Brevities.

Waipawa Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 5119, 11 June 1907, Page 2

Brevities.

A look of Napoleon *8 hair was sold at auction in New York receutly for £lO. Seven thousand guns weekly are turned out in the Birmingham arms manufactories.

There have been 27 cases of insanity in the Bavarian royal family during the last 100 years. A penny for making a shirt! That is the price paid to some poor girls in a Sydney suburb.

In many countries the praotioe has been adopted of planting nut and fruit troeß in place of merely shade trees along the highways. The observatory at Pekin, is the oldest in the world, having been founded in 1279 by Kubla Khan, the first Emperor of the Mogul dynasty. In discussing the claims of various foods to appease hunger at once quickly and satisfactorily, Sir Heory Thompson gives the first phee to milk. There are now about 900 private letter boxes in use at the Wellington General Post Office. The record price at auction of 5000 guineas was obtained for a greyhound in England last month. A two-year-old child named Newbury fell into a well at Maharahara on Saturday, and was drowned. Harry Orchard’s confession arising out of the trial of Moyer and Haywood on a charge of murdering ex - Governor Steunenberg, extends to 18 murders. A law has been enacted by the Utah (U.S.A ) Legislature making the game of bridge illegal. The penalty is fixed at five years’ imprisonment. The outbreak of a skin disease among the children attending the school at Rahotu, Taranaki, is being investigated by Dr. Pomare, Native Health Officer. At Carterton, last week, George Hulley was charged, on remand, with procuring an instrument with intention to commit an illegal act. Defendant was further remanded until June 14th. As evidence of the mildness of the season, a correspondent informs the Poverty Bay Herald that recently he kept measurement of several plants of cocksfoot grass. The growth of the blades in a week was six inches.

Mr Ditchfield, in a delightful book of gleanings on distinguished parish clerks, speaks of one who was asked by a Btranger to describe his duties. “1 hardly know what I be,” he answered. “ First vicar he called me virgin ; the last vioar said I were the Christian, and dow I be the clerk again.” It is serai-offioially stated in connection with the late negotiations between Great Britain and France over the New Hebrides, that the question of exchange of territory did not rise. A chapter of accidents occurred at the Oaklands Hunt Club meeting. Three horses fell in one race, one of which had to be Rhot. The jockeys, Cosgrove and Trainor, were.irjured. Macdonald, an amateur rider, had his collar-bone broken in another event, while Hogan, a well-known jockey, was killed by a fall in the Bolinda Steeplechase.