NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11555, 16 February 1906, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

Mr John Shearer, of Wheatstono, Ashburton, has sold his draught entire Bnlgowrie for 500 guineas. A New York resturant uses an electrically-heated plate to keep one's food warm. So long aa the current is turned on you can dine in as leisurely a way as you like. Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll has a studio half hidden among the trees within the garden wall facing Kensington Palace green and whither are brought the blocks of which she fashions statues or busts. There is unmistakable evidence (says the Scientific American) that 2500 years ago certain Hebrew engineers (in the time of King Hezekiah) executed exactly the same kind of work which was carried out in the Simplon tunnel, though perhaps on a slightly smaller scale. Mr Howard X J aul, the journalist and o>ntterainer, left nearly all his fortune £53,000 to charities. A courageous sailor climbed to the roof of a blazing sheep dip factory in Liverpool and tore off the Blates to give air to five workmen lying overpowered by fumea. They were taken to the hospital. The name of the sailor who saved them from death isjunkown. He disappeared immediately after the rescue. A Parisian archery expert has been imitating William Tell. Placing an apple on the head of a young girl, he from a considerable distance, sent an arrow right through it. A man in the audience at a performauce of Ohenet's 'Maitre des Forges' in the Buda-Pesth National Theatre, committed suicide by shooting himself in the head He suffered from an unrequited attachment. Miss Lucy Cleveland, a cousin of the ex-President of the United States threatens, says the 'Ohrouicle,' to sue Madame Bernhardt for damages for not returning a play she submitted to her. Mr W. JEcclestone, the heaviest man in England, weighc "Sst 61b. and possesses a fairylike waist of 9ft f>in. fie is convinced that the ordinary theories that laughing makes us fat, and worry thin, are all false. Just a century ago Fragonard, whose picture, 'The Love Letter,' was bought at the Crcnier sale the other day for over £10,000, was wandering about Paria trying, generally without sucess, to sell his work at any price. The Revolution had ruined him. |In Algiers tho grinding of corn is done by women. They use a portablo handmill which, during the wanderderings of a tribe, is strapped to a camel or donkey. M. Raoul Pictet, the well-known Gonevese inventor states that he has discovered a now light by which photographs may be taken at night even better than during the day.