NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17124, 20 April 1921, Page 11

NOTES AND MEMORANDA.

The Springaton South Memorial Ka.ll will be formally opened fo-morrow at 2.30 p.m. Miss N. C. B.A., for the education of girls and infants, will address a meeting of teachers at Rangiord on Saturday at 10 a.m., 'in the borough aohool.' I This evening tho 'Woolston Braas Band will give 'this season's final open aiir concert in i the 'Woolston, Domain.

Dr. Albert Abrams, Professor of Pathology at Stanford University, and Follow of tho ltoyal Medical Society, claims to have discovered a new invention called the Oscjllospore, wliich determines tho fatherhood' of a child. It wilj also determine age, race, ailcestry, sex, and personal characteristics. The machine was demonstrated in tho case of a man disclaiming a child, and tho meoiianism showed that the electronic vibrations of a drop of blood' from the cKlcl and one from the man were of tho same rata and synchronised, thus proving (it was declared) that tho maa was tho father. . ■ . . Coming events in volcanic eruptions do not commonly ca,st their shadows before them, but ifc is predicted that the great volcano of Popocatepetl, in Mexico, is., literally, getting up the steam for an explosion. Popocatepetl lifts long been so quiescent, indeed, that till recently snow was on its summit, and a glacier still rolls down its side. But a "party of volcunologists who recently visited it report that the lagoon which Med the bottom of the crater has been replaced: by a huge cairn of andesite b.locksMately vomited, and that tho sound of escaping steam from gaping l'umaroles fills the air with shrieks like the sirens of factories and locomotives. iSir Walter Parratt, tho Master of the King's Music, is one of those •wonderful men of 80 who are still bustling about. London in useful activity. Talking when he was a. student, of the early retirement of a musician from a position of responsibility, Sir Walter said, "For my part I shall retire when I begin to think I do anything well." He has not retired yet .