MAIL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 6 May 1913, Page I

MAIL NEWS.

100 GIRLS ESCAi'I

A telegram from e>e>u.\-> ib>aiK-<'j reports that » fire pa.iti.t.l.' the Normal School for Younj; Girls. About a hundred of the trifle had to escape from th« burning; buihkuy; in night attire. LIVE WIRE TRAGEDY. A remarkable tragedy was caused at St. J union, near Limoges, France, by an electric current. A farmer named Jean Descubo was loading a cart with straw whan liis pitchfork came into contact with a live wire. Tho man was killed instantly, and the straw- cart, and '>» ru woro sct an r ' re and destroyed.

DYSEXTRY CURE BY INJECTION

A new euro for dysentry consisting of a preparation, of an alkaloid known ;\fl emetine was described recently at the Academy of Medicine by Professor Chauffard, says Kxeelsioir, Parks. Professor Chauffard said be made six injection.* in four <Lay 8 in a desperate case, with tho result that the fever abated, and after s om© weeks a complete cure was effected. THE RAREST THING IS COURAGE.

fn handing over tho Governorship of New Jersey to his successor, Mr James Fielder, Mr Woodrow Wilson, tho President-elect, took occasion to praise the honesty and! courage of the new Governor. "The rarest thing in public life," he said, "is courage. The man who ha.s courage is marked for distinction; the man who ha s not got it is marked for extinction, and deserves submersion."

SAVINGS COMPULSORY. Grafting ftexh from a dying, man to tho body of a living person has been successfully carried out in a MicV. ' i« hospital. Three months ago Jacob KuTem, an employee of (the Kalamazoo Paper Company, was caught m a paper making machine and the flesh from his right shoulder torn away. Afterwards a victim of a railroad accident wag brought in a dying condition to the hospital, and 300 square inches of flesh was taken from his legs and grafted to the shoulder of Kulem, says the San Francisco Call. He is now out of the hospital and entirely restored.

GOLF AS AuN OLYMPIC GAME. Golf will appear for the first time in the Olympic games programme at Berltin in" 1916. The .schedule of events just drawn up by the German Managerial Committee s ta/tes that the committee has decided to include golf, after rejecting cricket. The committee has also determined, as a special committee to the great German gymnastic organisations, to give gymnasium experts a special place in the programme for an exhibition of this German speciality. The teams will ttls« ne.t in the eomp-s? •*?on gymMs'i rom other count, qi *

Ita-1 aL FIRE IN LONDON. Exciting scene s were witnessed at a fire which occurred in Cable Street, East London, involving the loss of the life of a young woman aid of a little girl, and injuries to a number of other persons." four, of whom a.re in a critical condition in the hospital. There were fourteen persona altogether in the building the ground floor of which was occupied by a shoemaker named Hamiir. his wife, and eight children. The most serious injuries were to persons who either jumped or foil, out of the windows, and several were rescued amid scenes of jrreat excitement by a policeman and by firemen. The building was entirely gutted.