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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 401, 23 June 1908, Page 4

A remarkable surgical operation has just been accomplished at Ballymena, Belfast. A girl named Gordon, working in a laundry, was caught in a machine by the hair and was completely scalped from the eyebrows to the neck and from ear to ear- A local doctor ordered her instant removal to the hospital, the scalp also being taken, there. hr Davidson succeeded in sewing on the scalp. The girl is alive and making good progress, though she is naturally very weak. ,

During his remarks on Los Angeles at the lecture at Newtown the; other evening (says the Dominion), Mr H. M. Holmes related an incident, told to tourists, illustrative of the idea of the greatness of an American magnate in the American mind. It was a story of a small boy, who had asked his mother whose were the tram-cars. “Mr Huntingdon’s” she rep lied. “ Whose hotel is this?” “Mr Huntingdon’s,” came th.e response. They journeyed t.o the seaside. “ Whose beach is. this?” “Mr Huntingdon’s,” again the mother replied. ‘ ‘ Whos ie sea is this ?’ ’ Here was the lim it, “It’s God’s.” Then said tb ie thoughtful boy ; “ How did He manage to get it from Mr Huntit igdon ?”

Crossing the Atlantic last summer wfitli Mark Twain, a fellow passenger .asked his opinion of the prohibition law. His reply was very charae teristic, and very humorous. “I am a friend of temperance, and -w ant it to succeed,” he said, “but: I. don’t think prohibition is practicable. I am sorry to learn that the Germans have just invented ai method of making brandy ovj£ ol sawdust. Now, \yhat chanaEr will prohibition have when a mans can take a rip saw and go and get drunk with a fence rail ? Whsut Is the good of prohibition if a man is able to make brandy smashes out of shingles on his roof, of if he can get delirium tremens by drinking the legs off the kitchen chiairs?” Have you tri&d Wou'e’s Schnapps for kidney ailments.