NEWS IN BRIEF.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2145, 29 June 1920, Page 4

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Major J. B. Pretyiiiau-Nowimm, M.P., who is the chairman of Ibe Middle Class Union, recently went to ibe House of Commons-in blue overalls. He spent the afternoon in the lobbies and the debating chamber, ■after lunching in the liarcoui'l room, .vherc there were several women visitors. The dungarees were a protest against the high price of clothes. It was a well-cut suit, with turned-down colhu v and pockets, and looked quite smart. Members, in fact, bad to get near to notice the character of the material.

Dr. Edward Anthony Spitzka, a well-known anatomist, removed the brain of Dr. Joseph Simms, physician, author and lecturer, who died at New York recently. This was in

accordance with a provision of a well executed by Dr. Simms and an agreement with Dr. Spitzka seventeen years ago. “Dr. Simms believed in the scientific study of the brain, and I bat lie could aid science by giving his body for research,” said Dr.'Spitzka. “He was in accord with the theory that the brains of intellectual men differ from those of men of lesser intelligence, and he wauled science to have his brain to advance its work in Ibis field.”

A woman who complained to the Willesden magistrate ilia I her husband refused to give her money, .-aid that she had just discovered bis worst act of meanness. He had given her a brass wedding ring. The French city of Lyons is, at the mercy of a .specialist in chequeforging. In a few days the banks there paid him for three forgeries, sums of £3,800, £4,000, and £2,000. The Rev. Herbert John Martin, vicar of Holy Trinity, Old Brompton, Ims been deprived of his living and all ecclesiastical promotions in I lie diocese of Rochester. He was found guilty at a recent Consistory Court of immoral acts and conduct. Evidence was given that Mr .Martin kissed bis maid in the bathroom at the vicarage.