Clippings.

Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume IV, Issue 186, 5 April 1902, Page 1

Clippings.

Dr. Dawbarn, one of the surgeons of the New York City Hospital has been awarded a prize of two Hundred guineas by .the Philadelphia Academy of Surgery for the most notable medical achievement.* of the year. Dr Dawbarn has discoVeredi r a new method of treatingcancerous growths in the bead where they cannot be out out*: The operation consists of cutting OUJ 1 the. external carotid arteries on both sides '* of the neck, thus depriving all the head, except the brain and the eyes, of main supply of blood. Cutting off the blood not only stops the cancerous growths, bur. by continued deprivation'of nutriment causes a gradual but steady lessening of the growth. Several cases have been cured by this daring

operation. Melbourne boasts of an exclusively Chinese newspaper edited by Mr Thomas Chang Luke, whose sympathies are with the refoim movement and;Christian missions. As an indication of the growing popularity of the fool mineral baths, the returns of the Rotorua Sanatorium show that 17,077 tickets each representing a bath, were issued between January sth and March Ist. The income from :th« bath fees—the highest charge was just upon £lO3. Over 26,000 tickets , have been issued during the last three months, representing an incbme of about £6OO The Maori of one hundred years‘-ago . was an educated, .gentleman,..

LauiciHon told (he Conference of. School Committees on Saturday; he neither read nor write, yet he knew the names of birds and plants about him ; he knew bow to snare birds and fyteh fishes ; ' and he had a sort of practical knowledge. When he w*s twenty years of age, he'was better 'educated fhan are most of the boys arid' girls who are urned out of Our colleges 'with" B.A'/ or ‘M.A ’ after their names.’ ,

The following sentence occurred in a paper read before the Hobart Modidal Congress “T;.e frequent; alveolar Structure of diascinaled melanotic sarcom recalls alve-lar io. orations under pigmented moles, whereby epitheiiomata of the servix in ingvonal lytnphatis glands are produced.it is recommended as an admirable test to apply to any man about whose sobriety.-the-e are any doubts, if he reads.it without flipping he may iiiatly.be. termed sober, h (;:' “ I think you will- tuifr,” said the mistress bowaboutareference?" “That’s ali right,. mum,” answered the hired, woman, affably. “ I dike yer looks. Never mpipd a rifevencßl'’ . . ;: it The Eesult. —Hronco ; 3111 : “Yes three cowboys lost their lives here yeat®!* day, in a railroad accident.” Hurricane Gob: “Why?’ “Oh, a handsome lady accidentally lost her ticket, and the threp | galoots all volunteered ter find it-, and

they all found it at once.” .Su'iUi Sir Henry Thompson, a ;pretty, i authority, has been writing op thp atfc pf, pong life. He hsa np-potant ■'raihar the , dation of “ lots of salt.” After going , through a mass ,of evidence, he writes When we are young we can 'eat '&nS ‘ drink anything in any quantity at stay • timS,' the’ passed we must_go slow! If Jive to a good, bpalthy/qld, age. eat aoi eil mn - and. abotfajift thing*. a&t 'rifovtrJ**