NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIV, Issue 9338, 6 January 1909, Page 2

NEWS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

DREAMS anS lotteries/ A good Story is reported from Turin. Last month Ross Tirone, 8 domestic servant in the employ of Dr. Oooilo, a distinguished lawyer and ex-member of the Italian Parliament, dreamt that she was at a well drawing water. Suddenly her dead sweetheart appeared and said to her: “I remember thy love, and want to reward thee for it. Put these numbers in the Royal lottery. Thou shalt win.” He &then gave Tirone certain numbers, which she used in the manner suggested, and induced her mistress to take a chance also. The result was astonishing. Pour of ithe numbers were drawn, »and Tirone won £14,440, while her mistress, who had wagered a smaller sum. gained £I2OO. Naturally, all the Italian newspapers reported the event, about which a considerable fus-i was made. Still more startling, however, was the sequel. On reading the name Tirone in the papers, the police remembered that the young woman had several accounts open with justice. She had, intact, had four sentences against her, amounting to a total of five years’ penal servitude for thett and swindling. So, amidst the glory of interviews and the happiness of riches, she was arrested.

SECRET OP EGG-PRESBRYING

By a novel fprocess of preserving, eggs six months old are made to retain their “new laid” freshness. The process®has been adopted by a firm of Hull importers acting on the theory that an egg decomposes owing to the entrance of bacteria through the shell. The shells by the new process are first disinfected and then immersed in a vessel of hot paraffin "Was in a vacuum. The air in the shell is extracted by the vacuum, and atmospheric pressure is then allowed to enter the vessel, when the hot wax is forced into the “pores” of the shell, which thus hermetically seals it. Evaporation of the contents of the eggs, which has a harmful effect, is thereby prevented, ;and the egg is practically sterile. Some “new-laid” eggs treated in this manner six months ago (the date being guaranteed by Mr Thomas A. Robinson, J.P., the head of the firm), have been submitted to chemical and microscopic examination by the London Daily Mail, and have been found equal to new-laid eggs in every respect. The yolk of pickled Jeggs and others artificially preserved will sometimes break on being’; poached but the eggs examamined behaved when poached exactly as new laid ones. The inside of the shell showed under careful examination that the wax .penetrates through the “pores” the contents being thus quite immune frem external influences.

The advantage of the process- is thta the eggs will fetch 48a per 1440 more than those preserved in lime water or by water glass, and 32s more than those kept in cold storage. Thousands of tons of eggs are preserved every year in this country by various processes, hut the quality of the sis months old “newlaid ” eggs is such that the present amount may shortly ,be greatly increased. “WOMEN AS LIARS.” The Stampa, an Italian newspaper, prints an interesting essay by an Italian philosopher, who wishes naturally to be on “ Women as Liars. ” “I could never bring myself to condemn lying,” says the essayist,, “for in doing so I would condemn women. No womna can get along without lying at lease a hundred times a day. “Only fools and children are affronted by women’s little falsehoods ; for fools and children do not understand women at all. A man who is a man rather delights in; womanly lies. He expects to be fibbed to regarding his wife’s or his sweetheart’s or his affinity’s prevarications as part of the delicate comedy of life. “As God gave the bird a beak and throat to sing, so he invested lovely women with the smile that spells betrayal. Wish women habitual prevarications merely an exercise of intellect, the more clever |a woman, the more accomplished a liar she is. “Woman’s cruelty to woman is part and parcel of the capacity for lying with which Nature so generously endowed aer. Every word she wastes on other women is a libel that would be actionable in a court of law, if law courts were not administered by men. “Perhaps, after all, men are to blame, because they only love the women who flatter them, while telling stories about other women who happen to be absent. As to the libels perpetrated by pretty lips, they resemble the innocent yet cruel prattling of a lifctlefjohild uttered by a cat. Whenever a woman villlfies another woman, rest assured that, to her own mind, she speaks the truth and nothing but the truth. I recall the saying of an eighteenth century philosopher: “A woman discussing other women, speaks her mind only when she prevaricates, and acts In good faith only when she libels the other women.”