MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VIII, Issue 545, 15 October 1902, Page 2

MAIL NEWS.

Paris, Aug. 23,

Dr Kingstono, a young American physician who has been established in Paris for two yours, received a call lubl night by two children, who told him lie was wanted at the bedside of an American who was dying, penniless and friendless, in the toughest part of tho city.

The doctor started to seo tho patient. After leaving tho omnibus ho was takon through dismal streets to a shanty back in a forbidding courtyard. I'hore three unknown men pounced upon him, knocked him down and beat him until ho was insensible.

When ho regained consciousness his assailants had gone. With soveral teeth gono, lips like pulp and four ribs broken, the doctor crawled until he met a policeman, who took him to a hospital. Kingstono gave to the polico the name of an American widow in society whom lie refused to marry not long ago, and who then threatened, he said, to hire thugs to kill him. He thinks that tho robhery of his watch, money and jewels was incidental to the main purpose of revenge. Paris, Aug. 'l'd.

A despatch from Tourcoing, a town in Northern France, reports the death there of Marcello Bracket, a beautiful girl acrobat who made a sensation at the Nouveau Cirque here last winter. She had finished an act high in the air, and utter blowing a lust kiss at the audience, while swiugmg from the trapeze toward tho rope an attendant below held for her to slide down, she missed her hold and fell. Sbo missed the net also, and crashed through a wooden structure being erected for the next act.

Horrified cries filled the circus and women fainted. Her mother and two sisters, who always travelled with her, witnessed the accident.

Paris, Aug. 23. Dr Peyrat has called to the notice ol

the Academy of Medicine a caso in which a man hit in the heart by a revolver bullet has been completely cured. The wounded man was attended in one of the Paris hospitals, where Dr Launay successfully stitched the wound. Some time ago Dr Lo Dentu reported several cases of successful treatment of wounds in the heart produced by knives, etc., the proportion of cures being from 30 to 42 per cent., but this appears to be the first case of success in dealing with a man snot in the heart. Paris, Aug. 23. The Revue Hebdotnadaire publishes a strange article in which ,it is alleged that it is quite certain that King Edward did not go through the whole coronation ceremony personally, but that after the actual erowniDg a man who is tho Kiog's double and was ciad in royal rouc-s personated Edward VII. Berlin, Aug. 23.

Much dissatisfaction has been caused in Germany by the Emperor’s condemning of Wagner music, wh'ch he calls 11 noisy,” Dr Richter, a friend of Wagner, is so indignant that he has been waging war in the newspapers on the Emperor’s taste. The German Minister of the Interior found these diatribes treasonable and called the Emperor’s attention to them. William 11. returned the articles with this lasonic memorandum :

No question of treason ; question of ear, at the most.”

Of course, it is a difficult matter for Ministers to resist some of the persistent demands made for employment, but nevertheless the system that is now in vogue of appointing men without any previous experience [or special qualifies, tions is a rotten one, and cannot be too strongly condemned. Palmerston Standard-