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Waikato Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 2516, 25 August 1888, Page 1 (Supplement)

' A Warsaw engineer has invented a gun firing 62 shots a minute. An Austrian paper recently asserted that 100,000 men could be thrown upon almost any point of the English coast, and, inarching direct upon London, could ' seize the Tower, the Bank of England, 1 and the Lord Mayor before the sentries ' in front of the Horse Guards could give ' a note of warning to the military authorities. 1 A dramatic version of Mr Haggard's ' " She" lus betn performed in London. 1 The play was performed almost in private, £3 only being taken at the doors. The ! representation was it seems, "for copy- ' right purposes"—such devices as these ' being rendered necessary by the coudit- ' in which the law of international copy- ; right remains. ! A funny story of Miss Frances Power 1 Cobbe is going round in some papers. ' S >ran years ago she visited the museum ot • tie C jlleife of Surgeons, and asked Pro- '' feasor Flowers to show her some good types of female skulls. He replied that 1 they bad none, as only paupers' bodii'H 51 came to Ihem for dissection, and they i never found. cranial high development - among that slass. Thereupon Miss Cobbe promised to lenvo th*» College b' y own skull " when she bad done with it." But it would appear that she repented of i her genn'nsit.y. m sbe has since revoked y the codioil of the will 'whioh bequeathed it,