News and Notes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8100, 29 May 1906, Page 3

News and Notes.

Reynolds, a Missouri town, has lost " Uncle Hiram Wooster, a umn of eeveuty whomever slept in a bed in his life. He contrived a stout leather harness which he strapped around his chest, and .between his shoulder blades the straps ended in a wrought iron hook. When he wanted to go to sleep he stood on a chair and threw the hook, on a staple driven into the wall of his cabin. In this manner lie slept comfortably. He said it saved, the bother ol ; making ; beds. The old man had dißliked women and never permitted one to enter his house. 1 5 No wireless telegraphy experiment can be conducted in Australia without a license from the Postmaster-General. The Marconi Telegraph Company, which is erecting experimental stations at Queenscliff and Devonport (Tasmania)', is not exempt from this rule. Recently the Postmaster-General sent to the company's representative in Australia a copy of the license which he proposes to issue. The Marconi company's representative, however, expresses himself as dissatisfied with the license, and requests alterations to be made. The Postmaster-General has not yet received full particulars of the amendments sought, and accordingly the issue of the license will be suspended for a time. Miss Elsa d'Estree, expounder of the gospel of the Bimple life, says :—" My day begins at 5 o'clock in tke morning and ends at midnight! And yet I never feel tired ! I am a vegearian*—a pennyworth of potherbs will serve me for two or three days ! I do all the work of che house myself, and spend the servants' wages on concerts, theatres and new books I frequently go out to dinners, deliver lectures, and book seats for a friend and myself to witness a new play. Change of air ! I don't believe in it. All tbe air I need I can get on my doorstep in dear old , Chelsea long before the milkman starts : on his rounds." There is evidently more in the simple life than is dreamed of in the scoffer's philosophy. A story of a credulous old baroness ' and a designing maid servant has just been revealed in a case being heard at Paiis, The first thing that Marie, the servant, did was to raise a mock ghost the ghost of the baroness's dead mother. : This was done, of course, at night. While 1 the baroness engaged in prayer Marie went into a small room, whence issued 1 a ghostly voice. " I am thy mother," ' said the voice, " and if you look at the sky every evening you will see me at the star that lighted the shepherd and the kings to Bethlehem." Next day the baroness was informed that a choir } of angels had advised her to make her ' will at once, leaving everything to Marie for the purpose of founding a dog's hospital. Then she was advised to have an altar erected for special prayers to St. Anthony of Padua. The alia." wa3 to , be in Marie's room, and there was to be a»box attached to it for offerings. Into this the baroness was to put a bank note of 100 f. every night after she had said her prayers. All this was done, but unfortunately for the maid the baroness went completely mad, and had to be sent to a private asylum, and the whole story came out. Marquis Ito is now taking up what may prove the last public work of his eventful life, and it may well be considered the greatest. The administration of Korea might easily prove too great a task even for the foremost man in Japan. News daily received from tbe Peninsula shows the need of a Government absolutely just as well as strong, and the necessity of real reform. For this work to be done conscientiously progress will be slow, and it might be that Marquis Ito will never have time to do more than prepare the way for his successor, but future success depends upon the foundation that is laid by the first Eesident-General. The Koreans are represented as being lazy, ignorant, and indifferent to progress, but they have been educated in this direction by a corrupt and wretched Government, and the whole country now pays the penalty of tbe indifference and venality of its leaders. A large force of troops is maintained in Seoul and at various centres in the provinces. Within twelve months the country will be systematically policed from one end to the other garrisons will be stationed at points on the frontier and in all the principal cities, and the mobility of the troops greatly increased by improvements in the communications by rail, telegraph and sea. Mr G. K.. Chesterton publishes some musings on a familiar topic with some folk who regard the lot of woman as , doomed to drudgery, whereas her yearn- ' ings are for the higher culture, which ' is selfishly monopolised by man._ Mr . Chesterton remarks with brutal direct- : ness:—" These people seem to think " that the ordinary man is a Cabinet i Minister. They are always talking about man going forth to wield power, to I carve his way out, to stamp his indiL viduality on the world, to command i and to be obeyed. This may be true of I a certain class. Dukes, perhaps, are not drudges; but then, neither are Duchesses. The ladies and gentlemen of the smart set are quite free for the higher culture, which consists chiefly of motoring and bridge. But the ordinary man who typifies and constitutes the millions that make up our civilisation is no more free for the higher culture than his wife is. Indeed, he is not so free. Of the two sexes the woman is in the more powerful position. For the average woman is at the head of something with which she can do as she likes ; the average man has to obey orders and do nothing else. He has to put one dull brick on another dull brick, and do nothing else ; he has to add one dull figure to another dull figure, and do nothing else. The woman's world is a small one, perhaps, but- she can alter it. ihe woman can tell the tradesman with whom she deals some realistic things about himself. The clerk who does this to the manager generally gets the sack, or shall we say (to avoid the vulgarism) finds himself free for higher culture. Above all, the woman does work which is in some small degree creative Tnd individual. She can put the flowers or the furniture in fancy arrangements • S her own. I fear the bricklayer cannot put the bricks in fancy arrangements of hL own, without disaster to himself and others." «> The fly will have to be reckoned with mo'e and more every year if we are „ SMoSo a leading t g e in - '.«&% f ;eld„r= SL^sSsr-"^« I

fooil as milk, cream, butter, cheese cooked meats, bread, pastry, confectionery. honey, fruit and other thing! to which flies are attracted, and wlncl art? ordinarily consumed in the condi turn in which they are sold. Tlir pro pose J regulation directs the o: cotered receptacles m order to preveni flies or dust setting on the articles named while in the shop and also wher in course of transit througli the streets Vehicles used for the storage or ex posure for sale in tiie Mivet of fruii mus>t also be provided.with close fitting screens on side except that frorc which "the fruit is removed for sale.