Here and There.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 379, 13 August 1903, Page 7

Here and There.

ARTESIAN BORES IN LONDON. SkST seems that the day is not far Ms distant when a water famine ** will be an impossibility in The completion of the first wells at Salisbury ls'pn||jLondon-wallj has proved conqlujively that there is practically an inexhaustible supply of water under i the metropolis.

The two boreholes are ;; 7 jin. in diameter and 450 ft. deep. After 148 ft. of clay, there was a bed of grey eand 66ft. thiok, and below" a strata of chalk and flints of 248 ft. The springs were struck below this; The water level has risen to a height of 128 ft. from the surface. The deep-well pumps are of speoial design, so as to be noiseless, and they will run with electric motors. An elaborate system of storage has been provided at the top of the building and in the basement, the water being kept in circulation with duplicate sets of electrically driven pumps.

JEWELS PHOTOGRAPHED. ' The custom of wearing jewels When being 1 photographed is to a certain extent prevalent among some society women, but the habit is not so general as it might be, espaoially for our purposes.' So said a detective friend of the writer's during the course of a conversation the other day. 'People don't think of it, but fuch photographs again and again |)?ove serviceable as a means of Identification, should the gems be Stolen or lost.' -•■'■" * ? 'As an instance,' the detective went on, « I might mention a certain noble lady, who is constantly going to the studio of a well-known photographer for fresh sittings. This lady is never photographed unlees she's -wearing at least £20,000 worth of jewellery, including adozen rings on one finger. I was sent ;p her house one morning j a robbery had been but fortunaikly the thief ih^qnly'fsucceeded in; annexing a Inumber'of rings. jhanks t® the photograph, I was able to identify and recover the stolen property,, al»' most before the thief had bben able to realise the value of his booty. « Nor is this an isolated case. When people come to the police for information as to stolen jewels or lost trinkets, mora often than not they are too agitated to give clear and definite particulars of exactly what has gone. And even if they remember that, they cannot give sufficient details as to the stones, the style of setting, and the like, in order to help ue. The production of a photograph showing the jewels is at once a valuable clua.

'ln fact,' said the officer, before leaving, «if every woman had her jewellery, and any other valuables, such as silver plate. or ornaments, carefully photographed, it would be the means of. ~ overtaking many;, a thief jaind. burglar, as/well as leading to the restoration of his booty.' TO KEEP A QUANTITY 'OF * V

1. The keaping of potatoes for a considerable period is at all a difficult matter, the chiefpojuis being to protect theni^fr:om^fht/frost, and excessive d sit. is, termejl,iwhiij| i/ usually the result of toa the tubers |tqj||jecjMft heated, ■.■ and conaegusntl| M ■ ,A J g3'ooV,'' them m, and w earth; fJ9Qr 7 is, Sipouter'walls should bp ma iasictes tofa*h«ight ; of four feet mm oM hi£y|ktrawjor the ||ckitfg w b A ei^||. j || ! i;ifl thickness. jTha potatoes should, be i turned out oln me floor not more than 3ft, in depth, Ircare being taken thall they are dry. Boom should? be left on" offside tHfe being sorted'oijfer be dom Rsuffpx wggks afterwards. After otatbes aw stored they be covered vi<|||pld garden-mats or a thin layei to ligbt.) i j -Qn ! VlOrosty weather, hoWever,^n%%ov«ring--Ttfu^F f be increased dflpthnf &,fqqtqir more, and be pressed down tightly. 2. Any quastitynb£potatoe«-intended-fcp, be |ate us, say, next summer, may bja kept in excellent c(|d| i dition by storing them in the ing manner, f First, see that^ne

|qi|t&|s f*rfc quite' 'B6zmdt :i Md'. J from disease.. The best' 4 plabVifdr storing them in' the saadiesf pa r rY .o*HhefieM,| ox garden, running in a north and south direction, level and dry. Potatoes keep best in small quantities, for! when in large heaps they ferment. I Therefore, ridge-shape 18 the best way to store them. Start at,, ope end of the place ohosen, four feet at the base, and as high as they /c.ari!, be conveniently piled up. Now,, with a spade, commence about one foot from the potatoes to take out a trench, and with the soil removed cover the potatoes to a dopth of nine Inches. In, addition*., thatch. the ridges with straw, fern, ox any material, calculated to keep out frost and wet. See that .the trench drains itself. Some lay 'straw next the tubers, but las it?, decays iwHh the soil, their flavour. I£ necessary* to withdraw any of the .potatoes during .frosty Weather, do so tfrom'iihe southj end, Do qot Expose and carefully mend 'the - *& •-' >'- ' lie Id *f| 8 "IP s £ 3 ~A . FOUGHTfcSfcilFlj •. If '* A duel in Hungary, has caused a cessation

in the publication of the« Hirlap,' th« local daily paper, states a Vienna correspondent of the; London • Daily Express.' The ''Hirlap' 1 printed a criticism of an officer named Fejes% and the latter challenged the whole stafE to duels. The staff, which consisted of two journalists, .accepted the challenge, and the officer fought them one after I the other. Both editors were wounded so severely that they were unable to bring but the paper for several weeks. When at length it appeared again, anexplahationwas inserted in which their only eoneolation was the knowledge that they had rendered their opponent permanently unfit for military service.

\* STOLEN KISSES. , I'suppose, the moat difficult .thing to appraise at a money value is aki ;s, for it is at once the most valuable and least valuabls thing in the world according to the point of view from which one looks at it. For a kiss men have almost been willing to barter a kingdom, but they were perhaps extravagant. Many men have paid a good deal more, and I remember seeing a play at the St. Jamea'i in which a kiss from a certain young ! lady was put up to auction and sold to one of the other characters, in order to benefit a charity,, A little while ago Mrs Brown Potter, acting as auctioneer at a bazaar, offered, to throw in a kiss to the purchaser of some knick-knack, if he would pay a certain price, which some young man promptly did—and got his kiss. Only a few days ago I waa told a young man attempted to kiss a girl on the -3 street, and someone coming by gave |f him in charge. Although the girl .' herself did not seem to object, and - pleaded for him, that young man had f to pay a fine of £lO for that whioh, if he had taken it in private, would have cost him nothing. Kissing has so often been found to be the cause of delay in the starting of trains .that one of the American railway companies has also forbidden kissing on -its platforms, though hardly know how the regulation is going to be : carried out. ■—Lady Jeune.