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Taranaki Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 13536, 12 October 1907, Page 4

The total amount collected to date in the Omata Riding by Mr B. Tippws, do^^^collcctor, is*£7o 15s, representing the licenses for 460 dogV, * ; ; lifc is' estimated that the number oj: copies of newspapers in the Unitect; America- is 19,600,000 every VodMay, alid 11,500,000 on Sundays. Adyprtieers. pay thirty millions sterling yedrljL. for«*}»^be ii Amedican dailies. Captain Edwin's weather forocast for 34 hours f™™ 9 a.m. to-day is as fo^-lo^-s: — Strong winds to gale froiti South. Glass will rise. Weather probably colder. ' Tides JiigkV' Sea heavy. Rain probable. • A yonng German lady has had an un.ploasant'exporience with' a lunatic, whi> was a passenger on the same train thaifc was bringing her from hor; summer holiday. Without any' reason the mail Guddenjy- yoked, .'.'l|> is she!" battered her lioad wi€h his fists, and pulled her backwards and forwards by her hair be- , fore the passengers, who were sleeping,, could intervene. Tho train was stopped^ and: the anadman wasmanacled with ths> utmost difficulty. f "Well, my little dear," asked the big 4 >fstt^Lpndonv butcher man, "an' what do ybu^ want?*' The little dear looked at him. " 'Taint wot Hi wants." she replied. "Hi wants a dltog&tti4Jk&M>TO t m, an' a perminint parse to the music-all, an' a millionaire 'usband; but, as I- said fur«,"ifc ain I*tvot1 *tvot hi wants, it's wot jnuy> ver wants; and she wants arf a pound off the scraggy end of a neck of mutton on tho no^*2&£MdfcSa3^l -i"J_l" *\S_iWelsh miner named Evan Howelfe v^,s_3roasted alive under terrible circum,,s^Dce3at a coal pit in the Rhondda Vyfiey. It was believed that fire had Broken out near the mouth of the shaft, and Howells went up in the cage to see. what was the matter. When within nine feet of the surface tlie cage wai was «gaindreleased and drawn to the top it was found that at. the jsppt .where it 'had, stopped f fi*d Sad be^ritrag^iigiike a furnace; and: Howells, who had been imprisoneji ill tKe cage, was roasted. He died al few. hours after being taken out, of the cage. The longest nsme of -any man in the world. is that of, Johann Pappatheordkoummountourgeotopoulos. A subject; of King George of Greece, he has been 1 settled v in- Milwaukee^ America, fot $ev6rai v year£, ans aiislwerfrti b fhe Christ ifiait _»mo of "Jacb,",rbut hife surname? 1 is Pappatheorokoummountourgeotopoulos. This Greek is an enthusiastic; astomobiUst. Heif-nsequently reaches & speed of seventy miles an hour," and ho a&ttuser-hhwself by wagering - with his* friends tha^i he will cover a mil^;in/bis car beforo they can pronounce his name ill full. He has always succe^lul^*befcause it usually - : iakes a vejy large number of attempts before his 4*traordina'ry name can be properly pronounced. . »• . A humourist wag looking over^ ,a mill, and while, in an unguarded moment lie was perpetrating, one of his jokes on ail operative, he was drawn into some ponderous gearing and "badly crushed. extricated him from the maoninery, and laid him on the flopfr. "Who is it? Who is it?" was the anxious inquiry,- - as : a f crowd collected. N, ob.ody knew. , , Then, the funny jnaii suddenly opened ni_ leyes, and strbyo .iiQjs^e.afc,'. ,-^A, svmpaifhetip • -bystandißr Bent down to him' to catch his words. "There's a good reason why nobody recognises me," he-whispeTed^pa/nfttlly. "What is it?' 'asked the sympathetic one. "Because," the humourist explained, as he saw a chance to get one home, f< it's because I've been travelling ißrcog»^'f r '""*""' *' : " ""•■" ~ VI -■■ One of the most celebrated cases of .Ipqgevity te J(says. that of. the fifteenth century Venetian, Luigi Cornarov who, sat 40, was a physical > wreck, but yet livejl^o be 103/ Cornaro, up to 40, lived the life of the wealthy and unemployed, ..Italian ,of his period; b.oa^ and drank" too, much, rested too little, '. and consequently became seriously ill. Then ho was induced to follow the adyice of his physicians, a|id the methods iand results of the simple life he embodied in four pamphlets wcitten at tho respect iva ages of 83, 86, 91^nd 95. Nbtning mor'o remarkable exists, in the histpry of hygienic effort than this year-to-year narrative of an intelligent veteran, noting down the' means ; by which he had built up his body a?id saved, it. His first, step was'/fco. con..fijie himself to such foods as invalids eat t! »nd; /bo\take,- these only, in small qHan^tieß. '/At the end of a year he fotjnd, himself cured. . , As will be seen by adv£<rtisementi Mrs Brennan, from Auckland, will give a course of lessons in pastel painting. Mrs Brjennan has good recommendations and holds, we understand, important en!*g«|gements on the teaching staff in iSuckJand. * \ ; . , , «r-Mostt -interesting— services -are : to be hold in the Whiteley Church to-mor-row*. "The Rev>: R t lladdoir>is .the preacher. He is the Maori minister sta.tioJied at Okaiawa, talented and eloquent and intensely interested in the we^fa^e of .the J^ativjp people; a treat ■ is in store for afl whb Jiear him v — Advt. Members of the Equitable Building Society of Now: Plymouth (First and Second Groups) are notified that subscriptions will be. due. and payable on Monday at the Secretary's Office, Currie Street, from 9 a.m. to 12.30, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m., and 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. —Advl. A Triduum in honour of " the J Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist will he commenced in St. Joseph's Church, Sunday morning, and will be conducted by the, Rev. Father -Ains worth,, pf Newtown, Wellington, whp wiU.opcjapy the pulpit Sunday and Monday evenings. The rev. gentleman's oratorical powers are well known throughout New Zealand. ' • ' : It is a well known fact that people buying iewellery^like a certain amount of -or protection from the public gaze.. This .'fact has been noticed in New Plymouth as . well as in larger cities and has caused Messrs Skeates Bros^, . Jewellers, of Devon Street, to havo a , partition erected , dividing off their business from that of the Cycle Shop. Mr E. G. Skeates has be&_ down from Auckland re-arranging things and has doubled the stock, put in an extra counter and re-modelled the window. The Show of new goods is very conspicuous and .charming. Messrs Skeates Bros' annual sale is now in full swing land business is genopeiiy -booming. Mr Thompson, the manlg'er, lias more-^up-JMatoA^fti^ga^^lp^ihere^aJ^^of watches, jewellery, etc. — Advt.