GENERAL CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 7, 8 January 1914, Page 7

GENERAL CABLES.

AN ARTFUL WOMAN. [By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] Vienna, January 7. A woman miracle-monger was sentenced to ten months imprisonment at Laibach. Crowds of pilgrims visit- j ed the woman in a priest’s house and : witnessed l&r sweating blood from Jier I head, hands, feet and side. She also practised the illusion in a Capuchin , monastery at Fiume and elsewhere. She kept part of the pilgrims’ donations, and the rest went to the monastery. I THE TEACHING PROFESSION. London, January 7. j The Headmasters’ Association is i conferring at the Guildshall. Sir John 1 MacClure, M.A., L.L.D., stated that the profession is attracting a lesser number of young men and women, j They are seeking employment where ! the remuneration is higher and the j prospects are better. MARGARINE CONVICTIONS. London, January 7. Shopkeepers at Croydon were fined £-30, with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, for selling margarine as butter. Fines had been imposed on them for this offence on several previous occasions. Another shopkeeper was fined for a similar offence. THE BETTER FIGHTERS. Times— Sydney Sun Special Cables. Rome, January 6. During the campaign in Tripoli an Italian surgeon, Dr. Consiglio, kept under his observation 225 soldiers who i are ex-convicts. He discovered that j they are faint-hearted in battle, and that the tittest soldier in modern campaigns is the man who is a good citizen in time of peace. AN AVIATOR AND A DUEL. Cairo, January 7. 1 As an outcome of Vedriues’ (the aviator) refusal of Honks’ demand of a duel, on the ground that the latter had disgraced France, M. Quinton, President of the French Aerial j League, telegraphed to Vedriues to fight the duel or return. Vedriues replied; l “Will fight .you when T Return.” BODIES WASHED ASHOREt

New York, January 6

The bodies which were washed ashore on,the Eastern searhoard after the re*» cent storm sinelude those of Jessie McCann, whose disappearance caused, a sensation and was attributed to kidnappers, and of Jewel, an aviator, who was lost in October during an overwater flight. DUBLIN CASTLE FIRED. - London,—January -7. A bullet which was fired outside [he gate of Dublin Castle last night perforated the sentry box find smashed the window of an office immediately under the room occupied by Air A. Bin-ell, Chief Secretary for Ireland. The sentries declared ' that they had not heard a shot, and they suggest that it was fired from an air-rifle.