GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2275, 12 May 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

At. Monteharet, France, Marguerite Encoquere has died at the age .of 06, after having spent 70 years in domestic service with a family named Dralis.

A young "woman complained to Mr Rooth, the magistrate at Thames Police Court, that a savage dog had bitten her in the calf of the leg. The magistrate: That is one of the disadvantages of being fashionable and wearing short skirts. The Riviera police are investigating the disappearance of a pair of ear-rings, valued at £IO,OOO. Mile. Louise Miech had been to a ball — the final festivity of the Nice Car-' nival—and on leaving handed the ear-rings for safety 'to a companion, a multi-millionaire, who put them in his waistcoat pocket. The following day the car-rings disappeared. A man called at a south London hospital stating that lie had swallowed his false teeth. He Was Xrayed, and tho doctors, thinking that they had located the teeth, ordered an operation. Ten minutes before the time fixed for the operation the mnn’s wiJ'c rushed to the hospital carrying his teeth. “I found them behind a box in the bathroom," she said.

The hunger strike in Central Park Zoo, New York, is over. It began when horse moat instead of beef was served to the animals, and they refused to eat it. It lasted until they were so hungry even horse meat lasted good. It was the first time in tlie history of the zoo that anything but beef had been served to the meat-eating animals. President Harding will shortly have a private 18-hole golf course where he can play without molestation. His friend, Mr Edward Beale McLean, an enormously rich newspaper owner, is preparing one for him and his friends at friendship, a fine estate 10 minutes’ ride from the White House. The cost, which Senator Elkins, another millionaire, is sharing with Mr McLean, is estimated at £BO,OOO. The top of the grounds of Friendship is enclosed by a high wall. The President’s privacy when playing will, therefore, lie well protected. Tlinl domesticated goats thrive on a diet of tin cans, tenpenny nails, posters, or any other trifles not classed as edible is well known. But that wild deer had an appetite for clothes hung out to dry on washdays was not suspected until the matter was brought to public notice by a claim against the State of Massachusetts for damages Hied in Springfield. The claim, which is without precedent, was presented bv the game warden on behalf of suburbanites of Springfield, who demand an aggregate of £l6 for garments eaten by the deer. “My baby has taken first place in my husband’s affections," complained a woman at Tottenham. Asked to explain, she said there was not room for three in her bed, so sho bought the baby a small cot. Her husband, however, objected, and insisted that lie and the baby should occupy the bed, and that she should sleep in the cradle.. As the baby's bed was too small, she had to pass her nights on the floor. The magistrate could not help her. Magistrate: “Try to persuade him to prefer you to baby. Woman: “He won’t listen." Magistrate: “In dial case J think you would be wise to settle the whole affair by buying a larger bed." A verdict of filicide while of un-

sound mind was returned at Westminster on Charles Hollway, third secretary of the British Embassy at Berlin, who shot himself. Lord Gerald Wellesley stated that Mr Hollway was his wife’s first cousin, and had had a distinguished scholastic career at Eton and Balliol. He had served in the war and was badly wounded in the foot. The wound was singularly painful, and Mr Hollway underwent eight operations and was in hospital a year. The wound would cause Mr Hollway to be depressed, adding that he knew no other motive for Mr Hallway’s suicide. Mr William King said that in January he received a letter from Mr Hollway in which the latter said he was overworked and under-amused. In the middle of a children’s service at Caddington Church, near Luton, one Sunday afternoon, a man entered the building and took a seat near the organ. During the psalms the stranger walked about the aisle, waving a stick. He shouted: “Vicar, stop the sendee,’’ and when the clergyman, the Rev. W. Duckworth, tried to quieten the man bis protests became louder. Walkins? up (he chancel steps, lie slashed the Bible with his walking-stick, and then drove the choristers from tho stalls, which he swept clear of the books. In trying to prevent further damage, Mr Duckworth was struck with the stick. Meanwhile the children at the service became frightened, and, crying, ran out of the building. Then the stranger lighted a cigarette and stood smoking on the chancel steps until the police arrived. When the story was told to the Luton magistrates, the police said the prisoner, a young man named Alexander Chnlkloy, bad been drinking. On charges of brawling in church and violent behaviour, Chalkier was fined £3, with the alternative of a month’s imprisonment.

Considering the number of elevators in New York City, 13,500 in all, the percentage of accidents is very small indeed. Oil each of the 31J working days of 1010, 6,000,000 passengers were carried through the 10,000 miles of elevator shafts, making at total of 1,878,000,000 passengers for the year, but only one passenger out of every 87,000.000 was killed ill the elevator trips.

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