GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3549, 13 June 1912, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

A masseuse is to be apointed to attend some of the children, of the Lambeth Poor Law Schools. The teacher will expound the lessen and the masseuse will rub it in.

Two applications for a vacant cottage were received by Dunshaughlin (County Meath) District Council, which recently ordered bachelor tenants of their cottages to marry or leave. One applicant was a married man, the other was a bachelor. The cottage was rented to the married man. The rent collector reported that lie had attended a wedding of one of the council’s 'bachelor tenants. “This is tho fourth.” said the chairman. “We are reducing tho number considerably.”

When Durand de Gournay who, oy means of a dazzling uniform arid a plausible manner, managed to delude a lot of French country tradesmen, was tried in Paris, his defence was that ho swindled because he wished to create an impression on a woman with whom he was in h*,ve. The judge replied : “Don’t talk to me of making an impression on the fair sex. You are far too ugly,” and then sentenced him to six years’ imprisonment.

Dr Agaetlie, the Parisian architect and professor who secured third prize in tho Federal capital site designs, was first attracted to the competition by a notice appearing in the Esperanto magazines of Europe. A young officer of the Home Affairs Department translated the conditions into tho new language as scon as they were framed, and had them published in tho European Esperanto journals a month before they officially reached the Institutes of Architects, Surveyors and Engineers- This gave the Esperantist architects a start on their rivals. Dr. Agaehe has expressed this thanks by cable to the Melbourne Esperantist, and lias asked him to look after his interests in Melbourne.

Swiss architects are puzzled about } the discovery at Neuchatel, by work- ; mem, on the future site of a hospital, ! of a splendid vault built in bronze, which they state was erected 600 years B.C. In the vault the skeleton of ai young woman was found, whose bones' seem to- bo mummified, and qn li(t>n \yrfi-sts wore fouV . (bracelets in bronze and two in lignite, while by her side was a little bronze bell. Swiss archaeologists cannot account for the “fashionable beauty” _ of so long ago finding her resting place at Neuchatel. As the eminent financier got out of his motor car a thief snatched » silk handkerchief from the pocket of his sable lined overcoat. The millionaire grabbed the thief and looked for a police office. Then the thief squirming in his 1 grasp, said; “Lot me go! Come'on, now, let mo go. After all, the only difference between you and me is that you’re niakiii’ your sixth or seventh million, while I’m still workin’ on my first.”