GENERAL NEWS STEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2306, 23 July 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS STEMS

Standing between two gendarmes, Comte Jacques Thoron de Lour was carried recently at Lyons to Mile. Marie Alquier, a pretty girl 15 years his junior. The comte was recently condemned to live years’ imprisonment for embezzlement. Immediately after the wedding lie was taken away in the prison van, to serve Li- sentence.

Professor Lippman recently described to the French Academv of

Science important experiments made in the use of the Bandet machine and ordinary telegraphic apparatus Tor the transmission and receipt of wireless messages. More than 7,000 words an hour can be transmitted by these means. It is a most important step in the transmission of wireless telegraphy, since wireless messages etui now be transmitted, received, and printed by one machine as in ordinary telegraphy, and the capacity of certain cables can be doubled. People passing along a Croydon road one evening recently saw a cat being attacked by two birds. The cat. a large black one, was perched on one of the higher branches of a monkey tree, and the two birds, flying from different trees, pecked the unfortunate animal at every favourable opportunity. The attack lasted for several mnutes. Eventually the cat was rescued by a man with a short ladder and pole.

A choir boy stood on his head at Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire, recently, while parts of bis will were read. The will was that of Edward Wilkes, a 17th century London merchant, who left almshouses and lands to the town with the stipulation that each year the beating of the bounds* should be observed in this manner, the better to impress it on the rising generation. Beer and jam rolls were formerly provided for the boys, who now receive monev.

Workmen in cut ting the ivy growing on the cross surmounting the belfry of the parish church of Low Pavilion, a little village near Horncastle, Lincolnshire, made a strange discovery. In the ivy, which had grown very thick, they came on the remains of a fox with a broken snare fastened round its body, also a live cat and kittens. How the fox got in this position is a puzzle, for the belfry is high and steep; but the theory is that he ran into a snare, and, after breaking it, scaled the belfry in bis fright and stuck fast m (lie ivy.