GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 146, 7 November 1912, Page 6

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

AMERICAN NEGRESS' CRIMES. (From Australian papers). A negress, Clementine Boynobet, of Lafayette, Louisiana, who in a period of > nine months murdered no fewer than 29 negroes while they slept, was last week convicted pf her crimes and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Such was the tsrror created by this woman's butchery of her victims that for months the negroes in the districts in which the murderess moved were afraid to go to sleep at night. ANTI-RITUAL OUTBREAK. An exciting incident occurred last week during a consecration ceremony, at which was present Pi'incess Marie of SchleswigHolstein. The Suffragan Bishop of Willesden had just taken his seat at the altai", when three men rushed down the aisles to the sanctuary, and began addressing the Bishop. 'The interrupters, who were discovered to bo followers of the late Mr. Kensit, the famous antiritualist, were promptly ejected by the choristers, assisted by others. WINGED BICYCLES. An aerial exhibition now being field in Paris includes some remarkable inventions, amongst which are winged bicycles; The machines are provided with wings like those of the butterfly, and the rid'er propels them by means of pedals. CHINESE OVERSEAS. 1 In a leading article in its South American supplement, the Times mentions that between 1870 and 1010, 10,000,000 Chinese found new homes overseas. "The AngloSaxon race," proceeds the article, ''impelled by sure instincts of self-preserva-tion and by recognition of the economic yellow peril, has closed its doors to this class of immigration, which was consequently being diverted on a rapidly in- , creasing scale to the Latin Republics and' the undeveloped territories of South : America. The experience of Guiana lias . ■ demonstrated the superiority of Chinese ' ! tropical colonisation in piacts where - whites become derelicts and' negroes a - burden." i MODERN BRIGHAM YOUNG. i The police at Philadelphia (U.S.) have : 3 arrested a man who has been committing- ■ 3 bigamy on a wholesale scale. It is re- '' ported that this man has no fewer than ; i ten wives and four affinities. The cliil'd- ' e ren representing the issue of these mar- , e riages were numerous enough to fill the I courtroom in which their father made a his appearance. The prisoner, who- is .- 39 years of age, was only 18 when he started his polygamous career. i MENTAL. EXPERT'S'WARNING. Sir James Crichton-Browne. an' author- ; - ity on brain diseases, has read a paper e on "brain rest." He maintains that • e ] children of ages from 4 to 17 should have ; 1J 12 hours' sleep in the 24, persons bee I tween 17 and 21 should sleep for 9*4 1 r hours, between 21 and 27 for 9 hours, : - | and above that age for 8 hours. The ' i) sleep of the rising generation, he dei I clared, was being detrimentally disturb- - j ed, and a rich crop of neurasthenia would r 1 be' the result. t SUTRO ON DULNESS. , Mr. Alfred Sutro, the well-known : 1 author of plays, discussing stage fash- j - ions, says that the most deadly sin of ; the playwright, is d'ui'ness. Clergymen, ' [ he adds, are the only persons who have : i a right to be .Mr, with 1 statesmen as a ; l good second, and leader-writers third, i "IT Shakespeare were alive to-day," re- > marks Mr; Sutro, "lie would still give us , his characters, but Desdemona would ' „i play hockey, besides taking her univers sity degree, and Ophelia would indirce t Hamlet's mother to send him for a- retst ■ cure."'