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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1509, 31 January 1901, Page 61

It is no longer good form to kiss even your dearest friend on the lips, say the New York “World.” That kiss is sao rec V In polite society the kiss upon eaoa cheek is now the accepted form of greeting. Does cutting promote the growth : of t} 1 ® The “Frankfurter Woclieiiblatt declares very stoutly that it does not. ** I s proposed ill America to employ the kite to drop a telephone wire into a. beleagured town or other inaccessible place. The recent famine has cost India half a million lives, and £-.u 000,000 worth of crops while £7,000,000 has been spent m relief measures. Ague and preventable diseases alone accounted for 52 per cent, of the sickness in the British Army in India last year. The amusements of girls have come to acquire a practical and financial turn If a good tennis player, it is possible to take a couple of pounds in. prizes in a season.—“ Daily Telegraph.” Madrid has just been the scene of one j? f tile most extraordinary funerals thathas taken place there for many a dav It was the funeral of a bull-fighter, amL thousands of people wept over the grave. ' There is not a copy of Chaucer’s sia»#»~ tnre m existence. f "