Something of Everything.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2092, 18 January 1908, Page 3 (Supplement)

Something of Everything.

Tllo largest wagon in the world has bet'ii shipped to Nome.. Alaska, for the Pioneer Mining Company. It is over 26ft long, and 7 ft high from the axle. The wheels are 10ft in diameter ,and are fitted with iron tyres lift in width. Ike Cook, a trotting horse, which made a mil© in 2min, 30sec. on the old Garden City track in the early fifties, is to have a 40,000d01. monument erected in one of the (south Parks .in Chicago, according to a provision of ‘the will of tlio liorse s owner. A Swiss couple liavo recently married after a courtship of forty-five years. They became engaged in their teens, but- the young man vowed >o make before asking the young lady to marry him. While he was making this pile in America nearly 3.000 love-letters passed. ' Denmark’s kings fcr'centuries have •all been named Christian or Frederick. It is the law that Christian must bo succeeded by Frederick, and Frederick by Christian. To attiiu this every Danish prince, no matter what other names ho may receive, always includes Christian and Frederick among them. A man named' Reuter, who lives m a village near Chicago, is known as the iron-jawed wonder. Taking a pTank about 4ft in length, lie gets two strong men to hold it while lie drives a.lOin. steel spike to a good lentil, putting, a small piece of chamois around the neck of thes, pike, lie grips it with his teeth, and slowly but .*:jrely the spike comes out. A curious will dispute has just been settled by the Court at Rebel, in the department of the Ardennes. Rome time ago a gentleman of indopen ’>-nt means and somewhat eccentric habits committed suicide by hanging himself in his houso at Domnely. A search among his papers failed to disehso any will until, under the bed. > n a piece of sheet-iron, was found Fiialked the following words: “This .s my last will and testament. I bequeath all my property to the borough of Ardeiine, on condition that the n au.r and borough council give £l2 to >i;o men of the local fire brigade for a beanfeast to be held is soon as possi-

This 'extraordinary will w:.s disputed by the relatives, blit the local Court lias decided that it is valid.

There are about 600,000 people employed in Italy rearing silkworms. In Chicago loaves of bread must bear the weight and the name of the baker.

Every year the sacred shrine of Mecca, the “Caaba,” is re-covered with a costly carpet sent by he S', itali. A' single one of these, eovfi • iugs has cost £15,000. An orchid tint takes a drink whenever it feels thirsty by letting Jowu a tub© into the water is a bo\anical curiosity which grows in. .Smith Africa. The tube, when not u use, is coiled up oil top of the plant. A railway through the ninu iti'in; north of the Adriatic Sea. const rimed by the Austrian Government \'i ii'iild up the trade of Trieste, though only 130 miles long, has-079 bridges and viaducts. It also runs through [<-•;•< v tunnels.

Lions, tigers, and other beasts of prey at zoological gardens and menageries follow the example of mankind by eating by day and sleeping at night. In their native* slate these animals sleep away the hours of daylight and hunt for their rood at night. Th© cotton handkerchiefs provided for French soldiers have printed upon them a number of sanitary nrece*pts to be observed on the march and during a campaign, and are further decor*ited with medallion.?, containing nictu.res of officers. of all grades, the different uniforms being so distinctly portrayed that a French private can tell at once to whs t grade any officer ho may see belongs. The latest- appeal to fash enable women in London takes the form of ring watches. These dainty ornament are very costly. The cheapest cannot he purchased under £25. 'I hey can he had in any number of; form's, and some of the most beautiful are rimmed with enamel, and ' Otlro.- 'precious stones. They are. inter da d to be wdni on the finger over the 'glove. At the Bloomingdale Institution for the Insane, AVliite Plains, U.S.A., a new series of most interesting.experiments is being conducted with the new flower cure in the treatment of insane patients. Beautiful, sweetsmelling flowers, it has been discovered, have a mysterious influence upon the human mind, and the weaker the mind- the greater, it is said, ~ the influence of flowers upon- it. Seemingly hopeless and incurable cases it Bloomingdale and elsewhere are being treated-with' the new flower method with beneficial results.