GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 163, 27 November 1912, Page 7

GENERAL CABLE NEWS.

(From Australian Papers)

PRESENTATION BATTLESHIPS. The English newspapers suggest that Ceylon ought to follow the lead of the Federated Malay States in offering to present a battleship to the Mother Country.

LONDON CHORUS GIRLS. The chorus girls at those theatres that will stage pantomimes at Christmas threatened that they will come out on strike unless they received at least £2 a week. The managers found themselves in the position of being obliged to yield.

ALTERED CHEQUES. English hanks are bringing into practice an innovation to prevent dishonesty. Owing to a gang of swindlers stealing letters with cheques in them, and then altering the amount and presenting them for collection, cheques in future will not he recognised unless the full signature of the drawer is appended to any alteration, and then only when presented by the drawer or his known agent.

" LAUGHABLE AND SAD." Canon Hannay, speaking at Dublin, expressed a profound and subtle contempt for' politics, "because they were most laughable and also very sad." The people were sick of politics, he declared, and politicians were themselves disgusted with the tyrannous working of the party machine, which crushed the spirits and hearts of men who entered the game of politics.

DISRAELI'S LIFE. A second .volume of "Disraeli's Life" has 'been published. The writer says that .the., nearest parallel to Beaconsfield's attacks on Peel was Cicero's outpouring of the hatred of years upon the head of his enemy. The book discloses that Disraeli had many faults, but that his mind was an overflowing fount of ideas.. The Times considers that posterity will regard him greater as a political thinker and gladiator in the Parliamentary arena than as a constructive statesman.

TRIPS TO THE STARS. ■At an astronomers' dinner in London it was stated that the great map of the sky was Hearing completion, and the problem of whether or not there was any limit to the stellar universe might soon he solved. It was stated that trips to the stars were possibilities of the future..

"DQN'T GET MARRIED. Mr, Bernard Shaw considers that the moral to'be. drawn from the report of the English Divorce Commission is, "Don,'t get married." Mr. John Galsworthy,thinks, that the alarm which the report has aTonsed in church circles is unnecessary.'' The report seems to him to be based on a cynical view of human nature.! ;

CONSIJMPTIOX AND APPENDICITIS.

I>r. Albert Abrams, of San Francisco, claims to have discovered a cure both for tubere'uTosis in its early stages and for appendicitis. He asserts that the fuiiction of tlro-'spleen is to regulate the number of white corpuscles. To increase these f orpuscles concussion at the eleventh ; dorsal vertebra is necessary, while to reduce 'them concussion is applied at the second lumbar vertebra. He explains tfh'a't concussion at the eleventh dorsal'vertebra is capable of stimulating the nerve controlling the movement of the intcstinesr'by 'straightening which the intestine is easily cleared, and the f oft -'art -'operation for appendicitis thus avoided.

PATENT MEDICINES. In giving'evidence- Trcfdre the Parliamentary .Committee that is-investigating the sale of patent medicines, Mr. Eatcliffe, manufacturer of Mother Siegcl's Syrup.' stated that advertising expenses had inerditsed-' enormously, and that £IOOO did not'go'so-far now as it did ten years; : ago. .• He declined to disclose 'the. ingredients of- which his medicine, was composed, nor would he say what they' cost. ' These matters were trade secrets, and were 'not revealed to even the shrfr&h'oMers of his company.