BREVITIES.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11735, 18 September 1906, Page 4

BREVITIES.

AtAlthorne (England) a boy .placed a cage which contained some young birds, outside his bouse. Later, he discovered a snake coiled up in the cage, and his birds gone. The snake got easily into the cage, but was unable to get out after eating the" birds;

The Bishop of Ripon, says a Loildon paper, indulges freely in ,gesticulations. As a rule his physical action is only as the beating 1 of the air, but at the Foundling Hospital the other Sunday with one sweeping blow he sent the cushion on the pulpit desk flying down into the aisle, wiiere it narrowly missed some of tne auditors.

By a police order now in operation in Paris, laundries must disinfect all garments as they are received. ■ Ulothes must be conveyed to the laundries in hermetically sealed bags, and on their, arrival be scalded in antiseptic solution. The workpeople are to wear special clothes which also are to be disinfected.

A defendant iv acourtcase at Waikaia the other day, who was conducting his own defence, was asked by the Magistrate If he had any more questions to ask the witness. He had a very pertinent one-4-nameiy, "How many more lies the witness was going to tell."

Whilst digging flints io Groveley \yood, on Lord Pembroke's estate,

The Agricultural Department has deoided to instal three milking machines at the Levin State Farm— the Lawrence-Kennedy, Hutohinaon, and Jardine.

, Glen Oroua Dairy Factory has, says the''Manawatu Standard, "Sold 1000 boxes of the coming season's butter at Jld, and the rest of -the output at IQ%<l per lb to a Cardiff -firth} the 6onsigneees to pay all costs of shipping:

A cow belonging to Mr; Ty'Cahif; Sheep Hills. Victoria, died in grea,t pain from some mysterious cause. A post mortem was made, and. in the cow's stomach were found a packing needle, hank of twine, an eye bolt, a split link, and a few links of chain.

Sir Henry Teton-Karr says that the manoeuvres have emphasised the need for national food reserves for use in war time.

Rival factions in a family feud in Kentucky, U.S.A. who attended the trial of one of their number for muider, were forced to appear in court in their ahirt sleeves to show that they were unarmed.

Each of King Sisowathof Gampod* ia's dancers who appeared at a mag* niftcent fete giveo in his honor in the Boid de Boulogne, Paris, wore from £1000 to £2000 worth of gems. The scene was indescribably beautiful.

The £20,000 prize of the French Press lottery, drawn on Jnnel, still awaits a claimant, the purchaser of the winning ticket not having borne forward yet.

A millionaire resident qi Waterbury Connecticut, U. S. A. , wad found beating his wife by a policeman, was clubbed into submission and ; them looked up* : The magistrate before whom he was anainged refused to hear the case because of his social aoquaintance with both parties. At Aspatna, his native place* ft drinking fountain is to be' erected ds a memorial to the late Sir Wilfrid Lawson.