MAIL NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 60, 3 August 1907, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

London June lii. A man applied yesterday in Texas to lie excused from jury service on the |grnuml that he was the father of twen-ty-two children. The application was granted. An American electrician has discovered a means of producing an electric light of 150,000 candle-power. Twenty carbons are used with an alternating current. LVoprictors of Chicago establishments in which girls and women are employed have ordered the removal of all mirrors oil the ground that the employees wnstc too much time in fixing their hair. Under the w ill of Mr George Curtis, a wealthy grocer, who died recently at llighwovth, Wilts, a shopman who has been in Ilia service from lioyhood inherits the business, the house in which it is carried on, and £4OOO in cash. The members of the Young Women's

Chii'stian Association in New York have decided that a woman is old when she reaches her thirty-fifth year, and the decision has raised a storm of protests from spinsters who have passed that age. The members of the Billerieay Perm-1 ers' club have decided to inaugurate a service of motor cars to <*eHect produce in the district London, omng to Great