GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2367, 13 December 1921, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

A new success in grafting has been attained at the Salpetriere Hospital, Paris, by Dr. Robert Monod, who saved the use of a patient’s arm by inserting a section of a nerve taken from a dog’s leg. Dr. Monod intends to experiment with nerve grafting by using other animals. He is certain that only technical accuracy is required to assure cures. in cases of paralysis which frequently results from operations.

The loss of a lever watch and its remarkable recovery are reported from Folkestone. Mr. W. Brooks, a local pig dealer, missed his watch a few weeks back from his waistcoat pocket, and it was given up for lost. A fortnight later he was killing pigs, and when dressing one of the carcases came across a hard substance in the stomach. This proved to be his watch. It has now been cleaned and is going well. It is supposed that the watch fell out of its owner’s pocket when he was feeding the animals.

Joseph R. White, jun., is 15 and weighs 201 pounds. His propensity for stealing money lo buy candy was curbed when Justice Wilkin, in the Children's Court, Brooklyn, sentenced him to the Berkshire Industrial Farm, at Canan, New York. The boy was taken fo Court on the complaint of his father’, who said he could not stop the boy from stealing to get candy, for which he had an inordinate craving. Joseph was a public school graduate and attended Sunday-School at the Methodist Episcopal Church in Warren Street, his father told the Court. The boy has had at least half a dozen positions in the last two years, all of which he had lost through stealing. Joseph ale as much as 8s worth of candy a day, which was more than he earned.