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Taranaki Daily News, Volume L, Issue 3120, 20 January 1908, Page 4

SOKE FAMOUS "GRAVE' MYSTERIES. Sham funerals and lead-filled cutliiin have figured before to-day in celebrated cases. Tltvrt' was, for instance, the action brought by one James Annesley in the Irish Courts, to long ago an the year 1743, in which the claimant successfully proved his right to the threefold peerage of Anglesey, Valencia, and Altham. lie had, it transpired, been kidnapped as a youth by a nicked uncle, tvho hud caused him to be sold into slavery iu the American plantations, his "death" and "burial" being subsequently arranged after the manner indicated in |to m the suspicions of the tenantry on the estates. When, again, the prince of impostor*, I'rovis Smyth, put forward, in 1853, his impudent claim to the lands and title ik- took the precaution to forge a tomljuf (he deceased baronet, Sir Hugh Smith, stone, and would have smuggled an empty coffin bearing a lying inscription into the family vault, hut that the cemetery authorities were a bit too wide awake for him. The reverse of this process is where a grave is violated and rilled, in order to make it appear that a real burial was actually a sham one. This took place in connection with a deep-laid scheme tj defraud the next-of-kin of A. T. Stewart, the millionaire New York "drygoods king," who died in 1876. The plot was unsuccessful, although apparently the last has not. yet lieen heard of it. Curiously enough, a few years later a precisely similar outrage, committed for a like object, was perpetrated in connection with the funeral of the Earl of Crawford and Balcarree. The massive vault was broken into, and the body removed and reinterred elsewhere. Discovery of the crime followed hard upon iU perpetration, but who originated it remains a mystery to this day. The only person brought to justice was a rat-catcher named Soutar, an illiterate l»onr, who could not by any conceivable possibility have been alone, or even principally, to blame in the matter.

AN EXTRAORDINARY CORE FOR RHEUMATISM. '

A remarkable story corned from Australia. There is a place there called Twofold Bay, which is a whaling station and also a seaside resort. A man who had dined not wisely but too well, and had partaken of the cup which cheers and inebriates, was walking with a couple of friends on the shore. This man was staying at an hotel at Eden, a town on Twofold Bay, in order to take their cure for severe rheumatism. But while he was oat he found a cure of his own, immensely more efficacious than mustard packs and massage, for the three friends espied a dead whale which had been cut open. The rheumatic gentleman made a tee-line for it, and in a few minutes had plunged right into the mass of decomposing blubber. Appalled at the sight his friends endeavoured to rescue him, but were driven off by the heat and smell, and eventually had to leave their companion to his own devices. For two hours he remained where he was, and then came out perfectly sober, the rheumatism from which he had*been a chronic sufferer entirely gone! The hotel at Eden is now full of rheumatic patients waiting for whales. As soon as one is taken the patients are rowed out to it, the whalers dig for each a sort of narrow grave in the blubber, and in this couch the patients lie for two hoars.

Violent cures are not by any means unknown, although some of them might lx- considered worse than the disease. A deaf and dumb man was wandering through the fair which was held annually in the market-place of his native town, and, being interested in boxing and a bit of a bruiser himself, he turned into a boxing-booth. When the two professionals bad given their exhibition any spectator was invited to step into the ring and put on the glove-. The deaf and dumb man. not by any means for the tir-t time in his life, accepted the invitation, and greatly surprised the professionals by iiis prowess anil skill. Perhaps it was this which caused the professional boxer to give him an exceptionally punishing Tllow under the jaw. which not only knocked him out. but rendered him insensible, for his head came into violent contact with the floor, •ludge of the spectators' surprise when the deaf and dumb man sat up presently and said. "Where am [?'' Ever afterwards he \va- aide Itotli to hear and to r-peak. Some time ago a fin- broke out in a large county lunatic asylum in the middle of the night. The inmates were rou-ed from their >leep. and though no lives were lost many of them were saved "by Hie skin of their teeth.' One would have thought that such a fright »a- i-Hllicicnt to turn sine people mad. But it had the opposite effect in this case, for no fewer than four of the inmates who had had extremely narrow escapes had their rr.i-nii restored in co.i•pience of their fright, and they "ere | able to be discharged from the asylum.

MILK FEVER IN DAIRY COWS. Copy of letter from Wanganni Chronicle, 22nd December, 1904:—"Sir,—Aa it may prove useful to other diiry farmera I send you the following:—On the 10th inst. one of my beat cows calved, her third calf. On the morning of tne 13th she gave me a three-gallon bucket of milk, and looked tip-top. At 3 o'clock that evening, coining home from the paddock I noticed ser body tckel up and her hindquarters stiff. 1 tried to milk her, but the milk was gone. As the above were indications of milk fever, I gave her a dose of Sykes's Drench, ud remembering that oxygen pumped into the udder was a remedy, I got a bicycle pump and with the part that fits in the rublirr tvre of the bike added, I pumped the four quarters of the udder full of air. We had to support her in the Inil while doing this. When we left !n r <.nt slip daggered a few yards and '.•!! 'l.Kvn Aiiout twenty minutes afIprwards. limvrpr, to my surprise she

i -VI. on her >'■ ' i'_':iin. and much belter. Bv 0 o'clock thai night she was resting I comfnrtablv. N*c\t morning at 4.30 j w.w "n anrt feeding. Thit evening T jot I51h« of milk from her. and 'lie is n»w back to her usual flow of milk, and as well as she ever was. I have now had ei?titPen years' d'iry ifanninj. and have seen cows die, and en us recover in time, lint in this in--1 Stan e the otiick recovery ns cimnlv ! m*rvellon«.—l am, etc.. .T. W. McLarin. Waverley. December 18. I!XM." Use onlv Svkes's Drench, because it h the best. Price Is 6d packet, or 10b