GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 1964, 12 April 1919, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

SURGICAL CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS. The noted Danish physic-inn, Professor Saugnian, claims to have discovered a new method for the surgical treatment of lung tuberculosis. After many experiments on patients in an advanced stage of the disease, he delivered a lecture to I lie Medical Society of Copenhagen, presenting the patients and demonstrating how he had succeeded in effecting' a permanent care by removing part of the ribs in the diseased side, thus causing the partial collapse of (he chest. This partly puts the diseased lung out of function, and effects a cure. CIGARS FOR CAMELS. Soldiers from the East are telling some curious stories of camels’ love of tobacco. The driver carries a triangular piece of wood, which is pierced at the point like a cigarholder. This is inserted in the beast’s mouth, the cigar being then lit and pressed into (he hole. Tho camel immediately closes its eyes, and puffs away through his mouth and nostrils till the cigar is entirety ■consumed. It seems to thoroughly enjoy the experience. Furthermore, the nicotine appears to exercise, a stimulating and refreshing effec; upon the animal, so that (hough ready, to all appearances, to drop from fatigue before its smoke, it: will plod on for many more miles after it. BIGAMISTS AVARNED. At (he Liverpool Assizes, Mr Justice Salter, presiding in the Crown Court, said he desired to call the attention of the public to the fact of the shocking prevalence of bigamy in the country at the present lime. Half of the cases (seven out of 1(>) for trial were bigamy. He hoped that with (he coming of peace and the return of the men to their homes this stage of things would improve. It wa.s a serious offence, and was punishable with penal servitude, AVIXDOW SMASHING ALANIA. At Boeking, near Baintree, a man became demented and ran out of his house, wearing only a shirt and socks, with a poker, and after smashing every pane of glass in his own front window, proceeded (o do the same to every’ window in the .-4reel. He broke in till 2b windows, or about 2(H) panes, including the plate-gins,-. front-- of three shops and a brewery office. He wa> slopped liv a neighbour, whom he slnmk on the head with the poker. He was captured by two special constables. LARGEST NAVAL GUN. The British I Him gun. the biggest naval gun in the world, was llrst mounted in 11.M.5. Furious, but subsci|ticnlly removed when she was converted into a seaplane carrier. The gun was then fransl'erred to tho monitor Lord Clive, of (he Dover patrol, and during the hist bombardment of Oslend tired about a dozen IS-in. shells, the cffecl of which was terrific. Each shell weighs about 3,2501 b., or nearly one and a half ton. and as the gun has an elevation of 45 degrees, (he range is prodigious. Using full charges, good practice can he made up to 30 miles.