OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12244, 16 February 1918, Page 8

OUR PORTRAIT GALLERY.

seed-pod kept in the South Kensington Museum contained seed which was tested and found to grow after a period of ninety-five years. Melon seed has grown after being kept for forty years. Turnips will last eight or ten years- It is assorted that haricot beaus have germinated after lying by for a century.

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. * Whilst I advocate a six-hour working day in factories,'’ said Lord Levevhuhuo, speaking iu London recently, i cannot say that I apply that theory to myself, and I claim the liberty to work anything up to sixteen hours a day. You cannot put a man to mind a machine from 7.30 until 5.30 without lowering the human being and preventing a broad outlook, and the full enjoyment of life.” Lord Levorhylme said that each reduction of working hours had' meant an increase in production, and with each increase in wages there had been an increased demand which swallowed up the increased production.

There, was a touch of pantomime about liigbott Street, Richmond (Melbourne), recently, when a golden kettle "disappeared. Everybody who heard of it was amused, but tbe laugh was not shared by those immediately interested. It was a simple case. Mr George Ayres bad bidden away £3O; Mrs Ayres bad thrown the money away. There was an old oast iron kettle’ under a shod' in the yard lying about as outworked and pensioned kettles do. Mr Ayres on Chritiras Eve picked up the old kettle and decided that the rusty old pot was not half a had place in which to lijclo money. Ho placed £2B 10s iu notes and three half-sovereigns in it, and left it in the shed. Later Mrs Ayres unluckily cleaned up the shed, and one of the things which she decided could be done without was the rusty old kettle. She threw it over the fence into the right-of-way. Of course she did not know until too lata that the kettle had done duty as a bank. Nobody has reported having found the money, and the police have been notified of the loss. One day this week a Christchurch man lost a small sum in a wager. No man was over so sure of winning as he was, and no man could havo been more flabbergasted than was he when he lost. Mo fancies ho is very well up in Scriptural knowledge, and on the day mentioned he remarked to a chum that “as the Scripture says, ‘cleanliness is next to godliness,’ and 1 shall have to wash my hands.” Ho was told in reply that lie was not quoting Scripture but an old Scots proverb. His eyes opened wide’ in astonishment at the impudence of the Scots in claiming as theirs what belonged to the Holy Book. Tbe Scot held on all the same, and the other, so confident that the words wore- Scriptural, offered to bef, on it. His hot was taken and an adjournment was made to where a copy of Orudon’s Concordance, was available. That excellent volume showed that oven file word “cleanliness” was nob to he found in the hook of book’s, and certainly not (ho proverb in question. Hie hot was lost, and the. money paid' The Bible word is “ cleanness,”' but it is not used at any time in any reference to godliness. Quito a number of people when they use the old and well-known proverb, do so in the. belief that it is ‘-enptural, and to them this paragraph will be news. 1