THE LOATHSOME NAME.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 263, 5 August 1915, Page 7

THE LOATHSOME NAME.

1 . the I’/. Tig*s Dench Division. -*• ! • r.>< r.. T ■ .eng. i 1 natnral-non* r;cf Hampstead. Mr. Gilbert I’rtwo, a London architect, for damages I‘er slander and nssi-.ii.'t, alleging that defendant called him a German in a railway train, ami struck him over the head. 1 Counsel said it was questional/.'.) whether any greutei ii.sult could bo offered to anyone now than to l)o called a German, or woollier any term could more hold a man up to contempt and loathing. Defendant said he now wished to apologise, ami was willing to take judgment for a nominal sum. Judgment for plaintiff, with 40/- damages and costs, TELEPHONIC WONDER. The Petit Journal (Paris) publishes an interview with Dr. Jules Glover, in connection with the telephone, which is about to be communicated to the Academy of Medicine by Professor Arsoeval. Dr. Glover says: "1 have found a way of telephoning which leaves the face free for reading, and hands free for writing without any apparatus for the month or nose even at the side. The voice is particularly pure and clear. The voice is particularly and clear. I am looking after wounded soldiers at Bedujon, ami while auscultating them by means of inichophor.es I succeeded, little by littlto, in discovering the new telephone transmitter by means of microphonia auscultating ol the voice.”