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Horowhenua Chronicle, 8 April 1914, Page 4

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Gabled News From Abroad (Sydney Sun.) HUSBAND AND A DOLLAR. New York, March 28. Two Ciucinatti ladios have been bargaining for a husband. Mrs Stell Smith pid Mrs Juli Stehlein one dollar for the return of her husband. Smith had taken out a warrant charging Mrs Stehlein with a statutory offence, and in the court tho judge remarked to the latter "You will give this woman back her husband for the consideration of half a dollar. Iβ that correct?" "Yea," answered Mrs Stelilein. ; "I will give her a "dollar instead of 50 cents," said Smith, and thereupon paid the coin over. "It looks like throwing your money away," commented the judge. CHOPPING OFF HEADS. London, March 28. There ie an agitation m Prussia for the abolition of the headsman and his sword and block in cases of capital punishment. . In Berlin an execution is carried out in the courtyard of the penotentiary, and the condemned -man is thrown face downwards and strapped on to a bench, which has •R. cup-shaped hole to receive the head. Then.the headsman raises a heavy razor-edged sword level with his chin, and lets it drop on the victim's n«ck. SOAP A LUXURY. New York, March 28. Alleging that his assistant, William Levy, is a licensed pharmacist, Frederic Haas, who has a drug etore in "West Thirty-ninth street won his case when arraigned before a court of special sessions for alleged violation of the labour laws. Haas said: "I conduct an ethical drug store, and I «01l nothing on Sundays except necessities." "Would you sell a piece ol eoap?" asked the judge. "No, sir?" replied Haas, "1 consider soap to be a luxury." He won his case. ONE OF A THOUSAND. . New York, March 28. From Milwaukee comes a romance of real life. For two yeai - Helen Sherman Wair had been in the Winconsin State Industrial School. Now she has a home with her foster father, who is no other that Mr Charles Page, the Tulsa (Oklahoma) millionaire, who, curiously enough, recently declared his intention of adopting 1000 children in one day. This plan was referred to by the superintendent of the school when Helan was present and she immediately said, "He is my uncle." It was found that she had told the truth, and her uncle was communicated with, and promptly adopted his niece.