GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 June 1913, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

MOURNERS AS SMUGGLERS. What appeared to bo a pathetic funeral cortege was stopped while on the way from Zurich (Switzerland) to Baden by suspicious German Qistoms officers,"who discovered that the coffin, the wreaths, and the pockets of the -nourners were full of smuggled saccharin. i THE KING AND A CASTLE. i At the express wish of the King, ' Maidun Castle, the historic Celtic eni campment near Dorchester, has been I purchased by the Duchy of Cornwall, I and the Prince of Wales will thus be- , I come the owner. ! FAMILY WATERPLANE. I j A new fashion in houseboats has : been set by Mr Irving Trombley, president of the American Aeronaui tical Society, who has planned to take jup his residence this summer on i .Shrewsbury River (New Jersey) in a floating palace containing sixtyrooms, a gymnasium, a boAviing alley, a ballroom, a roof garden, and a waterplane shed. "Instead of motoring," explained Mrs Trombley, "we shall waterplane. Mr Trombey's i waterplane is just as reliable as a f motor car. We and the two children | hope to take daily flights over the |bay." . . . "EYEBROW" MOUSTACHES. The moustache is returning into fashion (says the London "Daily Mail"). But it is not the long silky adornment beloved of Victorian lady novelists. It is variously known as/ the "eyebrow" or "tooth-brush" moustache. A West End hairdresser professionally' describes it as "short, closely trimmed, stubby, and sharply ilefined. Tt must not. overlap the /corners of the mouth, and must not conceal the contour of the upper lip. The small moustache serves the same purpose as the patch of Georgian ladies—it calls attention to a well-formed mouth and excellent teeth. 53 CHILDREN OF 2 BROTHERS. ! Two brothers named Bossu, one living at St. Usages and the other at St. Martin-en-Brasse, villages in the department, of Saone-et- Franco, have between them .53 children. Jean j Pierre Bossu, aged s ixty-one, has had thirty children, of whom ten are alive, i He has been twice married, and had seventeen boys and five girls by his second. A farm labourer, his average daily earnings for years did not amount to over 7Jd. Claude Bossu, the younger brother, has been married twice, and has had twenty-three children. His first wife had triplets three times.