MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8913, 5 September 1907, Page 1

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Gravel taken from the skeleton of a mastodon recently unearthed in the Kloudyke region contained gold worth £4OO.

Miss Florrio Ash, of Orange, Now Jersey, dislocated her jaw while yawning and died two days later. Mr Joseph Applegate, of Brooklyn, New York, who lias died at the age of 1)4, loaves a fortune of £IO,OOO made from the manufacture of coffins. Don’t bo downhearted. Remember that it is often the other side’s best witness wbo wins your case for you. —‘ ‘ Law Clerk. ” The sailors of the American battleship Nevada have as a masoot a snake, which cats out of the hands of the men, crawls over the ship, and is a general favourite with both officers and men.

Mr and Mrs Yeatos, of Barrow Gurney, Somerset, have received a message of congratulation from the King on the completion of the TOth year of their married ilfe.

The stomach of a shark which was opened in a fishmonger’s shop at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, contained a lady’s handbag with four sovereigns, six shillings, four United States dollars, a diamond ring and a love letter.

Although lie is totally blind Frank Brady, IS years old, is one of the most export typists in Ohio. He has just received the diploma of Glovelaud, Ohio, College.

The Doncaster Town Council manages the spring and autumn race meetings held there. The revenue derived from the two meetings last year was £83,049, of which £ll.O. ;o was applied to the reduction of the local rates.

Mrs Emma Rose, of Memphis, Tennessee, recently announced in the local court that she was her own stepmother. ‘‘ I recently married the sou of my first husband by another wife,” she said, ‘‘and this makes me my own stepmother.”

Mrs diaries Borge, of Diamond, Indiana, in a fit of auger because her husband had filed a divorce suit against her, burned his house, containing valuable furniture and works of art. The noble families of Prussian Poland have become so numerous as almost to swamp the common people of the province. The priest of the village of Kouitz replied to a circular issued by the Government that every one of the 400 families in Ins congregation was of noble birth.

Mr J. W. Palmer, the director of agriculture iu the Orange River Colony, who lias returned to Bloemfontein after a holiday iu England, states that a large Loudon firm is prepared to receive consignments from South Africa of locusts for use iu the preparation of bird and poultry food.