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Star (Christchurch), 20 December 1907, Page 3

Twenty minutes of rain, in a year is sometimes all that Southern Egypt gets, and there is no dew in that country. Sunday School Teacher: "Why must we always be kind to the poor, Ethel P" Ethel (Slightly Mixed): "Because among the sundry and manifold changes of this wicked world we don't know how soon they may become rich." London has been suffering from -a plague of moths—in spite of the fact that a wet season is usually followed by a scarcity of these insects. The pest is the smallest of its species, and best known a& the "clothes moth." They secrete theST^lves in the warmest woollen garments, »hiph they traverse in Ul directions, leaving behind a gnawed path so thin and bare as to yield to the slightest pressure. Furs, hair and feathers are also attacked. Other trouble caused by the moth lies in the direction of -the incandescent gas mantle. The insect, getting inside the globs, beats against the delicate structure, which is fractured, and falls to pieces on being lit. ./ .