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Taranaki Daily News, 21 January 1922, Page 10

The Eskimo gives his doctor a fee as soon as he comes. If the patient recovers, it is kept; if not, it is retu I.

Polish women are renowned for the beauty of their hands and feet. They place fineness of the hands above all other charms.

An ideal Home Exhibition will be held in London next year. Queen Wilhelmina of Holland will exhibit a Dutch garden.

Two hospital nurses were poisoned at Toulouse, in the south of France, through eating sweets received through the post. Nearly two-thirds of all the farmers in America own their homes. Twothirds of the city dwellers do not own their homes.

One teaspoonful of good arable soil contains more living organisms than there are human beings in half of the United States.

Mrs. Asquith’s father, the late Sir Charles Tennant, left a fortune of £3,1'51,976, amassed, from the manufacture of chemicals.

Glass dating from ancient times has exactly the same component parts as that of to-day, while the processes used seem to have been something similar. Kingfish are reported to be plentiful in the Wellington harbor at piesent. One party of fishermen on Wednesday secured 52 large fish, which they estimated to be worth £3O to them.

The first recorded purchase of lan i in New Zealand was made by the Rev. Samuel Marsden, who bought 20b acres for twelve axes. He also intreduced the dairying industry to New Zealand by landing a batch ct Shorthorn cattle with a. view to encouraging the natives to turn from the paths of war into pastoral pursuits. In 1830 he. established the first farm at K;‘ri Keri. Darwin visited this in 1835 and was much impressed with the range o c

crops and fruits. From then on farming developed apace, but in spite of highly-favored natural conditions, dairying made but a languid growth.