GENERAL INFORMATION.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 384, 5 August 1911, Page 7

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Mrs. Gould, the wife of an American millionaire, at one time spent £B,OJO a year on dress.

One mCe five hundred and fifty yards is the length of the course at Hcniey.

Mr. Roosevelt says "it is emphatic illy the first duty of each American to get dollars."

Of Eton v. Harrow cricket con tests, Harrow have won 35, Eton 31 while 17 have been drawn.

By a treaty recently signed at Bangkok between Great Britain and Siam, Britain secures 15,000 square miles of additional territory.

Two hundred electric tramway cars, costing in all £237,000, are to be constructed for the L.C.C.

For marrying by a common licence the fee to a clergyman is 7s. 6d. ; for marrying by banns, 2s. Gd.

At a rose competition in Paris recently, sicty-nine entirely new varietea of roses were exhibited.

In Paris the theatres subsidised by the State arc under obligation to give a free performance each year.

The United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States produce about 80 per cent. of the world's supply of I ig iron. The first three volumes of the j " History of the South African j War - ' have cost £32,102 of public j money. | An American aeroplanist recently I fell 3,500 ft. in his airship with no j more serious injuries than a severe | bruising. | Chicago surgeons have successfully grafted a portion of the leg iof a lamb to a man's leg as a substitute for a shattered shinbone. j Since the beginning of the year the Royal National Lifeboat Institution j has voted rewards for the saving of about three hundred lives. Many modern women are merely bundles of emotion, lacking entirely in stability of character —human vampires continually pouring their self-imposed miseries into the ears of all those who will hear—women with neither heart nor soul, vain as peacocks, and selfish to the backbone. For their troubles (and they usually have many) they blame everyone but themselves. They alone are innocent and free from reproach. Such women are really positively dangerous to the community. Tliey misconstrue and pervert and turn the truth topsy-turvy, by their foolish imaginings. It is largely due to the existence of this type of woman that divorces and separations multiply exceedingly. Duty docs not exist for them. They are destructive of domesticity in its deepest sense, and they lack the moral character and the unselfish affection which are necessary to the building up of a happy home life. —"Gentlewoman."

The most quarrelsome creature in the world is the scorpion. Two placed in the same box will always sting tail other to death.

A woman at Foleshiil passed every night of her life of G2 years in the same house, and slept for 14,000 nights in the same bedroom.