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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7141, 31 May 1910, Page 6

Eecovcry from wasting and weakening diseases is hastened bv use of PHOSPHOL. Phosphol begins with a "P." * A woman professor of music who recentr ly died at Marseilles, has been buried in her piano in obedience to her final wish. She gave as her roason for this strange request that the happiest hears of her life had been spent at the piano. Owing to tho gi-eat size of (his original coffin an immense grave had to be dug. Tho greatest is tho maelstrom off the Norway coast. It is an eddy between the mainland and an island, and when tho current is in one direction and wind in another, no ship can' withstand the fury of the waves. Whales and sharks have been cast ashore and killed. The current is estimated to run thirty miles an hour. An old woman, who made a precarious living as a swineherd at Arion, on the borders of Luxembourg, has received news that she had inherited .£240,000. When she was told the news, the old woman, who is a widow and childless, said calmly: "That's good news; I'm glad of that. I shall be able to buy a new apron and a little field of potatoes. I've been wanting them for years." It requires 501 bof tallow candles! to produce as much light as 1000 cubic feet of sas.