MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, 12 January 1906, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS.

While Dr W. 0. Gayler was motorng in New Jersey a flock : of wild geese swept over the machine breaking the head-light and knocking off the hat of one of the parly. Two geese were killed,

' The Burgess Hill group of school managers have recommended the employment of a girl at a salary not exceeding is a week to .see that infants at Newick School are not run over by motor-cars.

A South Lincolnshire medical officer of health reports that at Whaplode Drove a man, his wife, and five children are living in a small shed which formerly served as a chicken house, This in the richest country in the world.

Ray, the Ganlon Golf Club professional, hastrained his fox terrier to find lost golf balls, The dog did not take kindly to the go'rse at first, but one morning he recovered fifteen before play began. Among those who turned out to a cub hunt of the East Kent Foxhounds, held at Lympe, were three orld gentlemen whose ages total 278 years -William. Idenden, ninety-five; Daniel Taylor, ninety-three; and Charles Tearali, ninety, During-the three months ended June 30th last 241 person were killed and i323Jihjured on railways in the United Kingdom, •. • The discovery of importance to the West Coast of Africa has been made on the Offin Wver, where a chemist testingjhe supposed iron sand, raised byOfjjri River Gold Estates Company's oredgeSjMias detected the presence of gold in large quantities. Two condemned men in Chicago, asked whether they preferred to undergo vivisection in place of hanging, replied that they wojqld, one because it would spite the hangman,-and the other on the high ground of humanity. A third who was asked, said he would not trust the doctors,

Do not allow that constipation to continue. Check it while there is yet a chance. Indigestion, flatulence, acill risings, bad breath, all follow in its train, Cure the constipation with Dr Crossland's Noxol, 2s, at chemists and stores,