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Gisborne Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 1426, 10 April 1905, Page 3

To prohibit the tipping of waiters and other employees under penalty of a fine of i£lo, a bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature. German officers are now permitted to drink the Kaiser’s health in non-alcoholic beverages, according to a recent order of the German War Office. In a recent message to his followers, the .“ Profit ” Dowie stated : “ For the first time in my career I am receiving direct revelations from God.” Confession of the burial of his son alive 14 years ago has been made by a man at Messina, in Sicily, subsequent to the,boy’s skeleton being dug up by laborers. Although the umbrella had for many centuries been in use in China and Japan, and appears in the carvings of Porsepolis, yet;itjwa3 not until more than 200 yearsjago that it was introduced to the streets of London. It is said that the first person who ventured abroad with this “ portable penthouse ” over his head was John Haoway, a benevolent and ecoentrio old gentle, man. His first attempt to make use of it was evidently attended with considerable excitement, for we are told that when he first raised it on a rainy day, he found it of unexpected use in keeping off a shower of sticks and stones, with which the street boys pelted him. For a long time it was considered effeminate and ridiculous, to use on umbrella. The only female blacksmith in the United States, perhaps in the world, is Miss Clara Medlin, who has her forgo at VVingo Ke-tuoky. Not only can she shoe o horsH ; she is also an export carriage panter.