GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 2523, 28 December 1922, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

A fifty per cent, dividend is not sufficient for one shareholder in the Glsbacher sugar factory, Cologne. He has asked to be paid in sugar, which is difficult to obtain in Germany. The managing director is willing to meet the man’s request, but says that the company must await on the Government for regulations coutrollng the distribution of sugar for 11)23. If there is nothing in these to prevent it, shareholders will certainly receive so many lumps of sugar per cent, next year,” says the managing director, “but at present, although the company has paper marks enough to pay 50 per cent., it has no sugar." When an Aldershot gravedigger examined a parcel which a widow dropped cautiously on the coffin of her husband when taking a farewell glance into the grave, he found it contained a pail' of clogs. On a sheet of black bordered note-paper was the message. “Take these to the. next world with you. ' Mr Herbert Edward Rum-ey. a retired bank manager, aged 03, while playing golf on a local course at Bath (England), remarked to his opponent, Sir Edward Cameron: “This hole pumps me." A moment later Sir Edward, looking round, saw Mr Ramsey lying prostrate, and found that he was dead.

Another pillion riding accident has occurred in England. Mrs Phillippa Manee. of Brighton was riding on the carrier of her husband’s motor cycle when the machine swerved mi a rough piece v of road near Moulescombe. Mrs Manee was thrown heavily on her head and was picked up unconscious. At the Royal Sussex Hospital it was found that her skull was fractured. .

A twelve-year-old girl mimed Marguerite Martin, was strangled to deatli at Epinal with her skipping rope. After skipping with her mates, -he fastened one end of her rope round her neck, and the other end round the gate. By ill-luck a strong gust of wind resulted in the Ipite swinging to and fro. The little girl was swept off her feet and died uf strangulation. More than a year and a-lialf ago a 74-vear-old London man. Mr A. Evelyn-Linrdet, was operated on by Dr. Serge Voronolf, of Paris who lias for many years experimented in the transference of glands from animals to other animals and to human beings. Segments of glands from a monkey were grafted in Mr Evelyn-Liardet’s body. His friends declare that now, at 7(1, he is very active, rising at 0 and taking a cold bath every morning, and walking briskly for six or eight miles after breakfast. His days are full of activity, and it is said that after having bee very bald be is now growing a new hearl of hair. Dr VoronolT has now asked Mr Evelyn-Lairdet to go to Paris to appear before a congress of French doctors, to whom the details of his case will lie described.

Sarah Harriss (59), a Russian Jewess, an inmate,of the Brighton Poor Law Institution, took her life on the Jewish Day of Atonement by throwing herself from the balcony uf one of the wards, a distance ol 40 feel. At the inquest it was stated that earlier in the week she had complained unkindly that a child •- cough had kept her awake at night. Dr. Kos> said Monday was the day of Atonement, and he had no doubt the woman’s conscious had been pricked by her uncharitable action towards the child. She had asked for forgiveness. Dr Ross said: —

“1 think it was a constant, uncontrollable remorse that led the woman to take her life. She was the last person i should have expected to destroy herself.” The coroner agreed with the doctor's theory and returned a verdict of suicide while of unsound mind.

“It, is a great pity Unit the fair .-ex do not take to smoking pipes,” said Dr. Greenwood, gving evidence at an inquest held at Marylebone on a single woman of sixty who was addicted to cigarette smoking. The woman, Miss Eleanor Catherine Mealy, kept an apartment house and lodgers stated that when indoors she was seldom seen wthout a cigarette in her mouth. She did not care for expensive brands, and always smoked one of the cheapest varieties made. Miss Mealy was found lying fully clothed on the bed in her room. She was dead and a lntlf-smoked cigarette was found at her side. Dr. Greenwood, who made a post mortem examination, said that Miss Mealy seemed to have eaten a heavy meal shortly before her death, and her heart, weakened by nicotine, was not equal to the strain imposed on it. “Cheap cigarettes,” added the doitor, “are particularly harmful on account of the very large amount of paper used in their manufacture.” A verdict of “death from natural causes was returned.