RAILWAY KING'S FORTUNE.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 6, Issue 239, 5 January 1917, Page 2 (Supplement)

RAILWAY KING'S FORTUNE.

Mr. James J. Hill, who began life as son of a Canadian farmer, and died the greatest railway magnate America has ever seen, left an estate, according to the inventory filed recently at St. Paul, Minnesota, exceeding in value £20,000.000. The principal items named fi{ the inventory aggregate over £10,000,000 worth of stocks and bonds. Mr. Hill's largest holding in securities was in bank stocks, which made up £5,000,000 of his total wealth. Among other huge blocks of stock were Great Northern Railway Preferred £1,000.000 and Northern Pacific Railway £200,000. His art collection is valued at £200,000. There are ten heirg to the estate. The widow will receive about £6,600,000 and each child about £l.-500,000. The inheritance t:ix is about £300.000. SIR V. HORSLEYS SKULL. TO BE PRESERVED BY A LONDON .MEDICAL SOCIETY. Sir Victor Horsley, who died on July 16, from heat stroke while serving .is a consultant with the forces in Mesopotamia, left instructions in his will for the disposal of his skull and brain. He expressed the desire that within ? t hours of his death a post-mortem on his body should be made by the pathologist of the National Hospital for tlu Paralysed and Epileptic, Queen Square, and that his brain and skull should bo given to and pre.-~em.-d by the Neurological Society' of London and the remainder of his body should be given to the Museum of I nivers'ty College for the prepaartion of such specimens as the curator may think fit. The pathologist who made the post-mortem was to bo paid ten guineas. Sir Victor left property of the value of £:r>.">!M, and bequeathed it to his wife for Tile, with remainder to his children as she may appoint. WHY FISH TUMBLE UPWARDS. THE I.AW OF GRAVITY REVERSED. The deep sea fish are subject to a pressure internally, by gases, and externally of over two tons to a square inch, and under this pressure they are quite solid. When these fish are brought to the surface in nets their bodies become puffy, their bones loose, and tlTeir eyes start out of their heads; very often tlicv burst. Thi> is because the pressure is released. When these fish of ,the deep sea chase the'r prey or rise for some reason high abov the ocean bed, the gases of their swimming bladders expand, and they become light. The fish whose muscles are not strong enough to take it- down deeper into the ocean expands mow and more until it_ rises upwards ti the surface and is Killed, so that it really, ''tumbles upwards.*