GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 129, 18 October 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(Australian Xews Survice). I • REVOLUTIONARY FASHIONS. ' PARISIAN WINTER STYLES. Paris, October 5. Robespierre fashions for the winter are now .all the rage. Every fashionable showroom is displaying models o£ dresses which were in vogue at the time of the French Revolution. "Robespierre" blouses, overcoats and collars are being worn everywhere in fashionable quarters. Even men's clothing lias been affected by the craze. Waistcoats are cut low, and are of brilliant colors, making the wearers look like the dandies of the eighteenth century. (Robespierre was one of the leaders oi the French Revolution, and was noted for the carefulness of his dress, which never varied. He wore a bright blue coat, white waistcoat, short yellow breeches, white stockings and shoes with silver buckles).

AUSTRALIAN CRICKETERS. • MATCH AGAINST BRITISH COLUMBIA. Vancouver, October 5. The Australian cricketers will play a British Columbia eleven on October 20, 28 and 2!). They are expected to arrive in Victoria (8.C.) on the morning of October 26. FROZEN LIVE ANIMALS. A RUSSIAN'S EXPERIMENT. St. Petersburg, October 5. A Moscow newspaper has published an article by Professor Kalin, describing experiments carried out by Professor Bach-, metieff, formerly of Sofia, and now of I Moscow University. I The results of the experiments have I proved that animals may be frozen alive ! and resuscitated without being harmied vitally. The process is called anabiosis.

Professor BachmetielT showed that by slow, careful wanning, frozen butter- | flies could be restored to life, and that j cold-blooded 'insects would live again.; if their body temperature did not fall below minus".lo. degrees centrigrade. Experiments with mammals" were nearly all successful, and a refrigerated bat was kept inanimate for long time andtheji completely restored : to vigor. i JAPANESE GIRL STOLEN." ABDUCTORS ARRESTED. ' j Vancouver, October 5. Tlenry Young, a - former law student, and B. Spigara, an interpreter, have been imprisoned at Seattle" without being allowed bail, on a chargp of abducting liana Sato, a Japanese, girl,, twenty years old, for immoral purposes, j Shotaro Washio and Tessataro Saito (have been arrested ;;on. .'a similat 'charge.

The prosecution alleges that- Young, who posed as a Government official, and. the three Japanese, compelled' the girl to 'go to San Franci'sCo, where Saito was' to have claimed her as 'his bride. It is alleged that Saito Was .tp.f.ay SOf). for her. i . - . r -

The arrests were made by immigration officials.

. AVIATOR'S TERRIBLE" : FALL. EVERY BONE BROKEN. ' ' New.^ork,- October 5. • An aviator, Walsh,- wh&:"was- Dying at a height of two -thousand feet at Trenton, New Jersey, fell whilst .attempting to make a spiral descent Every bone in his body was broken'. '• i 1

Walsh'was' a pupil of CH<?n: Curtiss, and learned to fly at the Gurtiss School, San Diego. He has left .a widow arid two children. . ' BOY MURDERS HIS .MOTHER; "YOU WON'T BEAT ME.-AGAIN." San Francisco, October 5. John Whitaker, ,12'years.ojd, murdered his mother yesterday at Poeatello, Indiana. . • I . The boy had been 'asked' to help, to do the family washing,-ah'd' when lie refused iiis mother thrashed'him. iiV"You won't do' that again to nie," snijj the bov, aii(\ picking up his father's shot-gun lie fired bof.h barrels point-blank in his mother's face, killing her instantly.;'"" Whitakertlien'rodfe iiwiy,' carrying the gun with him. A sheriff's posse is in pursuit. . .' .-" \i

Demand for cats. Cats have become important articles of commerce, at Fort' George", on the line of the Cahadiaii'Mji-and' Tru'iik Pacific Railway. In British-Columbia at the present tinie'any"wide«ake,:ca;t>iS worth about £l, regardless r qf \tf .appearance and pedigree. Tlie rpason for the boom in,cats is that'the - 'line of'iohst'ruetion is .dotted with contractors' food caches,' and these are -infested - ..with -swarms of bush rata, : }iave destroyed v-ast quantities of f00d,.. The contractors are looking everywhere for'cats.' and the supply is far b(j.ow the'd-smali'd;■

. A MUNICIPAL" EHTfOATiCHBE'. ■ ' Mr. A. E. Chapman-,-municipal flyeateher, who ha,s- been; ejupjoyed to make Badlands (Cal.) ; a town,, has-filed a report, showing that' between 'Se'ptenibei - 11 and SeptotobW :; 3o' he'killed approximately 3,750,000' flies,Frbm .100 traps, distributed ..throughjithq business section of Redlands, Mr. Chapman emptied SO gallons of .tiies. iV ..Hp,,estimates that 75,01)0 Hies went to "make'a'gallon.

FASHIONABLE WO.\{EN . BERATED. The ladies of Granville; : a l fashionable seaside resort, in 'the North of ■France, are feeling greatly outraged; at the berating which they have received from Father Gaffire, a preajjher jinich noted for his sensational sermons.' ''You have profaned the work of God, with the diabolical help of the'di'essniaker," exclaimed the priest: ''You :have darqd to change .the bodily formation, giveij.. you i»y ihe Creator, and you 'makft.yourselves look ridiculous by dressing like Sultanas. Any eccentricity scenes to you to be natural, and makes'you : liappy". • Your hats are a. defiance of every rule of sense, and your skirts seem to have been cut by thu iivil One for the- purpose of encompassing your own destruction. I. I grieve to think that such women have husbands; I pity the poor' fellows."

CRAWLING AFTER MEALS. Crawling on all fours after meals is the latest treatment for "digestive ailments recommended" bv a Trench specialist. He explains that the stooping posi- . tion prevents the stagnation of food in the stomach. A POTSONTNG CASE. Margaret St. Clair, an American actress has heen arrested on a charge, of attempting to murder Mrs. Rose Dickes by poisoning her. The allegation is that Miss St. Clair put arsenic and carbolic acid in the medicine of Mrs. Dickes, who is the wife of a piano player at the theatre where 'Miss St. Clair appears. Miss St. Clair denies the allegation, and states that she can prove that she was in Canada at the time of the alleged crime. Mr. Dickes and Miss St. Clair are reported to hare been firm friends for some' time, „ . .. . .