GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2396, 23 February 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

The Roman police have arrested a man who was wearing a fine fur coat, a smart hat and gloves, but whose clothes were in rags, and whose toes protruded from his boots. When taken to the police station he declared that he was Cristo Tehorirhorsky, a Bulgarian. Several thousand lire were found on him, and in his room at an hotel many valuables were also discovered. He lias now, it is stated, been recognised as a notorious international thief wanted for many frauds both in Europe and South America,

General Ameglio meeting. General Tettoni in in Rome, stopped him and called him a coward. Thereupon General Tettoni challenged General Ameglio to a duel. General Tettoni was entrusted to make an inquiry into the action of General Ameglio when the latter was Governor of Libya, and.came to conclusions most damaging to the Governor. But as Ameglio at the time of the completion of the report was chief of the Royal Guard, the matter was allowed to drop, though the deepest enmity has since subsisted in the hearts of the generals. The Rev. Robert Rein, evangelist and erstwhile bartender in “Hell’s Kitchen,” New York, who last winter advertised for “any kind of a job,” even that of a dish-washer, was appointed Protestant chaplain of the Raymond Street gaol, Brooklyn, a few weeks' ago. The evangelist, who was cashier in a restaurant in Jamaica, Long Island, a position offered him as a result of his advertising, said he will continue as voluntary chaplain of the Brooklyn Truant School and the New York Parental School, a service which he has rendered without compensation for several years.

Singing “Tit Willow,” or words to that effect/a little cock sparrow in St. James’ Park, London, was recently impelled to explore the internal organisation of a pelican, according to a story vouched for by Captain L. S. Challis in the Daily Mail. While the pelicans were taking their luncheon near the lake in the park, a sparrow, who had been enjoying the crumbs falling from their table, was accidentally swallowed by one of the big birds. The pelican, whose surprise view with the sparrow’s, was on the horns of a dilemma. To transfer (lie tluiteiing intruder from bag to gullet, the huge mandibles had to be thrown open, and as soon as an exit offered out darted the sparrow, only to be caught on route by the ends of the pelican’s bill. At Cast an especial effort was successful, and (lie sparrow, was swallowed, only to reappear, like Jonah, and fly away, apparently none the worse. “Right here,” said Walter Boas, skipper of a barge, when asked at Rutherford, New Jersey, by Judge Fake to point out on a model of his boat just where he was standing when a tug hit it. Mr Boas Cell in a faint. Court proceedings came' to a stop. Every one stared in amazement at-the barge skipper. Since' last May, when his barge was in the collision, lie had been speechless because of an injury to his spine, which for weeks deprived him also of the use of his limbs. The words he uttered in reply to the court’s question were the first he had spoken in more than five months. All the preceding questions tint to him in the course of his suit against the owners of the tug had been answered in writing. Dr. Howard Cooper, his physician, is of the opinion that Boas’ vocal power had.been returning gradually,, and in the excitement of seeing the model boats at the point of collision the restoration became complete.