GENERAL NEWS.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 10 May 1913, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

ROUGH ON RATS

The romance of a fortune that was made out of revenge is called by the death of M/"E. S. Welles, the inventor .of a world-famous rat poison. When Mr Welles and the>jtnan with whom he then worked were living in poverty, and had only a single loaf of bread between them and starvation, this last inorsel of food was eaten by rats. Welles swore vengeance, the Express relates, and set about discovering a means to rid the world of rats. After numerous experiments he began the manufacture of "Rough on Rats," Jn an oldj'bara in Jersey City, and in four years he rose to affluence.

"KEEP STILL!" CRUELTY. "If you-want to reach the brain," observed Sir Jolin Oookburn, speaking at the London Day Training. College recently, "you must do it through the hand, "and if you disregard the use of the eyes and hands in education you are placing the brake on all mental development of the. child. The command bo 'keep still' in a school is the greatest cruelty you can possibly impose on children, for to make children keep still for any length e of time very often produces deformity." He added that very soon there; would be-nothing bat manually, trained teachers in thejschools, and the sooner the educational world realised this the better. HOAXING THE HIBERNIANS.. Only the prompt action of the pol lice prevented a serious riot at the German Athletic Club in Frankfort avenue, Philadelphia, as the- consequence of a hoax played by a German mill-hand named Dietrich on a number of Irish hands (says the Evening Standard). Dietrich sold-the Irishmen packets of "shamrock seeds," and ga.ve then full instructions about planting, watering, etc., guaranteeing that the plants would bloom by St. PatririkVDay. Most, of them bloomed and produced yellow flowers, being reallv mustard plants. The local branch of the Ancient Order of Hibernians took the matter up and marched against, the German Club to wreak vengeance, but the police in»t them at the doors.