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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 8415, 14 January 1899, Page 3

A woollen mill will probably soon be started in Invercavgill by private enterprise. Tho buildings are already erected. Cheese is at present being made at the Dannevirke factor}', some two tons being turned out per week, some 800 gallons of milk being treated daily. In an ongineer's shop at Sheffield recently, the manager advertised for ;\ smart lad for the office. The first lad that went to trj for the position was asked what his motto m life was. " The same as yours, sir," answered the lad. " Hou do you know my motto ? " asked the manage!'. "It tells you on the door, air. It says ' push.' " The lad was started at once.— Answers. The latest example of less Majette in Germany is apparently more diverting than serious. The offence occurred at Spandan, near Berlin, and the offender is a stonemason with a numerous family. The mason was simply having dinner in the bosom of his family when he let fallsome observations which were not exactly complimentary to the Kaiser. To his great surprise his wife did more than dissent from his views ; she wont to the nearest police station and denounced her husband, who was immediately arrested. — Daily Messenger (Paris). In order to minimise tho consumption of alcohol and the indiscriminate treating of drinks which is so common a feature in the business and social life of America; Chicago has started what is known as a "non-treat-ing club." It was founded principally for travelling men, but already the idea has "caught on," und its membership is counted in several oilier cities, lor its badge it lus the very excellent motto : " When you want a drink take it, and don't imagine you will ollend anyone by not asking eight or ten to join you." Its pledge is to ' 'car the inevitable button, and " not to' treat anyone who is not a member." Dr Bainardo's Homes seem to have no difliculty in maintaining their record as containing tho largest family in the world under the care of one man. Nearly five thousand boys and girls, according to the No\ umber issue of Night and Day, aie to-day iv residence, all of these rescued fiom the direst conditions of destitution air.l waifdom, and it teems that every twenty-four hours some eight or ten new ca^cs iinrl their way inside those hospitable doors in Stepney Causeway. 1»;U l)i'. llanmrdo, like many other charitable organiseis, finds it a nutter of grout and increasing dim'culty to Iced and train his large army oi young folks, and he therefore appeals for funds.