THE WORLD'S NEWS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 4

THE WORLD'S NEWS.

AMERICA'S NEW TARIFF.

SOME OP THE REDUCTIONS,

A cable message published in the Sydney "Sim" of April 8 situtcs:—Tho Tariff Bill was submitted to Congress to-day. The reductions for which it provides aro now found to be more drastic than were anticipated. Haw WO3I is free, and sugar is cut free for three years. Steel rails aro free, and iron and steel liavo been considerably reduced. All nccossaries aro either free or have been reduced to a mirimum. The following items liavo beeu reduced Medicinal preparations, from 25 to 15 per cent. Window glass, JO to 28 per cent. Fig iron, 17 to 8 per cent. Barrels, 30 to 14 per cent. Furniture, 35 to :I5 per cent. • Horses, 25 to 10 per cont. Sheep, 10 to 10 per cent. • Cattle, 25 to 10 ;3er cent. Barley, 41) to 23 per cent. liny, 13 to 2(i per cent. • Fruits, 27 to 15 per (cent. Lemons, 68 to 24 per cent. ( ■ Live poultry, 13 to 0 per cent. 1 Citrus fruits, of (ill kinds, from U to 1 per cent, Apples, peaches, quinces, cherries, plums, pears, 25 to 10 cents a. bushel. Pineapples, 7 to (i cents per cubic foot. Olives, 25 to 15 osnts per gal. Olivooil, in loss than 5-gallon lots, 50 to 30 cents per gal.; over 5 gallons, 40 to 20 cents per gal. Saw boards are free, except cabinct woods, 011 which tins duty is reduced from 12 to 10 per cent. _ Tobacco and spirits aro ' unchanged. All fish is free, amd wheat also is freo when, imported froir. countries that do. not impose a. tnrifE on American flour. Bituminous and anthracite coal also have been placed on the free list. RESTORING FROZEN BODIES. London. April G. The Merchant Service Guild lias received a letter from Wellington (N.Z.), in which it is reported that Commander Evans, of the Scott Expedition, had stated that when Captain Oates left tho tent where Scott and two of his comrades wero found dead, ho had already lost his feet through frostbite. . Dr. Seymour, a French nobleman, who has had a, scientific training, asserts |that lie has discovered a fluid which, if it had been injected ir.to tho bodies of Scott and his companions after they had been thawed' out, would 1 havo brought them back to life. So confident is Dr. Seymour of the efficacy of,.his fluid 1 that ho offers to bo refrigerated for a'yoar to prove that his discovery is capable of producing all the results that ho claims for it. '

THE LAW OF THE AIR, London, April 7. Commenting' on the nbsenco of a code of laws regarding aviation, "The Times," in a leading article, says: 1 — "It is, desirable that there should be somo international agreement concerning the main lines of policy, with legislation based on defined principles. "Thero are sure to be frontier incidents, all of which may not end so peacefully as tho incident at Liineville, and no pains should be spared to arrive at a working arrangement between, the chief States." BRITISH SHIPYARD TROUBLE. London, April G. The situation in tho shipbuilding trado has assumed a serious aspect, and cither a national strike or a lock-out is now regarded as probable. ■ y i Any error of judgvnent. on the part of the boilermakers or the employers will make such a crisis a certainty. The Boilermakers' Society, which is the chief shipyard union, and comprises 60,000 members, is taking a ballot as to whether the employers should be notified that unless piecowork mid rivetting rates are advanoed per cent, a strike will be declared. The men originally demanded, an increass of 4 per cent. .... : Tho employers asiiert that ■ piecowork, wages ; have been increased 20 per cent, since 1911. On the othor hand the men declare that tho shipbuilders arc- having the timo of their lives, but tho masters deny this assertion, affirming that they aro launching vessels on contracts entered into before prices were increased. TRAIN'S SENSATIONAL PLUNGE," . •, London. April 6. A thrilling railway disaster, involving the destruction of a whole train und' all its occupants, occun'ed yesterday near Boma, in the Congo Freo State; Tho train was crossing an arm of the Congo River, when it left tho rails, and, plunging through the bridge, went headlong down into tho water below, from a height of 150 ft. ' The entire train fell into the river, and of the 23 persons on board not ono was saved. HATS THAT AMTA MENACE. . London, April 7. The feminine world in 'Berlin, is furious at a new police regulation that lins just been issued. The trouble is all over the ladies' hats, the ornaments of which appear to liavo been a source, of considerable inconvenicnce, if not of danger. As a result of tho complaints made by tho male section of tho community tho police have prohibited women from wealornaments, feathered or otherwise, that project beyond the rims of their hats, which are made rigid by means of wiring, The sex is up in arms against tho new regulation, and Berlin ia just now waiting to see_ exactly what its womenfolk are going to do in th'j matter. - COMFORT FOR THE CORPULENT.' „ , „ London, April 7. Professor Raufmann, of the University of Halle, claims to have discovered that a solution of palladium, if -utilised iu a, paraffin solution and injected twico weekly ■ into corpulent patients, will reduce their weight to the extent of 21b. daily, without any ill-effects being experienced. Palladium is a rare metallic element of the platinum group. It has a remarlcablo power of taking in and retaining gases, absorbing in thei spongy form nearly a thousand volumes of nydrogen.

PBEHISTOIIIC MAN. London, April 7, Tho skeleton of a prehistoric man found in Kent last August shows that tho living being bad a brain capacity of 1500 cubic centimetres. There is no trace of tho overhanging brown ridges which characterised the skufl of Uio Neandenthal ianu found in Germany, a discover}' whiiffo has been o'f great use to anthropologists. Tho tooth aro much. worn, and tho molars wore evidently lost prematurely owing to abscesses at tho roots. l'lints found near the skeleton wero of the late paleolithic and early neolithic periods. KICKING-HORSK PASS TUNNEL I'ltOJliCT. London, April 7. 11. is understood tlint the CanadianPacific Kailway Company has decided to construct n second tunnel through tlio famous Kicking-Horss Pass in the liocky .Mountains. The boring will be 10 miles long, am" win take seven years -to complete, at tho enormous cost of £3,010,000, and will redueo the track distance by only fivo miles. TITANIC ANNtVEIfSATiY. London, /\pril fi. Three American ladies, Jlesdames I'iitrelle, Harris, and Tlutrne, all of whom lost their husbands in the Titanic wreck, will commemorate tho anniversary of tho great shipping catastrophe in a novel way. Towards the middle of this month llicy will sail from Boston to England, their departure from the American port being so arranged that they will roach the sceno of tho disaster oil tho anniversary of (lie .date on which the Titanic foundered. Then, in tho darkness of. early nioriii they will cnch rcvenUy cast a wreath into tho sea. , > fTlio above items nra taken from tho Sydney "Sun.."J