“ Nostalgia,” a strong desire to go home, is said to affect the young American soldiers in the Philippines. It’s a desire that has the hearty good will of the Philipinos. An American gentleman suggests that a belt of windmills be erected around Chicago to furnish power for the lighting of the “ Windy City. This has tickled the popular fancy. People are asking why it 'is r.ot feasible thus to make the’ winds pay tribute to electrical industry in all parts of the country. This is an excellent suggestion for “Windy Wellington.”
The South African war has brought an awkward plentitude of military titles in Natal. One Natal society woman says : “My greengrocer is a lieutenant, my draper a Captain ; the sweetheart oi my housemaid is also a commissioned officer of some kind, and only yesterday the man who came to lay the carpet became quite friendly and patronising, because, lie said, be expected to be mentioned in tbe despatches.”
The end of the revolution in central America is announced. Does this refer to the rear end of one that is disappearing or to the front end of one that is coming ? asks the Kansas City Star
The fact that such men as the Hon. E Mitchelson, of Auckland, and Mr Q. *G-. Stead, of Christchurch, are taking a leading part in the promotion oi the Sedclon testimonial speaks .volumes,—Blenheim Express,
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 371, 21 March 1902, Page 3
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