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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 36, 1 February 1908, Page 3

Tin; average lue ol it Juuomutivu := oiiiu lu oe auout tiitecu years, .H meetings ul llic British Cabinet uu ollicial record ul any kind is kept of iue proceedings. H requires llic expenditure ul' eight times tne energy to go upstairs Unit is required for me same distance on the level. i'eople sometimes lose their noses by disease or in fights, and some have lost them in war. For noseless persons the most appropriate organs are said to be of wax, and the best ones, according to an American journal, cost, about £35, , though a really good one can be got lor £ls. A nose made of papier lnacno may be bought for £l. JNoses made if this material are enamelled and are deceptive, and for a poor man they are said to answer all the purposes that are required. The celebration of a llussian marriage sometimes extends over three days. At the wedding festivities the bride is expected to dance with the men one after another until she drops with sheer fatigue, it is a matter of pride with her to keep going as long as possible, and it is not unusual to lind a bride dancing gaily after three days and nights of vigorous frolic. When a girl is dancing with a man she always holds his pipe. It would be regarded as extremely rud» if a man should continue to smoke his pipe in such circumstances. 1 The Maiden insurance Company is a singular Denmark institution. It is con. I filled to the nobility, and the nobleman, | as noon as a female child is born to him, enrols her name in the company's books and pays in a certain sum, and thereafter a fixed annual amount, to the treasury. When a young girl has reached the age of twenty-one she is entitled to a fixed ineoine and to an elegant suite of apartments, and this income and this residence, both almost princely, are hers until she either marries or dies. The society has existed for generations. it has always prospered. Thanks to it, poverty-stricken old maids are unknown amongst the Denmark nobility, but every maiden lady is rich and happy. The best eyesight is possessed by those peoples whose lands are Hat and barren, and where objects tending to shorten the

sight are Svw. Eskimos will detect a white fox in the snow at a great distance away,_while the Arabs of the deserts of Africa have such extreme powers of vision that on the vast plains ul the deserts they will pick out objects I invisible to the ordinary eye at one to i ten miles distant. Among civilised ; people the Norwegians have better eyesight than most, if mot all, others, as they more generally fulfil the necessary conditions. The reason why defective eyes are so much on the increase in Kurojwnn countries lies in too much study of hooks in early life and in badlvlighte.l rooms, Diabolo Ims become such a craze on board ve.-e 1 ,u the Mediterranean Fleet that eM-'l -ts are now rated with parrot i turnkeys as "prohibited pets." ■*" '

i Aeeor 1 ' ■• ■ ■ i census taken by teni- | perance .icnicrs, over 5,0111) people entered the forty-seven public-houses in Poole (Dorset) between the hours of S p.m. and Tl p.m. on a Saturday. Someone claims to"hnve discovered that the effect of the wind blowing constantly in the face of the motor-man results, sooner or Inter, in serious injury lo the lungs by giving them no woric to do.

The horse has a smaller stomach pro- | povtionately than any other animal, because the horse was created for epeed. Had he the ruminating stomach of the ox, he would he quite unfitted for the labour wliieh he now performs. A building society which has been started in Paris promises to sweep all chimneys of the members' houses, provide medical attendance free of charge to all tenants, and lo give every tenant a chance once a month of getting three months' rent returned to him.

A miii|iio and interesting vessel is 11.U.5. Cyclops-general repair ship to the Heel. Amongst her machinery she has plant capable of turning out'castings weighing two tons, and lathes which will deal with such castings up to a. fiO-tou gun, a special feature of her machinery being that it is all electrically driven.

They are saying in New York that Wall Street is divided into two classes—the men who have been badly hit and the liars,