NEWS NOTES.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEWS NOTES.

If domestic servants had every night out and two half-holidays m tbe week, domestic service might come to be the most popular, as it is probably, the best paid of any form of women's work.— Review of Reviews.

King Edward V_l. is the fortunate pos. sessor of one of ihe finest collections of pictures m the world, and one which, if it could be brought under one roof, would be a formidable rival to the National gal* lery m London.

Niagara Falls are receding at the rate of a yard and a quarter yearly, owing to • the Year of the limestone cliff over which ' the water falls. Consequently, m 35,200 years the falls will have worn their wry back to Lake Erijfe, and completely drain it. ' ' ' .' fi ■■:■-.'■?. "

King Edward how wears a plain aold ring on the third; finger of his left hand, the result of a suggestion from a society Indy that it wodd induce married men to wear wedding'rittgs, her idea bfeing that man should be ticketed, so to speak, at definitely as is the matron.

,_■ TheSmclair colony at Helicon Hall ay tracted widespread attention when it was founded last aulrimn ori the co-operative system. A number of prominent educational and literary experts joined Mr Sinclair. The experiment was not a success, however, as the co-operative plan of living proved a financial loss. En tUsh ordinary macadamised roads ~ have been cohst_}icted_t a cost of about £800 a mile; but some of the main roads have averaged £1800 a mile to matte. France has Bpenf. £1900 a mile on her first-class roads, j, and, £1200 on buildmg second-clpss roadfe. The mt»i expensive roads m the world qre those of Switeerland, of which the cost of construction have averaged £^100 per mile. With a few exceptions, the toll road is a thing of the past. A project, however, is nowi on foot to construct the greatest toll road, in the \forlH between New York and. Chicago for tlie use of automobiles. U built, it will have a roadway sixtysix feet wide, cost £2,000,000, and. be tfc most perfect road- m the world. Motorists would pay a4oll of one cent per mile, or lOdols for th& round trip, and motor cars m which tbri public may ride as possengors, woi^d ruin daily between stated points for fare, i ; Mrs Rachel _J oster'' Avery, the noted woman suffrage leader, was talking m ' Philadelphia aborit divorce. "11l temper is at the root Of divorce," Mrs Avflry said. "Men arid woiflen are not so vicious as some people- tldnk. Impatience catises more divorces than immorality. When Twas living m Pittsburg 1 called one day on a certain married woman. At dinner time my hostess rang for the maid. She said, 'Mary, is that Mr Brown down.tairs; I thought I heard him just now.' 'No'm,' Mary answered. 'That wi_ the daWg -what' wus Hgrowlin'.-" *

There ate Mime curious facts about orir calendar. No /century dtfh begin on Wednesday, Friday, or' Sunday. _he same calendars can be *.ised -*-very ;_0 years. October alwny.s begins on the! same day of th_ week as January, April ' as July, Si-ptiiu ber as Deceihbu*. JTfbruarV, March arid November, also begin on, the same days. May, June and August always begiri oh different days 'win each other and from every other month m the year. The fir* and last days V>t ihe year are always the Bame. These ruleß dp hot apply to leap ; yea*, when comparison is made between days b.f Ora and after February 29. *'. : > Paris has soihehow lost its own particular atmosphere; writes "Hebe" m the Gentlewoman, whilst London, more fortunately, . has managed to keep hers. The Paris Streets are full of English ten -shops, and the Sunday, of course, has become just as dull as the English one. The noise and the ; clatter m the streets are devastating,, yety with, all the noise,- a gloom is said to pervade Paris. It was only at dinner iri the restaurants that the people seemed tb cheer up. "What did the French really want?" I asked myself. The question is answered nightly at the theatres and music-halls, whero they cheer, the mere j name of "Edouard" at every turn. Th|y want a monarchy. Mrs Clews-Parsons, whose book on marriage has crcatejl so mitch excitement, said at a : dinriejf m New York t "Iliey who are happily married are shocked at the idea of trial marriages, but they who are unhappily linked together, and are yet too proud aiid sensitive to get a!di* Torce, must see [much m the idea that is of valtte. How many riiarriages wotild be dia«>lved if Ihe dissolution could be accomplished without shame How mariy married people feel toward each otlier dike a husband I heard of the other day! He said to his wife at breakfast, crustily t ( T dreamed about you last night.' 'Wljm h did you, dream!', she asked. _ dreamed; : I caught a chap running away with you,,* 'And what did jKra say to him?' she ehquired listlessly.! ' T asked him wliat.he., was running fdrf" , ( . . Tlie popular iemedy for ibAtfenea 1§ known as ammonia ted tincture' bf quinine, but, judging by!!a report reoeived by the MJjlbonrne Boarjl of Public ' Health ia*t wleek the suffer*, an Victoria cannot al* ways be sure that he is getting what he pays for. An inspector feigning influensa last week visited a suburban druggist, arid asked for a bottle of ammoniated tincture ■ of quinine. He had the contents analysed, and found thftt it contained "kerosene, acetine, and methyl alcoliol, all of wliich are constituents of methylated spirits, arid none of which are m the rectified spirit.'* He had a "relapse" of his simulated ill* ness, and obtained sufficient of the deli* tenons mixture to enable him to secure an analysis under the Act. Tlie Age re* ports that the Board regarded the _dul* teration fts % particularly gross, and '.' fed a prosecution.' j One of the /prominent flanks m the municipal platform enunciated by >h6 Lord* Mayor of Sydney on taking office m January last was the adoption of effective means!; to cope with the dust nuisance. In pursuance of this the Lord Mayor has instructed the city .urveyor to carry but an experiment with calcium chloride. In order to make the test as thorough as possiu.e tne Lord Mayor directed that the experiment should be conducted m streets running from east to west and from north to south. A commencement Was made last week, the streets ut ill lei for the purpose of the trial, being Phillip Btreet from King street to Hunter street, and Hunger street from Elizabeth street to Pitt street. The process . w simple iv the extreme, a solution of th. chemical being applied to the roadway by an ordinary watering cart.

Beef was veiy (scarce iri Ladysmith dating the siege, brijt General Sir lan Hamil* ton, then a colonel, insisted that "horse is not half bad -*hen properly cooked arid when one is used to it. In fact," he said, concluding a discussion, "I have a joint cooked to-night, which I hope you will all sample. Of diourse, there's beef, too— %:night'lf Every one at the table pre.«jh.ed Ibe beef, with the exception of Colonels Ward and lan Hamilton, who ostentatiously cat-yed generous slices from the "horseflesh." Tlie dinner was nearly over when one of .the servants whispered a communication to Ward. Up he sprang. "I'm distressed, gentlemen," he announced to the startled company. "A silly mistake has been made. Those joints were mixed up somehow and you have been eating the horse! I'm really annoyed. But I hope you'll be convinced now that the ment is splendid eat* ing ! I'm sure you all seemed to enjoy it ! ' Glances were exchunged 5 mous* taches were twirled. Nobody seemed ready with a response. Then a voice from the bottom of thc table piped up. "Oh, don't distress youraelf , W*td. I thought some mistake had been made; so I just changed those dishes as they stood on the sideboard. It was you and Hamilton bad the horseflesh all right 1"

"It should pay handsomely to produce apples at ld p.. lb. . There is plenty of money m this business} fortunes could easily be made iii it, if proper attention is given to cultivation. Of course capital is required to (rive things a start, and a grower shouldlje able to secure land at a reasonable price," remarked Mr Jacques, Government canning expert, conversing with v Post reporter. '_ At the recent Levin Show some splendid apples were shown, and the display led the Manuwatu Herald to urge settlem to devote some thought and energy to exploiting thc Wellington market. In the height of the season the unfortunate public are compelled t 0 pay 6d per lb for decent Siualitv apples which should be available or ,3d at the most. In London, during May?, at the very dearest time, apples imported all the way from Tasmania, nevpr rise above fid per lb, states Mr Jacques. He is confident that the Wellington province could profitably 'produce any quan* tity of apples. He thinks that the pre* sent system of marketing is bad for both the grower and the consumer, and urges tliat the man on/the land and the man m the city would alike benefit by municipal markets. In all his. reports he has advocated the need of some Improvement m the market-syjstem m the interest* of the fruitgrowing industry and the general public. B