GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2277, 24 August 1908, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

It is proposed to paint tho gun ports of tho Victory yellow, t l»o:r color ut Trafalgar, ami to rerig tho ship mi she was in Nelson s tunc. Thi) Russian Duma commission on the drink question has reported in favor of removing the Imperial Eagle from (ho Inbcls oi vocllcu bottlcss miul substituting a skull and cross-lames, denoting poison, with (appropriate warnings against over indulgence. A Id-year-old negress was the heroine of the opening session of the conference of the National Education Association held in Cleveland. She spelled correctly every one of 000 words submitted to her, writing 100 and spelling -100 orally. The gold badge certifying that she was tho champion child speller of the United States was pinned on her breast. FIRST AID TO THIS INJURED.

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After being married a year, a voung man named Halm, living at Volosca. Dalmatia, discovered that he had not married tho girl he intended. AY hen he proposed to her ho mistook her for her twin sister, who so resembles her that they can scarcely <listin£suisliocl, and lie dicl not, realise .his error until ho began calling her by her Christian name instead of by tho terms of endearment lie had hitherto used. Fifty years ago Daniel Vincent Shorthand won a prize in the AA oolwich entrance examination. Ho had to leave school for AA’oolwich before tho Speech Day, anil the prize never reached him. Colonel Shorthand has since spent many years in India, but recently he appeared on tho platform at his old college to receive his prize it the hands of Viscount St-. Aldwyn.

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The Equitable Life Assurance Society are to construct a building in New York, whoso height will far exceed that of both the Metropolitan and the Singer building in Broadway, the highest I ‘sky-scrapers” yet builtin New York, with towers which have 46 and 47. stories respectively. Tho Equitable building will have a tower of 62 stories, with a main building of 34 stories, and it will be over 900 ft high.