GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10405, 19 July 1912, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

It; 5s aa eT caiiicidence ’ lihat in eao* j y & ar a Home Eale Bill has been J’ iitrodnoed a great; Atlantic liner has gone down. Thus in 1886, tine year o£ Mr Gladstone’s first BUI. 4Jbe lie er Oregon foundered after «ollisi r jsi off the American coast; in 1893, when Mr Gladstone made his disastrons attempt at Home the White Star steamer Nar<jni o disappeared with all nands; w’nile this year the sinking of the Titanio conbides with the introduction of the third Home Sale Bill.

The latest craze in America is to have yonr wedding clnematographed. It was the idea of Miss Mary Earqnharson, a prettv American girl, to have moving pictures of her wedding, and when she was married to Daniel Marvin, whose lather la the head of a large cinematograph Arm, the ceremony was performed twice, the second occasion in the presence of an operator, whose dnty It was to record every incident on his instrument. Little did the happy oouple dieam that their married life would be cut short before the end of the honeymoon. They made a tour of Europe, and were returning home on the illstarred Titanic, Mr Marvin being

Home-made food, plain and plenty of It. is the best fare for poets. That is the opinion of Mrs J B. Parker, who has opened a students’ Snn for the Bohemians of New York, says the New York correspondent of the Express. The table d’hote meal, beginning with a faded radish and finishing with a cMoory coffee, is no good for those who wish to oilnab Parnassus, says Mrs Parker. The super-soul cannot find true ' inspiration in dubious claret from a third-rate Italian warehouse’man's shop. The food of common mortals—lamb stew and mince pie, a tankard of beer, and a good large chop—is the true fare, with which be muse shonld be wooed, and Mrs Parker baa made a financial success with her revolutionary idea.

At Solosetsk, in the Russian Government of Archangel, is the moat cemarkable monastery in the world It is. says the Pictorial Magazine, enclosed on every Bide by a wall of gigantic boulders which measures nearly a mile in circumference. It fa very strongly fortified* being supported by round and square towers about thirty feet in height, with walls twenty feet in thickness. The monastery consists in of six churches, which are completely filled with statues and predons stones. Upon the walls and towers surrounding these -churches are mounted tinge gnus, which in She time of the Crimean war were directed against the British White Sea Squadron The monks who inhabited the monastery at that time marched in procession on the granite walls while the shells were flying over their heads, to prove how little they feared the attack of the British fleet. Ten thousand pilgrims come aunally to Soiovetsk from all parts of Rnsaia to view the churches and cellos. They are conveyed in steamers manned and commanded solely by monks.