CLIPPINGS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXVIIII, Issue 12123, 2 March 1896, Page 3

CLIPPINGS.

Thb oy cling oraze seems to grow in England. At country houses now almost all j visitors bring their own bioycles. At Dan- ( robin Castle during the visit of the Duke rind ; .^i)uohess of York, there were twenty-sevon i • guests staying in the house, and of these twenty-two owned bicycles and had brought I them with them. Lady Warwick, who was one of the " bikers," uses a bicyole enamelled j in white. . .. . Much interest attaches to a new invention ! of an arrangement of floating tubes so con- j structed as to prevent boats from sinking. ] The tubes are run. along eaoh side of the ( boat, but they will, not only keep it afloat, 1 even when capstee'd, but wiU support all its , occupants, if need be, who can readily lay . hold of them. When .the bbat is capsized , the tubes come to the }evel of the water, al- , thouchit isclaimedthat.themereadjustment 1 of the tubes makes capsizing almost an lm- 1 P °onb ofthe maids of honour to the young < Empress of Bussia was married a few months ago. On bidding her •' good-bye the Empreßß congratulated her warmly, odd- ( ing, " I shall indeed be 'sorry to lose you, £ but lam so happy myself that I wish every ( one to be married too." • , i Thb fashion of wearing earrings haß beon , much criticised as a return, to a-barbano c taste or a want of taste. Anyhow, earrings c have crept slowly but surely back into public c favour. Some appropriate new place to make use of for the surplus supply of diamonds has, it appears, to be found, although the front of the dress, offers a wide field for -^' Kzbrland proposes to have _ a State ihatoh monopoly. The monopoly is not of •profit, but is aimed at the total suppression Ef the manufacture of phosphorus matches, s L industry which frequently means , painful , disease and an untimely death to the poor 0 . Speoph engaged in it; The horrors of a the phosphorus disease' are as revolting as q XIE^Oh flm pneu,y,would Beem8 eem I Egyptian cat woa-a tabby; rather long« l the leg and lighter in colour, perhaps, than t ourown cats, but with hair, of he same a leneth, and not furry, like the Persian. c &BBH steam, electricity, petroleum, t and the cycle, thehorse's ordinary. >°° W* J must soon be entirely gone. Even if the i kngUmised flying-machine does not some , ■ day fieoome an accomplished fact, ho wiU certainly not be necessary to the everyday loTomotton of the future. Jortaerep pose of exercise fee can be dispensed with by . others besides the cyclist, since mechanical bgenuity has even provided a parlour 'gee«e," which faithfully reproduces his trot, his can erT and his stimulating gallop, by he pressure of a lever. AU round, in foot, the ( fe^SSSg which a note has | ' remained outside of the Bank of England is ; m?ears. luWsforJES.anditiscomputed k Sat the compound Merest during that long , period amounted to no v NATnaAi. eas oonveyed in bamboo tubes, was uStoea to China centuries ago, and one K Mongolian authors -writes of boxes , which repeated the Bound of voices of men , Cg since dead -an approximation to the law unmarried -n ■ over twentyfive.have one vote, married men I a^d^widowers with fanailies hayetwo votes wd priests-Mid other persons of positioii .and educationhave three votes. Severe penalties are'imposed on those who fail to vote. the «mt «paui?i«» "•"*,"« m wom». eoMist. ol .Mtl. W'W' some kind that distinguishes the mm TPSA muchas iron ia moist coia, rub with a clean rag. iSteelSumentsmaybe pre.erved m Mexico claims to have been ! ,IS!SanW eats a peach or pear by thSside. wherever he is, heoigsahole SSSSfew bone.