Items of Interest.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLII, Issue 7, 17 February 1909, Page 44

Items of Interest.

In the Rock of Gibraltar there ar® seventy miles of tunnels. Young girls in Belgium are taught to do housework and marketing as part of their school lessons. The residents of the United States are great readers. They read and support as many newspapers and magazines as England, France, and Germany combined. The greyhound seems to have been developed in level, treeless and shrublesa countries, where a moving object is visible at a long distance, and great speed is therefore necessary to enable a pre 2 daceous animal to overtake its prey. King Edward’s table-linen is of the finest material, and is specially manufactured. The designs are very handsome and elaborate, the Royal mono gram predominating, with roses, shamroeks ami thistles among armorial bearings. It is also made in sets, each tablecloth having a number of napkins to match it in design. Boucieault’s play of “London Assurance” was produced by some amateurs recently in a certain New England village. The house was crowded, and wheffl the programmes were passed round, it! was noticed that a suppressed snicker, began to pervade the juvenile portion of the assemblage. This was subsequently explained by the discovery that the young lady who officiated as village sehoolmarm was down on the bill ,to appear in the role of Lady Gay Spanker. Mr. George Grossmith, the wellknown British actorj long after the death of his father, received a tax bill assessing the income of the deceased at £2OOO. Mr. Grossmith returned the document with the following note written across it: “I am glad to learn that my father is doing so well in the next world; £2OOO a year is a great deal more than he ever made in this. Kindly forward this notice to his new address, and jemember me affeetionatolv to him.’’