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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1425, 27 April 1912, Page 5

Ever been irritablo all day—didn't know yourself because of a throbbing headache? That needn't bo—Steams' Headaeho Cure will put you right.— Advt. LVS Mr. Herman Frasch, inventor of a process for mining sulphur by- melting ii underground with steam and then pumping it to tlio surface, was recently presented with a medal for his achievement by tho Society of Chemical Industry. Tin's invention is said to have worked revolution in tlio American sulphur market. Excited hunters who mistake their eompnnions for gamo are 3ometim#s matched, so an English writer affirms, by enthusiastic naturalists who lose their bends in a new environment and make wonderful discoveries. He illustrates this psychological phenomenon by the story of an imaginative English lady who, on landing in Norway, excitedly asked her husband, pointing to an object on tho guay, "Oh, look! What is that extraordinary animal?" Tho gentleman calmly replied, "I cannot tell you its Norwegian name, my dear, but in England wo should call it a cat!" Tlio world's juvenile travelling record is said to lie held by a United States army officer's littlo daughter, Julia 1). Kilts, eight years old, now in tho Philippines, who has travelled '10,000 miles. Beforo she was one year old she had 13,300 miles to her credit. Tho industrial schools of Prussia, says a trade journal iu commenting on tlie lack nt' trained workers in Amcrica, had ■100,000 pupils in 1908—nearly fourteen per cent, of tho population. At about tho samo time only two per cent, of tho population of tlio United States wcro being trained in a similar manner. A meeting of llutt Valley residents is elsewhere convened for Monday evening next at o'clock in tho new Town Hoard's offices, Upper JJutt, to discuss matters relating to tho at present inadequate train services between Wellington and Upper llutt. It is intended, as a result of this meeting, to approach the new Minister (Ilie Hon. A. M. Myers) with proposals of a nnlure calculated to improve tho most tardy movements of such trains as now move over the twc-nly-milo rniliuj at apparently tho will of I lie Departmental ofiioers and not in tho inler-e-i- lII' the la-l-giowing seillemeul above Iho Silver-tre.ini railway bridge. Messrs. James Macintosh and Co. will hold i\ ctoctc tale at Woipoua anieg-aida, M.njitorUiu, oomwouduu uc 11.31! a.uij qji ■ Jtfajr.