LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Franklin Times, Volume 9, Issue 688, 29 November 1921, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The Pukekohe Technical High School Board of desire to acknowledge, with thanks, receipt of the following donations towards the school ground improvement fund:— Mr H. G. R., Mason £3 Mr W. Boase ss.

On Friday, the 16th December, the Franklin Times will publish an illustrated Christmas Number* containing views of the district and literary matter pertaining to the whole Franklin County. For posting to friends this will make an excellent souvenir, apd extra copies should be ordered this week.

Mr C. F. Warren, of the Noted Showrooms (Strand Arcade) has just returned from America, and is now showing some very dainty summer goods at most reasonable prices. Our representative (Mr J. H. Messent) will be in Pukekohe and district on December Bth and 9th, with a fine .sample range of our blouses, hose, jumpers, etc. Should you like him to call, kindly advise us by post of your address, and he will have much pleasure in doing so. Address : Warren’s, Strand Arcade, Auckland.*

‘.Talking of hens,” remarked the American visitor, “reminds me of an old hen my dad once had. She would hatch out anything from a tennis ball to a lemon. Why, one day she sat on a piece of ice and hatched out two quarts of hot water.” “That doesn’t come up to a club-footed hen my mother once had,” rmarked the Irishman. “They had been feeding her by mistake on sawdust instead of oatmeal. Well„ sir, she laid 12 eggs and sat on thenp and when they hatched 11 of of the chickens had wooden legs and the twelfth was a wood-pecker ■”

They are going up ! What V The price of Xmas Cards. We have a fme assortment just opened up. The price is right, ORDER NOW.

With all the world’s scientific progress, health conditions to-day are neither better nor worse than they were 3000 years ago, according to Robert Jauijes. who has just published the insults of an amazing discovery by Dr Jaures was the fact that the ancient Egyptians were more surte-footed than the people of to-day, as was indicated by the fact that out of a thousand mummies examined, not a single ca|se of fracture of the foot or leg was found. What is a “roller sweat ?” In the Supreme Court at Christchurcn it was stated that such an article had been found in the possession of a prisoner. A Sun representative put the query to a police officer. A “roller sweat,” he was told, is a many-sided length of planed wood, each side of which i t s painted. It is used in gaming. The operator has a piece of oilcloth, marked with strips pf colour corresponding to those on [the roller. Each of these strips is marked with certain odds. The roller is (sent spinning over the oilcloth. If when it stops, the uppermost colour corresponds witn that upon which the roller rests the operator pays out on £h© odds stated. As played, however* it is not really a game of chance. The roller is so delicately constructed, from the point of view of balance, that the operator, if he desires, can make it turn up a particular colour,.