NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 1092, 11 January 1912, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

A lady, who is a visitor to Oamaru, although a resident ot Otago for 47 years, had never, until the other day, since her departure from the Old Laud, seen a railway train, let alone enjoyed the pleasure of a railway journey, had never before seen a motor bicycle, and only once in the distance a motorcar. On her arrival in Otago in the days of the gold rush she settled in one of the mining townships, and until her advent in Oamaru this week had never travelled far from her own neighbourhood. Her view of a larger world has done nothing more than create in her a desire to get back to the seclusion of her country home.—Oamaru Mail.

Charles Schuppel, a windowwasher, of Toledo, Ohio, is probably the most inside-out-and-up-side-dowu man living (says the New York correspondent of the Loudon Standard). His heart is on the right side, his kidneys have changed places, and- his spleen is around to the right side instead of the left. Occasional cases have been known of people with rightsided hearts an other displacements of organs, but Schuppel holds the record, so far as can be traced, for one individual with so many peculiar formations. Schuppel makes considerable additions to his regular income by exhibiting himself at clinics. Many X-ray photographs have been taken of him for the use of medical students. He is 40 years old, and is in excellent health. Discovery of his numerous organic peculiarities was made when he was 18.