LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9, 11 September 1913, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Sweden is the only country tliai manufactures paper suitable for wrap priirg fruit in, t and there is a duty of £7.per ton on it. Tire rebate 01 £- per ton on British manufactured goods is of little use in tins connection, and the Dominion Fruitgrowers’ Conierence has petitioned the Government to have the duty removed.

A joke nearly brought about a disaster or something like it a few days ago at Camden, New Jersey (says a cable message to the Australian newspapers). Jennie Ochiupa, a factory girl, laughed so heartily at another girl’s jest that her. jaws became dislocated. Not knowing what had happened to her, the terrified girl rushed out of the factory screaming. The other employees, thinking that an outbreak of fire had occurred, wor. on the point of making a wild rush for the exits, and the panic was avert ed in the nick of time.. The girl, whose immoderate laughter had cans ed all the trouble, was taken to the local hospital, ' where her jaws .wore re-set.

Want of politeness in tram cars is

according to a city paper, not connnoi in New Zealand, but it is not ; Itogethor unknown ; and the rebuke administered recently by a Jewish rabbi to a rude passenger in one of the American cities will bear passing on. The rabbi was riding on a street car, and rose to offer his scat to a lady. Before she could take it .a young man plumped himself down in the vacated seat. The rabbi said nothing, but

gazed at him in disgusted silence. “What’s the matter?” suddenly de manded the young man in a gruff voice. “What are yon glaring at me for like that ? 5 on look as if you would like to eat me.” “I am forbidden to to eat you,” answered the rabbi. “J am a Jew.”