GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2323, 1 September 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

According to the newspaper Stoekholms-Tidningen, Copenhagen, a “special commission of learned men” is to visit Moscow during the forthcoming Third (Bolshevik) In--♦lernntional Congress, with the object of measuring scientifically the heads of the delegates, and ascertaining their intellectual capacity. Cloves, famous as a beer-drink-ing cat, known to frequenters of the once noted saloon now in the theatrical district of Minneapolis, is dead. Cloves ventured into an alley near a theatre, where she met ten greyhounds comprising a part of the show. She fought them all, bur her nine lives were not sufficient to tri-

umph. Mrs Sibyl Sanderson Fagan Pri-eur-Bardin,. of New York, shook bands cordially with her husband, Eugene Prieur-Bardin, in the corridor outside a New York Court' recently, just after the Judge had finished listening to testimony in her divorce action, and had announced /hat lie would reserve decision. The couple wished each other good luck' for the future as they went lheir separate ways.

A lock of Titian hair that once graced the head 'of Mary Stuart Queen of Scots, who was beheaded by Elizabeth of England, has been bequeathed In Mis* Carroll 15. Chilton by the will of Mrs Henrietta 15. tleiskell, tiled in the probate court hi Washington. l’.C. For more than a century this lock of hair lias reposed in a safe deposit box, aiuj L supposed to have come into possession of the Heiskell family a few years alter the death of the Queen. Testimony that Sheriff John SelJey, junr,, of Rensselaer County, New York, had paid a discharged prisoner fifty dollars in settlement of a poker debt incurred while the prisoner was an inmate of the county gaol, that*prisoners had -accompanied him oil trips to Philadelphia and Syracuse, and that he had given orders that the police should not he notified of the escape of two prisoners from 1 lie institution, featured the opening of a hearing before a committee of the State Commission on Prisons recently, in connection with allegations of bad management on the pari of Shorilf Seller.

It is understood that all the submarines of the “K” type, the only steam-driven under-water craft in the Navy, are about to be withdrawn from the Atlantic Fleet, in which hitherto seven of them have formed the First Submarine Flotilla. Their places will be taken by vessels of the L and M types. These.submarines are much smaller and slower than the “K’s”’ but combine the most up-to-date experience in regard to oil-driven boats. On (be surface they displace 800 lons, and have a speed of J7A knots. The latter type* have two -1 in. guns nud six 18iu, torpedo tubes. The “M.” submarines mount a 12in. gun each. Ireland i.* still laughing over "Der Tag.’’ The Freeman’.* Journal, to mark the appointed the coming into force of the Irish Home Rule Act, issued a poster on which was printed in large type the simple words, “Der Tag.” Unfortunately, it happened that on the day the poster appeared a horse named Der Tag was running at the Cnmigh races, ami the sport-loving Irish at once assumed that the poster was meant for a racing tip. They hot their last farthings on Der Tag, and wheti the horse limped in near the end of the string, hastened to tlie newspaper office demanding an explanation.

‘■When we were Married," complained a woman to the Totlenhar.| magistrate, “my husband induced me to nail a horseshoe over tho street door. He then said that lie believed horseshoes were lucky, and that as Ion" as the horseshoe remained over the door our married JiCe would be one long round of happiness." The magistrate: And has if been? Wife: No. One day, when we were out walking, be i'rogot the horseshoe and quarrelled with me. I ran home. The horseshoe was still over the floor. My husband halted on the doorstep, looked at the shoe, tore it down, and knocked me on the head with it. A policeman was sent to caution (lie husband that if he persisted in using horseshoes in that way he would be ext reinely unlucky. The Newark (New York) police undertook on a recent Sunday night to free that city’s curbs of what Director Brennan, of the Department of Public Safety, has referred to in an order ns “lizards.” The “lizards” arc the youths who station themselves along the curb on busy thoroughfares and spend an otherwise dull evening in flirting. Their actions irritated Director Brennan, and lie had organised a “curb lizard" squad. Joseph Kitclielia, known to prize fight followers as “Smiling Joe Kitehie,” was 1 sent to gaol for JO days for spend-

ing too much time along the curb. It was charged that lie slapped a girl on Iho shoulder. The girl resented the familiarity, and, according to the detective who arrested Ritchelia. he threatened re strike her. Two .other alleged “lizards” wore lined 10 dollars each.