NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIII, Issue 1844, 19 June 1920, Page 6

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

' THE ONLY DIFFERENOE. A woman, whose husband had deserted her' told the Willesdon magistrate that she |, can I lio was the manager t nf a provision >hop, and was given permission l<> go and see if she could identify him. Thu man bore the same name as her husband, ami was his ex net double, except that he had one brown eye and one bine, whereas her husband had two brown eyes.

"TJIE (IRANI) SECRET."

- A man with arificial feet, whose body Was found in tho Thames, near Waterloo Bridgo, was identified as Alfred Dean, £7, an, unemployed labourer. On his person was found a niece of paper wi'b tho words, "1 liavo tried to gel work, hub cannot. Xow for the grand secret. Good-bye all." , Verdict, suicide dining- temporary insunb'tv.

ICE A POPULAR DAINTY

Americans eat more ico cream and similar; trozen desserts than the people of any other nation, but the Japanese have them surpassed as eaters of ice. One of their favourite dishes is small cakes of ice broken into tiny, pebbly pieces and eaten with sugar and lemon'. The commonest way of eating ice in Japan, however, is to shave it into snowy flakes and to swallow it with sweetened water into which fruit juice or sw'qeimeals have been thrown. lee cream, milk and eggs shaken with ice ami other kinds of cooling beverages are sold in mi ever-increasing quantity, but the oldj style of eating raw ice. in what the ! Japanese call the korimizu fashion, is still iin (the greatest vogue.