NEWS AND NOTES.

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1419, 23 October 1923, Page 8

NEWS AND NOTES.

The plate at Windsor is valued at nearly £2,000,000. It includes a gold service, ordered by George IV., for 140 persons, a shield formed ,of snuffboxes, worth £9OOO, and 30 dozen plates worth £IO,OOO. There is also a variety of pieces brought from the Colonial and Eastern possessions. The latter include peacock made of precious stones of every description, worth £30,000, and Tippoo's footstool, a tiger's head with crystal teeth, the tongue being a solid ingot of gold. Among the Royal plate at Windsor Castle is a knife which was presented to George IV. by the cutlers of Sheffield. It has over 100 blades. Prohibitionists, aided by employees of the Bernheimer and Schwartz Pilsener Brewing Company at Milwaukee (U.S.A.), have poured into the sewers 836,000 gallons of good nonde- alcoholised beer and 4000 barrels of 12 year old ale, which at present bootleg prices would have fetched £200.000. In the hope that its sale might eventually be permitted, the beer.had been held since the Volstead Enforcement Act became effective. But when that hope definitely faded the company sold its premises to a refrigerating concern, and notified the prohibition authorities of its intention to get rid of the beverage by the method just recorded. From his backyard frog ranch near Oshkosh, Wis., (U.S.A.) Emil Neuen-fe-Mt ships 2,000,000 frog legs a year. The frogs are kept in concrete trenches 50 feet long and six feet wide in which are refrigerated pipes and running water. The cold water makes the frogs hibernate and silences the frog chorus. When an order is received the required number is scooped from a trench and the frogs are placed in a. tank of water charged with electricity. This kills the frogs, straightens out their legs and makes amputation easy.

There is at least one spot in England where a ball can take place with the band playing in one county and the dancers tripping it in another. This is at a public house known as the Flying Bull, which stands on the boundaries of two parishes and the same number of counties. The inn is built, partly in the parish of Rogate, in the county of Sussex, and partly in the parish of Liss, in the county of Hampshire. The consequence is that when a ball takes place at this singularly situated public house, the musical performers play in Sussex and the company dance in Hampshire. It is some time since a popular catchword became really übiquitous in London. Indeed, the .war seemed to have stopped this kind of nuisance altogether—until the present late summer put a sudden end to the reign of common sense. For some time past there has been a struggle for supremacy between "I am the man with the gun" and "Yes, we have no bananas." The latter has been victorious, and is now as often heard, wherever knots of young people drift a/long, hilariously, as the "Pip, pip!" "There's 'air," and "Let me catch you bending" of the pre-war period.