News Items

Te Aroha News, Volume XXVII, Issue 43318, 28 April 1908, Page 1

News Items

A man. ('says a London! [ temporary) will be less ia<# to lay aside oapitai benefit of those who are deg ent upon hini when he kn that the interest derived froi be treated by the auth ties as unearned./ The barbaric wearer§ civilised •understahdingSj| parently loves tohear sound of his> own . footst Kaffirs often ask ;for ü b< that talk,” and are even will to pay extra for the luxury 1 Shoe Manufacturers’ Month

One of the last of A Florence Nightingale’s Crimi nurses, Mrs Moohen who died at Dulwich, at the age 83, x has a remarkable recp She was an excellent lingui besides . travelling all o Europe, she Had made - tb voyages round - the world, t she lived in Paris during Siege. • Blit a remarka achievement: was that, althou very infirm and deaf, at the i of 80, she jdurnbyfed‘, H alohe' New Zealand and back to ; v a nonagenarian brother, one the early settlers at Audklai . Japanese physicians decl that it is impossible for inter poisoning to occur if powdei charcoal be swallowed as s< as the gastro-intestinal ndisf banco is felt French physich have tested the power ; charcoal, and proved that' it the most active of all kho; antidotes. -The charcoal m; be taken as soon as the poi* begins to show its effects, a the dose must be; jar. Charcoal is in no way injurio; and as much as a soupspoon) may be taken in a divided d< mixed with water. •

■ ' .i. ' N \ ‘ X*' 4, A golf yarn (said to ha originated at Wellington, t probably originating/ furti .afield) is being told wis gm just now. It appears" thut ardent golfer was in the ha of painting the air blue wi cuss-words while he played, a he did it quite, unconscious! The committee of the club which he belonged feared tl the ladies would be shock 'some day, so they earnestly a politely asked the golfer moderate liis, language. agreed that something should done, and he, having ■ agree hit upon a plan to check 1 exuberance. He said he woi put stone in his jacket pool every time he U3ed a swe and lie hoped that as the star increased in number they woi t mch his arm as he swungX stick, and thus, remind hiM what he was doing. The sch 3 was put . into, operation. .b] holiday, and his friends at] social club ifi the- city developmedts with est. As evening drew golfer*came, in and dejectel turned out his pockets, takij lout about: two dozen: stanesfa iplaoingrlhem on the tab |- a J'kime, I say,” cried liis cl tmates, u That's too 'thin. Y ), must have used more swei } words than that !” <( Alas |t’uo, 5) responded the golf t with pathos, and tears In™* j voice. “ Those stone's X;n)i represent the d’s, which I j ’in mv pockets; the etor representing the b’s’ are eomi on in a lorrie.”- .

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