GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.
The coast of Ihe British Isles is so well protected with lighthouses that if a ship sailed right around England, Scotland and Ireland hy night, only on six occasions would it be where it could not see the light of a lighthouse lantern. The Royal Astronomical Society of Great Britain is in possession of a log of wood which is supposed to be part of the apple tree from which the apple fell in Sir Isaac Newton’s garden, leading him to investigate the law of gravitation. Discovery of an ancient buried Eskimo village near Point Barrow, the “Corner of the Continent,” was made recently by \V. K. Can \ allin, who has returned to America after spending nearly (wo years.in the Barrow country for the University of Pennsylvania Museum. Highly well-preserved frozen bodies were found in the village. Their clothing and the shape of their heads and other parts of their bodies differed from the clothing and bodies of the present-day Eskimos. Remains of several of the Eskimos were shipped by Van Vallin to the museum. Evidently the ancient village was overtaken by some catastrophe. None of the present natives of the Barrow section knew of the existence of the lost village. The career of a bogus V.C., who had created an atmosphere of romance round himself, was ended at Nottingham recently, when Private Frederick Mellor, aged 24, was •sentenced to six months’ hard labour for obtaining £IOO by false pretences. He had posed as a bachelor of arts and music, an army surgeon, and the son of a Birmingham magnate. He faked a glowing newspaper cutting about himself, was photographed in a cap and gown, and had large posters printed announcing forthcoming recitals in the cathedral. He was wearing an Oxford blue rowing badge, and was in possession of a V.C. ribbon when he was arrested. “My father, who was a groom, died thyee years ago,” he admitted. “Mother lives at Tamworth, and takes in, lodgers. I had a good time out of the money. The whole thing was done for swank.”
A river of ink sounds like an absurdity, doesn’t it? Yet we are told that this marvel of nature is a positive fact that may be witnessed any day in Algeria. In this country there are two small streams, one of which is saturated with iron, the other, which passes through beds of peat, with gallic acid. At a certain point these streams join, and when the waters mingle they grow as black as ink. Indeed, through the wonderful chemistry of nature, the water has actually become ink, and it is said that letters have been written with it. For Children’s Hacking Cough, Woods Great Peppermint Cure.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2054, 13 November 1919, Page 1
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452GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 2054, 13 November 1919, Page 1
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