NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume LV, Issue 13754, 20 June 1913, Page 3

NEWS ITEMS.

A twentieth of Scotland's area is forest land, seven-tenths is mountain, heath, and lake, and only one-quarter cultivated land.

Blobbs: "A person is an idiot to bother about, his descent. Don't you think "so ?" Hoggs:: "Yes; unless ho happens to bo an aviator." -

Contracts have been drawn insuring the late Mr Pierpont Morgan's art collection in New York for £4,600,000. About £800,000 of this lias boon placed with foreign companies;

The interesting fact that the young King of Uganda has taken to golf is rovealed by Mr E. H. Fison: "I saw him tho other day," writes Mr Fison, "make two .of the best drives at. golf that I halve seen for many a long day." King David is also the captain of a football club. Ho will be 18 years old this year.

First Deaf Mute: ''He wasn't so very angry was he?" Second Deaf Mute: "He was so wild that the words he used almost blistered his fingers.

Tho Duke of Sutherland, who is ill, owns nearly a; million and a-half acres, and, with' ph& exception of tho Czar of Russia/ is said to bo the largest landowner in Europe.' ..

The ancient custom of putting a coin in the hand of the dead is still occasionally followed in the rural districts of France.