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Otago Witness, Issue 3250, 28 June 1916, Page 55

A man named George Niper, who has just died in New York at the age of 107, had smoked and chewed tobacco since he was 12 j ears old (says tho Pall Mall Gazette). He leaves six sons (the youngest of whom is 64 years of age}, two daughters, 34 grandchildren, and eight great-grand-children. His mother was 97 when she died, his father 99, and his wife 81. The ancient ceremony of distributing sixpences from a tombstone to widows took place at St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithlieldi, recently. The recipients and spec tators had to enter tho small enclosed graveyard by means of a ladder, and, according to the terms of the bequest, the 21 widows had to walk across tho tombstone and pick up tho coin. This year the eldest woman was 93 and tho youngest 48 Tho Edinburgh Meat Market Company has diecided to have no further dealings with Germans, and 'the following notice has been posted at the market: —"No Germans, naturalised or otherwise, or any persons acting for such, are allowed to make purchases from this market, and no consignments will be received from them." Tho majority of tho German butchers in Edinburgh deal in pork. A number of girls have just finished their first year's couise of training in order to be able to take the places of German and Austrian hairdressers, at the Barrett Street Trade School, Oxford street, \Y. They learn brushing, singeing, shampooing, and all the other things of the trade, practising on one another in the art of hairdressing (says the Daily Mail). A skilled hairdresser —and these girls are learning the trade thoroughly—can earn 35s a week, apart from " tips." Never again should the Hun hairdressers be needed.