ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES
—■ SHOT THROUGH THE HJiAKT. Uy Teleero'iii.-I'm'Sh AuuclnUon. Invercargill, August 29. Arthur Shrumpski, an' engine-driver, aged JS, single, was found dead in bod at Orepuki with a shot wound through his heart. A. rifle lay on the floor containing an empty cartridge case. The man lived alone. A rat's fail is a wonderful piece of Nature's handiwork. There arc more muscles in it than in I lie human hand. .It is made up of' a'chain of small bones and a multitude of muscles, which make it as prohensilo as a monkey's. The tail serves as a natural balance when the rat' is climbing, a lever * when about to spring, a "skimmer" wherewith to take the cream oil' a bowl of milk in a farmer's dairy, and an attachment with which, if. injured, the rat can be dragged by a friendly relation into a place of safety. The first notable, long-dislancc balloon flisht covered a distance of 500 miles, and whs mado in 18 hours. It was made in 1836. {torn London to Wellburg, Germany, '
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/DOM19190830.2.42
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 287, 30 August 1919, Page 7
Word count
Tapeke kupu
176ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 287, 30 August 1919, Page 7
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Dominion. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in