INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12074, 18 September 1902, Page 3

INTERESTING ITEMS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS.

FAITHLESS SWAINS.

A wicked statistician has recently informed all and sundry that grocers' assistants are responsible for no less than six per cent, of the total breach of promise actions in Great Britain. —Grocers' Assistant. CONTINENTAL CRITICISMS. On Tuesday General Lucas Meyer was dined by Lord Rothschild; on Thursday by Lord Roberts. The metamorphosis of the Boer leaders from " roving ruffians" and "marauding bandits" to druwingroom aristocrats has been singularly rapid.—Het Nieirws van den Dag, Amsterdam. UNHAPPY HORSES. The majority of horses are overworked, both in speed, weight to be carried or drawn, and duration of hours of toil, to say nothing of their sufferings from hunger and thirst, the lash of the whip, the, constant stoppages and restarting necessary to crowded traffic, and the torture of the bearing rein. To put a sun-bonnet on the head of this much-abused brute is a sheer mockery.Medical Press. FOR uCTCH CONSUMPTION, There is no doubt whatever that we are. approaching a period in South Africa during which a struggle will be waged not less interesting, if less sensational, than that of from 1899 to 1902. And we are convinced the Boers are determined resolutely to light that fight with all the strength that, in them lies. The hurrahs of a. few sporadic and exhausted combatants count for nothing at allAlgemeen Handelsblad, Amsterdam.

DRINKING THE KING'S HEALTH. On Coronation Day every man in the Navy either drinks the King's health in a tot "of rum or receives the equivalent in savings. It is the cheapest " big drink" in the Empire. Probably nol; less than 100,000 will pour out libations in honour of the King. The equivalent of a ration of rum is a halfpenny and a half a farthing, so that the men who do not take up their grog are. entitled to a penny farthing every two days. The cost, then," of 100,000 rum rations "works out at- £325.—The Outlook.

THE MODERN TRIUMPH. An Australian syndicate has offered General De Wet £250 a week to appear as a lecturer. This is the modem parallel to a Roman triumph.Buffalo Express. PROMISE OF CHANGE. j Steadily and surely London's local traffic i is likely to come under American control, and it will undoubtedly be changed for the better under American management. —New York Tribune. WHAT THE MAGNATE WANTED. To Professor Ramsay, at the School of Mines, came one day a commercial magnate, who wished his son to enter upon a course of the school's instruction. " But mind you," said he, "I don't want him to learn about strata, or dips, or faults, or upheavals, or denudation of surfaces, and I don't want to fill his mind with fossils, or mineralogy, or stuff about crystals. What I want him to learn is how to find gold and silver and copper in paying quantities, —in paying quantities." The Pilot. . * BRITISH GASTRONOMIC FEATS. The belief that we all need three solid meals a day dies hard. " Food and Feeding," by Sir Henry Thompson, is written on the generous English plan, for in England they seem to get away with larger quantities of beef and beer than the average American can assimilate. In Merry England, the traditional three mesas a day are often supplemented by a hearty luncheon called " five o'clock tea," and a late supper as well. Contemplating these gastronomic feats of his British brother, the gaunt American can only regard him with unenvious admiration.Argonaut, San Francisco.