MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8915, 7 September 1907, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Mrs Harold Kindts, of Chicago, has sold all her husband's jewellery, clothes and valuable oil _ paintings, and is going to obtain a divorce With the proceeds unless her husband will sign the pledge within tiiree days, because he persisted in staying at his club and coming home in the early hours of the morning the worse for drink. . j Miss Bean, Irish governess to the two daughters of M. do Graux, chicx engineer of the Belgian. State Railways, met her death at Brussels under distressing circumstances. Whi e dressing, the hair of one of the girls caught' fire. Miss Bean bravely clasped the girl in her arms and extinguished the flames, hut was so badly burned herself that she succumbed. . . , Two proposals of marriage took place recently in a submarine at the bottom of Lake Boukonkoma, hong Island, New York. The inventor, Mr Cyrus Riviutgon, proposed to Miss Aramantha Mandrake, of .North Carolina, while in the next compartment Mr James Mickle, a Government food expert, proposed to Mrs Martha Eue, a widow. Both were “ Charles Fairbanks, the Vice-Pre-sident of the United States, whilst staying at an hotel in Yellowstone Park, was lately the hero of a _gallant act of rescue. A waitress from the hotel fell into a lake near by, and Mr Fairbanks, who is over 5U years of age, plunged into the wa _er fully dressed, and succeeded in holding up the woman until help came. He afterwards assisted in carrying the waitress to the hotel, whore she recovered from the effects of her immersion. . , ~ As a reason for trying to commit suicide at Helsingfors, tho husband of one of the woman deputies m the Finnish Parliament states that his wife is so occupied with political work that she neglects her homo. The misery to which he and Jus family were reduced caused Ins _ desperate action. The man, who is or humble rn.uk, is v/ithout ■work, -p-is wife, although receiving over £lo a mouth as a member of Parliament, allows him, ho says, a beggarly sixpence a day. The police state that he is suffering from lack of nourishment. , . . Interesting remarks on tho subject of motor traffic and dust were made bv Dr. H. S. Hole Shaw, F.8.b., m Ids presidential address to the cugiuoorimr section of tho annual con* gross of th Institute of Public Health, bold at Douglas, Isle of Man. Dust, lie said, was the most serious of all road questions as relating to public health. If the evils of the dust-raising by motor cars became so serious that thoro was no middle course between the abolition or motor cars and tho wearing of goggles and respirators by every ope who wished to use tho country roads, the motor cars would receive very short shrift. The question was rapidly becoming a national one, and called for action on tho part of the finvevmnout.

Some amusing stories ara going round The Hague iu connection with t! 10 Peace Congress. Ouo is that the extortions of the hotelkeepers, are .Stic!) that the delegation of a certain South American Republic* on seeing its first week’s bills, decided to advise its Government to withdraw from the Conference and build a now battleship instead, as being on the whole, cheaper. Another pleasing legend is that the representatives of a very minute “Power’’ have been “doing themselves” better than the moderate grant, made to them from/ the national exchequer quite warrants, being under the impression tinit all deficiencies will be made good by Hr Carnegie.