GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2319, 23 August 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

What is going to happen to husbands if the ladies, not content with football, take to boxing? To at least one Palmerston North husband the question will he of serious moment, says the M.D. Times. In the course of a little- altercation with his wife in Cuba Street yesterday, the irate lady emphasised a point in her argument with a well-directed right hook to the nose. Staunching the life stream which issued from the injured member, the chastened one capitulated, and was marched off, grasped firmly by the elbow. Adjudicating in the novice contest for sopranos at Bristol eisteddfod (musical competitions) 4 Dr. Herbert Brewer, organist of Gloucester Cathedral, said a great deal of singing was bad because singers could not properly hear themselves on account of Ihe modern fashion of doing their hair so that il covered their ears.

At the famous New York prison, Sin" Sin", in June, Leon C. Weinstock, vice-president of the State Prison Commission, formally presented a silver trophy cup, given by Sir Thomas Lipton, to the prisoners of Sing Sing. Mr Weinstock announced to the prisoners that the international yachtsman had established an endowment fund, to distribute aunually a sum of money to the members of whichever inmate baseball team wins the cup, to be sent home to their families.. After he had been resuscitated the day before from what appeared to be death at that lime, according to surgeons at St. .Michael’s Hospital, Newark, New York, a man named William Carrigan died, lie was struck by an automobile on May 25th, and received a broken hip. An operation was performed on the hip, as it had not set properly. While lie was under the ether on the operating table, Carrigan’s pulse appeared to stop. The surgeons were able to find no heart action. Thereupon a second operation was hurriedly decided upon, -and the man’s abdomen was opened enough'to permit one of the surgeons to insert one finger, with which he massaged the outer muscular covering of the heart. The heart after a time began to function again, and the surgeons completed the operation on the hip, sewed up the abdomen, and waited for tlm patient to come out of the influence of the ether. Carrigan revived about an hour later, and was progressing favourably. Late in the afternoon, however, he sank into a coma, and died shortly alter midnight from heart failure. Unkind persons in Berlin are giving the following explanation of Ludendorff’s grim countenance at the funeral of the ex-Ivniserin: — It is said that Ludendorff came on from Munich to attend the funeral. He was iu full uniform, but on ar--1 riving at Potsdam found that ail his

medals, which had been packed in special cases for the ceremony had been stolen en route. Every other officer present wore a long string of decoration’s dating from the days of militaristic power, and Ludendorff, not to be outdone, was forced to pay a hasty visit to a pawn shop, where he was able to replace most of the stolen medals. After hearing a dispute over possession of Bessie Connell Harrington, aged 11, a budding opera singer, in which Professor Bertrand de Bernyz, of 58, West Seventy-sec-ond Street, endeavoured to regain the child from her grandmother, Mrs McConnell, of Scranton, Pa., a New York magistrate decided to take Bessie under his own protection until the matter was threshed out. Professor de Bernyz said that the child possessed a “wonderful” voice, and that lie had a contract with her father, 'Thomas Harrington, now a patient in Harlem Hospital, to give her vocal lessons until she became a full-fledged concert singer. The action came before the magistrate on a summons obtained by Joseph Harrington, of Scranton, the girl’s uncle, against her grandmother, who, according to counsel for Professor de Bernyz, “kidnapped" the

girl. There might not have been any trouble if the Abbe Bourdin, cure of Marseille-les-Aubigny, who put up a. commemorative plaque in bis church bearing the names of the young men of the commune who fell in the war, had not added the words, “Pray for them,” under the list of names. On seeing the exhortation to prayer, the father of one young man who had contributed to the plaque'fund brought a suit to have his son’s name removed, ns the request for prayer affected his liberty of conscience. The tribunal decided against the prosecutor on the ground that he knew the plaque wato he put up in a church, so the father appealed to a higher Court,

which decided that the plaque did interfere with his liberty of conscience, and that the son’s name should be removed. But the Court went further, and decreed that if the father was not satisfied merely to have his son’s name blotted out, he could, at his own expense, cause a new plaque to he put up from which his son’s name was omitted. A s yet, the father has not decided whether his conscience will stand that much of a tax.