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New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4319, 30 March 1901, Page 1 (Supplement)

la oao respect, remarks the "Pall Mall Gazette,' the Scot is extremely like the children of Israel, he is always ready to " tell a story against himself. In some instances in America school ■ teachers have been criticised for wearing short skirts while in the discharge of thekr duties. The little Grand Duchess Olga of Russia is the richest baby in the world. The week she was horn £1,000,000 was ■ invested for her. The shopgirl and the maid servant in Canada ride their bicycles as a matter of course, and they do it without presumption or insolence. The continuance on the English Bench of the four Judges now entitled to retire on a pension means a saving to the country of £14.500 a year. A society of the deaf and dumb Christian Endeavourers has been 'formed in Belfast. The meetings are conducted in finger-spelling and sign-language. Among the 18,000 Quakers in England the death rate is 18 per 1000 against 22 per 1000 for the whole populationThe manuscript of the famous ‘"Evangelia Quatnor,’’ one of the gems of the Ashbnrnham collection, and thought to be 1000 years old, has been sold for £IO,OOO. An American collector paid £25,000 for a portrait by Van Dyck . A poet laureate called enuff r taking "the most innocent of sensualities,” especially if the snulf-taker were an old woman. Thousands of barrels of wine are maiufactured within the walls of Paris frejn chemicals and all sorts of Materials er oepting grapes. . -The shop girl and the maid servant in Canada ride their bicycles as a matter of course, and they do it without assumption or insolence. ' The Kaiser is haring an. electric car built for himself, suitable for the conveyance of 50 guests, in which he will be able to move about his empire twice 1 as fast as anybody else travels.