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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10963, 4 May 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

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FAILURES. Some people miss opportunity when it knocks because they haven't push enough to get a door open.— "Saturday Evening Post," Phiadelphia. CRAZE FOR CHEAPNESS. The world is full of people that cannot resist purchasing a thing that is cheap, or, rather, low-priced, although they do not need it. — Academy. UP-TO-DATE DAMASCUS. The Jewish Chronicle says that Damascus enjoys tlie distinction of being the first city m the Turkish Empire to be lit by electricity, and to have electric tran_-cars running m its streets. • SECRET OF BUSINESS SUCCESS. Courage, not prescience, is what is chiefly needed* to succeed. The safest and best business ability concerns itself exclusively with r the ttuhg iriimediately under its nose. American paper quoted by the Confectioners' Union. . KILL OR CURE. Some frivolous person has remarked that illness was like a struggle between two people, anci that the doctor.resembled the third man who intervened to separate them with a club. Sometimes he hit the disease on the head and sometimes trie patient !~-Hospital, HINTS WIVES. ..There are two ways of looking ai a husband.. One is; to make up your mind that he has no faults and to consider him a piece of perfection. The other is to recognise his faults and to make up your mind to love him m spite; of them. — Health. T " ' :,- SETTLING THE QUESTION. Some men contrive, m their salad days, tb -fall m love with an entire. 'family of maidens. They never know which on€ they really want to marry, until one get., more determined than the others, steps out of:the ranks and settles the question. — Sketch. . 'T' ; .-■-,:-. ...'.-'• •'■'■-'..,. - . MAKE .BELIEVE TREASURES. "Solid gold ornaments threaten to become as extirict as the dodo, while "roll-ed-goldi" "gold-filled," "gold-pkted^' and'; other make-believe treasures press into, the market/driving the public to callous cynicisrii and the legitiniate jeweller io despair. ;It is, ; also • a Brurainaage.— Table Talk, Melbourne. TELEPHONE'S BIRTH MEMORIAL. ' Sir Wilfrid Laririer has favorably con-* sidered ihe reqiiest of a, deputation that the 'Dominion Government should" grant £2000 for a memorial to Dr Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of theitelephone. I" Trie Bell homestead near TBrantford, -Ontario, where the telephone was invented, ; will be purchased and a monu-irierit-erected at Brantford City, fHE CONVENTIAL LEGISLATORS. The rule of our; goveniing : '; classes seems to biß, "as it Was m the beginning, is now, and .ever shall be." In /the Colonies, T ho\)reve'r, there is a difference; Legislators are not -bound hand and foot with the grave-clothes Of. history and tradition. They do not suppose the bottom will drop out of the Empire* if they venture a new thing.— War Cry. • WIRELESS TELEPHONY.' Some time ago we predicted that the Navy would, be the first to f mak^ wireless telephony, practicable. ; This 'prediction is already justified. For some rime past experiments ;on telephoning without wires have beeii m progress, alia just recently a notable success; has beeri scored. This is but the beginning. The right methods having been discovered, their perfection and development are only a matter, of time.' — Pall Mall Gazette. BOY FIRES THIRTY HOUSES, A fifteen-year-old boy ■ named Piantkowski, who has revealed uncontrollable criminal tendencies from his, infancy, has been -found to have set fire A to thirty houses at Poseri, Germany,. thereby causing losses exceeding £100,000. The entire neighborhood was:terrorised, inasmuch as the J cause of the mysterious fires, which occurred, day after day, seemed inexplicable. It was believed at first that a band of Anarchists was at work. FALSE FRIENDS OF WOMEN."! It is stated that more than four hundred members of Parliament on both sides pledged themselves; m the heat of the parliamentary contest, to vote for c Bill granting the suffrage to wonien.; Yet it is notorious that the majority even of this House of Commons do not at heart desire such a. change m the Constitution. If they really desired it, the Government would have beenTforced to introduce o Bill themselves conferring the suffragon women.— Spectator. REAL REST. Many doctors make the mistake of : ordering; patients whose nerves are being '■ .exhausted to "exercise,, when these mdi- | viduals'require physical rest as well as menial. Exercise necessitates an output of nervous energy, and forced exercise puts ari extra strain ou the already tired nerve cells. - What, is, needed is some form, of recreation that brings a total oblivion to business matters and allows the nerve -cells absolute rest.— Dr William. Lee Howard, iii Collier's Weekly, New TJTerk. -A * ; ■;" >T -'--;- ; THE 'B BAIN AND DISEASE: ; . ; - Dr Berniard Hollander, speaking at a meeting-, of theT Psycho-Therapeutic ; Society, London, on March 18, said that ; the old physicians were .too riiUch inclin- j ed to treat diseases; the modern physi- : cian treated the patient. Too Jitile'ac- : count was taken by the regular student ', of medicine of individual character.' The j physician should have a knowledge of human character and be able to read a j man at sight. '.-'' . .. T I Physiologically;, -the brain was the great | regulator of all functions; arid theulti- i mate, court of ' appeal m every organic : disturbance. For some persons a sound ! ; working mind and brain' were a protection against disease. ' ; ;T. ;i ARGOT..T ' ? . Smart society in ' Loridon is developing |an argot of. i&Town, quite, as distinctive as the other kind that is to be found m the thieves' kitchens' and the like. | Iri :' this ultra-exclusive set, which, has not yet discovered that to be singular is to be vulgar, it has become the fashion to clip the filial- "g,"" and to" speak of "shootin7! "huntiri','? "motorin*," -etc. "Expy'-' stands for experience, -"disky" for disagreeable, frocks and skirts are called "frillies," a nightdress is a "nightie," and money is "oof," "dibs," or "the needful."; ; Then the denizens of the sriiart set must be careful hot to say "lunch," but luncheon. The \ word boudoir must be avoided— perhaps because it is difficult to pronounce — and sitting-room used instead. On no account must the words "stylish,". "ladylike," or "agreeable" be used. A man is a man, and never a gentleman, and his feminine embarrassments must be spoken of as girls or women, biit on no account as "ladies." QUICK-TIME FORTUNES. The frenzied gambling on the New York Stock Exchange recalls many similar, stories of mad speculation when fortunes been won and lost within a few minutes. It is but a short time since Mr. Joseph Hoadley made £2C)0,000 m five minutes, and four times as much during Uie day, at a time of panic on the New York Cotton Exchange, when prices went up 10 to 20 points at a time. A few months earlier Mr Theodore Price is said to have cleared £100,000 m five miuutes and £50,000 m the succeeding half-hour through a sensational rise m the price of cotton. In an action against Mr Joseph Leiter it. was stated that Messrs Jacob Astor,' Qorn e lius Vanderbilt, and Hoadley lost' '.£600,000 m a single day iv Wall street. In his fight against the Standard Oil Trust Mr .T. W. Lawson lost £800,000 within a few hours on copper; and m 1868 Jay Gould was four million dollars poorer ior four minutes' gamble m gold; and Mr J. D. Rockefeller waß credited about two year? ago, with clearing a million pounds steri. ing by less than an hour's lucky speculation. THE WORLD IN THE YEAR 2000. Some years ago M. Berthelot, the great French scientist whose death is annopßr ced this week, made a remarkable speech at the banquet of the Syndical Chambet of Chemial Prodpci Manufacturers, taking for his subject "The. World m the year 2000." Here is ari extract :^- Wheri energy can be cheaply obtained food can be made from carbon taken from carbonic acid, hydrogen taken from water, and nitrogen taken from the air. What work the vegetables have so far done science will soon be able to do bettor, and with far greater profusion, and independently* of seasons or evil microbes or insects. There will be then no passion to own land, beasts need not be bred for slaughter, man will be milder and more moral, aud barren regions may be preferable to fertile as habitable places, because they will not be pestiferous from ages of manuring. The reign of chemistry will beautify the planet. There will under it be no need to disfigure it with the geometrical works of the agriculturist^ or with the grime of factories and chimneys. It will recover its verdure and flora. ; The earth, m fact, M. Berthelot added, "will be a vast pleasure garden, and the human race Will live m - peace and, plenty." j