News Items.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 174, 11 July 1901, Page 1

News Items.

:o——— D iring the last century the Bible wkk translated into more than 350 which nifte-tenths of the human race ca% read. A half century ago the labour costih the production of 100 gold hunting watches was £IOB ; in 1900 it was onlj’ £l6 The Icelander believes that tvhistlin| is as sinful as profanity. When lightning strikes a at; ocoaeianal'y converts the Bap into stearri*. whi h eirplodofl fend scatters the wood ik all directions The gown worn by Mayor Dennistrftl at the Royal functions cost £65. Thb materials w» re black silk and ermine, an& it is the first time snch a garment hat been worn by a mayor of lOunedih. Some of the artificial silks are made cS wood fibre, dissolved to a glueUke consistency by acids, then forced through holes in glass aftd drawft out into threads An elephant has only eight teeth—tWfc below and two above on each side, A% the age of fourteen an elephant loses ftk first set, arid a new set grows. Mr Guinness hats given notrtfe 6f nrfbtidk in the direction of asking the Govern* ment to bring in a Bill increasing pensions from 6s lid per week to 10s per. wfeeb.

An influential American journal publishes a group picture entitled “ Tb% Eight Hon. R. J. Seddon, Premier n| New Zealand, and other prominent Maoris.”