News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 89, 15 April 1922, Page 19

News from All Quarters

Cd-ran- Stinson. in an "all-metal" monoplane built in America, has created a 1 world's record by a continuous flight of 20 hours 10 minutes. ■ i Twenty-one members of the League ot, .Nations have not paid their subscriptions for last year, according to an announcement in ( tbe House o£ Commons. Tbe wine output of Hie world is appro*.- j mately 4,000,000,000 gallons per annum, and of this quantity Europe is responsible for "..000.00n.000 gallons. Italy- heads the list i with 1.200.000.000 gallons. 'France comes ( nest with I,_-.0C..,000. Australia and South ' Africa are at the bottom of the list with ] abont 0.000.0C0 gallons each. . — t HOWES—_d EACH. An elderly mnu in corduroy eont and preen vest is going round London teaching S'-hoolboys, at a halfpenny a time, how to 1 roar like a lion, whine like an underground J train gathering speed, or bark like a dog, < says the "Daily Mail.'' A score of boys re- 1 celved Instruction outside a Stoke Newing- '■ ton school, and between them they can imitate the entire "Zon." ' ( LA-fDHTJ'S EAST LOVE. ' Mile. Zegret, the last fiancee of Henri Landru and the most fortunate—for it was In tbe mids: of her love affair with the murdprer of (tambais that the prosecutors broke into the Bluebeard's villa and opened up tho tragic scandal to the amazed nation —has ' goDc on tbe stage. Not only tbat, but Zegret, with callous abandon and perhaps lv celebration of th» ' guillotining of landro, those the night of the beheading to make her first public ar_>ear«Jice. Her debut was made in a rnu _c hall. DOGS NEED FLEAS. A French dog specialist offers a diverting announeemnt that the traditional and übiquitous flea is indispensable to the health of a dog. He asse-ts this treatment is the result of a long study of dog psychology and sums up in conclusion:— | "If dogs should not be compelled to spend , fl large part of their time in persuasive persistent efforts against eptenons, they would lose their most salutary distraction nnd wou_ ' promptly become victims of dark'and dangerous melancholy." DIVORCE ON NOVEL GROUNDS. According to the "Morgenpost." a divorce »'_" granted lv reactionary Potsdam for :i curious and novel reason to a former high officer named Tscirsehky. The officer based his divorce suit against his wife on the ground that since the revolption "she had developed politically more and more to the radical left," and that as an officer of high rank "he could not be expected to keep on living maritally with a radical woman." The Potsdam justice decreed the divorce on that ground. WIRELESS SERMON. Among the latest innovations introduced, by wireless telephone is a religious service for golfers who do not attend church. The Dixmoor Country Club, near Chicago, has started the new fashion by arranging for the installation of a wireless receiving station so that its members, after or before their Sunday morning game, may listen while smoking on the verandah to their favourite preacher. Clergymen everywhere, says the president of the club, are complaining that members of their congregations prefer golf to church. "As we cannot take golfers to church." he add_, "we have, decided to bring the church to golfers." PYJAMAS FOR A NUDE. Studies of femininity in the nude have been accepted for centuries in French salons; but an effort to extend the category to comprehend masculinity was nipped In the bnd recently, when Prefect of Police Leullier prohibited the exhibition in the Independent Artists' salon of a large canvas by Mme. Genevieve Donilo. It was entitled " The Dearest One," and consisted of a Greek god type of young man, lounging on huge cushions, and wearing nothing more than a large dinner ring. When M. Leullier saw It on opening day, he became red with anger, according to the artists, says the correspondent of the "New York Herald." "Take it away! Put some clothes on it, or 111 bring proceedings for obscenity," he shouted. Not wishing to start a row. the artist •pent the whole afternoon applying gauzy violet pyjamas to the figure—attire which was calculated to satisfy the prefectorlal sense of modesty, while not changing much the original state of nudity. MAIMED MAN'S RFVENGE. Because he received what he considered an inadequate pension of £Sf a year for the amputation of an arm, a young Paris electrician named- Muller shot and wounded SI. Arnonx. the assistant secretary of the Paris Electric Light Company, and then shot two policemen who tried to arrest him. Muller, who was eventually arrested on a sixth-floor landing of a building of flats in the Boulevard Haussmann, stated that it was tbe prospect of a miserable life for himself and his invalid mother that caused him to lose his head and seek vengeance on the man whom he thought responsible for his misfortune. He bad been employed for several months by the Electric Light Company at Its fitting shop, where he met with an accident which necessitated his right arm being amputated. Medical experts appointed by tbe Civil Court decided that his pension from his employers should be £80 a year. Muller was extremely angry at this decision, and told M. Arnoux that the sum was not sufficient. He left the offices, went home, and fetched his revolver. Thus armed, he returned and shot M. Arnoux. A RECORD COMPETITION. A Vienna paper tells a remarkable story of a record competition for a position as valet which was recently advertised In a local paper. When the advertisement was published by a rich Austrian manufacturer, his private secretary was inundated by a couple of thousand letters with and without pnotos and docaments, and it took the man several days to go through this tremendous correspondence and send back the documents, More than three-fourths of the aspirants were intellectual. One of them was a medical doctor, one a doctor of law, and twenty-one were officers. A former Major of the General Staff of the Anstro-Hungarian army wrote: I had Just passed my examination for the General Staff when war broke out. After two years of service at the front I was appointed Major of the General Staff. I have been decorated with all distinctions for bravery available to officers, and my father was a Field Marshal. Yet I should be happy if I could get a position as valet, as it would relieve mc from the almost unbearable worries of my present job as clerk in a factory with a monthly salary of 38,000 crowns (30/). It is my present duty to pay out the workmen's wages, which are about three times as high as my own salary, although I am master of five languages and have had a university education."

Only one man in three is perfectly healthy. The Salvation Army supplied 14,970,817 meals during 1921. ' < Income-tax in the United States is 73 per i cent on the largest incomes. ' The Roman Catholic population of En;- t land and Wales is 1,015,475. i The Crystal Palace is ten inches longer 1 in summer than in winter, due to the heat < of the sun on the framework. The Eiffel Tower, Paris, is affected similarly, and a I passing cloud obscuring the sun for a < short time is sufficient to cause a change in I the height. •. t XOSE 86,000,000 WORK DAYS. .1 About 6,000,000 working days were lost as the result of labour disputes in the United ■ Kingdom last year, says the "Labour < Gazette." This is the greatest loss of working time from that cause ever recorded in the British Isles, and is more than three times that of last year. Tbe number of < workers involved was about 1,800,000. This ' compares with a loss of 27.000,000 working ' hours in 1920, when about 2,000,000 workers ' were involved in labour disputes. ! DANGEROUS WAR SODVENIRS. An old shell, a souvenir of the war, ; wrought lavoc in a home in London when Christina Saunders, a 15-year-old girl, : placed a red hot poker with which she had ' been "mending" the Are on the eighteen pounder, which exploded, severely injuring the girl and wrecking the kitchen. -_. large number of accidents of this ' nature have occurred in England, where many homes barbour some explosive ornament which none but an expert can pronounce safe as a war trophy. RENT FOR THE TRENCHES. The "Star" /London) expresses wonder at a disclosure made In the House of Com- [ mon s in answer to a question a s to Great Britain paying France £--2,000.000 for dock dues, rent of houses and public buildings, trenches and compensation for damage and disturbance caused by British , troops. The "Star" says: "Surely this is the first time that an ally has been charged for rent for trenches wherein she shed blood for the charger." OPIUM GIRL'S LEAP. Caught In a suspected opium-smoking house of New York's Chinatown the other night a young woman opened an umbrella with the intention of making a parachutej escape into the street. The umbrella, how-l ever, turned inside out, and the girl fell I into the sidewalk, injured and badly frightened. Police agents arrested eight| persons after an exchange of shots, and confiscated 25,000.d015. worth of opium and! several pipes. Well-to-do persons are sup-' posed to be visitors to the place, but, as, usual, not one was captured. Discipline saves children's LIVES. Damage estimated at £20,000 was caused at Portland, Oregon, when fire, starting from an overheated chimney in the roof of H-lla- ! day schoolhouse, completely destroyed the building. A stiff wind fanned the flame*. Five hundred children and teachers performed a perfect Are drill, clearing tbe building in fifty seconds. Not a youngster faltered as the smoke billowed from the roof above them and sparks fell among the marching ranks. KICK IN A KISS. Kisses, some of them, kick up your blood pressure. So says J. V. Breitweiser of the University of California's department of education. He has measured the "kick." Given one man and one woman who will kiss, Breitweiser told the San Francisco Advertising Club, he would measure the lineal extent and millimetres of blood pressure resulting from: The mistletoe kiss; the stolen kiss; the expert kiss of the finished flirt; the soul kiss. Breitweiser said the instrument he uses is so sensitive it will register the domestic kiss, tbe degree of frigidity in kisses one woman gives another she does not like, and so forth throughout all grades of kisses. Breitweiser calls his instrument the kissograph. He gets a man and woman who will kiss, he attaches wires to them; then they kiss. The machine acts automatically. He also said there is no difficulty In obtaining couples to carry on their experiments. Tbe instrument is an adaptation of the machine psychologists in criminology nse to detect lies. 1 HUSBAND'S SECRET ROOM. A woman who imitated Bluebeard's wife ' and opened a locked room which her bus- ' band had forbidden ber to enter, petitioned the New York courts to annul her marriage as the result of discoveries she made in the "Chamber of Mystery." Tbe ground ol" her application is the allegation that her husband is a negro. The . man, Jose Bornn, who formerly filled Important positions on New York newspapers, is now connected with a Chicago journal. The couple were married in London In 1906. Evidence brought forward by tbe wife includes several photographs of Bornn and his seven brothers and sisters and pamphlets _ontai_-_ng the history of bis family. Two witnesses who formerly lived at St. Thomas, in the Danish West Indies, Bornn's birthplace, testify that the family had a reputation there of being negroes. Bornn admits that he is not Caucasian, but denies that he has Ethiopian blood in his veins. His wife says he told her at the time of their marriage that his father was a Dutchman and his mother a Spaniard. Both children of the marriage are white. THIRTEEN TIMES WED. If you get married, just have one wife and be true to ber. Take this advice from a veteran who has ! looked over the marriage license counter thirteen times —Isaiah modern Solomon, who languishes in gaol in Indianapolls while a grand jury investigates his career. When Isaiah gets out of gaol, if he does, he is going to be a lifeguard in the sea of matrimony, he said in an interview. The 32-year-old Lothario, who won the hearts and hands of thirteen woman in various parts of the country during the last five years, desires to be an evangelist. He wants to warn American youth to watch its step. "My one desire is to lead a Christian life," he said, through the cell bars. "I always wished to enter tbe ministry, but I fear they won't have mc. So I'll be an evangelist when I get out. I'm going to warn other boys." Moore knows a lot about churches, he said. He has been In many of them and sang in choirs. In fact, be met most of his wives at choir practice. Isaiah went out and married another woman every time he longed for affection. i Now he is lonesome.