STRANGE STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 250, 19 October 1907, Page 13

STRANGE STORIES FROM AMERICAN PAPERS.

HUSBAND'S DECEIT. Mrs Minnie Conroy, of Erie. Pennsylvania, has filed a petition for. divorce because that she found out that her husband whom she had married the day before, wore false teeth. , INDIAN CHIEF'S DESPAIR. Bed Shirt, an Indian Chief, has committed suicide at Sheridaw, Wyoming, because his mother-inrlaw refused to chop firewood, his wife having previously refused to do the work. NO PIE. NO WORK. The messenger boys employed by the Western Union Telegraph Company at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, have struck because their dinner menu did not include pie. Their battle cry' isi"*"No pie,"no work." HAPPINESS RUINED BY CATS. Prof. Rosenberg, of Chicago, on Tuesday made a complaint to the police that his domestic happiness had been mined by his wife's cats. Mrs Rosenberg was very fond of cats, and kept ten of them in the house. Her old love for him was completely alienated by these pets. The police advised the professor to poison the cats. ANTI-STOCKING CRUSADE. Miss Palmer, a lady of wealth, who once acted with Sir Henry Irving, arrived at New York on the Lorraine on September Ist, clad in sandals and a single garment fastened with a girdle. She holds that corsets, stockings, and underclothing are detrimental to health. Slie is convinced that the age of reason will soon dawn when the world will go back to the tunic and sandals. "The corset," Miss Palmer said, "is a physical crime. So are long, tight stockings, and wbat you hold them up with. If mothers would adopt this costume, they would be healthier, and their babies would grow up stronger and better looking." "Will you appear in New York society minus stockings and shoes?" an interviewer asfced. "I am going to my mother's house at Bar Harbour to-day. If her house-parties do not like my get-up, they will have to be shocked- I shall tell them that no hosiery .Is not any worse than no gloves." MACHINE TEST FOR TRUTHFULNESS. Details were made known in New York on Monday, Sept. 2, concerning certain mai chine tests for the credibility of witnesses made by Professor Munsterberg, of Harvard University. The professor has been experimenting on Harry Orchard, whose self-confessed crimes at the recent Idaho murder trial made such a sensation. Professor Munsterberg used three machines to ascertain whether Orchard's sensational -testimony was credible. Dr. Muneterberg's impression was that Orchard told the truth, but the professor has announced that he would state his conclusions later in a treatise which he hoped would show an advanced step in determining the credibility of testimony in criminal trials. Professor Munsterberg's testing machines consisted, first, of an automautograph, which records the involuntary writings of suspects through the emotions which are communicated through the arm; second, of a pneumograph which records normal breathing and and variation caused by emotional suggestion: third, of a sphymograph which, attached to the wrist, records the heart beats. It Is the inventor's belief that these Instruments will quite 'accurately disclose the credibility of witnesses, especially when the examining psychologist has a fair knowledge of the scenes of the crime.