NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 2921, 11 August 1925, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A gooseberry hush grafted oil a willow tree at Moulton Chapel, Lincolnshire, lias produced a splendid crop, which is growing 0 feel from the ground like mistletoe.

The Chicago Chamber of Com menu! recent]v carried out an inter

csting experiment in order to trace what hapepned to a dollar bill witlia circular attached asking every person into whose hand it came to make a note of the use he made of it. By the end of the fortnight the note lmd been spent thirty-one times —live times in payment of salaries 'or wages* live times for tobacco, live times for cigarettes, three limes for meals, three tim.es for candy, twice for shaves, twice for “men's furnishings," and once for collar buttons, automobile accessories, bacon, washing-powder, garters and tooth paste respectively.

An apparatus by which persons may see moving objects miles away by radio was successfully demonstrated at a private test. The invention is by (,'. Francis Jenkins, Washington scientist. The apparatus was set tip in the laboratory of the inventor in downtown Washington. On a small screen the o'llicials were able to see a small cross revolving in a beam of light flashed across a light-sensitive cell installed at a naval radio station several miles away. The object, while not perfectly clear, was distinguishable, witnesses said.

Canon Spooner, for ninny yours Warden of New College, Oxford, has just attained his 80th birthday, and has retired, lie lias to admit being the author of many “Spoonerisms" which are (plaint verbal mix-ups or malapropisms. Many of them have added much to the gaietv of nations. Jewett, the great Master of Balliol, was always entertained in hearing them. The earliest “Spoonerism" was that one in which Dr Spooner is understood to have given out the hymn “ConC|uering Kings Their Titles Take" as “Tinkering Tongs Their Kitles Kake." Nervously noting his error lie endeavoured to improve upon it by“Kin<|iiering Kongs Their Tatles Tike.” He once described his baggage to a railway porter as two rags and a bug, instead of two bags and rug. Everyone utters one or more good Spoonerisms in the course of his life. A clergyman became the delight of his congregation because he continually referred to the “farren big tree,” and was fond also dwelling on the text, which he quoted as “Many are called but chew are foseu," ending up. his sermon with the exhortation “Be ye therefore of the foseu eliew.”