HERE AND THERE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8532, 10 September 1907, Page 3

HERE AND THERE.

129 DESCENDANTS. A man named Ring, of Bseokline, Massachusetts, has just died at the age of 106. He leaves 129 descendants. FARMERS' DAUGHTERS AS LABOURERS. So scarce is labour for harvesting the wheat crop in Kansas that the daughters of wealthy farmers are helping their fathers to gather the crops. REVENGE ON THE SEX. An Indianopolis (U.S.A.) woman, who hus just died at the age of ninety-five, was jilted when she was twenty years old. She swore never to speak to a man again, and kept her word for seventy-five years. 900 SUNSTROKE VICTIMS. According to statistics compiled by . a New York medical man about 900 Americans die of sunstroke and 25,000 are permanently affected by it every year. ENGLAND'S TEA-DUTY BILL. A fraction over half a crown, said Mr Asquith in the House of Commons, was the average sum paid in tea-duty by every person in the king- • dom. UP-TO-DATE BRAZIL. All the subscribers to the telephone in the town of Amparo, Brazil, are supplied with electrophones free, . so that "they may listen to the municipal band. WIVES BY PURCHASE. Wive 3 are still obtained by pur ! - chase in parts of Russia. In the district of Kamyshin, on the Volga, for -example, thi3 is practically the only way in which marriages are brought about. The price of a pretty girl from a well-to-do family ranges from -£2 to £4O ar.d in special cases a much higher sum is obtained. In vjllages the lowest price is about £5. ICE AGE CAMP. A remarkable find of remains of the ice age has been made near Melk, in Lower Austria. Five feet beneath the surface of a field the site of a •prehistoric hunters' camp was uncovered. The bones of mammoths, reindeer, polar hares, northern swans, and other animals known to have existed in the ice age were found un<ler a layer of ashes six inches deep. EXPENSIVE ANGORAS. When English capitalists were trying to establish Angora goat raising in South Africa they paid as much as £4OO apiece for goats, to induce the Turkish owners of fine flocks to risk the severe penalties of the Sultan's laws forbidding the exportation of Angoras.—Pittsburg Dispatch.