TIT-BITS.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XX, Issue 37220, 16 September 1904, Page 4 (Supplement)

TIT-BITS.

Till' large.-t book i.i ;he -.\ oi'i• i i.- ,ii tlai British Muslim. It i,- an atl.i-, measuring Alt. 10in. by st: 2;n.. .mb weighing tlu.-o iipim 2o\u. Dining iu D;irkmw.- Li, Franc.Switzerland iho Litt vogtn- a;o m the dark. Diim,'- begin- . ;r - a-n ii, but, suddenly, to ! t!.‘ surpiiM at ti,.‘ guests, the light out and ali i- bar m darkness. Nothing has gone wrong, ami -hotore the guests have recover, <1 ii'om then- astonishment tin' dining room doors open, and shadowy lorm- steal in bearing a blazing mass of light. It itho nexr course illuminated. Silently tiie figures come to your side, and in .i lew moments on everyone's plate is. sat, your lish, and a delicately shaded light by winch to eat it. but otherwise the room remains in complete darkness. (■unions i(-oincidonce.- -Young ladies some-linn’s "change tlteir names' uiiii ennoun effect. The Rev. A. Metcalfe, rector ot St. Peters, Dorchester, in ids parochial magazine, calls attention to too following extra ordinary instance ot coincidence ol names. Ho says; ‘'Perhaps some ot you noticed the singularity in the last banns ol marriage published in our church, namely, between Charles Peso ami Ron> Cliarbe. The bride lost hc-r surname C'harle-, hut married a ( hjirlos Rose, and so became not only Rose Rose, Imt also A 1 rs Charles Rose instead ol Miss Ro-e Chariots.'' Japan'.-, Newspapers.—Nowhere else in the world has the ‘‘progress ol the Press been so rtipui as in Japan. The limt "daily made its appearance in 1872. In 181)0 t.here were already 71ti journal o! one kind or another, with a circulation ot well over 2,000,000, figures which havo been, very largely increased since then. Jhe increase ol all kinds ot printed matter is facilitated by the prevalent, low wages and the cheapness ot [taper, the number ot books ot all kinds is also exceedingly high, ah average of neariv - j • 00U having appeared between 1895 and ! 81)1). A Gem Worth a Fortune.- A Ceylon paper latently gave an account ot the ■litiding et the largest cat's-eye gem ot "Inch there is any record. ' It weighs nearly < lb. Tho tinder was a man who bad been very poor. few months ago. however, iii.s digging Tor gems was rewarded by finding a"cat‘s-eye. which ho sold ior £1250. Soon after he dug up another, tor which he realised £2Ao<t ; and then In- luck reached a climax when he unearthed Ids large stone, which is described as of perloct lustre. He h:e, been ottered CISI.IHIO by a syndicate of h’cai dealers, but has refused, as he declares ho can cut the geia. into fortv stones, each of which will bring £IOOO. Great Britain owns half the -hips that are ailoat. An acre of good fishing ground will yield more iood m a week than an acre ol the be-t land will in a year. ■J' on.v-eight Tons of Scripture.-.—Tho Bible Society continues to make record figures. Dining tho month ot June the output ot Scriptures from the warehouse :u Queen Victoria Street. London, alone exceeded all previous totals. Fonvi iglu ten- ot Scripture- were dispatched in 4.10 cases and seventy shipment.-, to all part- of the world. This rep>-e----.-ent-i'd 11U.3/0 book- mi 114 different langnagem Dig Coal Depot.- -An enormous floating C“a! depot, said to be the largest in the uorld, arrived at, Portsmouth the ot’mr oay H orn I lie Tyne. The depot will hold and ;- to he moored in lort.-moutii Harbour. It will be fund with machinery that will enable tile big-ge-t war.-hips to till their hunker.- alongside it. Being over -100 ft. long, the <h pot tv;11 accommodate the largest vi iti.-ors afloat. J I'lploi,- Attain -thiir Majoritv.--A unique eV’ iu has i eeontlv been celebrated in .Manchester, in the coming oi age el the triplet .sons of Mr Edward Buck, of Burford House. Whalley Range. Tin’ three young men are till associated with their lather in business m Manchester, i hey were horn on June 27. 1885. The coming or age was celebrated a.t a gathering ot relatives and friends from Manchester and Carlisle, held at, Windermere. There were eighty guests at dinner, and the a.-semblcd aunts and uncles of tlie three young men produced them each with a gold chronometer. A Great Organisation.--Here i- a (summary of the Salvation Army operations on the social side. There arc 180 food depots, with accommodation for 13.504, and no letter than 4,.573,000 beds have been provided during the last year. There are seventeen prison-gate homes, with accommodation for 530. and 2001) satisfactory cases havo been passed, through them during the last twelve months. There are llti rescue homes accommodating 2719, and 5700 satisfactory ca-es havo been passed through, while the eighteen laud colonies contain 28,252 acres, and give temporary employment to (17,000 men. Small Collections. —Tho late Mr M. A. Lower, the antiquary, is rospoimb'e for tins Lullington anecdote. One Sunday moi ning the curate, a man of diminutive stature. preached from the shortest text iu the Bible, "Jesus wept." to a congregation of a dozen people, and the offertory realised only oightccnpence ; whereupon a stranger remarked that it. was the Mint Host, church, the smallest congregation, tho smallest parson, tae shoi test text, and the smallest collection he had ever known. A Congregational minister in Dorset once stated that often only a penny was to be found iu his “weekly offertory" box, and that a special coUcction amounted to only 4jdl What appears to hex a genuine painting by Conttablo was purchased in a. .Margate auction mart lor 10s. The picture lias been examined by an export ami valued at £6OO. School in a Fore.-t.--A new kind of school is about, to be started by the authorities ol C’harlottenburg for the benefit of children who, though not exactly ill. arc so weakly that they arc very liable to be attacked by disease, more especially tuberculosis. The school is to be built in the depths ol the Juufcrnheide Wood-, near Berlin, and the children will remain there the whole day. .--■pocial arrangements being made to supply them with their meals. They are oniv to receive from two to three Lour.-’ instruct ion daily, and are to spend the rest of the day in taking healthy exer-ci-e in the forest.