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Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 29, Issue 16, 27 February 1917, Page 6

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The wear and tear on th® worW 1 currency is estimated at two tons ol gold and 100 tons ol 15y ' In Switzerland they are making, clocks which do not need bonds and faces. The clock merely rfands in the hall, and you press a button in ite stomach, when by means of the phonographic internal arrangements, it calls out half-past six or twentythree minutes to eleven, as the case may be. A Portland letter mount# bow a marine on His Majesty's ship “New Zealand,” while Ashing over the side o£ the vessel in Whlddy Bay, near Gantry, hooked an enormous skate., It was so heavy that six sailors were required to haul it on to the ■ship’s deck. When at length aboard the vessel it was found to scale 137 pounds and to measure 6ft. from the nose to the tail and 4it. Jin. across the back. ' The prison' authorities at Dillon, In the states, have adopted an ingenious device to truatrate an attempt to escape which it Is believed is being planned by a man named Haney, a Canadian desperado, with the aid of a confederate. They have had the steel bars of the windows of the jail connected with arc-light circuits, and have posted the following notice on the walls : * Anyone touching this window does so at his peril, as 2,000 volts are passing through the bars.” ‘

Had it not bean for no intelligent elephant, the recent dtoarter to th« Indian pilgrims In the Ganges, near Sorori, would have been considerably more serious. While thousands of pilgrims were bathing the river sud denly rose, and 200 of the pilgrims were drowned. The elephant, which belonged to a certain Jong Bahadur, laved at least a thousand lives. With ropes attached to its trappings, It repeatedly swam out to the distressed pilgrims, who dung to th« ropes, and thus landed safely.

One hundred and fifty hotels in Kansas City use a stylo of cabinet on their desks in _ which a receptacle Ie provided for a raw potato, in which it is the custom of the clerk to stick the pen after It is used for any purpose. The potato. acts as a cleaner for the pen, and also a handy place in which it may b* kept. A fresh potato is supplied svery morning.