THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 75, 5 April 1913, Page 7

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Cincinnati thieves have got so low clown as to chloroform old ladies for the sake of their false teeth.

Sugar exists not only in the cane, beetroot* and maple, but also in the sap of nearly 190 other plants and trees.

For influenza take Woods’ Great Pep. permint Cure. Never fails Is 6d, 2s 6d

A London undertaker complains that, your £IOOO motor car man has no sentiment, and wants to bury his relative for £2O.

Describing himself as a “port wine teetotaller,” a man was lined by the Magistrates at the Maryleboue Court. Any port in a storm.

A Cardiff Magistrate made a startling discovery the other day—startling because of its originality. “If you don’t take drink,” he observed to an erstwhile thirsty defaulter, “you won’t get drunk.”

Such an' enormous quantity of tea was stated to have been drunk by Walter Pavitt (41), on whom an inquest was Recently held at Bethnal Green, London, that it pressed on his heart and killed him.

Your best companion on your weekend trip is a packet of Regent Cigarettes. tomoke them and share in the Great Tree Gift acneuie.

As striking evidence of the growth of the Matawai (Po.verty Bay) district, it was mentioned at the last meeting of the Education Board that 12 months ago there were 1(1 ‘children attending the school there, whereas now the roll number ist .70.

During,Mho last, triple of months the Australian Federal Government lent at interest to the State Governments, New South Wales obtained" £3,150,000, Victoria £980,000 (face value of debentures, £1,000,000), Queensland £1,000,000, South Australia £IOO,OOO, West Australia £850,000, Tasmania £500,000.

A Cleveland (Ohio) lady has given birth t 6 her 24th, 25th, 26th, and 27th children at the age of 35. This is her second set of four at a time, and she has also three sets of triplets, and five sets of twins to her credit. Only six out of the twenty-Seken are alive, however. ,i ! <

Regent Cigarettes aro famed for their purity and quality; and are not injurious to iphalers-Aour tobacconist stocks them". “ s : : ■ 1.1 Hf. ?'J.W fRATS n ■ ><■ . The , acVe of land from. Mr James Brown, of Craigielea, West 1 Oxford, for the purpose of, an experimental orchard. The laml (the Press' states) is' conveniently situated and' sheltered. It is proposed to experiment with at least 100 trees, and'ascertain those most suitable for the Oxford soil and climate.

A man who was rescued from the Seine at Paris, was recognised as an individual who made a comfortable income} of prgtepded attempts- .at. drowning., > ri Cha>)#s#? people who saw; him. saypjl always gav^,him money., The impost, did not,deny the charge, and the crpwjd gave him,a.sound thrashing aird tlirqw ,him baqk into the Seine.

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In the course of a long gallop in England with the 'Soutlnvood hounds, a fox caused great excitement by entering a blacksmith’s shop at Farlesthorpe, Lincolnshire. Being closely pressed he jumped on to the forge and climbed up the chimney, emerging at the top as black as a sweep, and then jumped from the roof. Hounds killed him in the churchyard.

France’s premier golf club, the Societe cle la Boulie, has established an organisation among the caddies to raise them from the ranks of poverty, and to do away with the evil of casual labour. The caddies are ensured a steady wage and a hot dinner every day; they are to be taught a trade, and given scholastic instruction, and a boy scouts’ company will aisr be formed from them, while a gymnasium and batlis are being' fitted up for their recreation and comfort.

After the storm comes a calm. After a puff of a Regent Cigarette comss contentment to the smoker. Try them and share in the Great Free Gift ichemt. i ■ ,i, -s

When the sneak thief makes his rounds of launches and yachts in the harbour (says the Auckland Star), it is only too frequently the case that lie meets with a large measure of success in the search for odd tins of benzine, rigging, engine extras, and any other article that may have been left within his reach. Ordinarily the boatowner manifests an almost extraordinary inactivity in the direction of defeating the ends of the thief, but a launch owner who keeps his boat moored at St. Mary’s Bay set a bait the other night which was snapped up with avidity. A ease of benzine had been stolen, and it was naturally necessary to replace it. By this time two empty tins were filled with water and the holes soldered up. They were then placed in the ease again, and put on hoard. It was found on the following morning that the thief had come again in the night and removed ease and all-