LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 66, 1 November 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

To date, there are 278 names to go on the first supplementary roll for •the Stratford electorate. During October, sixteen births, four marriages, and seven deaths were registered in Stratford. At the Magistrate's Court on' Friday, ten undefended civil actions, three judgment summonses, and an information for driving a vehicle without lights will be dealt with. The splendid competitions set forth in the Taranaki Agricultural Society's schedule for the forthcoming -Spring Show, should command great entries for the dairy cattle competitions. At the Town Hall to-morrow caning a- address entitled "Pj.'SoiaJ Liberty and the Liquor Monopoly" will be delivered by Professor Mills, of Milwaukee University. Lippincott's Magazine has . been studying the question of punctuation and welcomes the present-day tendency to dispense with such marks as the hyphen in "to-day," "to-night," and "to-morrow." That the retaining of the hyphen in these words is not only useless but absolutely .wasteful is demonstrated by a bit of simple mathematics 1 The visits of the Education Board's truant inspector to Stratford are few and far between, but apparently when lie does visit the town he finds much work to do. He was in Stratford recently, and as a result of his visit twenty-two parents will come before the Magistrate's Court on Friday on charges of failing to send their children to school. The inspector's last held day in Court was in May, 1910. Yesterday, Mr Geo. S. Hobbs, who, for some years past, lias been associated with Mr Newton King's Stratford staff, as auctioneer and stock agent, severed his connection with the firm, Mr Hobbs having decided to devote more time to farming pursuits and attending to his own business interests. Mr Hobbs was a very popular member of Mr Newton King's staff, and his comrades are all exceedingly sorry to lose him from their ranks. "There are 178,236,592 Englishspeaking people. Tlie words "to-day," "to-night," and "to-morrow" are together used forty-eight times daily by every person—five of these being written out in long hand. Thus the daly output of hyphens in these words totals 891,182,460. Taking the aveiv age of a written hyphen to be one quarter of an inch you have a straight line 3861. miles long. At the usual rate of writing it would take one man sev-enty-six years to insert the hyphens in these words, and his salary would amount to nearly £16,000. Two passengers by the Toko trail! last night behaved in such a manner as to make the presence of the police necessary. ■ Adam McKeown, who was under the influence of liquor, came to blows with Thomas Purvis, and as a result one of the windows in the railway carriage in which they were was smashed. At the Magistrate's Court tin's morning, before a bench of Justices, McKeown was convicted and discharged on a charge of drunkenness, was ordered to pay half the cost of the broken window (10s). and for violent behaviour was fined 10s, Purvis being fined 10s for violent behaviour, and ordered to pay half the cost of the window. Dr. A. do Xeuville the Paris cone - ponrlent of the "Telegraph" says, has been aide to compute with extraordinary precision the money value of human beings at various ages. Prom the age of nought to five years any one of us is worth £lB sterling. From five to ten the value is ten-fold—£l SO. From ten to twenty we rise steadily in the market to £4OO. We go oil hardening to £BOO at thirty, and our highest qoutation is from thirty _ to fifty when we are worth as much'as £I2OO. After that comes a slump. The price of mi individual between fifty and sixty is "from £6OO downwards." and from eighty to 100. "and beyond" it is "anything under £1 10." A person of eighty is therefore, never worth so much as a child of five. The doctor apparently, makes no difference in value between the sexes.