NEWS AND NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 2526, 6 January 1923, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

An old bird of 84 yonrs, who claims to have swallowed sufficient whisky to drown ten Scotchmen and smoked enough cigars to put up a decent smoke screen for the whole British navy, maintains that he is “the one real juvenile in Sydney’s ancient brigade,” without a pain, ailment, crutch, or complaint. And the panacea is just ordinary kerosene. Here is what he says about it: “I started on it 30 years ago, with a tablespoon nightly, increasing the dose as my system became inui'ed. To date I have consumed 31 cases, or 24S gallons. It has rid nie of all forms of rheumatism, ‘sciatica, colds and a skin disease of 40 years standing. The virtues of simple remedies are naturally suppressed by leg amputators, body carvers, ding purveyors and nostrum merchants. The only thing that annoys me is'that I spent £7OO on* doctors and chemists before a simple Pennsylvania miner opened my eyes to Nature’s panacea.” Writing in the “Weekly Despatch,” Dame Nellie Melba says: ‘lf anybody tells me Kitchener had no heart I have an answer ready.” Giving an authorised versio of an incident at Government House, Melbourne, wiien Lord Kitchener attended the Governor-General’s dinner, she states that the Governor- : General, the State Governor, and Lord Kitchener pretended to kneel before her. When she said she would not sing, Lord Kitchener replied : “Madame, I have been in exile for eight years. Sing just a verse of ‘Home Sweet Home.’ ” She complied and Lord Kitchener, with tears rolling down his cheeks, kissed her hand.