OMNIUM GATHERUM.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 13834, 22 February 1907, Page 8

OMNIUM GATHERUM.

An ordinary train 'weighs from 150 M 300 tons, including engine. The aqueducts of ancient Eome had a total lcn B th of .249 miles. Frank H. Bl'akeiey, surgeon dentist, 17+ Princes street South (over Kilroy »nd Sutherland'!). Telephone 1483.... The cuckoo is absent from England about 230 days out of the year. Tho population of the United States increases 1£ millions yearly. Ladies who hnve onco worn Brown, Ewing's "B.E. Specialto" corset buy it again and again. It can bo washed, and will not rust; only 12s 6d.... The- rope on which Charles Blondin crossed Niagara cost £1000. The first public school for tho blind was established in Paris in 1784. The world is moving forward all the time, -and the new is supplanting the old. " Kins Coffee" challenges comparison with pa:ifc and present productions... A lino of aged merino ewes was sold at Is 9d at the Balclutha stock sale on Friday. Hares are rapidly increasing in the Ashburton county, and are proving very destructiv.; to turnip and vapo crops, youngplantations and orchards. If you suffer from neuralgia or toothacho fake Fospherine, a marvellous tonic; splendid for ail nervo troubles, mental exhaustion, nervousness, effects of overwork or study. Is, Is 6d, and 2s 6d.—At Marshall's Pharmacy.... The Feildins Agricultural Society lost £160 over its late show. The caterer also lost £60. At tho taking of tho census last there were in tho colony sixteen persons (eight males and eight females) whoso ages ranged from 97 to 105. Peoplo who wish to travel must have a knowledge of languages. The Scranton Schools (Bray Bros., agents) teach French, German, ami Spanish by phonograph, to insure proper pronunciation. Our records • aro now used in the New Zealand universities.... Dr Findlay, Attorney-General, says trafc a number of legal practitioners havo sent in applications for the position of K.C. Messrs D.-G. Gunn, of Hawea Flat, and .las. Drummond, of Conical Hills, PomaI haka, havo been appointed officers under the Fisheries Conservation Acts and rangers under tho Annimals Protection Act for tho district of Otago. Latest English Suitings in great variety. Ansell and Co., Octagon (Fred. Smith, jun,, cutter).... At a meeting of flic Taihapo business people it was decided to procure a town clock of four dials and chimes, the wbolo to cost £500. Tho News states that the 1 wholo of this amount is practically in hand. In the window of Mr G. M, Marshal!, ohemist. Princes street, js a fino display of tho disinfectant preparations of tho worldrenowned firm of Quibcll Bros. The merit; of these preparations is indicated by tho fact that the Sydney Corporation selected! them against all-comers for use in combating the plague during the last groat outbreak. As largo tins or bottles cost Is only, the use of Quibell's disinfectant in New Zealand is bound to become widespread.... A witness in the District Court at Wanranui last week said that in Bulls prohibited persons always had a bottle of whisky put away for use. Ho did not know where they got it, but they had it, and they often asked others to havo a drink with them "for company." The champion talking bird of Australia is the gallah parrot. Charles Bills, Dunedin, ha 3 just landed a splendid collection, and gives a written guarantee that each bird will talk, or he will exchange it free of cost.... At the ballot for the disposal of the workers' dwellings erected by the Government at Sydenham tho whole of the dwellings were allotted, and it was announced, on tho authority ' of the Minister ' for Labour, that further houses would bo erected to meet the demand that existed. Soap is necessary in every household. Having bought a largo job lot of Colgate's best soap, wo aro selling it for Is 6d a. box; usual price, 3s. Call and see it—H, L. Sprosen, chemist. Octagon, Dunedin.... Sneaking at a social at Manaia, Taranaki, Mr T. L. Joll, dairy factory proprietor, expressed a doubt as to whether the present high and still increasing values of land were a genuine blessing to tho dis-.. trict, and suggested that prices had now just about reached the limit, and if still further increases occurred the district might very well consider itself in a stato of " boom." In undressed white shirts wo can supply you with a 7s quality shirt for 5s 6d during our sale,, and in hard or soft felt hats you will find the makes and shapes wo stook reliable and reasonable.—A. F. Cbeyno and Co., Mosgiel and Lawrence.... At a garden party given to Mr \V. ¥. Massey, in Auckland, Mr Horrios, M.H.R., prophesiod that in tho future a strong country party would be formed under the present Leader of the Opposition. The Willshcr Bay Maoris havo been securing largo hauls' of eels in tho Molyneux River of late. Ono day last week (says the Balclutha Free Press) 130 of these elongated fish wero obtained from two pots. The Natives preserve tho eels by drying them in tho sun. In addition to giving the best valuo ever offered in tho Taicri, from now till tho end of olir sale, we will present every cash buyer from £1 up with a beautiful picture worth 3s 6d.—D. Christie and Co., the Busy Drapers, Mosgiel and London.... At tho banquet tendered to tho bands at, the Exhibition band contest by the Government, strong representations were made to the Minister for an annual subsidy (say of £300) to tho funds of the Bands' Association. It was pointed out to tho Hon. Mr M'Gowan that other Governments subsidised various contests. The Minister promised that tho Government would give the matter the fullest consideration. There is a probability of a New Zealand Association being formed. From Whangarei comes news of a remarkablo horse race, in which tho winning -, horse foil dead, whilo the jockey had his arms dislocated. Tho match was run at Ngiingura for £15 aside, between tho horses Maori Bill and Satellite, tho_ former dropping dead at the finish. During tho first four rounds his rider dislocated his arms, but pluckily stuck to his saddle until he had won the match. Our sale of fashionable, every-day goods, now in full swing, bids fair to be the most successful we havo had. Ladies' pretty striped, checked, flowered, and shot sunshades selling at- tho ridiculous prices of Is 6d and Is lid. All our new season's blouses, many of them only just 'imported, and worth up to 10s 6d, are marked Is lid, 2s lid, and & lid. Seventy-nino linen and crash dress' skirts, excellent for wear, and wash beautifully, from 2s lid; lace gloves, 3d pair; lace stockings, is lid pair (just the thing for tho warm weather), and everything throughout tho whole Bhop reduced at T. Ross's, 130 Princes street, Dunedin..., A man named Frank Sparks, aged.. 56, died at Mahakipawa on Saturday from poisoning. Being thirsty, ho took a drink of rond-rock oil in mistake for tea, which he had placed in a bottle of a similar sizo and pattern to take to his work. A doctor was called in, but Sparks was past medical aid. An inquest was held, and a verdict of death from misadventure returned. Deceased left a wife and five children. In giving evidence in a case at Onehunga the other day, tho keeper of an infant home said that it was with tho utmost difficulty that keepers of homes could got tho parents of infants to come and see their children, especially when they wore sick. If a doctor was called in, he demanded his fco before ho would attend, and this had to bo paid by the homo keeper. In the present case she had only received a couple of pounds, and there was about £10 still owing, while she was also liable for the funeral expenses. " Not a very paying business," commented ono of the justices. A sale is a salo to most people—that a tho beginning and the end of it. As tho poet sings, "A primrose by the river's brink a yellow primroso was to him, and nothing more." But tho salo now running at tho City Boot Palace docs not belong to the yellow primrose order. It is a salo that excites wonder and admiration! It shows what Dunedin can do when sho " wakes up"! Why, last Saturday evening the door had to bo closed three times, tho rush was so great! Boots and shoes aro being sold at prices so low that the people arc fairly astonislied. Women's shoes at 2s lid and" men's boots at 3s 6d aro sufficiently out of the common to cause a rush. In real high-class footwear substantial reductions havo been made, though it is not pretended that they are sacrificed as aro the sample, job, and odd lots. There arc many bargains yet left. Visit the City Boot Palace, Georgo street, and see for yourself.... — "So Thomson is about to assume tho bonds of matrimony. Has the girl got money!"—"Oh, yes—they aro gilt-edged bonds."