INTERESTING ITEMS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 544, 22 February 1913, Page 6

INTERESTING ITEMS.

The "Farthing Gazette," probably the cheapest daily newspaper in e istence, has been started in Moscow, and has already a considerable circulation. In the course of a sermon at Slo'-e-oi-Trent the Rev. J. S. Jones c niucted chemical experiments in the puloit, with the object of illustrating his text. the presents received by an /.mcrican bride, the daughter of a millionaire, were a string of diamonds Cft. in length, containing 240 Eton's, a gold after-dinner coffee set, a s lver breakfast service, and a die .re for £20,000. " Mss Harriet Nicklin, whose funer.l took place at Foleshill recently, ha'- never, during the sixty-two jc;.rs oi her life, passed a night out cf th* fnuse in which she was born, and si :pt for 14.000 nights in the s.' me cdrooni. Gi sis ure nsually supposed to be < f Sgy;/;t : an origin, but as a matter of fa t t i y probably came origins Jy from India, and reached Europe abo" t the beginning of the fifteenth century. A mushroom, which is believed to l.c the largest ever grown, has been ath r d in a field near Pittsburg. It rncnsi.'ie'l over a yard in diameter, t-nl w.ighed no less than 331b. The w.u.'a com had taken only forty-eight li i;rs to grow. Donato Digilio, a young Italian, tar. la.c-ly cleared £3,000 after a lew ;,ca s' hard work as a bootblack n New York. He has sailed, for Italy wii.h a pretty American wife, bound for a honeymoon trip of three months. His money was made by shining the boots of financiers in Wall Street, whefe ho had a boot-lla.-k stand. The bootblacking in rtu: t y ii New York is controlled ent ;e by Italians, some of whom pay lar. c rentals for space in the entrance halls of the great office buildin s. * ion t mers frequently perfume themselves with lavender. There is, it is s-id, no record of a lion ever ha ing attacked a trainer who had ta en the precaution of using this pcrfLme. The best-lighted street in' the wjrld is the famous Unter-den-Lin-den, in Berlin... It is illuminated by three rows of electric lights, separated by two rows of beautiful trc. s. In Italy the day begins at midnight, and is reckoned on the 24 hour system. Three o'clock in the afternoon is 15 o'clock, and midnight is 24 o'clock. Large heads do not always indicate ntellect. The.. Greeks, one of the most intellectual of nations, were distinguished for their small heads,