GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2300, 9 July 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Over 100,00(1 volumes, and almost as many pamphlets, have'been collected by the French Government for the Paris War Library, and a building will be erected having a. five miles of shelving. The collection of manuscripts, photographs, and war records is appalling as to numbers, and there seems to be no limit to the gifts of collectors.

Miss Laura Broimvcli looped the loop in an aeroplane 19!) consecutive times at Long Island recently. The highest number of “loops" on record was made by the French airman Ironval, at Villacaublay. near Paris, on May 2Gth, 3920. He did 902 in 3hr. 52min. lOsee., and had to come down because his petrol was exhausted. In 191!) Lieut. IJappv Joyce, of the United Slates Testing Department, did 300 consecutive loops in GO minutes. * Geoffrey J. Richardson and George Thomas lvudd, until recently attendants at the Nethorne Mental Hospital, were each fined £2 at Reigate for ill-treating a patient at the asylum named Stock. A doctor said that Stock had two ribs broken, and was covered with bruises on the left side. Richardson said that Stock kicked him*in the stomach, and got his lingers round his throat. He did not use any more violence than was necessary to restrain the patient. Rudd said he went to the assistance of Richardson, and Stock bit his thumb. A dramatic incident occurred on one of the Paris boulevards recently. A woman was wheeling a bathchair, in which sat her husband, who was paralysed in both legs as the result of wounds received during the-war. The couple were quarrelling, and presently the invalid produced a revolver and, turning round, tired nl his wife, who fell dead with bullet wounds in her head. The husband was wheeled off to the police station. It was gathered that rhe man had accused bis wife of infidelity, which she indignantly ■ denied, and in consequence of his jealousy she bad decided to leave him.

The world's record in mountainclimbing is held by (he Duke of Abruzzi, who climbed 24,(10/) ft. up the sides* of Mount Godwin-Austen, in the Himalayas, though he failed

to reach the summit. This record may soon be excelled by the prospective British expedition which is to attempt the ascent of Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain, estimated to be 29,1dl ft. high. Among women mo-untnin-climbers, Mrs .Fanny -Bul-Joek-Workman holds the record in her ascent of 23,300 ft. on one of the Xun Kun peaks in India. There is no stranger tomb in England, a correspondent of the New Times soys, than that of Sir Richard Burton, the famous traveller, in the cemetery at Mori lake. “It is of white marble, and is fashioned ns an , Arab tent decorated with a crucifix. Within is ail altar, and Mr Thomas Wright in his "Life of Burton,” completes the picture thus: ‘“Sir Richard’s sarcophagus lies to one’s left, and on the right has since been placed the coffin of Lady Burton, while over all hang ropes of camel hells, which, when struck, give out the old metallic sound that Sir Richard heard so often in the desert.”