GENERAL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 8060, 7 March 1906, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS.

Ki<dj Kiing King is tin; first Chinos* woman who ever made a public vh in thii Howery Kingdom. Slie i;at Slnn-iui. :i.hlr«.s,iu H an audience vi uvcr livv ht.aiiiVil people malo r-, and is >.ud to ii.uv. made a mo>t usiou: pie-siou. She has now gnnr to Anu-i im to bce'ine a student of the L : »i*v,r.il\ o< California. She is not onlv chnti" anil uiHiml, but remarkably good-looking. iiuiii- bluck und ivory black aiv produced f«oui ivory chips; gamboge is il■ *ii\t tiom the yellow sap of a Siamese tree ; ami crimson, carmine, and scarlet an- ail formal from the cochineal insect. Sepia is the itikv fluid ejecU-d by the ctUtlelish when atou-ked. to render its presence invisible in the water. Uaw umber and raw si.-una are natural earths, found near t.'mbm and sienna respectively ; while the camel is ihu producer of Indian yellow. Matrimonial Insurance Companies mnsle> Strong iii the Southern Slaws of America, where Tennessee and Mississippi alone can count lGd of these associations. They mostly rejoice in attractive titles, " The Southern Confederacy of Benedicts and Brides," "The Golden ■ Egg Day Marriage Association," The Heart-aud-Hand Marriage Club," " The Daily Marriage - Bell Association," "The Star of the South Day Marriage Association," 41 The Safety Anniversary." " The Superior Daily Nuptial Guild," and so on. There has just been discovered >A the primeval forests of India a tree with most curious and inexplicable characteristics. The leaves of this tree are so highly electrical that whoever touches one of tlsrm receives a severe electric shock. Tile electrical strength of the tree varies according to the time of the day. It is .-,lronge.-.t at. noon, but disappears almost enti.eiy at midnight. Its electricity uls.» dis tp>iears in wet weather. Birds never re.->t or perch upon its branches, tor have insects ever been seen to alight upon it.

The other day a young woman of jibout nineteen was treated at the General t!-t<piul !ri Birmingham f«?r a peculiar t.hiekciung of he guilts, which caiwd considerable protrusion of the uppnr lip, a I'aejai d«> ormity. The vouug woman, who was otherwise'jiiite well. was usk'-d hy the doctor in of her ease if site could in anyway •Account i'or tin; nnn.-ual growth, and tiie only reas->n ->he could .suggest was that she ha.d dss-.-d and load led a liMhj dog. whii-'n h.ui recently died. On careful examination the yhynician decided that the trouble wes caus-.d vy a parasite contracted from tin? The case was at the time considered to bo miijue, but a similar one has since beeu reported ltoni India.

In Iheyeu 7-*7 A.r»., the Kinp-U'or Shomu -auhed mnncioiu mo:i.Scries lobe erected hrunghout -Japan, the Kotoknin. at Kamiiura, c-.ie of tiu.-e. 1;j Ihis ancient uou:utevy the enormous ln'onz; s-iid lo be the big;.; "St idol in the world. i> si.iudiug. This idol, which was huitr, by (hio Goroyemon, a famoih; Icuii/'-'- ;-!er, in Ibe year 12-30, is the imt.-j of B.iidi, a chi.*: deity in Bu idhkn, and, i*ij t;.-1 much by huge waves in J !'>•">. i-« now still in an excellent -stat<' of preser-airm. Il is about litiy feet in Ijeight, nii:o,y ci-iht fee- in waist circiunfi ience; tha leu : j h of tiiel icis and a 'i.ilt feet, the e; e four fee!, the ear is s:k teet and a halt iii.rae-;. and the nose three, feet eight and a halt : the breidtli of the nm'h is tnrec ie two and ;i halt in<:he.;; and tho cirjuau'ereisce ji the thumb is uver three feet.

Esiptfiic IT. IWinnt,a t, the y.nivj sf;:d".H who w.w |!m first t i I)'! awarde 1 th- 11 a scholarship ;it Ovtoivj, is a scl'-iiiad*' r:w.\ sif and of American origin. J lis ia!^ were iudispntahlc. fur they shov.vd ;i ]icreonftij/e than those submitted hv a score of other students. Naturally lie had to submit to crowds of inteivicwrrs of all «li>*eiip;ion>. sr. l!i,it his c:ire:>r ml'.'ht lie handed down t<> posterity as ji mode) for other youths " !lu\v tlisl you to work your way through college so ■»ii(*rr>sfiilly ? '' asked an important repre>enDative of a very unimp irtaut journal. •• !»v wiling my shoulder to ihe wheel," tvpih-d jfjiuii.in tartly. The answer will lie appiv-•iau-d when it is iindors'ood ih:i6 .''•■ nun worked hi* way through his Amman with money earned hy pushing n invalid in h.a 1 chair lor a lew pencu an Nowhere a:v ehill/iit wra. fv.m>;dered 'mil i:i J in. T;i ir pp.--;i:< ;r:e d-.-voted ) t "I'll ii "i! r,»Ntill!ilv W'Uh iUelll. UlYyil!}/ thein ,r»r;t. a:id jniiiin:n their jr'ni-s. mi i app.irc ;;iy nev.-r so iappy a-- v-h..n with ! li.mii. OJter p./op'e's 'jiidrt iM'].- > cmi-j in t'= »l* a la:';,' > s'kuvof itle.nim. and fathers' s«« in to hav.-is mnr-h iride in \\h-h' oIY-.p-in;.' as mother-. J; i., imusi -\% on a tin«' inornin:;. about six nVlu k. o : a,'.U-a-«l>/,»»n m>'ii silling on a low wail, ;:u:a with one or two lit!ie ehildven whom hv . ylay-i with ainl pet-. The liule lolk* are \- \ iroai iippearane.-s, thev form th<- main in- : -(-rest of their fond elders. One would 1 .m that wilh so much petting rinlirtl n i -Jn-'t hj:; spjill :md dN The eonI "rary j:i the ca-°, the* children of Japan : the nos! well behaved and charming little I people in the world. j To the wisdom of Queen I'ess, aided l>j the prudence of wc owe 1 no iir:-(. printed British newspaper. - The lavish Mercurie," as it was eallel. was '-imprinted at London, hv Her Highness' prinler, J.KV and the oarlie.-t number. dated .July SUd of that ycai\ L-rniil preserved in the iilnatyof the British i'his ii t)' :cml news payer appears im: to have bi»s»:i at 3luted intervals, h it citly when events retj'iived to he chruni-lrd. Somitiiai'-s more than n nuo'.th i/laps.-d heW.crn one namit.M- and the uoki. The ariiide, dated -hliv JiJi-d. !•>'>. J-'Vita;US '.ulvici', Sir Francos W ; ,l>ij.-ham that. t1,. ; Spatii.h Armada- had h;-eu m:mi i-i th'- (.'hiMoicl on the 20t!i wi!,h :i i'avoraltie it j3»vthe j >y of the l»nti-.!i li:-c ai the of (he enemv. and (!• ••; ril'fs th- 1 al'iiek mi it h\ ih.British on the a ( l-r whieh it lied. ' The early nnuihra-s of " Tiie Kt.'ili:di M-ienrie " eoutained advevlisemenls (?1 very uv.i-h like tin- advertisonienls of the same i:iiid .it the pve.-eni day.

S !•!!(■ think " il'f'l Taye" w.iiuU'o•hi'--" I from ri.»! and. On ili» wrajmrr of an "!'l l>')iifict initio fhsin a hundred v the won] Haarlem.si a ii il. l'."l I'-'i-.i nude thfV'. siimi'mnled by ; v i iJiitislM-rov.'i hrlwi-en !>«■• rose uiul thistle, rtini inscrihed 4k Warrant <1 yards/' It was fonnd ««i be durable. han«ly, und not o:\siiv lost. The first oHicM iiolirc vt i(s «*• is ill the ''London Pubb- Journal" of J)(iwniher (Uh, whw- :v .reward h filTrix"! for the return of "a 'ir.le bundle of \iap n rs MM v.-itli a rnl t:t;ie. ~t on Vndav hut between Woiv:-sti.T Flruix l ■ n-1 Lincoln's J nil. 1 ' !t> sirrniliean"-' 's as^v-itiiod with the "form in-'in v:i makm». sipniiv..', r)nnfo!si!/n;n;\ : -ir.,.vaids and forward.-. and hasinc-;.'' (ton.- at iho " Cm-nmVi--Jilirui Office." w.< st-T i'oi'Lh with v.ieh yri:i! hnnv>v,,- Uv in h'-s ••Litile Dovritt." An insertions K<?iuh»man. he tells us, conner-tc.l with the De[uv;mcnt, ealeitlato.l "th.it enough rod lap- w-.i-i u.-ed to stretch in graceful t>sto;>ns from Tlyde Park Comer to the Gonen;! I\vt \< a Court of Inquiry, r.f!cr the ::r V.'m', the phrase was ery.-ialii>cd to formal