NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2519, 16 December 1922, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

M. Maunoury, French Minister for the Interior, noticed the other day with concern that a very beautiful Louis XTV. “Savnimeric’’ carpet, which adorned tin* floor of his study was beginning to -Imw signs of wear and was losing its brilliancy of colour. He sent for an inspector of the Beaux Arts, ami learned, to his surprise, that flu* carpet, which is national property —was estimated at a million francs (about £20,000 at tlie present rate of exchange). but that if it were put up for public auction it would fetch between two and three millions. “That is far too expensive for me," remarked the Minister. “Please have the treasure removed. A modern carpet is quite good enough for my use..” The attack of a pet monkey on its mistress was described at Bradford by a zoologist as a good example of the folly of keeping monkeys as pots. Mrs T. H. Wilkinson is suffering from 14 wounds in Iter arm as a consequence of the monkey’s attack. She says it first showed bad temper when she tried to take irom it a comb which it bad snatched from her hair. Then lie bit her arm severely, and her husband, assisted by his son-in-law, “laid it out.” Air Wilkinson went for a rake - with which to complete the job, but the monkey, suddenly coming to its senses, became wilder than ever, and ran along the clothes lino in the kitchen. It eluded all efforts at capture, and spent some happy hours breaking ornaments, eating cigars, and c'hewing some matches. However, it luckily fell into a tin trunk, and in a flash the lid was shut down. A few minutes later a dose of chloroform put an end for ever t" the monkey’s love of mischief.