Around the Globe

Auckland Star, Volume LI, Issue 27, 31 January 1920, Page 19

Around the Globe

Tn fntore. in Retina. Canada, the Curfew by-law will be strictly eniorced; all children of 14 years or younger must be off the streets by 0 o'clock. At a Dublin court-martial Timothy Moon, a clerk, was charged with, having exiiioF.ves and ammunition in his possession. When cross-examined he was busy reading a newspaper and replied: "I am engaged AFRICANS NEVER SNEEZE. 1 It is a strange fact that Africans never' sneeze; neither do their descendants, if they are pure-Wooded, although, domiciled Iα other parts of the world. MEDICAL WOMEN IN CHINA. In the whole of China it may be estimated that there are approximately 170 doctors of recognised standing. the Women's Indian Association. BOLSHEVIK " MYSTEET " SHIP CAPTURED. What 5s described as a Bolshevik "mystery ship' carrying a cargo consigned to "the American legation, Stockholm, in transit to American museums" has been captured by a destroyer Iα Finnish, waters and taken into Bjorke. Under a cargo of flax, it is said, was found a mass of 801----3hevik literature printed in English, French, and German. There was also a! valuable collection of art objects and films idealising soviet conditions. SOLDIER AND THE OTHER MAN. Thowing a Service revolver and several cartridges on the desk at Tottenham police station, a soldier told the sergeant in charge: "My wife is living with another man at her mother's house. ... I don't know what I should have done if I had found him," The soldier, Charles Burgess, a gunner in the R.F.A., was charged with being an absentee. "I sympathise with yon," the magistrate told him in remanding him for an escort. -I am glad you had the self-control to give 3p the revolver." ARE WE GROWING BALD ? A pessimistic Paris hair expert prophesies •f a bald future for young men who brush their lair back from the forehead, using oils find pomades to make it stick to the skull. For these smooth and glossy heads an unpleasant penalty is in store. He says that the inevitable result of this fashion will be that those who adopt it will have no hair in fifteen years' time. As the style is almost universal, a generation of bald-headed men is envisaged. Brushing the hair back, he says, is absolutely conrrary to the disposition of it. "You are offending the hair." he add*. "causing it to go on strike, to cease growing—in short, to fall out." ONE MURDER A DAY. "Chicaso. with its 3.000.000 population, has more mnrders in a year rhan England, and Wales, with their 40,000,01X1 people." This statement was made by H. W. Sims, president of the Chicago Crime "Crime in Chicago is as highly organised 3P the mail order business," said Mr. Sims, i "There isn't a police captain in tie city | ties and the courts, cannot reduce crime Chicago are appalling. We are averaging a murder a day." FUNERAL TRAPPINGS CONDEMNED. "I should like to see the black horses ana and never return." says the Eishop ot Truro. "Mauv other -tilings that surround our partings should also disappear. The ptissin™ to the nest life Is not a horrid entrance into awful judgment. It is a passing through the antechamber of death into the glory of resurrection." This condemnation of mourning garments reflects the spirit of the United Kingdom developed throughout the war. when widows and orphans went bravefacedly without distinguishing signs of their sorrow in their clothing. "NATIONAL GARMENTS" IN FRANCE. The national costume for men manufactured by the French Government to combat the price of clothing made its appearance on the Paris boulevards on December 1, as promised by the authorities. The suit is cot such as to draw the attention of the promenaders either by its elegance or its ehabbiness, and but for a little strip of linen inside the coat marked "national garments'' one would never know that the daily turned out of the so-called fashionable tailoring honses. There is one thin? alone in which the national garment differs from others and that is the price, as the suits sell for 110 francs, or the equivalent of about £2 of. i SCOTTISH JUDGE ON KISSING. Lord Sands, of the Scottish Court ofj Session, has delivered an important -pro-1 nouncement on kissing, both as regards' religious and amatory customs. It had been eaid in a divorce case before him that the co-respondent had kissed the respondent. merely as a part of a religious ceremony-; after communion service. Lord Sands said «t might be all very well for elderly saints to greet one another with a chaste. Oriental, religious salute, but it was a different matter when- it came to yonng married women being promiscuously kissed by casual male acquaintances who'happened ~to be fellow communicants.; Extension of the custom was viewed witJi disapproval by many, but still to a certain; extent the custom persisted. The learned judge held, however, that the kissing in the case in question had exceeded religious custom, and he granted a decree of divorce. AVIATION IN JAPAN. Wealthy men in Japan have turned to air-planing as a sport. Many of those who made fortunes during the war in manufacturing munitions and building ships are neglecting their motor cars to devote time to skimming through, the air. The Japanese i Government is encouraging the innovation more persons'who indulge in the pastime the greater will be the prospects of progress in aviation In the Island Kingdom. Japanese have a natural leaning toward aviation, for, like the Chinese, they are great kite fliers, young and old indulging in the sport. Large kite-flying tournaments are held, and contests take place in which the fliers compete for prizes awarded by judces by a point system That is hard an Occidental to understand. In aviation most of the machines used Lave been of foreign make, but It is expected that the home production will equal Boon both the Government demand and that lor recreational purposes.

"The town is yours, paint it any colour you like." TWs was the text of" a sign which greeted the Prince of Wales at a small prairie town during his American tour. At an inquest in Grimsby on a trawler hand who fell overboard the skinner or the trawler said that not one .fisherman in twenty could swim. They believed that swimming only prolonged the agony of drowning. The coroner said that the belief ■was a fallacy, and all fishermen should the Eame opinion as the fishermen. A TONGUE TWISTER. A witness got in a tangle at Willesden in attempting to tell the magistrate that he j was Mtten by a wicked wild, white, wire- | haired terrier. A RAPID DECLINE. George S. Gibbons, eon of the late Sir Georse Gibbons, and son-in-law of Sir Kdmund Osier, left an estate valued at £4000, according to his will which was filed in London recently for probate. When his father died, a little more than a year ago. he left an estate of approximately' £ISO,OOO. A UNIQUE MOVE. British commercial travellers and the representatives of business houses are to be permitted passage aboard every British warship leaving the country for abroad. This, according to Sir Hamar Greenwood, Under-Secretary for Home Affairs, who made the announcement before the Association of British Chambers of Commerce, is "a move unique in the history of the Empire.' , ANOTHER KINSHIP TANGLE. " Here's a real tangle,' , says a Chicago paper. Mrs. Lilian Weaver was married to Fred Weaver, her mother's second husband's brother, and became the stepmother of her mother's two nieces by marriage and her step-father's sister-in-law. Mrs. Weaver marriage. Now what is the relation between Lillian and her mother's two nieces? Or her stepfather? None at all. Figure it out for yourself. PATRICIDE ACQUITTED. Anthony Korolyck. 14 years old. was acquitted on a charge of manslaughter by the Assize Court jury in Winnipeg recently, they concluding that the boy did I understnnd tljp of nis crime I when he shot his father. Judge Gault. in his charge to the jury, said the boy had every provocation for the crime, because of execrable and contearptible. he said, and beasts would act more decently toward their offspring. The boy, with hi.s brother, will other arrangements for their care. " PERNICIOUS " DANCES. Highland lassies may have their fling, ! but "Jazzing" isn't suited to a kilt. The Marquis of Aberdeen has been appealing to the girls not to be led into the "pernicious" dances which hold sway of dancing, and is out for the continuation i of the good old hielan' fling, with its crossed swords, bare knees, sporran and kit complete. "Don't take my word for it." said Lort Aberdeen. "Take the word of any wise j mother or cood doctor about the modern dance. They will say it is unsuitable, undesirable, unbecoming and ungraceful. I hope if it shows its ugly face in Aberdeen it will be stamped out." A BURGLAR'S PROTEST. There is honour among thieves. Herr I>ulak. of Frankfurt, who sizned himself "professional burglar." sent the following , ger:I "With great surprise I read Friday :in your valued sheet under the title "The J usual burdary," of a breaking and entering in of a dwelling in Wolfsanc Street. Yon write of cash that apparently was stolen •out of the money chest. "Therefore I call your attention to the fact that I broke into the chest, but that, therein. I ask you to publish this In order to avoid any unjust claim against the inj surHnce coin.pa.ny. j Respectfully, Dulak, professional burglar." I AN ELECTRIC SCRUBBER. The latest recruit to the ranks of electric labour-saving devices is a scrubbing machine. It weighs about 1001b, and is entirely self-contained with the *single : exception that it tPkes its current from sweeps, scrubs, and dries the floor at a single operation. It requires only a single ' attendant, who merely pushes the machine 1 forward and guides it. He controls the amount of water distributed on the floor I tiy means of the handle. This water is I immediately swept up by a cylindrical ! 'brush, which is 16in wide, and has a circumference of 20in. This brush is driven by a one-fourth horse-power motor at a i speed of 600 revolutions per minute. The I brush does the actual scrubbing, and caran apron into a separate receiving pan, so J the scrubbing is always done with clean water from the upper tank. The machine is said to have a capacity of nearly 7000 square feet of surface per hour. LUSITANIA DIAMONDS FOUND. An extraordinary story involving the romantic recovery of diamonds valued at ' about £30,000, which were salved after the before the postmaster-general in the House of Commons by Jeremiah McVeigh. Much mystery 'has been attached for many months coast ot Ireland, but no information can at present be obtained as to the present whereabouts of the diamonds. McVeigh told a Chronicle representative that on May 11, 1015, four days after the Lusitanla was sunk. John Hayes, the captain of a fishing boat found a postal ! basket floating ou the sea about ten miles County Cork. In the postal package were three registered parcels which. It is stated. contained diamonds. These were surrendered to the coastguards at Castle Townsend and eventually reached the postal officials in London, who acknowledged their receipt. The diamonds had been sent on the Lusitania 'by a firm in New York, but it has not been found possible for the salvers •to discover the consignees and the firm in i *Xew York, to whom the diamonds were i returned, refused to accept delivery. I The salvers received a letter from a firm of solicitors in London, saying that the package contained diamonds, and Though the man who found them gave evidence •before the American consul, only his expenses were paid. __ j