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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 33, 29 January 1908, Page 3

The value of all kinds of fish landed ;ii England and Wales in one year is ■.•ver X . ,000,000, and the number ol men and boys employed over 40,000. lied glass hastens vegetation, while j- li.ue glow suppresses it. Sensitive ! plants, like the mimosa, grow fifteen times higher under red glass than under Hue. Trained falcons, to tarry despatches in the time of war, have been tested ir the Russian army. Their speed is lour times greater than that of the car-rier-pigeons. Ihe Town Clerk of liirmingham, Mr. Ldward O. Smith, resigned recently. His salary was £2,000 a year, and he will now enjoy a pension of £1,200 a year for life. Ihe Duke of Portland's extensive estates comprise 100,000 acres in Caithpfcss, 17,000 acres in Ayrshire, 12,000 in Northumberland, 10,000 in Nottinghamshire, and 5,000 in the Midlands. The grandest train in the world is the Kaiser's. It cost £200,000 and took three years to build. In the twelve Mtinptuous saloons are two nursery toaches, a gymnasium, a music-room, and a drawing-room frunished with oil paintings and statuary. The treasure-room with its two safes is burglar-proof. The annual output of coal in Japan lias increased from 200,000 to 11,500,000 tons during the last thirty years. Galileo discovered the use of the pendulum. In 1039 he published a work dealing with the use of the pendulum in clocks. The bedroom is what its name implies, a place of repose, and everything about it should be simple, immaculate, and pose of obtaining rest. Everything in it 6hould bes imple, immaculate, and easily kept ho. The iloors of such room should be covered with matting 01' should be oiled and rugs placed beside the bed. The paper on the walls should lie quiet and subdued. Busy liousekeeprs, as well as those young ladies who earn their livelihoods behind shop-counters, etc., often suffer from tired feet. In a ease of this kind a bath of salt and very hot water will lie found wonderfully refreshing. When withdrawn from the water the feet should be well rubbed with a hard towel. Those people who are subject to neuralgia in the extremities will find this of great benefit. Children, as a rule, tire much sooner of their toys than they do of the playthings which they make themselves out of oddments which may be at hand at the moment. If a child possesses sufficient imagination, a lump of modelling day, a piece of punched cardboard, and a wool-tlueaded needle will take a number of new forms which will satisfactorily occupy lengthy afternoons.

HOSPITAL SATUKDAY FEBRUARY Ist. IAKANAKI EDUCATION BOARD. AI'PUCATIoN FOR PUPIL-TEACHER-SHU'S. S will Be received at the Education Board's Office, New Plymouth, lrow caudidales lor appointment iu the Board's schools. Copies o£ the Regulations and application tonus may be obtained from the Jioard's Office. All pluvious applications are callcelled. p. s. whucombe, Secretary. j Education Oiiice, J January iSlli, I'JUS. I.WUCTTON OF NOTRE DAME i)ES MLSSBJNS, NEW PLI'MOUTH. SACKED HEART HIGH SCHOOL. TERM COMMENCES FEU. 3, 1903. course of study comprises English in all its branches, Latin, French, Mathematics, Drawing. Oil and Watricolor Painting, Shorthand, liuok-keep-ing, Typewriting, plain and Fancy Needlework, Poker Work, Chip and Wood Carving. Pupils prepared for the Matriculation and Uvil Service examinations, also tor the various music examinations held iu connection with the "Associated Board of fhe Royal Academy of Music and Royal College of Music," and "Trinity College of Music," and for the . i Harmony and Counterpoint, and Sing

J JR. GEO. RiDDELL, in. announcing to the puSTio of New Plymouth and -in rounding districts that he has dis posed of his New Plymouth Butchery lin-ineaacs to Mr. J. J. Ilillg, thanks his customers for their liberal support in i lw |iii»t, and trusts that the same eupjwrt «ill be accorded to his successor. HOSPITAL """' SATURDAY FEBRUARY Ist. MAINLAND HILL MEMORIAL. j ftOMI'ETITIVE DESIGNS for the

above ;ire invited, to be contributed gratuitously, from persons wlio Imve sullieient patriotism to assist the Maryland Hill Memorial Committee In deciding upon an appropriate memorial to be erected on Marsland Hill to the memory of Imperial and Colonial Troops vlio fell during the Maori Wars. The ' ■■* tT '" ■i; J ,./, 0 . 1 i 0 [ the Committee to be sent to tbc nudi!r»iniu'd up to the 31st January IUOB. AUTHITR STANDISH, Chairman of Committee.