INTERESTING ITEMS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12121, 30 August 1906, Page 8

INTERESTING ITEMS.

COLLECTED FROM VARIOUS

SOURCES.

The Gorman Emperor boasts of being able to sleep as -well in a railway car .as in his palace; a lucky circumstance, as he is an indefatigable traveller. Ho liais his private train, which, ■however, pays for all privileges-accord-ing to the regular tariff. The expense, of his trips'is-enormously .increased by his insisting on being kept in direct touch with his officials, just so if he Ave.ro in Berlin. This involves the establishment of special temporary post and telegraph offices in the cities he visits. " • ' ' , The Pope has given his sanction to tho publication of a post-card produced in Londo-n. It is ornamented on the front with an illuminated picture of the Virgin and a coloured portrait of the Pope. The illuminated back has a setting by Leoncavallo of the "Aye Maria," published for the first time. An autograph letter from the ■Pope is also printed on the card, in which he bestows the apostolic benediction upon the originators of the project. Thirty-three years from now Mr. Rockefeller Trill celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of his birthday— provided, ,of, course, that.he lives to mini his doctor's prediction. And 66 ■years from now jf his millions continue to increase at the present rate, M/. Rockefeller, at the age of xOO years wilt be worth 25 Billions 732 miLlionr,'of dollars—almost three times as much gold and silver as there is m circulation, in "banks, and in all Cue treasure-houses and mints on .earth today.

A wanderer' amoung ruins of ban Francisco describes the strange incident of the flight of particles ol glass across tlio area of desolation and dust. The summers of. California .nre windy summers, although her •winters aro calm and bright. Gales from the Pacific, and dry winds from, the vast Continent acrosii the bay, sweep the bald hills and hollows of the peninsula of San Francisco.-and since the disaster have- scattered the powder or thousands upon thousands of windows. All labourer.; among the- rubbish, all campers among the ruins, are compelled to wear goggles under pain of damage to the eyes. Dr. Joseph E. Winters, who is perhaos the best-known specialist on children in Now York," and an opponent of vegetarianism, says, in a pamphlet on the food of children, that "there _ w more so-called nervousness, amaemia, rheumatism, valvular, disease of the heart, and chorea at the present time in children from an excess of meat and its preparations than from all other causes combined." He also declares in another- place that blood-colouring matter (and hence rosy cheeks) comes from vegetable-colouring matter, and not from meat. It is a total error tosuppose that the absence of meat in. a dietary can have anything to do witn anaemia.