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During last year 329,000,000 passengers were carried on Indian railways, which made a profit of £114,000. The average charge to passengers was ju3t over a fifth of a penny per mile. During the la-it ten years cases of drunkenness in Ireland, according to the Government statistics issued recently, have fallen from 98,401 to 68,748. The decrease last year was 5519. a much larger decrease than in any year since 1903. A newspaper for hunery people, which can be eaten after it has been read, thus affording nourishment for the body as well as the mind, is published in Paris, and is called "The Regal." It is printed with an ink guaranteed non - poisonous on thin sheets of dough. Mr Martin, of Bursletn, told a good story at the annual conference of the Sanitary Inspectors' Association at the Fishmongers' Hall, London Bridge. "A young woman who was purchasing frozen meat," he said, "asked tho butcher how long it had been killed. The butcher regretted he could not tell her, and just then the young lady caught sight of a label on the meat on which was inscribed 'B.C. 696.' 'Qh, dear!'she exclaimed, 'no more New Zealand mutton for me.' "
A good story is told of Louis Wain the well-known cat artist. He strolled in a variety theatre one night, and was introduced to a man there. His friend remarked that this was Mr Louis Wain, whose cats were so famous. The man, after studying his programme, turned suddenly to Mr Wain, remarking: "And what time, sir, does your cat turn come along here? I don't sec it mentioned in the programme."
Undoubtedly the be?t lady gunner in the United Kingdom is the Duchess of Bedford, who would put many good shots among the men to shame. She considers scooting an excellent pastime for women. Her has accounted for as many as 342< head of game in the season, and has brought dqwn ,"m birds with -~>B carlridges, while on another occasion sirshot 23 pheasants and a hare with 25 cartridges. Her day's bag has amounted to 100 brace 'of pheasants, and another time she shot 115 partridges in a single day's driving. Lord Roberts' I'ondner.:., for children led to a curious adveture one day in India. While visiting one of the native bazaars a pretty little child, the two-year-old daughter of the shopkeeper, ran into the simp. The temptation proved too much for "Bobs," and he caught the little one in his arms and pretended to carry her off. The child's mother., thinking he was kidnapping her baby in earnest, rushed upon him with the impetus of a tigress' leap. She snatched the terrified child from him, and, inveighing him in her native tongue, drove the astonished hero of a hundred fights out of doors. "That day," says Lord Roberts when he tells the story, "I was defeated in India!" A most remarkable instance of the great heat experienced in the Carter- : ton district the other week, was reported from Waihakeke. It appears that a dairy farmer there kept his milk cans leaning against a wooden shed. The sun struck down on the lid of one of the cans and this focussed the rays on to the building. Just as the place was springing into a blaze the lady of the house noticed it and a well-applied bucket of water removed all danger.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 321, 17 December 1910, Page 3
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564INTERESTING ITEMS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 321, 17 December 1910, Page 3
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