General Items.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7735, 10 February 1905, Page 3

General Items.

THE IUCSTAI'RAXT '• FACE." In 1 ti.'se times we can do nothing without being warned that is is leaving its stamp upon us. The most lerent scare of this kind refers to the 1 present craze for restaurant dining. IWe are told that the practice is 'completely changing the expression of ( onr faces and working a marked change jn our manner.—The World. LATEST IN JH'LHS. The latest tlrjng in bulbs is one which requires nothing, neither earth, iilire, moss, manure, water, nor any of those other things which a wellordered bulb is supposed to require. You simply stand it on a shelf ir the greenhouse, or on the mantelpiece in the sitting room, for th< matter of that, and wait till it flowers. It is called " The Monarch of the East."—The County Gentleman MUNICIPAL EXTRAVAGANCE. While Englishmen! are pondering the formidable increase of national expenditure, they receive, from tinu to time, uncomfortable reminder! that the cost of local government is advancing at a portentous rate They demonstrate that there are certain " parochial " questions whict demand the attention even of mei who are " imperially minded " am scorn the affairs of little England.— Nation, New Y'ork. MODERN PROBLEMS. It is a difficult thing to uiKkrstani why, when everything else has be j come cheaper, the cost of amusl'inen has doubled.—The Graphic. SOCIAL POSES. There aye iiappy sigjis that th prptence of lioredom with everythini ,}£ pasaing away. It is jus; no\ rather smart, to be easily amused.Lfldy's Pictorial. " J'ETI'JCOAT INFLUENCE/' We kjjow the cry that has recent!, been raised against " petticoat ii fluence "at tha War Office. Wome ' have brought similar influence t bear on Cabinet Ministers, the Foi eign and Colonr.ttJ Offices. —Lad liowand Vincent, in The Queen. MUSCOVITE HUMOUR. The British Commission of Inquir has only established one fact with i contestable clearness, and that is tl unusual weakness of the nerves of ll , English lishermen, the money vah t of which is placed at £SOO. Not: n bad idea this !—Xovoe Yreinya, S t Petersburg. GERMAN ALARM. The Hei lin Central Union for Tra Treaties says " the fear awakened connection with the dreaded tar changes in Great Britain is i shadow, but, aiias, a great realit We must make up our minds to very considerable contraction in t total of our exports to the Driti: Empire. ' —Commercial Intelligence. LORD CLUZON'S FAITH. lie is burning wrtli tense d.vnan activity such as no other possess* e Ho sweeps India, expostulating <> s ellicivnt, along the path ho has j.i J, destined for her, for is oni} of 1 I unavowed theories ithat. any man w do what you expect of him if y •I only exjiect hard enough, and aft five years his vice-Empire stan out a sore but eloquent witness 1 the truth of his creed.—Tacitus The Outlook. '