All Sorts

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXXVI, Issue 20, 21 May 1908, Page 38

All Sorts

scum* °tS £ - 12{ ?' 00 1111 ° 1 . a u y^ r t0 wa-fl* British MvSSy o?llo ? 00 P branaJl aWi SeCre^7 "«*«»• TrnnS 8 iJ? ta J numl » r of distilleries at work ' in . the SSn t6 beln XK g ln f5S m ' laSt year WaS propor! otttt daT^Qni 0 ? 1^?^ r itten on his window the owner «ay, Only fresh-laid Irish eggs sold here ' Next, reX S 4°nTo k e" er ** Wrftt » tipw^S^? 1 * 8 , are beJng made in New York with a S JJS ? s^amer to run sixty miles an, hour lhe keel is practically one huge propeller with flan fS rrirS a s nn p peedd ccd dd ° Wn ' A "^ &- than 600 000,000 0(0 tons of anthracite, eSgh to Sfiice for the wants of the world at the present rate of consumption for over 2000 years. »*■+**> «i _„' ou told us boy,' the tourist said to the urchin Mt w J f mg , the lal ff 6'6 ' ' that the boat always dJal p e ast five 0 ' 11 "' We haVe ™^ noW tiU a &** next Sonth^* hh ° V'Y ' '** 6gin to run tiU

In Alaska is found a kind of fish- that makes < a capital candle when it Is dried. 'The tail of the fish is ?KJ m"m "J > •! Crack of a w °o dl6 n table to hold it upfSh?f n V no^ IS "Sh-ted. It gives a a**!,, steady light of tbree-cand'lepower, and considerable heat, and will burn for about three hours.

'If I never see y O u again,' a teacher said with much earnestness to a girl whose scholastic career fSLFT h° a Cl °f ■J * £ ope tilat y° u will never locget to do your best wherever you may be, and I LJ? U !'! alwa 3 r s be an honest, upright womianrtrutMul and brave. 'Thank you,' s a id the girl, 'and I hope you'll be the same ! '

Well said the proprietor of the millinery establishment, I see you have at last sold that wretohedlownimg hat we expected to have left over ' ' Yes ' replied the saleswoman, < I got a middle-aged ladiy to try it on yesterday, and then told her that it would not, of course, do for her, because it was intended for a very much younger woman.'

v- u e^ changlinjg rose i& a P lant to the cultivation of wiuou the Japanese devote much attention. It produces a tony, but beautifully formed flower. O n being taken suddenly out of a dark place into a sunny room, It slowly assumes a pink hue, which gradually grows in intensity until dt bfeeomes of the deepest red shade The color vanishes again at night, or whe n the rose is replaced in a d a rk room. ' Who is there,' cried the impassioned orator, • who will lift a voice against the truth of my statement?' Just then a donkey on the outskirts of the crowd gave vent to one of the piercing ' hee-haws ' of his tribe. The laugh was on the orator for a moment, but, assaiiring an air of triumph, he lifted his- voice aboive the din to say : ' « ' I knew nobody but a jackass would try it'! ' The number of French families, that is to s a y, - households, with- or without children, is estimated at 11,315,000. Of this total 1,804,720 families have no children., 2,966,171 have one child, 2,661,987 have- two children, .1,643,425 have three, 987,392 have four, 566,768 have five, 327,241 have six, 182,998 have seven, 94,729 have eight, 44,728 have nine,, 20,639 ha»ve ten, 8305 have eleven, 3508 have twelve, 1437 have thirteen, 554 have fourteen., 249 have fifteen, 79 have sixteen, 34 have seventeen, and finally 45 families" have eighteen or more,. The origin of the establishment of the needle industry in Redditch, which Jjown is .now famous for its needle production, is uncertain, but recent ' researches seem to show (says the 'Engineer ') .that: the art of needle-making was probably first-taught -'to the inhabitants by the monks of the Cistercian Abbey . of Bordesley, which was a large^ religious house v existing on the outskirts of the present town of v Redditch, and which was dissolved in 1538. The growth of the trade, however, must have been very slow, and it was' not until toward the end of the eighteenth century that the bulk of - the. English, needle-making industry was concentrated in and about Redditch.

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