BREVITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 59, 24 May 1907, Page 4

BREVITIES.

Inside an Angler fish which was on sale at ftarliorough Pish .Market was discovered a 211) till of mustard.

A remarkable operation has been per formed at Lansing, Michigan. A bone ill the leg of a lad named Buck lining decayed, it was replaced by the bone of a dog. with complete success. Plain honesty is the very best kind of politeness, and temperance the very best kind of physician. A doctor snys thai no woman should work a sewing machine without sitting on a chair that is from four to eight inches higher than the ordinary on.- she

In India alone there arc (i.">.oiu),(lot) souls who regard the Sultan as the head of their religion. Mmy physicians regard coll'ee without, milk as a beneficial drink.

Jhe crookcdest railway in the world is from lioswell to Kriedens, Pennsylvania. The road doubles itself four limes.

Nothing is positively known as (o leiw long an ostrich will live. -Some writers claim that it will live l(lt) years. Ostriches ill captivity forty years are still breeding ami producing feathers. Switzerland lias lost its oldest citiz"n. Ojlumban liussi. who died at Anderiuatl at the age of 102. For seventv vies he was schoolmaster and organist iu iiis village. I he cessai-ks rarely become merchants. Though they maintain (iO,(1(1(1 light ill" men and can muster 12H.(I(K) in au°eniei° gency. there are but a few hundred of their people engaged iu business. China has scut an order to Britain for a number of motor launches for (isliiiisr purposes. b

Every German regiment, is equipped with a chiropodist.

As a rule grey horses attain a greater age taan those of any other color. > A Devon man, now resident in Plymouth, has appealed to the Mayor of Los Angelos, m California, to find husbands tor lus "six pretty daughters." There are 1)28,008 houses in Greater i r | Jn Bilhoa the ringing of church hells is prohibited by huv.

The combined annual income of the British working classes exceeds £000,000,000.

The Great Western Railway passes through nineteen English counties and eight Welsh ones.

lnrty years ago there were onlv two dozen explosive compounds known to chemists. Now there are over a thousand.

i'lie first London directory is said to have been printed in 1077. The Post Ulhce Directory first appeared in 1800 Aine times out of ten (savs an authority) golf will knock a man off his von-y. Jt is a game which engrosses attention more than any other. The British Parliament bad advanced 01 authorised advances of the enormous amount of nearly €124,000,000 steriiiiT for toe benefit of Ireland. B

ill Hull there is a street called Land of Green Ginger, and in Leicester another called Holy Bones. These are said to be the queerest street names in the world.

Gothic architecture is not the architecture of the Goths, but the eeclisastical style employed in England and' France before the Renaissance. The term was applied by Italians as one of reproach

Mr \\. I'. Massey, Leader of tile opposition, when interviewed in Christchurch with regard, to native (juestions, said: "I am satisfied that nothing but an absolutely clear title will do if native lands are to be taken up bv European settlers. The system of dealing in native lands in the past has been very unsatisfactory. At present there are nearly eight million acres of native lands. Much of it is as good as Cheviot. North of Whangarei there, is one stretch of a million acres as good as the average of the Canterbury Plains. There is not a single settler on it and I don't know when there will be one. This, remember, is not an Auckland or NontOil Auckland question. If we could get this land on reasonable terms and with a secure tenure we could find room for any numb: l ! - of settlers. Xo (juestions are more urgently in need of Settlement than the native difficulty, the oc- ' cupation of native lands, ami the employment of native people." Mastcrtoii and Danuevirke have each carried a poll in favor of creating a fire district in their rop.'ciive boroughs. But tlicy left it rather late. The pill in each place was carried after the gazetting of the State File Insurance Companies' Herniations, so that the election of the boards will now have to stand over till an Enabling Act is pas-ed. "Taihoa!" exclaimed the Magistrate in the Court at Mastcrtoii recently, when a Chinese witness was reeling o'tf '•evidence" at the rate of knots in broken English. "John" looked 'bewildered for a moment at a wonl he evidently had not heard before, but the brief respite gave Mr .lames time to interpret the expressive Maori injunction in English, the witness thereafter obeying.

A rather remarkable result of the unceasing war against rats in Sydney is. that their numbers do not diminish, appreciably. Despite the fact that over 100,000 carcases are accounted for ill a year tlicy still swarm the wharves and other parts of the city. In some places where the battle is kept going unceasingly there is ail apparent decrease, but a striking instance 0* the futility of attempts at exterminaHon is given by the poisoning operations carried on by the Board of Health. Starting with li poisoning crusade recently, 1200 baits were laid in one night along the wharves and of them about 1000 were taken. Every rat that feasted on 'one of the morsels must have died, but their carcases are, under such conditions, not usually found. Last week one batch of fourteen poisoned rodents was unearthed beneath a heap of shingles (bat was being shifted. The continuance of hordes of ruts, in spite of the efforts to destroy tlieni, seems to indicate that the port is subject to fresh invasions, but from what source is a mystery. The Evening Post says:—"The Rev. F. W. Tsitt who ytis in Tarannki (luring the bye-election, does not think that Mr Malone split the Government vote (o any appreciable extent, as all three candidates were freeholders, and Mr Malone, he says, probably interfered as much with Mr Okey's vote as with Mr Dockrill's. The fact was, Mr Tsitt states that the campaign was grossly mismanaged by the Government—it was as bad as it was possible to be. He declared that the Hon. .Tames Carroll had absolutely ignored the representatives of No license. The local prohibitionists took no exception to the nomination of Mr Doekrill. lie was a popular.man, who was prepared to leave the question of License or No-license to the absolute deci-ion of the p-ople, and no Irritation would have been created in the ranks of (he prohibitionists had it not been for (he manner in which lliey had been ignored by the Minister in the selection of the candidate. Of hers tilings served to annoy the adherents of No-license, and it was easily understood fliat they could not refrain from expressing their indignation"

Sir William I.yne (wriles tin- .Melbourne _\i jtiih) i-miil imn-~ I lie congenial work which 111- liiirf called -1 ,n]l,,.kii)jr things through.'' Hi' "liiillni'licd" liis way l» Knglnrol us Australia's representative n( I In' Navigation ('nnl'orciico. which 'li'i'H Willi matters ~f which 1„. could claim in» practical knowledge. llnviii" got to l-ondoii. 1„. "bullocked" mi cii( ry iiilo til'' Ini|H-ri:il ('nnt'crouco. )(1 which lit' Imd Ix'i'ii neither invited ii-.ir delcgatwl. I'inall.t. lie ling for (lie time being an i'.v.l;\\iuil "Imllock," ho succeeded in tlinisiing himself rain a position which il had licitlu-r lii'i'ii iiiU'lidoil lioi' hoped that hi' slumld occupy. His energetic display has been interesting mid enlertaiiiiug. I'or it has shown what, achievements arc possible for an experienced "bulloek." There the. eutertaiuineiii might !«• left. were it not that the instructive display has liecu lmmiliaii lo .Mr. DcaUin. who has liccn intentionally or ignoraully heliltled.

Olaki boasts a prodigy, the twelveyear old son of a phrenologist, who hits trained the youngster's intellect on a system of his own. The other evening the hoy delivered ail oration In the Olaki Town If,ill on the amazing thesis,

•'Who ale you. and what are von?'' He spoke in a full tone, and his delivery wa- splendid. according to tins "Mail, and In- pulled up sound and well. The phenomenon is further prepaml io meet in the boxin<r arena ntiv lad of his own ;i<rji and weight in the colony. TTe has lU'Vcr been beaten with the gloves, and claims to be the champion boxer of the colony.