Here and There.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 26 July 1910, Page 4

Here and There.

ESKIMO CANDY

Tallow is the Eskimo's candy. It is put up in bright red packets made ouft of the feet of water fowl. The women cut off the. red feet of this bird, which is celled the- dovekie, draw out the hones and blow up the skin so as to make pouches which they will fill with reindeer itallow for their little folk. None of the food that the Eskimos eat seems very inviting to us, but they are extremely fond of it and are very aj>t to overeat. It is vsaid by explorers who have gone into Greenland that i't is no uncommon sight k> see an Eskimo man who has eaton an enormous meal of the raw, frozen flesh of the reindeer, seal or walrus lying on his back and eating bliib- ! her until he cannot move.WHAT A CAR COSTS. An estimate of the coslt of running an automobile in -London can be made from the advertisement of a garage company which offers a complete motor service for £2000 a year if customers will take it for three years. Or they may pay £500 the first year, £400 Ithe second year, and £300 the third, with the option of discontinuing the service a(t the end of any year. For his the customer gets the u.<*o of a l/Phorse power laudaulet, a livoried chauffeur, all the peltrol, lubricants, tires, and other supplies he requires, service day or night and a second car to replace his car in case of accident. A FORGOTTEN BENEFACTOR. Pierre Martin, who invented the original slteel smelting process by which the famous Sienieus-Mantin steel is produced, has been discovered living in oblivion and in poor circumstances in the neighbourhood of Paris The French steel smelters' organisation, known as the Cbmite des Forges de France, immetliately opened a subscription list with £4000 and linvites ironmakers fill over the world to contribute, with .the oh.ject of placing M. Martin beyond the possibility of actual want. The inventor is Bf], and a celebration is planned for the middle of next June to honour him. At the same time the money collected will be 'handed over to him. MONTE CARLO7\GITATION.

Once again the red spedtre of revolution hovers over the peaceful principality of Monaco. Owing to the fitet that the commission appointed by the Monaco Government to examine the i n't e nation a I convontion existing between France and the principality was not exclusively composed of Monegasques, the poliltical organisation known as the "Monegasque Committee" sent a telegram of protest to M. Briiand, the French Minister. This came to the notice of the Prince of Monaco, who promptly gave orders for the committee to be dissolved as it had entered into relations with a. foreign Government, a proceeding declared in the Government decree to be "essentially revolutionary and derogatory to tire dignity of Ithe Sovereign." Furthermore political meetings are henceforth prohibited throughout the length and breadth of Monaco—a measure which las brought the Monacan -temperament to boiling point. As aai exception, leave was granted for a meeting to be held at Monte Carlo recently on the coiuVtion that only Ithe new Constitution was discussed, but nfitor the list of agenda was finished certain members of the Monegasqne Committee proposed to explain thciir attitude in th« Briand iucidenlt.. and received' an attentive hearing 'from an audience of about 000 persons. As the committee was dissolved by law their action was illegal under Paragraph 270 of the Pemal Code of Monaco, and tlio public is easzerlv waiting to see what penaltv wilf fall on the heads of these ardent Nationalists. BURMA A WOMAN'S LAX.D. For the woman Burma is a veritable heaven on earth. No ooiintry elsewhere furnishes her more f'M.-e----dom, more opportunity. Even Occidental countries cannot viio with Burma in this respect. Mrs Burma outshines everybody and everything. Moreover, she is übiquitous.' You '■ find Ikm- here, there and everywhere. You stop alt- the jewellery vtore containing millions of dollars worth of pearls and rubies and precious stones, and the parson in charge of the .establishment, is a. woman. The sales-people are also women. You go 'to a fruit stand and it is a woman who owns and conducts it and sells you a banana or a mango. At rai'lnoad stations a Burmese woman sells you the tickets and a fair daughter of the land Iβ ready to take your dictation and do your typewriting if you are looking for an amanuensis. The Burmese woman is not only an efficient businesswoman, but a good mdthcr. Her duties as mother and merchant do not interfere with each other in the slightest degree. Added to her superior intelligence the Burmese woman lias good looks. She h.os eyes of a deep liquid black or brown bowlering on black. The forhead Iβ usually high and well filled out and there is puritv of expression abo'it the face. Her head is oval find shapely, this offerit bmnsr hightoned bv the manner in which she dresses her hair in a big knot on ton of her head. Her dress is white, with a tight fitting jacket with larsre slwves; the lower part of the body is covered bv a sun-ale bright silk pettiemt. which also "is tight fitting end displays the figure like a modern slbeath skirt.

CLOUDS AND THE WIUTHER. Cloud weather forecasts made by Dr. A. de Quervia/n, of Zurich, are or .the utmost scientific wnd practical importance. His deductions «ro based on the familiar cumulus cloud or warm summer days. When reaching ''heights of six or seven miles it becomes a trundle cloud.. The high floating top assumes the shape or a fleecy ice needle cloud and extends sideways in anvil shape. The ordinary cumulus cloud undergoes similar 'ttonerormation at a level of three to four miles, ami so does not lead to .the formation of thunder clouds but merely to the production of fleecy clouds. This eomt of cloud can be regarded as a presage of good weather. The veil shapod hooded clouds havo not been sufficiently explained. Often they encompass the top of a miickly rising ciimiius cloud' and until reeonftly were thought to bo instnimeiAal in the production of hail. They are always found' to be intimately connected with existing fleecy clouds, and on the other hand presage bad weather, occurring previous to fchundons/torms. Even such .reliable presages of thunderstorms are the remarkably delicate varieties of fleecy eloutJs which are mostly found floating about four miles high On a darker kver they are sii-perposea delicate «&!te 'heads. ThSPSZS; curly heads, generally in the morn-Miß-.safely predict a thunderstorm within twenty-four ihours. T3v balloon ascents it was found that the occurrence of these clouds coincides J ith a violent drop in the tempera-