NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Otaki Mail, Volume XXVIII, 1 November 1920, Page 4

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

NEW USE FOR CHAMPAGNE. 5l ! "Whether the prohibition law in the - s I United States prevents a horse from a I drinking a bucketful of champagne be- c lore entering a horse show, was a ques- a 1 tion asked at Los Angeles recently of ( -j i John P. Carter, collector of internal g . revenue for Southern California. n The question came from Hiss Maud a Banks, owner of Confidence, a three- c gaiter valued at £2OOO, which she had • entered at the horse show to be. held at j Santa Barbara. It has been Miss ' .Banks' custom, it is said, to permit ) Confidence to drink a gallon of chainl pague before competing, in order to i make him step higher and more lively When Mr Carter answered such a procedure would be within the law if the horse would sigu an affidavit that g the champagne would be used for i , j medicinal purposes, Miss Banks was j said to have decided to show Couli- j deuce without thp preliminary drink. i THE LATEST JAG. ; j I .

J Why brew- your own? Do it with j electricity—it's safer—and there's no j headache to follow. I A San Francisco physician has succeeded in dividing electric vibrations in such manner us to produce the effect of alcohol upon the human body. He demonstrated to his friends the mechanism which produces the alcoholic waves. They sallied forth from j his office in various degrees of intoxi- , cation and without the tell-tale breath I hut follows Ihe liberal use of the Demon Run). Now his offices will be the Mecca of j thirsty San Francisco, says the "Bulletin." j GERM-PROOF MAN. There lives at Sompling, Sessex. a| modest man named William Ami, who. j ■ to prove his belief in being able to jj cure himself with natural foods, hast allowed himself to be inoculated with I many virulent germs, including even } anthrax. * .Mr Ami lias suffered no harm as a J result of the inoculation (says the', r "Weekly .Dispatch"). Uis only medi- j cine has been fresh uncooked fruit and j| vegetables. I i Disease, he says, is not au accident J ' that cannot be avoided. It is a cura- J live process. The germ which was j though to be our bitter enemy is really a friend. It enters our bodies to feed on waste products. If all the food we ate were only what the body- really needed—uncooked fruit and vege- ! tables—there would be no waste products and no germs. , Among the cures that are claimed are cases of cancer, epilepsy, and other • 'incurable" diseases. Even death will lie delayed and painless if this diet is followed, says Mr Aird. It solves the servant pro- * Idem, for there is no washing up and '* 1 ■ r no cooking. f , I JUST LIKE THAT! i 'Enr-ry was an absent-minded little ■ man. and this was bis first meeting with the circular saw. i The foreman, with a lew well-chosen • and richly-flavoured words, informed ■ him to work the contrivance. 'Faery was vastly interested in the ■ shining, whizziHJ? blade: and. curiosity i overcoming discretion, he found him- • Ssclf with one linger lc.-s. ■ „ "Hallo, ray man, what's up."' asked the foreman, coming round again. i 'Encry described the accident. "How did you manage it?" "Sure, and I don't know! I just . touched the blamed thing like this ; By George, there goes another one! "