BREVITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 83, 4 May 1909, Page 2

BREVITIES.

i* i l'lddle-pluyiug Is reeommeuded at ( pa.ilier of mad bulls. Tn a tra"in the safest"scat Is In the >■ middle of the last ear but one. When a Hank of England note returns to the Bank it is never re-issued. It is cd cancelled I> V having the signature of the chief cashier torn oil. One hundred and live thousand pounds ot ostriclwcutliers. the largest quantity ever nold in Jaiiuloii at once, was disposed of at a remit sale. ■id Emperor .Nicholas of Russia has a e- a\.II trained voice. Had he not beeu of ti- ltoyal blood, lie would undoubtedly have succeeded in grand opera. There are few able-bodied paupers ill Holland. A tract of public land, containing .WO acres, is divided into six model farms, to one of which a person g- applying for public relief is sent, u- About eighty tons of woollen rags aro s collected annually at Smyrna and a- shipped chiefly to England and France. I hey are .sorted in Smyrna l.v women, who get from Is to Is ,'l.| a day. ' In Italy a new method l.v which the audience at a theatre can show its anproval or disapproval of a plav without ill disturbing the performance is .being tail- troduced. ISetor,. leaving the theatre, •d every person drops a ticket into one of fe":n;..''"and'..,!!!?"' 1 ™'- Le!tl;i'lSm" kS Vm fflwl 1 ""' le in Xonvay ex.ek i„ (he making of wrap- :» ijing and similar |ui|iv.K. Sea nneuione, can live for three or four years without any nourishment ft r ,h , l'wat , e , r' W,,WI Ulfy «»*