AIDS TO MATRIMONY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 11127, 16 November 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

AIDS TO MATRIMONY.

A committee of ladies at Vryburg, British Bechuanaland, publishes periodically a list of all the^.bachelors apd eligible young women iii the town, and invites correspondence, which is treated confidentially, ( from those who desire husbands or wives. COW EARNS £5000. A cow formerly belonging .to Mr James Tibbets, of Pembroke, U.S.A., and now the property of a syndicate, has earned for its owners £5000 within a year m exhibtion fees. The animal is deformed, and has extraordinary hoofs and horns. MATCHES AND £3,000,000 LOAN. The Berlin Tageblatt publishes the following from Constantinople : — "®ne of the leading members of the London house of Rothschild is' negotiating with Turkey to raise a loan of £3,---20U,000, with consideration for, which is to be a monopoly of the sale of matches m Turkey. Austria has assented, and the agreement of Britain is riow being sought." MARK TWAIN ON ADVERTISING. Mark Twain says: "When I was editing the Virginia City Enterprise, writing copy one day and mining the next, a superstitious subscriber once wrote and said he had found a spider m his paper. Was this good or bad luck? I replied to him m our 'Answers to Correspondents' column as fqllows: ■" 'Old Subscriber.'— The finding of a spideiyin your copy of tlie Enterprise was neither good luck nor bad. /The spider 7 was merely : looking over our pages to find out what merchant was not advertising, so that it could spin, its web across his door, and lead »■ free and undisturbed existence' forever after." — -Inland Printer. ! ' ' '.GONE ARE THE DAYS." [ j Writing of the rural position m Wales a writer m the Montgomeryshire Express says:— "Gone are the .days when the picturesque harvest field rang with the joyous chorus of a strongy liealthy, happy band bf men and maidens, the son® and daughters of a sturdy race, alas, declining, as the arable loarri' is fast disappearing under perpetual pasture, -and the walls' of the deserted, humble cots that once resounded the song of 'Home sweet .home,' are crumbling iri ruin. What cares the wealthy landlord, though the hamlet may vanish ! Amidst the fashion, opulence and gaiety of London, "he lives the greater part of the year, and desires little more acquaintance with his tenants than tlirough tfhe rent-roll." THE NERVY MAN. While some hundreds of bathers were frolicking m the surf at Bondi one day recently a young lady who had. ventured some yards" frohi the 'rest was heard to 'call plaintively : "Save me ! save me !" She was swimming* hard, and plainly '"baittling-with-the-wav.es for dear live,, A brown and athletic-looking young mail responded to her appeal by covering the intervening ten yards with a powerful trudgeon stroke. As the crowd on the beach/ cheered, he - endeavored to ; drag the girl m, but the task was too much for him, and to save his own lifq he relinquished his hold and swam to shore, landing m an exhausted condition. A second bather who had followed close behind him sflsq tried to get the young lady out, but he was forced to desist. The Bondi life-savers, who were at the other end of the beach, charged towards the spot with the life-line?. The crowd was worked up into a frenzy of excitement, and the girl seemed about to sink, when a "nervy" man, who was fully attired, rushed into the water, reached the girl, and remarked, 'If I were you, I'd stop swimming and walk out." yith a surprised look, she followed his advice. The water was about three feet deep. '__.-.■''. CAUSE OF APPENDICITIS. "Whether the great increase m cases of appendicitis, is real and due to some factor of modern methods of , feeding and living, or apparent only and due to greater skill iri diagnosis, still remains an interesting question for debate," says the Hospital. "In a. case of appendicitis operated. .'upon by .Mr Battle, a concretion was found to contain a. small irregular fragment of iron, and 'Mr Battle suggests, tliat minute particles of iron, finding their way into the flour .milled by .fluted steel rollers may account for this increase m appendicitis. Ha points out. that' the greater prevalence of appendicitis was first heard of m the. United States, and only later, • when so. much of , our flour came from over tho sea^Tand "when our own Stone mills -could no longer be Avorked at a profit, was there any apparent increase of the disease m this country. Moreover, m America, the increase m appendicitis .-occurred first iri: the towns where rolled flour! was first used. then, it spread to the villages, and. finally to the negroes', -when-, flour became' Eo'chearp ' that it was more profitable to buy it than to grind the s corn at home. '. .Should further investigation support this theory, it would become, a question of public importance tliat proper methods' should be adopted to secure -the, elimination of all iron particles from the flour." aaa^mmmmemaammmmamememe