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HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING.

How Long Will the Fox-trot Live? It is doubtful if the popular dances of to-day, great as is their popularity, will live as long in the world as some of the old dances. That graceful dance, the minuet, for example, enjoyed a popularity which extended over two and a-half centuries. It was danced by Louis XIV. at Versailles, to Lully's music, in 1653. It at once became the most popular dance of courts and society, and it was vigorous and in high favour down to the beginning of the nineteenth century. Some Famous Cripples.

There are many striking examples of men who, deprived of a limb, have yet achieved fame. London has even had a one-legged Lord Mayor; he was Sir Brook Watson, who was elected in 1796, and who served with Wolfe at the siege of Louisbourg. Josiah Wedg 7 wood, the great potter, was one-legged. It is said that-he was very fastidious about this matter, and kept a man specially to make wooden legs for him. Samuel Foot, who lost his leg following a riding accident, turned his illluck to good account by writing and acting in plays suitable for a one-leg-ged man. Two of the best known are' "The Lame Lover" and "The Devil Upon Two Sticks." Another woodenlegged celebrity was Jenny Cameron the devoted admirer of Prince Charles Edward. Known as "the pretty Coaonel," she headed,2o Cameronians at the raising of the standard, at Glenfinnan. The Remains of Carmelite Priory. A crypt below the pavement of Brittonscourt, in Whitefriars Street, London, is all that remains to-day of the great Carmelite Priory that formerly spread over a considerable area from Fleet Street to Thames-side. The walls of this underground chamber are of hard chalk blocks, and the domed roof is supported *by icight moulded ribs of dark stone -that/meet in a carved rose at the centre. An ancient doorway in the west wall, now blocked up, is said to give access to a subterranean passage 'to the Temple. Old Sword Line Rule. Mr A. N. Skelton was addressing the House of Commons in the presence of a mere handful of members when he was suddenly assailed with shouts of, "Order!" There was nothing un-par-iiamentary in his remarks and Skelton was at a loss to know just how he had offended until someone pointed to his foot. The toe of one shoe was about one inch beyond the strip of cloth which • runs along the floor in front of the front benches. It is out of order for a member to beyond that Hue, while speaking from a front bench. The line is a survival of the days when the members of Parliament carried swords. As long as a member was behind the line his sword point could not reach an opponent opposite. A Tailed Family.

In Sydney, Australia, there lives a family with tails. The father, a son 10 years old, and daughters aged 3 and 6, have appendages which are exciting the curiositv of medical circles. Apart from their tails the members of the remarkable family are perfectly normal. Doctors have suggested that they should be remoyed, but they prefer to keep them. The father, who is 40 years old, was born with his tail, which was about two inches long when he was an infant. His father was* normal, but one of his paternal ancestors had a tail. The tails of the children are now four inches long, A Sydney medical specialist states that he has known men and wo men possess an extra spinal joint, but he x car. recall no case of people with such well-defined tails as this family. "It is an extraordinary case of atavism," he 3aid. "The tailed fathe. and his, children are undoubtedly throwbacks. It is intermittent heredity, due to'the reassertion of ancestral peculiarities which have lain latent or dormant for several generations. This, tailed family is, anthropologically, very important. They are noteworthy links In the chain of man's evolution." Petrol Tax Suggested.

A proposal to institute a petijol tax of fourpenee per gallon, three pence ot which should go to the main highways board and one penny to county councils for the maintenance and development of district roads, was adopted by the Wairarapa Provincial Executive of the Farmers' Union.- The motion by Mr L. T Darnell was as follows: "That in view of the fact that motor traffic practically ruined the highways before the coming into force of motor, taxation, thereby depriving the farmers of much of their capital invested in roads, a petrol tax of 4d per gallon be instituted, 3d per gallon to go to the Highway Board for allocation and one penny to go direct to the County Councils for maintenance of roads* other than main highways." In answer to a question-Mr Daniell said that boroughs should get a share of the money to go towards the maintenance of their own roads and no doubt if they made representations tto the Highways Board they would receive a share. The motion was seconded by Mr C. C. Jackson. Mr L. Houlbrooke expressed the opinion that the equitable allocation of the funds raised by . lotor taxation was the greatest problem. The Highways Board, he jald w r as spending all its money on roads, and he considered more should be spent on revenue producing roads, which fed the railways and the towns. The motion was carried unanimously.

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Shannon News, 1 November 1927, Page 3

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Tapeke kupu
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HERE AND THERE. Shannon News, 1 November 1927, Page 3

HERE AND THERE. Shannon News, 1 November 1927, Page 3

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