GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXIII, Issue 9067, 6 February 1908, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

Amputating a leg at the fetlock joint, Prof. Udriski, of the veterinary school at Bucharest, has replaced the lost portion, with a leather artificial leg that enables the an i mal to walk about and take exercise. A despatch from Kansas City, Missouri, states that no fewer than 150 theatrical people have been arrested there charged with violation of the State Sunday law. Fifty others are being proceeded against by summons. Three hundred masked night-riders visited Hopkinsville, Kentucky, at 2 o’clock|in the morning, set fire to three tobacco warehouses, entailing a loss of 250,000 dollars, and beat a buyer of the Imperial Tobacco Company until blood flowed in streams from his body. The night-riders made a stay of half an hour in the town, and left amid a volley of shots. A Mansfield boy, who fell down and injured himself, died at the hospital, presumably from a broken rib. However, a post mortem examination revealed the strange fact that a needle two and a half inches long was embedded in the pericardiac artery, and the point had made a wound in the apex of the heart. A motoring fatality of a particularly distressing character occurred at Hastings-ou-Hudson. A young couple were motoring to the residence of a clergyman in order to be married when the car, owing to a defect in the steering apparatus, ran to the side of the road and was completely wrecked. The brideelect was so terribly injured that she died almost immediately, and her lover was also badly hurt. Mrs Sarah Lowe, aged 30, a petite brunette, of Charlton, Massachusetts, sued the manufacturer of a bath-tub for £SOOO, alleging that the tub had scratched her limb and caused blood poisoning. Her lawyer wanted the jury to accept her w*rd that her knee was swollen. The jurymen shook their heads, whereupon the lawyer offered to exhibit the knee. Mrs Lowe blushed, _advanced towards the jury box, raised her skirts, and lowered her stocking. But the ungallant jury returned a verdict in favour of the defendant. A Pennsylvania man has devised a machine to date hen’s eggs, so that the purchaser may ascertain their age at a glance. His scheme is to Provide a nest to which is attached a rubber chute, which conveys the egg to the dating appliance. The chute is arranged with rubber stops to lessen the speed of the egg as it rolls merrily on its way. The dating attachment is operated by clockwork, and one winding will keep it running a year. As the egg reaches the dater it is caught in a crutch and held in place while the stamp is applied. The egg then runs into a basket. * There are no onions in Burmuda for the visitors; they are all exported. No tobacco is grown in Egypt; the Khedive has .forbidden its cultivation. There are no olive trees on the Mount of Olives; the Turks and and tourists have destroyed them. The French do not eat frogs ; the Parisian restaurants may be searched for days without finding a single frog. Irish whisky ik drunk in Scotland and Scotch whisky in Dublin. The Holland cheese is seldom seen at The Hague, and Neufchatel cheese is made in New York. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Egypt is a citizen of the State of Florida, and tne head of the'Anti-Armenian party in the Turkish Empire is an Armenian.