MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1928, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

’PLANE AS LUUGAUE. Lady Heath, the air pilot, who sailed from Britain for South Africa for a holiday, took a two-seater light aeroplane packed up on the steamer in which she travelled. She intends to use her machine or making flying visits in South Africa. TRANSFUSION SAVES LIFE. An eight-vear-old boy who was admitted to the Royal Isle of Wight County Hospital suffering from septic condition of the knee was in such a serious state that doctors hesitated to amputate. The house surgeon, Miss A. M. V. Bonhotc, M. 8., however, gave three-quarters of a pint of blood for transfusion, and the boy’s life was saved. FAR TillNG B I? EAKFA STS. The Exeter Earthing Breakfast Fund unique among philanthropic institutions, started its winter programme by feeding about L’OO hungry, and in many cases ragged children, assembled at a mission hall for their early morning meal. They were each given a small loaf, divided into three portions—two buttered and one jammed—-and two cups of cocoa. LIFE FOR A FRIENH. At the Banyan Meeting Church, Bedford, Sir Campbell Rhodes unveiled a stained glass window to John R. Steven, a Bedford school bov. who lost his life last June in an attempt to rescue a chum from drowning, following a canoe incident. At the same service, Alfred Hall, another school hoy, whose attempted rescue was recognised by the Royal Humane Society, received a presentation. THE VICAR’S PROBLEM. The vicar of a North London church has found a new way for dealing with the confetti problem. He decrees that all announcements of marriage banns must he accompanied by seven sliill- ■ ings and sixpence, live shillings of which will ho returned if no confetti is used at the wedding. Throwing ; confetti and other trifling matter at ■ weddings has been a church problem ' for years, and various ways have Ireon ■ tried to stop it. taking out nicotine. A Berlin profesor is credited with • the discovery that tobacco contains ; not nicotine, as generally supposed, - hut small quantities of methyl alcohol. I It is generally understood that nieot- ' ino, though mostly split up into two ' other forms by the combustion of the t weed, was the alkaloid of the tobacco plant. The professor, moreover, hopes - to devise a scheme by which he can • extract the methyl alcohol from tob--1 acco. thus rendering it more pleasant ' to smoko. BUS IN SHOP. i A crowded Birmingham Corporal ion t ln:s crashed into a show window at the ■t bottom of Snow Hill, over .JO people having narrow escapes. The front - axle snapped, causing the vehicle to swerve shandy over tin* pavement. . It came to a rest with tbe bonnet in a the window of a doll .shop. Several pi Vstrians were missed by indies r bet tlm most remarkable escape w: :1 Ikai 'T a man named Kenny, who was e on a ladder i leaning the windows of i- t 1 • e shop. He was hurled down and e came to rest amidst the broken glass (1 and debris, suffering only from slight n shock.