THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 15, 23 May 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

One of the most extraordinary epitaphs in the world is upon a tombstone in the cemetery at Debreezin, in Hungary. Literally it reads as follows:—“Here lie—Joseph Moritz, murdered at (32 by his son; Isabella Moritz, wife of the aforesaid Joseph, poisoned at 57 by her daughter; Elizabeth Moritz, who committed suicide at 20, after having poisoned her mother; Joseph Moritz murderer of his father, who died in prison at 27.”

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The nightwatchman of a large hotel saw an apparition in white moving along the hall at 2 a.m. He hastened his steps and tapped on the shoulder what proved to be a man. “Here what are you doing here?” he asked. The man seemed to come out of a trance. “I beg your pardon',” he said, “I am a somnambulist.” “Well,” said the watchman, “you can’t walk around these halts in the middle of the night in your nightshirt, no matter what your religion is.”

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House cleaning is said to have driven William Brandol, a Xew Jersey resident, to suicide. He was beating carpets in his backyard on the afternoon of May 3 (says a cable in the Sydney Sun), when he suddenly gave up the job and went out. Later on his body was found in a deep water-hole in a stone quarry near by, and in a cleft of the rock was a note addressed to Mrs Brandol, saying: “I can’t beat carpets or clean the house. It ain’t no use trying to make me. When you read this I hope you will give up the habit of cleaning the house every time you hear the robin sing.” ,

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Mr James Dun bait, of Christchurch, has received a letter from a friend i:i California in which the writer sail that from time to time he had tried to interest moneyed men in the States to come out to New Zealand to develop the oil industry here, but the opportunity for investment was so great in America that it was a hard matter to get them interested. However, he had one man who was beginning to think about it, and who would be able to do a great deal in developing the oil zone in New Zealand.

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There is at present lying in the Gisborne Hospital a young man, 21 years of age, and the sole support of his mother, who met with a serious accident by which he practically lent his hands. He was a fireman on the Matatua, belonging to the Shaw, Savill Company, and the whole of his 1 fingers bn the right hand (with the exception of his thumb) and all on the left hand were taken off. In order to give immediate financial relief subscription lists were issued by the Wellington Seamen’s Union last week, and to date £53 2s 6d has been subscribed. There are still a number of lists to come in.

A line from a Southland household—“We have all had colds, and cough cute has been in great demand. I decid’ed to give Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion a trial. After one bottle it was no longer a trial, but a standing order for all of us. Trusting thaj ’he cure will lie as beneficial to others.” Tonking’s Linseed Emulsion, at chemists and stores. Is 6d, 2s Gd, 4s Gd. x

No'ship ever listed in the Royal Navy has received one-tenth of the visitors that have boarded the New Zealand since she was commissioned barely six months ago, says the Christchurch Press. Hundreds of ships, many as fine as the New Zealand, have passed, and will pass, through their whole careers in the navy without receiving visitors other than officials and friends of the officers and crew. Nearly four hundred thousand have passed the gangways of the New Zealand in three months, and the ship has only completed half of her Dominion tour, and has yet to cross the Pacific and round two sides of the American Continent.

A confused story of love and shooting has been hysterically told to the .Montague police by the principals in a queer litilo drama at a junior football match at Yarraville (Victoria) The Talbots, a Montague junior team, drove to Yarraville in state with flags flying gaily from their furniture van and a number of their girl supporters on board. It is alleged that during the match three Yarraville supporters made such headway with the affections of three of the Montague girls that when the time came for the latter to return in the van the new admirers objected strongly to their departure. The result was a disturbance. The Yarraville youths say that the Montague admirers armed themselves with pea rifles, and fired shots in the air. Everyone admitted that the air was thick with bullets and road metal, and there is not the slightest doubt that a Yarraville youth got a bullet in the thigh, for he arrived at the Melbourne Hospital in a serious condition. Ladies! Warner's Corsets are comfortable—guaranteed so—they shape fashionably. The bones canmi rus)’ or can the fabric tear. Order r - Lx cal drapers.