GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2138, 10 June 1920, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

"Washed from the wrecked liner Bohemian, a coffin containing the body of a woman was recovered from the sea off the American coast, and was landed from the liner Scandinavian. It is being taken for interment to the north of Ireland.

Paris witnessed the extraordinary spectacle of a pretender to the French throne upholding his claims at a public meeting. He was introduced to the meeting as “M. de Bourbon.” ,He is a descendant of Xaundorlf, who claimed to be the son of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. He is totally blind, and excused himself from reading any documents owing to his affliction.

The town of Milford Haven has been bought by Major Hugh Thomas, 0.8. E., an architect and a large properly owner of Haverfordwest. The deal, which is entirely a “oneman affair,” is one of the most remarkable of recent times in. Wales. At a cost of about £250,000, 'Major Thomas has acapdred the town of Milford Haven, Ha kin, and Hubbertston, together with several hundred acres of agricultural land adjoining.

To be turned into human magnets has been the fate of 3-1 convicts suffering from a. mysterious ailment at Clinton Prison, U.S.A. It was found that whenever any of the affected men touched steel, sparks would ily, and their finger tips would vibrato (he filaments of any electric bulbs- which (hey grasped. Medical investigation has traced the trouble to the deadly bolulinus germ, which, it is believed, came from the canned salmon served to the men two weeks before. Of the thirtyfour convicts affected, two have died, and sixteen arc still so surcharged with electricity that their vision is impaired.

Corporal Francis Pegahmagabow, a redskin Indian, of Parry Sound, Ontario, is officially credited by the Canadian Army with having shot 378 Germans during the war. This homicidal person, who was a hunter and trapper in Canada before he enlisted, served as a sharpshooter with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and it is said that he never missed. He was awarded the Military Medal with two bars. Some airmen who were engaged in bombing raids over the German lines claim to have killed thousands of men, but it is considered likely that Corporal Pegahmagabow holds the record among infantrymen. r A select company of thirty epicures. presided over by the Paris revue favourite Mislinguelt, recently lunched off a portion of the foirr-year-old lioness called he Mascolte in the Hesiauranl Marguery, on the boulevards, which still retains some of its former glory as the home of gourmets. La Mascolte was bought last year for £240 by her tamer. She met with an accident recently, and reappeared as “filet de lionne Daniel,” with a dressing of paprika sauce. The delicacy necessitated special vintage wines, and the cost of fhe lunch would have fed a regiment. The opinion of the privileged guests was that lion flesh is rather ■tasteless, and is easily beaten by a good beefsteak, and the only person at the table who really seemed to appreciate “diet de lionne” was Adolf, La Mascot!e's year-old son, a young cannibal who thoroughly relished the dish.