Odds and Ends.

Te Aroha News, Volume XXII, Issue 42782, 23 September 1905, Page 4

Odds and Ends.

Novel. M ilk .Sailway. Car.* 1 . An in* teresting departure lias bien made by the Great Northern in convey ing milk, - and the t oa has been taken up in Ireland to the extent of urging the railway comp: ny to use similar.apparatus. The milk cars are fitted witu.a special adjustable, ventilating apparatus,: and ithe oscillation which has on ,a number of occasions nearly churned milk into ,1 utter during a journey has , j almost, disappeared. Even at rapid speed on sharp curves there is scarcely fl.ny; oscillation.; The vans are 45 feet long..and run on two . four-wheeled bogies. The absorbing y of oscillation in milk cars is likely to become a subject of .acute study on the part of American railways. . Children’s Sensitiveness.rrNfithing stings and harden? a good, dhilda heart more severely and . permanently than to be wrongfully accused, unless it is the wound' of being ridiculed. 0 That leaves a scar which >ev ; r iades. ' To be treated as if its mind and heart 1 were, : though so much youngeivand less wise and exp*-rrehced, inadbiifthe s tme human ingredients as those .which j parentsjfchinb 0 feel, .raises a child to a higher gives it a stronger'determination to do and; feel .what is noble:: and right. To fail to guard children against bitterness .and sullen resentment by omitting to right what we have wrongly judged or.cen-* sured is to tret t them as wanton people la the trees they cut: and leave to suffer loss of life and joy. He : Binks doesn’t sing much s»o he got marrie . She;: How’s than be used to sing 11 The Plight of Ages beautifully! He: Yes, 1 but n«w h:a masterpiece is “ Tho Flight of Wages ' The SultanV Double.—The Sultan possesses a double, for .whom the ree/n't explosive outrage in Constantinople may be. either a blessing m dis-, y tjuise or the opposite. This person is the first Chamberlsin, Ismett B<y, who is so strikingly like the Sultan ih« t he has from time to time personated his master at semi-public religious ceremonies which are believed to involve danger. For each service of this kind jsmet has received io gold. j It is stated that as the sequal to the / recent outrage he wi 1 become“ Caliph f >r an hour ” much mo e frequently in

f uture. s . Founder of the Red Cross The Queen’s recent action in connection with the Red Gross movement calls to k .: mind the fact that the founder, Henri Dunant, is still living near lake Con--tance, He it was who was truly responsible for th° Geneva Convention, being influenced by Florence Nightingale's work in the Crimean War, and later on 1 o saw the terrible carnage at Solferiuo,lwitli its forsy thousand killed and wounded. It must, therefore.be ery Bgratifying for the old man to see hi? work brought to such a high state of perfection as we know it to‘day.