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Kaikoura Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 34, 4 May 1906, Page 3

According to the report of the medical officer of the Galway Urban Council, fourteen adults of both sexes, a baby, two dog-, ami a couple of monkeys, were the inhabitants of a house wonsisting of one room ami a kitchen. The height of tne Aurora Borealis seems to v ivy greatly. The spectral light has been touching Iho earth in Arctic regions, but measurements made during a aurora near London show that the red could not have been much le-s that 000 miles high, the green being much nearer the earth s surface. A baby 46 year.- old has,just died in Westbury Workhouse, Wiltshire. The child was born .in Westbury, ami at the age of 12 months its further development, both mentally u d physically, mis arrested. Throughout it.- life it was attired in baby's clothes, and continued to act ami play, and had to be fed ami taken care of precisely as an infant. “ What is the account for?” asked Judge Addison of counsel at the Southwark County Court. “Dried flies.” was the reply. “ Dried Hies” the judge ejaculate !. “ What on earth do you do with dried Hies?” “They are used in the making of chicken food,” counsel explained. The market price is eighteenpenee a pound, and the flies come from America. While an Indiana editor was home, sick with typhoid fever, ami his wi ’e and little daughter were suffering at the same time with diphtheria and scarlatina, the office boy clipped and published in a proniinent position the following note : • typhoid foyer, diphtheria, and scarlatina are the results of human ignorance, stupidity, laziness, and filth, rather than visitations of God.”