ODDS AND ENDS

New Zealand Tablet, 16 July 1908, Page 38

ODDS AND ENDS

She was a good pianist, according to the back-block standard, and when she left the township the editor of the local paper saw his opportunity, and this is what came of it : — ' At the feet of Beethoven she sat in spirit, and interpreted those subtle emotions known only to those whose strength of wing is strong enough to drink in harmonies that pierce the shell of the universe and lose themselves in the boundlessness of infinity.'

According to an English authority, the earliest life assurance policy of which particulars have been preserved was made on June 15, 1583, at the ' office of insurance within the Royal Exchange 'in London. The policy was for .£383 6s Bd, to be paid to Richard Martin in the event of William Gybbons dyingwithin 12 months.

An absolutely new dog story has been found. Here it is (salt to taste). A gentleman was out shooting the other day, when he had the misfortune to shoot the dog. For a moment he was too much overcome to see what damage he had done, and before he had recovered himself the animal, a black retriever, had come up to him, bringing in its mouth its own tail, which had been shot clean off.