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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 61, 5 December 1919, Page 6

"Have yon any children ?" inonired tho landlord of a. woman who was seeking tenancy of his house (reports the Ilawera "Star"). Snappily idle woman replied, "I don't see what that lias to <lo wi!-!i' you,"'' and then, in a rather mournful tone, "but if you .particularly want to know, 1 have four—in the eemptery." The deal was all once concluded. Then the woman retrieved four children from the cemetery wlhere she had left them lo read about tho virtues of dead landlords pending the result of her negotiations with a livo one. Tho distressed man consulted his solicitor, but was not given much liopo of getting an order of ejectment, and tho woman, it is understood, defends her finesse, holding Mint everything is fair in love and war—and in house-hunting nowadays. Such is the slory told us, but wo have not been able (10 verify it, for our cautious informant will not even tell us the street in ,11'awei'a in which tho ihouso is situated.

New Zoaland possesses few animals, said Dr. 11. J. Tillyard at tho Philosophical Society 011 Wednesday evening, but those it has are of suprome interest. The tuatara alono is worth all tho lizitrds ofAustralia. The reason is, of course, that it approaches so closely to fossil forms elsewhere, long extinct these last 70 million years. The same is true of 6ome of the insects of Now Zealand. This evening Dr. Tillyard is to givo a further lecture to tho Philosophical Society on "Fossil Insects," an advertisement of which appears in another column.

Berlin official returns of births during July record the case of a woman, who gave, birth 16 her 21st child, which is while two women had each their birth while two women had each theft Hth child. Seventeen women gavo birth to twins.