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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8356, 17 February 1913, Page 10

An ingenious method of disposing of the ashes of s cremated body has to be recorded. After a woman had been cremated the hnsband took the ashes to a chemist for the purpose of extracting the iron, which he is now wearing set in his ring, as one won Id wear a diamond. Persons at Hanover. Germany, calling cnemselves Terraphages, have formed, a club pledged to eat nothing but earth, after the manner of certain degraded savage tribes. Pahphlets extolling the advantages of Terraphagism are being issued in French, German, and English. Ftom a paper read before the French Academy of Science it appears that the weather observations made at Paris and New York and in the Dutch East Indies agree in showing that periods of low barometic pressure, which generally means bad weather, have an interval of 35 days between them. The chief of police of the Berlin suburb oi Schoenberg is anxious to diminish the number of people fined for petty offences in his district, many of them due to ignorance of local by-laws, Anvone breaking these regulations for the lirst time is to be given a pamphlet drawing attention to the offence committed instead of being prosecuted,