BRIEF MENTION.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 147, 17 April 1914, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

INTELLIGENCE AND HUMOUR. Paris Policemen rcmiits are being trained in street duty per the kino mabograph. Street contingencies and what to do in them form most of the subjects screened. Damage exceeding £20,000 has been caused at Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, by subsidences of streets over colliery works. Jack Johnson to the National Sporting Club:—■'".l am a boxing man now, and lam getting my price. I don't care what the. public thinks. 1 am the one to lie satisfied/'

A (Frenchman named Guerre lias invented fire arrows for use against aeroplanes. They weight 21b and are 20in long and contain petrol, which is ignited its soon as the arrow strikes.

When iai considerable increase in the cost of collins used a.t the Isle of Wight Workhouse was reported at the guardians’ meeting a member said: It’s very hard upon life’s way. To make ends meet we try; But after what we hear to-day It’s very de ( ar to die. Don Arturo do Mayo Durazzo, age 1 twenty-four, an Italian aristocrat, was recently married to. Miss Elizabeth Hamm, aged fifty. Friends of both families insist that it is a love match. Hath bride and bridegroom were active workers in the- cause of poor relief. A nurse at the West Heath Isolation Hospital, Birmingham, admitted to a Coroner’s jury that by mistake she gave three paticlits what she thought was cough mixture from a bottle containing carbolic acid and conspicuously labelled “Poislcdi." An announcement in the London Ca'zcttc says Hie King has granted Air John Patrick Donovan permission to wear the insignia of the Fifth Class of the “Order of the Excellent Crop,'’ conferred upon him by the President of the Chinese Republic. Virgil M’Covern, one of the victims of the Upper Hu It explosion, is in a very critical condition. Hagan is making good progress towards recovery. The annual gathering of the Society of Friends was held at Auckland on Saturday. A number of delegates from the South were pi;cis sent.

The oig-lil.li animal convention of the Motional Association of Spirituallists as being held at Auckland. Thomas hosier, a native of iiaiupion, who was in the employ, as ’a shepherd boy, of King William IV, when, as Duke of Clarence, he reside,!! at Busliey House has died at the the iii(ge of %. A little girl, standing beside a closed gate, stopped a gentleman who was passing, and said to hint —‘A\ ill you, pie;use-, open this gate for me?” The gentleman did so. ''Why, my child, couldn't you open the gate fur yourself?,” he asked with a smile. ''Because,” said the little girl, 'the paint’s no,t dry yeti” Spiritualists in New York are claiming to have received a message from Mr W. T. Bleed, wh wa » drowned in the disaster to the Titanic: The message is said to. refer to the beautiful and touching tribute to his memory paid by those who strewed llowers on the waters of the Atlantic at the spot where the Titanic went 1 down. A steamboat was stranded in the Mississippi, and the captain could not got hor oil. Eventually a hardlooking follow came on board and said: "Captain, I .understand you want a pilot?” The captain asked: “Are you a, pilot ?," ‘Well, they' call me one.” “Do you know where the sandbanks are?” "N,o, sif." “Well, how do .you expect To take me out of hero if you don’t: know where they are?" ”1 know where they; was the reply. It was- discovered that a man named Burgard, whoi was arrested at Niaucy on a charge of espionage, was formerly a schoolmaster in Germany. 11,6 is said to, have been engaged in espionage for lifteen years, while passing as gl farmer. At his house the police found about sixty military maps, four cameras, and about £4O in German gold. “Excuse me, sir,” said the thin passenger with the sandy side-whis-kers, "but I judge from your conversation that you are known as 'the Human Hercules?,” “Yes, sir, that’s who I ,am,” answered the strongman proudly. "(You can lift ten tons in harness?” “Yes, sir, that’s my record.” You can hold live . hun-dred-weight at arm’s length?” “Yes sir, that's my reqord." You can hold live hundred-weight at arm’s length?” l‘)Yes, sir." ‘And put up nine hundred pounds with one arm?" “Yes’ sir,” ‘And sixteen hundredweight with ' twoi? Yes,. sir,” ’‘Well, then, would you kindly raise this car window for me? . It’s evidently stuck a little;.” excuse me, sir," said the strong man, stiffly, “but my manager makes all the arrangements for my tests of strength and endurance; besides,” arid it was noticed that the modem Sapison was ill cut ease, ‘Tm not in training,” While visiting in the South recently a travelled chanced upon a resident of at sleepy hamlet jm Tennessee- “ Are you a native of this town?" asked the traveller. ■ ! Am I a what?" languidly asked the man as he rose to a sitting posture. "Are you a native; of this town?" '“What is that?” »‘i asked whether you were a native of this placet?." Suddenly there appeared at tho open door of the cabin, the math’s wifej—tall, gaunt, and sallow. .After carefully scru'.tinising the intruder, she said : - j Ain"t you got no sense at-tall, Ira? He meaAs wy yoT livin' heah when you was horn, or was yef born ajfttejr yoU begun livin’ Ueah/ Nowhim,”