat-ter-of-fact voice, “they are only ten shilling notes." And he turned on his heel and walked on. Sandals are most common among tlie Orientals. As thev wear mere soles of wood or leather fastened to the foot with strings, they wear no protection from the dust. Hence arose the hospitable practice of washing the visitor's feet —a practice so much insisted upon by public opinion, that, if anyone passing out of a house beat the dust from hi-, feel, it showed that they had not been washed, and left on the house the reproach of inhospitably, which was the deepest of all dishonour. The shoe makes quite a figure in English historv. In the time of Richard T. says St aw, "began the detestable use of piked shoes the toes being tied up to the knees with chains of silver or gilt. Edward IV, says the same historian ordained “that no man weave shooes or boots having toes passing tir» inches long; no peaks of hoots or shooes to pass that length on pain of cursing by the olergie. ’ Toasted tobacco is the last word in the manufacture of the fragrant weed. Its process is based upon science and .just exactly as people prefer their food cooked, they will now prefer their tobacco toasted. Toast is certainly wholesome)' than soggy bread, and the same principle applies to tobacco. Take for instance the locally maim factored brands. 1 hey are all toasted, and consequently more pleasing to the palate, besides there is less nicotine in them and that is a matter of importance. -In as much as any excess of nicotine, absorbed by the system, may seriously effect the nerves or cause smokers heart and weakening sight. Smokers should, therefore, not fail to give this new tobacco a trial; there is a vast difference between toasted and non-toasted tobacco, and they will find, it- is all in favour of the toasted. Obtainable in three strengths, Kiverhead Gold very mild and aromatic, Toasted Navy Cut (Bulldog) medium, and Cut Plug No. 10, is recommended to those who prefer a fully body. 8.