WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 651, 14 March 1914, Page 3

WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

There are very few occasions in a man's life when his hand shakes more than at the fateful moment of producing the wedding-ring. This nervousness, moreover, is not decreased by his partner's desperate attempts to remove her long white glove. Henceforth, there will be no need for such uncomfortable incidents. Instead of the usual struggle to remove her left-hand glove, the bride will now be able to uncover the third linger without effort and without losing her composure. This delightful result is to be obtained by an ingenious '"wedding glove" device, for which Messrs. Dent, the wellknown London glovers, are responsible. The inside seam on the third finger of the left glove is unstitched, so that all that the bride need do is to slip her finger through the slit to receive the ring. The finger can just as easily be slipped back into the glove after the ceremony. The device will be greatly appreciated, not only by the bride, but also by the nervous bridegroom.

The latest census to be taken is that of the stars. The ina'-'.guration of the work is due to the efforts of Mr. Franklin Adams, a well-known amateur astronomer, who has done some excellent work from his observatory at Mervel-hill, Hambledon, near Godalming. At the Greenwich Royal Observatory four of the regular staff are engaged upon a census, which is expected to take many months before it is completed. "Photography is the means employed," said an official at the Greenwich Observatory. "Two hundred plates have been taken, covering the entire sky from the North Pole to the South, and on each plate the stars will be counted. The plates used for the Greenwich census record 20,000 to 250,000 stars each, and it is estimated that the total number of stars photographed will be about 23.000,000. WHAT MAN IS MADE OF. All of us remember the nursery rhyme beginning, "What are little boys made of." Recently a medical scientist undertook to decide, chemically, what the average weight man in normal condition would be worth as practical "raw" material, were he to be worked up into everyday commodities. He reports a widely scattered assortment of utilities into which tMs average man may be wrought. The average man in health has the material for 13 pounds of candles, one pound of nails, carbon sufficient for 800 pencils, bind'in&s for 16 octavo books. 500 knife handles, 28 violin strings. 20 teaspoonfuls of salt and one pound of loaf sugar. TIP TIPS. Porters and hotel servants on the Continent use very ingenious murks on luggage directly a tip has been given. The symbol indicates to all other porters the character and generosity of the traveller. A curved mark on the top lefthand corner signifies that the traveller is quite a "novice and inexperienced." A diagonal scratch on the bottom left-hand corner means "very precise and disagreeable." A cross on the bottom right-hand corner means "exacting but liberal." Small vertical marks near the lock indicate "magnanimous," and* a traveller whose luggage bears this mark can be sure of the most careful attention. But a horizontal line on the top right-hand corner shows that the person is miserly, and that tips are very small and few in number.

"KILL THAT FLY !"

In London a large number of in I'ants have been dying lately, and more than one medical man is oi opinion that flies, which are known to convey germs of disease, are responsible. Indeed, the medical officer of one London borough has gone so far as to inaugurate a brisk campaign against the fly. whom he describes as a menace to life. The fly, he declares should be killed wherever it is foun l. It should be shown no mercy. It I - as no good points. It has many l a(1 ones. It has already slain covnile'SE thousands in all parts of the earth, and now humanity has risen again-st it. A fly may convey germs ol typhoid fever, diphtheria, dysentery, small-pox, and anthrax, and other diseases that will cause tticKn-Ks oi death to every member of u family. Therefore, the doctor cayf, the motto of every family should be, "Kill That Fly."