BREVITIES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 94, 17 May 1909, Page 3

BREVITIES.

As miicli us clS(ll) has been paid lor a prize collie dog. The suund of a bell carries letter under walvr than through air. ■ At Bristol a man lias recently been lined for keeping n dog whoso burking prevented the neighbors from sleeping. Shepherds of Lniules. Prance, walk on stilts, and think nothing of being perched up from dawn to dusk like this.. Boys grow most vapidly in their seventeenth year: girls in their fifteenth. In Norway a man roust be vaccinated regularly before he is qualified to vote. It is estimated that there are 44,000 total abstainers in the English army. Modem Japanese coins and banknotes bear legends in English as well us in Japanese. There were more persons in receipt of poor relief in the United Kingdom in 1850 than in IMS. '•John Hull" —the Englishman's uicknamv—is said to be derived from a satire •written by Br. Arliuthnot in 1712. Railway employees' in Canada number about 124,000, and 20 per cent, ol the Dominion's population earns its living in some sort of carrying trade. To keep shoelaces tied, make a bow, then insert a buttonhook uuderneat'i the centre of the bow, and draw one loop and one end through, thus turning the bow practically upside down.