OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 10243, 28 December 1894, Page 4

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

NEWS AND GOSSIP.

A working man now living in London poa« sesses a beard 10ft in length.

In .Tuns of this year 16,000,000 children wera found to be enrolled in the schools of ths United States.

The Paris Exhibition of 1900 is to eclipse all its predecessors. It is to contain a telescope which, it !3 said, will enable people to distill" guish the inhabitants, if any, of the moon. If you are on the look-oufc for a seasonable present and undecided ss to how you can make a small sum spin out to the greatest advantage, we would certainly direct you to T. Ross, opposite the Colonial Baak. There is certainly no otibeL* nlnce where you can choose kid p.l&ves faom 28 different brands, at Is lid up to 6s 6d; or get two thousand umbrellas and sunshades with beautiful hands, from Is lid to 25s— ia addition to an infinitude of handkerchiefs, blouses, bflts, purses, perfumes, or tho thou« sand and one oshemieknacks which go tomaka the shop oF T. Host-, direct importer, one of the most attractive in town. —[Advt.] Australian producers have a lot to learn (snya a Queensland isaper). American apples are being landed in Charters Towers in beauti« ful condition after at least eighc weeks' transit; y&ij the Tasmanian apples, with less than a fortnight's carri&gs, land in bad condition. The Hawera Star says :—" On Thursday, aS tha Stratford Dairy Factory, the milk received for the day readied the enormous total of 24-GOgal. It is expected that for the nest fouc or five months the average weekly output; from this factory will reach 10 touß." As is their usual custom prior to Christmas and New Year, the Now Zealand Clothing Factory, Octagon, have a magnificent display of men's ready-made suits at very low prices, ranging from 27s 6d to 52s 6d; youths' sac suitu, 22s to 35s ; boys' knicker suits, 88 6d to 15s 6d. These goods have not been made from low-e!as3 tweeds with ths object of attracting attention by their cheapness, bub from real good colonial tweeds. Ml tie £armeuts are manufactured in their o*ra factory, Dowling street, thus all middleman'!! proS^s are avoided, which means a saving of six shiliiugs in the pourjd to all purchaser.?. Inspection ia in* vited.—[Advt.] Mr Tnomss Lake, of Duncan etrset, while at St. Ciair en Christmas Day, noticing that a man in the baths had beon ssized with crsmp threw off part of his clothes and jumped into the water, rescuing the man, who had goaa down twice.

In Austria it has been found that the slanting of letters in writing ciusks curative of the spine, due to the position maintained at ths table or desk, and, a supreme council has recommended that upright letters ba cultivated in schooling.