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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2051, 30 November 1907, Page 3 (Supplement)

—Be the first to confess your faults. It is only the fool who never makes a mistake. —Few children are “lost in London” for more t-lian an hour or two nowadays, the police say, because of tlio growing practice of placing tlio littlo ones’ names and addresses in the lining of their liats. —A bronze coin, bearing tho insription “Claudius Ceasar,” has been found near the vicarage garden at Amberley, England. It is in an excellent state of preservation, and is believed to be some 2000 years old. —ln tlio Borough of AVestminster (London), 537 out of every 1000 woman inhabitants are domestic servants, and 148 out of every 1000 men. Across the water in Battersea only 250 women per 1000 anil 8 men. per 1000 are in similar capacities. —The old fishing town at Scarborough, with its narrow, crooked streets and picturesque houses, is a favorite hunting ground for artists and photographers. It is said that sooner or later every Yorkshire artist paints a picture of the red-roofod “old quarter.” —The fold owing notice occupies a prominent position in a Bristol newsagent’s establishment are respectfully -advise that we do not expect them to look at fashion books before they have paid for them.” Of the 3,644,416 miners in the world the United Kingdom, according to a new return, has the largest number of any nati0n—974,634. Germany has 814,352; tlio United States, 607,069 ; Russia, 344,255; ami France, 322,536. —Quarr Abbey House, near Hyde, where Princess Henry of Buttenberg spent her honeymoon, is again to become a monastery, having been sold to the Benedictine Society of St. Pierre of Solesmes. Kicc contains more,nutritious elements and will sustain life better and longer than any other grain, a fact well known throughout Eastern countries. The long-service record of SO years has been achieved by Anna Gabrieli, who has died at Botzen, an Austria, aged 93, after serving since her thirteenth year three generations of the same family.