HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 12784, 30 October 1919, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

Ninety pills a day would appear a rather drastic prescription, but.l aceor mg to information given to the! Melbourne police (states the “ Age”)! it is what one patient was ordered to' rj® , by a Chinese herbalist, who, tho detectives state, was practising an a' of° C Chin ' ° r < T Q time operations! of Chinese doctors”- have been «n_ : ggmg the attention of the medical au-i tliont es, and the matter having been brought under the notice of the (S Commissioner of Pohce, Sir George to have a l “ structed Rector Bannmi Ashton, 'Piiggott^and I ' l^ 0 ’ .. ticians, each one tbeso by all the His afiii cted ■ to find more « ’ not abi e “ i ectGd the ed .S, time £**' nt ' F j!° M wail. all abow ” jLjVi ’ slj bottom si’, 1 lot ne ’ and that it would cost him agw-a. a*,: in practice for themselves Ifr fawn S - advic « : ‘Also learn to play - brid S e - billiards, or wnatevei games most appeal to vou • and among other things do not neglect the noble art of self-dffence This adic® is as sound for the young man skirting out as a lawyer or a broker p ? buSmeSS man - For every man some -amusement to which he can of i to for S et the worries x llonrs - No man is ever m.?l-p UB i y - t0 Pk ? r \ an W>s relaxation ! makes him work better. That is why cbopp f d down trees anil: l t u dle 4. H ? me^, Wi lson plays golfwhy Charles Schwab plays bridge; why Si 6 £ nd fisbin S ; wh y Eoosevelt Kto J T b p ed lf Played handball ; Wh -V the lat V J - , p - Morgan was never too busy to devote an hour to talking art with someone who really knew. Such cli< versions keep a man from going stale.” When they began to dig out silver by the tom from the Comstock group <.f mines, Nevada lost its original name of the Sagebrush State,” and became known to the whole world as the “ Silver State.” But recent developments in the Divide district seem to indicate " another change of name, for they' do say that the gold is so thick just a little under the surface that the owners of the mines refuse to" dig lest they do ruined by the excess profits tax. They ' just take out a shovelful from time to tinm to, pay living expenses, and sit, tight oyer the hole where they, took it out till they need a little more. Possibly, also, these mine owners are inliuenced by patriotism and do not wish to disturb, values in flooding the world with gold, and thus adding to the economic confusion. California has Mther- *° jAken pride in calling itself ! the Golden State, but even in Nevada they' are getting , ready to demand the belt . and title, and say they are going to get it. And with all due allowance for newborn enthusiasm, and for the pic- “ turesque way in which prosperous min- . ers are wont to express themselves, if 1 a tenth of what is claimed is true—and it may be—we may expect the people of Nevada- tp change from the most loyal of silverites to the most determined and irreconcilable gold bugs.' Circumstances do. alter cases.: That they have found a lot of gold is certain.— ■ Sioux Falls “ Press.” “Would you be surprised to hear that* the trade in second-hand pianos in. Auckland alone, represents no less a sum than £IO,OOO per month, ’ or. £120,000 per annum?” writes an Auck* . land correspondent. “ These figures were quoted by a leading dealer, and I have no reason to doubt their correctness. Npver was the trade in ‘ used pianos ’ so keen as it is at the present - tune in Auckland, and I have no doubt ’ it is just as keen in other parts of'the Dominion. The fact is, xne prices of new pianos have -become so extravagant since the war that lots of people cannot afford to pay for them- Hence the demand for second-hand instruments. And the profit to the retailer on these goods is often pretty considerable. I heard of a case a day o T two ago of a householder who sold a piano to a dealer for £4O. Next day the dealer re-sold the piano for £65. I believe this sort of thing,is quite common.” 1 The case of a man who wrongly ' imagined he owed vast sums came up at Scarborough, when the Deputy-Official Receiver applied for annulment of the bankruptcy of Richard Huntley, clerk, ot Hull, on the ground of lunacy. In September, 1917, he was adjudicated bankrupt, representing his liabilities at £3OO and assets £2B. His liabilities, however, were found to amount to only £4 7s, and £2OO of assets were recovered. He was removed to Beverley Asylum, where he now is. Once ha made out a balance-sheet showing that owed £1,000,000, and he went round the banks trying to borrow this amount as an overdraft. " tale of a button found on the .battlefield of Waterloo is scarcely so interestjng as the story of another of these ornaments to military tunics, and, indeed almost a twin to that from the (says the .Auckland V Star ’). This button may be a souvenir, or it may bo part of the equipment of an historic At any rate it was picked up by a resi- I dent of Point Chevalier on the grounds th? £° o?s had tbete cfmp in the Maon War, The button is as the other, in that it has “India,” a tiSr or lion, 14,” and “ Waterlog ” onfte (m C SiJw? e °“ l r de ? ip b era 'b!e letters on the back are London,” the maker’s 2 a *? e beit }S too much clogged. The iG f cm. I ff b r t i 0n - is , of opinion that rL!T+i . historical value, and he to / ethCr wifcb the t as found, as mean- . Sreuih fastener - llas been ga at least three campaigns Interesting ififormation on the use of vicious Biihstitnte products in the German electrical industry is afforded bv the of pieces of apparatus captured on the battlefield. V funf-S S o nterCeptor ’ 3nade by bhe Telc- ? >mpany ’ 7 as fon nd to contain practically none of the customary ’matemls ; there was, for example, a camplete absence of hard rubber, soft rubei, and brass. f A piece of tliroc-p(v blacked over, was - substituted for a hard rubber slab, and the coupling; coils were mounted, not on bard rubber, but oh papier macho witti wooden ends,- windings being insulated exclusively with silk and no rubber. The buzzer was mounted on stoneware, and the connecting lead-s' were paper-insulated. , In other oases (0.g., ’ accumulators, signalling apparatus, ; etc.) - customAry, materials are also . lackmg ; but it would bo difficult to say; ui all instances whether this was due to scarcity or the deliberate use of new ingredients considered an improvement. Field telegraph wires, cables, etc'.; alas • reveal unusual constitutents. continues the “ Electrician.” In one case the conductor consisted of 60 per cent'steel wires in a lead-sheathed cable; steel and' - galvanised iron wire were CMnmon, and I there ,wae evidence.of a general attempt to economise in copper and ■ rubber.! ' A*hue many of'these were doubtless temporary ; expedients necessitated bythe, war, it .seems that a^de-^vvC tailed examination^of such - articles! nught furnish some useful, hint's’-fcri 'Si future practice. . L -p ‘ ..>i 5