TIT'BITS.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 253, 23 February 1917, Page 4 (Supplement)

TIT'BITS.

Instead (£ a chiming clock, the hours and half-hours are struck by the guard at ar mechanical transport camp in France on a, motor-lorry crank shaft suspended between two poles. * * * A defendant in a civil court caw» at .Jchflnnesbure: expressed "wish to tako the oath by "the British flag" rather than the Bib!e, swearing "So help me God under the Union Jack!"' * * # Most of the so-called marble houses of the Rome of Augustus were not such in reality. The plasterer's art had then reached a high state of perfection, and gave to stucco the appearance of the finest marl>!e. * * * Three thousand German newspapers and periodicals have closed down. • • • Proposal" have been made to the Canadian Government to name one of the highest mountain peaks in fhe Dominion after Lord Kitchener. * * * Some hint of how dangerous it Vs just to live in these dizzy days is suggested by the fact that not fewer than 22,540 were killed or hurt last year on the .streets of Xew York. # # • A white elephant Is considered sacred in Siam, and when one dies it is given a funeral grander than that accorded to princes of royal blood. Buddhist prests officiate, and thousands of devout Siamese ir >n and women follow the deceased animal to the grave. Jewels and offerings leorenenting much wealth are buried with the elephant. « • • An Italian medical journal, in discussing the ouostion of a new test of divith. says if a drop of ether is instilled into the conjunctival sac of one eye. if life is present there will be a reddening of the surface of the eye, providing that the circulation : .s intact, otherwise tnere is no result.