GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8802, 2 May 1907, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Mr George Moon, of Derby, Connecticut, rdvertised for a wife, and received so many applications that he had to post a nofcics on his door, “No more wives wanted.” He says it will be many weeks before he can announce his final choice.

A cycle with only one wheel ha? been invented by Mr Henry Tolcher, of Pretoria, an employee of. the Central South African .Railways, who claims that the machine will cover between thirty and forty miles an hour on level ground. The suspension of publication by the four daily papers at Butte, Montana. has seriously affected all the business of the town. .No daily papers have been published for more than a week owing to the strike of the printers, and the business of the merchants who advertised in the papers has fallen 60 per cent. A now departure in the timber trade was the arrival at Sydney last week of a cargo of pine, oak, and basswood from Siberia by the Norwegian steamer Christian Michelsen. The vessel loaded 2.207,000 ft. Of the consignment, 60,000 ft are for Sydney, the balance being for Melbourne. The Christian. Michelsen, which is a new steamer of 2293 tons, came from Siberia via Japan.

A young woman arrived at Upper Sandusky, Ohio, purchased the leading hotel for cash, ejected all the guests and staff, and closed up tho building. Sho then left the town without any explanation of her conduct.

The New York Evening Mail states that the Countess de Castellane (Miss Gould), has received from Mr Edward Kelly, her lawyer, a bill for £35,000 for his services in securing her divorce. Mr George Gould, the Countess’ brother, declares that the bill shall not be paid, as it isjoutrageously high, and has demanded that it should be rc-duced.

A pretty girl of seventeen was recently attacked in the streets of Davos by a butcher’s dog, which bit her severely in the face. The girl, through her father, brought an action for damages against the owner of the dog, and the court awarded her £l6O, whereon the butcher appealed. The case was tried by the Swiss Federal Tribuna 1 , and the Judges increased the damage to £2lO, holding that the girl deserved that sum for the “ diminution of her beauty.”

Tho twenty-year-old feud between the Boggs and Moggards families in the Cumberland valley broke out afresh to day (says a New York message of March 14), when represeatati cs of the Boggs family attacked the Moggards and fatally wounded two of them. A Boggs was killed by way of retaliation. The fluid was renewed in consequence of a quarrel over an ilbcit whisky still. The authorities have not dared to make any arrests. Mr Tree, at the dinner of the Stage Society, pointing out that women are taking up the work of men, and that girls will be boys, gave an instance that came within his own ken, On the eighth birthday of his “youngest suffragist,” he found her dressed in knickerbockers, “I said, ‘What a disgraceful state ! How did you get those knickerbockers ?’ She replied, ‘ I bought them of a boy for Is 6d. This is my eighth birthday and I have made up my mind to do one thing; You tell me I should make good resolutions on my birthday -1 am no longer a girl, but a boy. I will be a boy from to day, All the good people that have ever lived have been men. ‘ Look at King David, and look at you.’ I said I would rather not look at King David. And she said, * All the wicked people who have ever lived have been women. Look at Eve, I don’t Want to go about the world tempting men with apples!’ ” The London Times Tangier correspondent telegraphs: —There was considerable alarm among the Moroccan troops posted outside the town last night. It appears that a calf escaped from some farm and approached the outposts, who mistook it for the united forces of the Pretender and Raisuli, and opened fire. The alarm spread, and cavalry were hurried to the spot. After a prolonged fusillade the calf was discovered uninjured, but the troops are reported this morning to bo suffering from nervous shock. The Rev. J. B. Tittle, his father, wife, and baby, were blown to pieces by dynamite on March 2, while dining in their home at Carmi, Illinois. Two other children of the family were fatally injured, Mr Tittle, who was a Baptist minister, had taken a packet cf dynamite into his house, intending to use it next day for blowing up tree stumps. A large hole underneath the spot where the sitting-room stove stood indica'ci that tho dynamite must have been placed clom to it. Professor Behring, speaking on the subject of tuberculosis at the meeting of ho Agricultural Union held at B::lin on March 14tb, attacked M. 1 asteur’s system of purifying milk. He said Pasteur had sought to replace the natural milk by an artificial product. The professor similarly condemned the sterilisation of milk and the boiling of water to render them innocuous. He said boiled milk was not a suitable food for infants, and the boiling of water killed the elements therein intended by nature to make bone and sinew. is really necessary is pure water and healthy cows. At a church parade in Queensolin fort (Victoria) an amusing, though quite unintentional, conflict of authority was made apparent to the large attendance. The sermon was about to be preached. Chaplain Smith Mscßain rose to deliver his text. Colonel Hall, the senior officer present, anxious that the soldiery should listen in conditions of comfort, rose at the same time. “Stand ye steadfast!” exhorted the chaplain, quoting, cf course, from the Bible. The words were barely uttered when Colonel Hall loudly gave the command, “The troops will sit!” They sat.