News from All Quarters

Auckland Star, Volume LIII, Issue 95, 22 April 1922, Page 19

News from All Quarters

FOLD MASTERS " BY THE DOZEN

The "Daily Chronicle's Paris correspondent MJ 6 tiiat several arrests were made ,t 'Marseilles following the discovery there of a studio where painters turned out small ■"Botticellis" by the dozen.

Correspondence was seized, showing that t number of these faked pictures have been told to Americans for large sums.

IATEST FAMILY RECORDS. The family portrait album of the future will talk, according to the makers of phonograph records in London, who declare that the demand for private discs is increasing daily and that prices have become very reasonable. They say that persons are having records of their own accomplishments made, and are sending them to friends.

Also instead of sending letters or gifts gome people now talk onto a disc and send that by way of greeting. The talk of children at various ages is being filed away with their baby clothes.

WOIfDERFTJL RANGE FINDER. A hnge range finder, larger than anything used in the world war, has been developed in England by Messrs. Ban- and Strond, and has been adopted for coastal defence work. It is a metal tube a hundred feet long, and is mounted on a carriage, which swings on a circular track Bke a turntable. In the eentie tub e there i» a control chamber from which Is manipulated intricate adjusting machinery with reflectors at the end of the tube. The new range Under is three times larger than my used in the war, and enables observers to find the range of an object as far away as twenty-two miles. CENSUS PADDING. Census padding is under close investigation In Ottawa. Already, according to official advices four prosecutions of enumerators have been undertaken and fines Imposed. The city of Regina, Sask., is the case In point. Investigation by the Minorities showed that irregularities had been committed, and several thousand fictitious names added to the census. Four enumerators were prosecuted and fined £20. It was found that one had padded Ms returns by 1535 names; a second by I*3 names, a third by 769 names, and a fourth by 1127 names. Enumerators were ptid 5c per name. WHAT'S A DIVORCE BETWEEN FRIENDS. What's a mere divorce between friends' this was the attitude taken by H A ButterfleM, fil m editor, after his wife obtained a decree in New York .before Jußtice Gannon. Instead of denying that He neglected his blonde helpmate and took a room at the Hotel McAlpln -with a brunette woman, Bntterfleld submitted the hotel register which he had signed on ttat occasion. After Mrs. Bntterfleld had. *een granted the divorce, her former hustod took her by the arm, kissed her, and •aid brightly: "Come on; kid; let's go out •ad eat." s | A MIRACLE OF THE RING. JT-ere was once-this Is not a fairy tale tat a story from across the Channel which ■ngaro" tells—an English sailor, whose same was Mitchell and who was past Baiter of the art of tasting whisky. In the war he was asphyxiated by the fees and lost his sense of smell and the use of Bpeech. Having no longer special aptitudes for navigation he became a boxer. Now the English papers tell us Mitchell fought In the rings In London and he received a formidable blow under his nose and another on his jaw. Ten seconds later lie was knocked out. One of his attendants hastened to give him a glass of spirits. Then—and here Is the miracle—Mitchell, even before wetting his lips, recovered and declared sapiently: "This stuff is at least flfteen years old!"

In a moment, with two strokes, this adversary had restored to him his sense of ame_ and the use of speech. "VAIIEY OF HOSES " JOT PERU.. 'Bulgaria's famous "Valley of Roses," wMch supplied 90 per cent of the world's wpply of attar, or oil of roses, is threatened with ruin. Over half the rose bushes in the valley, situated at the foot of the Balkans, comprising thousands of acres, have been seized with a disease resembling very much the phylloxem. Experts thns far have discovered neither the nature of the disease nor a remedy. The Minister of Agriculture has already proposed in vain, several prizes for the invention of an effective remedy.

'.. Last year's crop of attar was only 3000 kilogrammes, and tbe great decrease is due chiefly to the mysterious disease, which attacks the roots of the rose bush. Numerous Bulgarian cultivators of roses have already turned to the cultivation of tobacco, because It Is easier and more remunerative. The present wholesale price of attar of roses is 40,000 francs for a kilogramme.

CARUSO'S THROAT EXHIBITED

'The throat of Enrico Caruso, which was left at the time of his death to the Naples Mnsenm for medical examination, was .reproduced plctorially by Rome newstapers. Doctors, whose opinions were published, described it as the most extraordinary development known, for vocalisation. Caruso's vocal chords were twice tie normal length, and his breathing Power was described as phenomenal. The epiglottis was as thick as that of the «wpest bass singer's, while its attachment to,the tongue was of such a nature to •emit the greatest rapidity of vibrations, tons accounting for the immense range of the great tenor's voice. His lung power "as so enormous that he could make the chords of a piano vibrate by merely *>rea.thing -upon them. The doctors de•wibed Caruso's lungs as those of a •nperman, and declared that from head to loot he was a magnificent singing machine. •CONDON'S HEW KEOOHD. A London hotel has Just put forth a claim toat more snails are served in its aUningtooma each day than are eaten in all the •tfes of Paris combined in a similar.period.

Admittedly it takes an epicurean taste of •agh degree to get a snail down even after It has been elaborately disguised, but the Paris-London air express is bringing hundreds of these edible curiosities to London «teh day, and even so the supply fails to *eet the demand.

81r Hall Came is one prominent EngHsh*aan who finds them a delightful gastro- . atomic treat.

London, not satisfied with its appetite for toe French delicacy, insists also that its «hefs have improved upon the known •Bethods of preparing the "escargots." The virtual ritual follows: — Place for twelve hours in a bath of sat •ad vinegar; wash for eight hours in runWag water; soak for fifty minutes in white *lne, vinegar and hot water; cook for six tonus in wine and vinegar with sliced 'Trots, onions, cloves, pepper and herbs; remove snail from shell and clean it; season •aail with salt and pepper and put back Into •*ril; garnish with butter and herbs, heat 8 •»«_ for ten minutes and serve.

WED BEFORE EXECUTION. Leu^rVTr 1 t0 dßath at Lod2 ' «•* Wlady7awßa^a n k g be h Std W "/ man to marry his br\aT SKIS Permlssl on at midnight, and h,_ . ? est was callea teen years old „ Who was ***- oemne? man in ZT *° the con " ney who mL ,° presenc e of the attorThe vn, nt , Sted "' the «c-Ho-. gether PaSSed f ° Ur hOU " t0 "

WOMEN'S COURAGE. ordin tiSh W ° men have atePlay-d extra--ud-H P UCk SiDCe the ™' «"»«*>* '<» pushed their way through hostile crowds to assist the police, have searched their premises for burglars and. have resisted men who attempted to attack them. I entirely disagree with those who claim that owing to the war the morals of the ___. V Pa r lcUlar,y of the women, are De dOSS and th " aspect for traditions is passing." dec~»J" d , Se has found an "enormous the ™ Hi -**» that DeeonT? br , Utal type of crlmes Decome less frequent.

VANISHED YOUTH. youthful-ess by substituting monkey glands for wornout human ones Dr Vero no_ who still is experimenting, is reported _____"-. dlSCOVered »■«* the transposed glands give only a temporary renewal of Vitality and that in order to keep up the mprovement new sets must be planted bMtUlfr at least every two year's, h-n _, deterlor -"on of the glands Is nourTh V 6 dDe t0 the fact *aat the nour*hment taken by human beings is nor sufficient for the simian organs, wherefor, heorv of 68 ' 6 * 1 that the ,ons lau * hed »t _S_7.il h T nnt and cocoanat dlet ™* after all be the solution of longevity.

FAIX OF THE MIGHTY. Ex-Kaiser William and Ex-President Wilson found themselves face to face in Berlin recently measuring each other with cold, unseeing eyes. Whose fame S-fS..**" most? And the pub,le decided that Wilson was worth just 12/ and Wilhelm twice as much.

No patriotic German jumped to his feet to give more for his former Kaiser. "Sold!" shouted the auctioneer, and the cx-kalser and ex-president went for these low figures. The scene was enacted at an auction of wax figures of famous monarchs, artists and others In the public eye.

"Jack the Ripper" and Dr. Crippen fetched £3, while ex-President Polneare and the late Czar were sold for 6/ apiece. COFFIN STRIPPED. A curious theft in a graveyard had a sequel at Maidenhead when an undertaker named George West was fined £20 and £7 costs for removing brass fittings, from a coffin in a grave. !

There were two charges, but only one was pressed by the Public Prosecutor.

It was stated that after the burial of the wife of William J. Brown last November, West instructed a gravedigger named Collins to take six ornamental screws from the lid of the coffin. Collins' son took them to West and received 1/.

A woman named Veronica Roberts said that after the mourners had left she was shocked to see the gravedigger removing' the screws, which he put in his pocket.

West admitted he had used the ornaments on another coffin. Mr. Brown had told him he did not like them, and he could do as he liked with them. A TOBTCKED MIND. "My brain has gone. No money—l am ruined; debts, debts, debts! Mad. Everything gone wrong. Oh, God, forgive mc for what I am going to do. I am afraid of myself. For months I have tried to stem against adversity. Bad trade has ruined mc. I cannot control my nerves. Oh, my darling wife and kiddies! . . . Whatever I do goes wrong. No hope, no hope. . What

anguish." - J This poignant letter was left by Harry

Jarrald (45), a master cabinetmaker, of Windmill Street, London, who hanged himself In an empty house.

At the inquest the Westminster Coroner said he would like to have given the poor widow something out of the poor-box, but, unfortunately, it was empty. No one seemed

Ito have any money nowadays owing to ex- ' cesslve taxation. It was evident that the man had been suffering the tortures of beU. _ _. A verdict of "Suicide while of unsound mind" was returned. THE FEMALE APACHE. A few weeks ago a gang of apaches having attacked a policeman's son in Paris, it was found their chief and undisputed leader was a young girl known as "the panther of the Rue Molffetare." The whole lot was arrested, but the "panther" was released, owing to lack of evidence. This dangerous and vindictive young person Is now again under lock and key. Having entered a small grocer's shop In the Latin quarter, "the panther" was not served quickly enough, la her opinion, by the old woman keeping the store. Several members of the gang having already complained they did not receive the full consideration due their standing and reputation when^en tering the same store, "the panther" derided the old storekeeper must be taught a lesson.

The following evening, at the head of her erranr knights of'the stiletto, "the panther made a regular attack just as the store was closing and wrecked the whole place whbe a bodyguard of four particularly rough-look-ing gentlemen of the knife kept the onlookers from interfering. The police arrested the whole gang, so that "the Pf*" 5 promising career, is. no doubt, cut short. LAW OFFICERS' HANDSOME FEES. The recent change of the Crown's elpal law officers in England h" proflnced a piquant electorate situation both to the Exchange Division of Liverpool and In East Leicester, where by-elections are nending. The by-election in Liverpool is due to the appointment of Solicitor-Gene-ral and in East Leicester to the elevation oTsir Gordon Hewart, Attorney-General, To the Lord Chief Justiceship. Incidentally he Impression that the Sollcltorrvneral and Attorney-General made a _a-dsome thing out of their offices not merely by the salary attached to eacft, bat ■I< n try incidental fees, seems Justified by the reply of the Secretary of the Treasury. Mr E Hilton Young. M.P-, to a question on fa th _omai er tfmes the receives a salary of £7000, and the Solici-tor-General £6000. Although during the war they each consented to receive £1000 1™ in six years. 1015-1921. the AttorneyGeneral received fees over £77,000 and the -oUcitor-General £50,000. The Secretary of the Treasury, when vouchsafing this i-fomation to the House of Commons naively, added that I'these amounts were -reatly diminished. by the income tax. and L supertax, and costs were often reco"ered from unsuccessful parties In action against the Crown."