HERE AND THERE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 377, 30 April 1910, Page 10

HERE AND THERE.

A bull, said to be the smallest on record, recently arrived in Derby from the north of Ireland. The animal, which is two and a-half years old and fully grown, stands only thirty-two inches and weights two and a-half hundredweight. A twenty-feet model airship held up a passenger train on the Great Eastern railway recently for a quarter of an hour. It fell across the line, having slipped its moorings at Wood Green, London, where it is usually kept as an advertisement by a firm of drapers. It had to foe deflated by the railway porters before the train could pass. A young Cleveland (U.S.A.) boy, who confessed to murdering a boy aged three, ihas admitted that his confession was a hoax. He made it so as to be the leader of a gang that he went with. He told the judge that in order to be the leader he had to do something big. The ofcfler boys wanted him to jump off a high tree to show his nerve, but "the murder yarn fixed it up."

Consternation was caused in the Rue Lafayette, Paris, when an elderly man who had fallen under a motor bus was found to have been scalped. He reassured the spectators by demanding his wig.

Leaving the metals, one of the trucks of a small light engine recently fell into a culvert at Chingford (England) and dragged with it three other trucks and the engine. The water was 6ft deep in the drain, and the engine-driver was drowned.

Dr. Karl Kumn has been engaged on a journey from the Niger to the Nile, since October of last year. The hardships endured were terrible, his oxen died, and some of the caravan were reduced to living on leaves and roots, and even boiled leather.

At Oldhill, Staffordshire, recently, a marriage took place of two old-age pensioners, aged seventy-four and seventyfive. After being granted pensions of 5s each, the old couple frequently met at the local post office on pension day, and the acquaintance ripened into attachment.

A doctor lecturing at Hale University said dreams occurred chiefly wflen the subject was going to sleep. Owing to the different parts of the brain being unequaly asleep, thoughts were unable to flow in their natural channel. Thus

they got that incohcrcney which was so often characteristic of dreams.

The manager of the National Theatre at Ossek, Croatia, has made an appeal to all the journals of the town to refrain from printing any criticisms of the military band which does duty for a regular theatre orchestra, as he has been warned by the commander of the regiment that if any comments are made the band will be withdrawn.