GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2323, 1 September 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

- Lazarus,. Jacobs bargained successfully with the Municipal Court at Boston recently. Convicted of trespass on the grass of the Boston Common, he was lined one dollai. “I haven’t got a dollar, Judge,” he said. “All I have is 50 cents.” 'The Court then revoked the and that the fine would be half a dollar. Jacobs .paid and went free, smiling. For a wager of ss. with a rival in the profession, Jack Howard, steeplejack, of Bow, London, balanced himself on his cycle placed on the 'top of a 90ft. chimney. A bicycle was hauled to the top of the chimney, from which thick smoke was belching, and Howard mounted and balanced himself for about two minutes; The rival steeplejack then climbed the stack find handed over the 5s to Howard, amid cheers from the large crowd below. Minnows imported into Spain from Augusta may eradicate mosquitoes which carry malaria in many districts in Spain. Expeiiments have been conducted l’or the purpose of acclimatising the ftsli, ami if is found that the work'of scientist* in this direction has been successful. The minnows, which helyng to the specie* Gambnsia uffini*v arc known to feed upon the larvae of mosquitoes, and hope i* expressed that thfv will prove an efficient weapon against malaria. Charles 11. Crane, retiring American Minister to Chinn, has left Pekin for America, travelling by ihe way,of Siberia and Russia. H> is nceoinpniNcd by hi* son, John,

and the two are travelling on a special car stocked with nails, needles, tooth brushes, and medicines, which will be used on route in lieu of currency. Although Mr Crane did not receive direct permission from Moscow to cross Siberia and Ilussia, lie was unofficially assured the Soviet official* would expedite hi* journey. When he left he expected everything would lie arranged when he arrived at Chita.

A woman who complained at Tottenham of having been assaulted by her son of 19, -aid -die had been trying to keep nut of her house a widow who would not leave the hoy alone. Till then, she added, she had not succeeded in keeping (lie widow out, but the boy resented her eflort*. ami that wa* why lie had as-aulied her. The widow wa* persistent in her at - tentions, and got into the house by climbing up to I lie window of the hoy's ivioiii at night. “What does the boy’s father say ?" asked the nmgi*lrate, and the mother *nid he declined to interfere. A police orlieer was Instructed to sec the youth.

American citizens who have been endeavouring to reconcile them-ol-vc- to the absence of beer are. now seeing a new prohibition looming sbove tile horizon, The Stale Legislature of Ft ah has passed a law, and the governor lms signed it, undo which the ale of cigarette* i* prohibited, i:ud the smoking of tobacco of any sort in a public place is forbidden. Three State* that had antieignreile law-—lowa, Kansas, and Tennessee- —have only this year formally repealed them. g,* pn-y trove never observed or colored. Ihe new Ctali law doe* mu mean thal the citizen* who break it will necessarily be aiTc-ied or prosecuted. The chiel! of poiiee in Salt Lake City ha- a')rail!m-ml. that -m !nr a* tin

Sitjii«■ capital i' concerned no action lie- I;i K'i-11 in enforce the law. 1 )ranojiijr operations by lla* police in !!u River Lea resulted in the tli<,.vnry ol' iho bodies of I'lorric (..locklim/. need 11, ami liar si.stoi (J|;ii|vaged 111. „! Oatlfiud Rise, ! After talcing* another sister In school. lioih girls, playing 1 imam, ivp.nivd lo the river, As rlvey did not return home in Ihe evening, the police were eominumi'a tod with. Allinquirie- havin'; 1 proved fruitless, dragging opera tioil- were begun, with lho res it 11 suited. 111-luck has doom'd the .family, which numbered seven. I lie father, John .William Glockling. joined the 1.-t F.--C.-. Regiment al (lie outbreak of war, and was killed in 1915, without havimr seen Ids voungesi child. Another child was burned in death.'And one was killed bi a street accident.

A i ',nv:c! named Samuel Briekner. .|u>i released from Sing Snip after serving a sentence of three •real's, wa~ tamed over !•> liic poliec of Yonkers on a warrant charged with fleecing Meyer Levy, ol' that city, out of 1-JUo dollar- by selling* him iu.~iroii- "gold" that proved to lie polished brass. There were four warrants from police department-! of Now Yorlc city. oiikers, and elsewhere awaiting bis release. Levy charged that on July 23rd. 1.917, Hrickncr showed him a box of.what appeared to be gold. He represented it as the real thing, and introduced an "assayer.” who claimed to have examined it and found it was genuine. Levy gave him the money, and he left the box of metal. It proveil afterwards that all Levy had was 7MI), of brass.