NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

Hokitika Guardian, 16 November 1929, Page 3

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS

THE MOST HEAVILY INSURED MAN. The largest life insurance, in the whole of the United States is staled lo bo hold in the name of Mr Pierre 1). Dupont, a manufacturer in Delaware, whose policies amount to a total of 7,000,000 dollars (£1,400,000). Ten Americans have policies amounting to live or more million dollars, and 312 have policies of over 1,000,0,40 dollars.

WOMEN AGE MORE QUICKLY. Mr W. B. Luke, the Willesden magistrate, to wife who complained that she and her husband did not get on together because lie was ten years older than she was: it does not matter in the least that a wife is ten years younger than bar husband. A woman ages quicker than a man. When you arc 40 and 60 respectively there will really lie no difference between you. HORN-RIMMED SPECTACLES. A correspondent writes to ‘The Daily Telegraph” : - Why siiouid we blame America for everything? The horn-rimmed spectacles originated in China and wore called mandarin '•spectacles. They were introduced in the Western world in Germany--that paradise for opticians—and were brought to America about 1907, where they were instantly a success because \,l tluir lightness and comfort. DEATH FORESTALLS REUNION. James Mac Williams, a joung Scotsman living at Carney, N. J., who had not seen his mother for seven years, went to the pier to meet her at New York on her arrival from Scotland, but found that she had die 1 ol uearc failure when the ship was in. Boston Harbour. The physician said the attack was due to excitement as the result of receiving a radiogram from her son announcing his intention of meeting her at the pier in Now York.

DIAMOND BRACE LETS ROLL UP.

Ornaments of jewellery treated in a variety of new ways-—largely inspired by the Ur discoveries—are to be an important feature rif autumn fashions in Britain. As a consequence of the development of cut, it is said, ihe most exotic pieces may be designed us .triangles, hexagons, and other quaintly-shaped gems. The modern settings are so delicately hipged that fobs,., brooches and necklets/? become as flexible as ribbon; a diamond bracelet can he rolled up like a tape measure.

' OBSOLETE LAMP POSTS. * A “Daily Telegraph” correspondent writes: In Japan most of the streets are lit up, not by public lamps, but by the electric light from a lamp which every house is supposed to have outside the gate or over the front door. This applies also to shops, which are generally kept open until late in the evening. Their entrances are sometimes illuminated by Japanese lanterns and look very picturesque after dark. In this way the streets in Japan are fairly well illuminated, and present quite an artistic appearance.

HISTORY OF Alt ROWE PARK. Arrowe Park, where the Boy Scouts gathered at the -great jamboree, is the largest public park in England. •Spreading a mile in length and half a mile in width, it covers nearly 500 acres of undulating well-wooded country, and presents a wealth of glorious views out over the sea and Welsh mountains. The park is an ancient one. It was mentioned in the Doomsday Book, and it '-as teen owned in turn by many -great Cheshire families, including the Duttons and Fleetwoods. It was purchased a few years ago from Viscount Loverhulme by the Birkenhead Corporation.

MONKS AS HARVESTERS. Silent, white habited monks harvesting on the English couiitrvside form a rare and striking spectacle, to be seen in recent days in Leicestershire They are the Cistercians of Mount St, Bernard’s Abbey, not far away from the grim contrast of the mining town of Coalville. N.o Cistercians have always been .“-i minis as the “farmer monks,” and they take a .vow of silence. Mount St. Bernard’s alone remains of the hundred or so -Cistercian foundations in England before the suppression ot the monastries. An Englishman St. Stephen Harding, was the co-founder of the Order with St. Robert.

DOG “FRIGHT DISEASE,” Several dogs were recently billed on the outskirts of London through being run over by vehicles. This has not been the fault of the drivers. The animals were suffering fiom “flight disease ’’ and had rushed blindly into the first obstacle they came across. This fright disease is caused by—nobody knows. Ihe Royal Veterinary College is studying the problem now. Just as with the help of the “vets.” of Britain rabies was stamped out, so the germs of iriglit disease may he traced and llie disease cured and prevented hi the future.