NEWS IN BRIEF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVII, Issue XLVII, 7 March 1912, Page 1

NEWS IN BRIEF.

At Emjraanuel 'Church, Hastings, a basketmaker named Taylor, Who is blind, was married to a. woman named Dunk, who is both blind and deaf.

The office of the Criminal Identification Bureau at Ottawa has records, finger-prints. arid photographs of no fewer than 5500 murderers and thieves.

According to till© Canadian Labour Department, the loss in working days through strikes during the month of November in Canada numbered 140,000.

The picture of Saint Job by del Pacchia, the famous lbth-century master, has been stolen from the Churcli of St. Sebastian at Siena, near Florence.

At a meeting of th e Belfast Corporation ifc was reported that the death-rate from all causes during the past year was 17.2 per 1000, the lowest in the history of the city.

The latest fashion in necklets is styled the "King George" finger-print pattern, embodying a clever imitation of. an actual anger-print on ta, background ■ 1 of whorls and loops. .

The wife of a song writer in Pittsburg, who was probably forced to listen to licr husband's compositions,, haso.btained a separation on the ground, of inhuman cruelty. '

The lowe st of the tenders for the construction of two 27,000-ton battleships for the United States Navy is that. of the New York Shipbuilding Company—£l,lßs,2oo a ship.

A man of honour and virtue is qne who prides himself upon nothing.—La Hochefoucauld. • •

What docs anxiety do? It does no* empty to-morrow of its sorrow; but it empties to-day of its strength. _ It does not make you escape the evil;. it makesyou unfit to cope with it if it lan Maclaren. Herr Alfred Fried, editor of-the Vien-. na journal "Friedenswal-te," shares th® year's Nobel Peace Prize. , There are two kinds of men—the man who wants a woman to put her head on hie shoulder, -and the man who wants to put his head 0,1 a woman s slhouldei. And when a girl's fool enough to liko' the last kind best, she generally ;•'!>«s*• —Elinor Lane. Were a person to collect all the happy thoughts he had ever had .in his result-would be a valuable book. Atleabt--once a year everyone is a genius. It J6 only that the actual man of genius socalled has his good ideas, at shorter intervals. Wc see, tl\en, how much depends on making a nota o. -:V<>rythn , —LYhtenberg. 1