GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2399, 2 March 1922, Page 4

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Princess Juliana, the 12-year-okl heir to the Dutch Throne, does not disguise her great hope of being Queen some day. She finds the waiting somewhat long. “I am longing to be Queen. I do so want to be Queen,” she said, talking to some women of the Court, “but mother says I must hot count upon it too much, as perha'ps I never shall be; one can never tell what may happen these days.” A fox was killed recently by the Maynell' Hounds in the larder of Wychnor House, Burton-on-Trent, a few yards from'tbe spot where the pack had met a few hours earlier. Pound on the outskirts of the park, the fox made for Dunstall, some miles.away, and, then turning, ran right back to Wychnor, and, dashing

into the kitchen, followed by hounds, who promptly made an end of him. A passenger travelling between Eydtkuhnen and Berlin showed such nervousness during the examination of his luggage by the customs officers, that, although nothing incriminating was found, they decided to make a careful re-examination. The result was that the traveller’s luncheon, consisting of bread and butter and eggs, was found to contain gold and diamonds. Pores of the bread had been tilled with gold and carefully covered with butter, while the epfpf.s had been emptied and refilled with diamonds.

The fever of speculation which has led many people to invest French francs in German marks seems to be penetrating downwards to schoolboys, to judge from a singular scene witnessed in a Paris bank recently. A boy of about 12 walked into the establishment, and in a Clear, childish treble thus addressed* a clerk: “Will you please give me one franc’s worth of German money? Or would it, perhaps, be better for me to buy Hungarian money? I saw in the newspaper this morning that the marl; has gone up and Hungarian money has not, but as Hungary has quantifies of corn, I should think it soon would, dont’ you?” A stir has been caused in the town of Nutley, New Jersey, on account of the action of certain parents in appealing to the school board to stop alleged improper dancing at school entertainments. One mother, describing what she saw at a students’ dance, wrote: — “I do not know what the dance was, but the students called it ‘The Camel ■Walk.’ The girls rested their chins on their partners’ right shoulder, shut their eyes, and swayed to and fro. Some of them appeared to doze right off, and remained without moving. A girl student has replied that in school the students arc taught folk-dances, which, “if we danced them in public, would cause us to be. arrested.” Miss Victoria Drummond, da ughier of Captain and Mrs Drummond, of Megginoh, Perthshire, who has

just completed her apprenticeship as an engineer at the Lilybank Foundry, of the Caledon Shipbuilding and Engineering Company, Ltd., Dundee, celebrated the event by treating a large company of. her workmates to an evening at the King’s Theatre, Dundee. Miss Drummond who belongs to one of the oldest Perthshire families, is a god-daughter of the laic Queen ictoria. From early childhood she has shown a mechanical bent, making

interesting little toy models. She began her engineering career in Perth, and during the war came to Dundee, where she has worked ever since. She has been made a graduate of the Institute of Marine Engineers, and hopes shortly to go to sea as an engineer.

Unusual experiments have been carried out in the endeavour to find a rombdy for sea sickness by Dr. Pozerski, of the Pasteur Institute, Paris. With the help of an ingenious machine constructed by an engineer friend, Dr. Pozerski is able (o reproduce the movements of a ship in a heavy sea. This machine was manned by a mixed crew, including cats, dogs, .pigeons, chickens, rabbits, and guinea pigs. B was found that the dogs were most seriously affected, but the rabbits and guinea pigs gave no signs of noticing the rocking of the machine, after six hours appearing, as fresh as when they were,., placed “on board.” “ Dr. Pozerski intends to

take this immunity of rabbits as a nfcw starting point for research into the prevention of sea sickness.