MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 309, 4 January 1908, Page 4

MEN WERE DECEIVERS EVER.

A pretty Paris brunette, whose fortune consisted ill licr youth and 50,(100 Irani*' worth of jewellery, now sadly laments the loss of the latter portion of Iter wealth, in consequence of her infatuation for a einint, whone title may iie aiithentie, although it i s mil fouiul ii; the Almanac dc (iotha. Her love allair, like all idylls, hail a happy liegiuuiii"! uas tond of the titled young man at first sight, though he had nothing lmt his name, handsome appearance, and youth, like herself. Ho told her, too, he would some day come into a l,ijr fortune hy inheritance, but meanwhile it was to live. The pretty l, n „ u .tte dnl Mot henitate a moment to pawn all her jewels lor a tenth of their value and brought him the fiOOO francs to make him happy. But before long she learned that her titled lover had deceived her as to Ills honesty, being under sentence of prison, tier love'vanished in an instant, and she sent him about his business, indignantly tearing up a document to the effect that he was indebted 1 to her lor fill.OOO francs. To her dismay, niicr her e\ lover had gone, she foimrt that he hail not only taken all th<; money she had got for the jewellery, but had stolen her pawn-ticket besides. This l inie the brunette lost patience, and called in tile assistance of tile, police, who soon arrested the count, and are keeping him fast to answer before the court.* for his rather ungiillaut behaviour. It is only just to add that he stoutly denies " he ever did it."

The population of Bombay is nearly 1,11110.0(10. In three yeaix the progeny of a pair of rats number IOUO. Sixty per cent, of all the siik produced in China and Japan is retained for home use. Between his twenty-first and twentyfourth year a man's hair grows more quickly than at any other time.