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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 313, 11 January 1908, Page 4

mOI TIIK IvEAJj TiILNG. A certain ollieer had a little daughter who somehow had never tseen liini in his uniform. One day, however, when he was in full uniform he went into the drawing-room, where the child was sitting with her mother. lhc little one gazed intently at him for a few minutes, evidently wondering what to make oi* the familiariigure in the unfamiliar dress. At length she decides the claims of soldier and father to her own satisfaction, and, turning to her mother, an id:

''Why, mother, that's not a real soldier; il'ti. papa!" AN UNANSWERABLE QUESTION. "I'a;,. aid the small boy who was allow a !:> read tie newspaper, "has the world got a tail?" "Of course not, my son," said the father. "You know the world is round.' "Then why do the newspapers say: '(xi wags the world' if it hasn't got a tail?"

The use of coffee in England was lir'sti known in 1U57. The lirst public piacc in London where it was sold was thus advertised: —" .Made ami sold in St.' .Michael's Alley, in Cornhill. by I'asqua Kosee, at the sign of his own'head." The tonnage of the world's merchant shipping licet, according to the latest returns is :i7,;V>t,(H7 toils. Of Ihis lotal, no less than J1.711,1|0t t.ms represents steam shipping, and 17.i>ll,0!«; lons of the whole is under the liritish Hag. Two Indian girls, not. yet. fourteen years old, were sold to the highest bidders in the open market at Alert Bay recently. C2OO cash was paid for the girl who was lirst sold. The second, who was pul up to barter, was sold for .CIIK), payable in dirty blankets. No application having been received for Ihe post of parish clerk of Cheltle (DnrseU. it is announced that the "(salary will for the future be Is lid per week for the winter months, when the slove has to be lit. and Is per week for the rest of the year, paid ipiarterly. The duties consist of ringing the bells for services ami seeing lo the lights and, the stove."