NEWS AND NOTES.
At a London wharf a barge-load of 40,000 bricks can be unloaded between sunrise and sunset. The method adopted is to pass the bricks up out of the barge from man to man in ‘‘hands” of live bricks, the last man stacking the bricks on tiie wharf. Thus in a day’s work each man handles 100 ions of bricks. A freak bolt of lightning struck lln upraised shovel of a workman at Salem, United States, split into three parts, and jumped to three different houses. In one house i[ stunned six-months-old twins. Weather-boarding and plaster were torn from the second house. The third house a bungalow just completed, which was damaged slightly. The workman was uninjured. An Irishman whose property hud Income over-run with rabbits was told that he must take measures to exterminate them or lie would be heavily lined. A sympathetic friend, meeting him a few weeks later, enipiired what be bad done about it. “Done,” said i’at, airily, “Share Oi just Ink a little poison and laid it here and there, and in next to no toime the whole place was aloive wid dead rabbits." A. boil I thirty years ago, lleleneSmilh, a .well-known medium, claimed to have been wafted to. Mars in a trance for three successive nights. She afterwards astonished a gathering of pyschologists and language experts by describing the physical features of the planet and speaking and writing in the language of the Martians. The language was so consistent that no one could prove it had been invented. “You will meet more snobbery in ;i small New Zealand town than von will experience in all your travels in (treat Britain," remarked Dr. Stewart at St. Andrew’s Scottish Society’s gathering at Invercargill on l'Yidav night. Our Scottish and English aristocrats, particularly of the older order —and 1 have met a few —are. deservedly looked up to ami esteemed; an increased addition of their stock, their habits, manners, education, and ideals inld i,nr so called democratic country would have a powerful iiilliicnce I'm good. We calmly assume that we are the most democratic country on earth. The vast multitude of New Zealanders who went Home last vear, who received invitations to tea at Buckingham Palace., and who were practically lionised wherever they went, will now have serious doubts of I lie truth of the foregoing siatemenl.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2856, 10 March 1925, Page 1
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393NEWS AND NOTES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2856, 10 March 1925, Page 1
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