NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXV, Issue 147, 23 June 1934, Page 4 (Supplement)

NEWS FROM ALL QUARTERS.

DOCTOR'S BOLD TEST

A London doctor's courageous experiment to test the effect of certain antiseptics was 'described by Dr. R. M. 1 ( ry, outlining the work of Queen Charlotte s Hospital, N.W., to a meeting in London. .Dr. Fry said tliat Dr. L. Colebrook, chief director of research, had been experimenting with infectious microbes and had gone so far as to inject them into his own hands to judge the effect of antiseptics on them. He did not think this had ever been done before. CAT AT THE "DOGS." A cat turned up at the "dogs" at Stamford Bridge, London, just as the greyhounds were parading for the nine o'clock race. Whisking round the track in great style, it suddenly came face to face with the dogs coming in the opposite direction. It quickly turned tail and disappeared. The greyhounds became a little restless and were sorely tempted to abandon their chase after the hare for the more real quarry. But they were well-trained dogs, and all went on to complete the course. GOLD IN DERBYSHIRE. A find of gold in Derbyshire was revealed by Mr. Edwin Bacon, the foreman of the grand jury, at the meeting of the Barmote Lead Mine Court at Wirksworth. He said that an assay revealed three ounces per ton, as against the one ounce at some African mines.' Radium has also been found, and the outlook lie forecast as excellent. Mr. Bacon stated that lead mining, which had been in existence in Derbyshire for centuries, had nearly become extinct until recently, when there was a remarkable output av. a mill close to the lead mines, which had risen to nearly 900 tons per week. "LONG LIVE THE CZAR!" Slightly awed, two officers of the Red Guard sat down against the room's white walla in Moscow. The man who had brought them here to watch an entirely new operation, was Professor Voronzov, Moscow's greatest surgeon. They looked at the patient, Ivan Danjushev, blind and stone deaf. When war broke out in 1914 Ivan had been among the first to fight for the Czar. But two years later a German shell had buried him unconscious in the mud. Then eigliteeii years in the dark and in silence. He had spent them in this Moscow hospital. After the operation the surgeon peeled off his gloves. Ivan could see him and hear the flip of the rubber. "Tllank God!" the man cried, and he dropped on his knees and prayed. Then he crossed himself, and shouted: "And long live the Czar!" They led him away. But still the Red Guards and the Soviet officials have not the heart to tell Ivan that there is no Czar in Russia now.

RADIO TO CURE TOOTHACHE. Dentists in New York are sceptical of a claim made by Dr. J. S. Oartel, of Wilkinsbtirg, that toothache may be cured by wireless waves. In an address at the convention of the Pennsylvania Dental Society, Dr, Oartel said that his experiments showed 30 per cent of the germs in diseased teeth could be killed by placing the molar between sending and receiving plates of a simple short-wave set. Up to now the experiments had been confined to extracted teeth, but Dr. Oartel suggested the time would soon come when toothache would be charmed away by inducing the patient to bite his radio set. THE VALUE OF GOLF. What is the publicity value of a golf tournament to a seaside town? The question was answered by a noted publicity agent at Southport (England), who, when called in by the corporation, assessed the value of the Dunlop-Southport tournament as at least £50,000. In view of the great success of this annual competition, the corporation wished to decide whether to make it a permanent institution; subject to a year's' notice on cither side with the sponsors. The tournament was won by Mr.* A. H. Padgham, the professional attached to the Sundridge Park Club, with a record low aggregate for four rounds of 279. WOMAN STOPS WEDDING. A story of a woman's dash into a London synagogue while a wedding was in progress, shouting "The bridegroom is a married man," was told in Leeds Polico Court The wedding was stopped, and in the police court the "bridegroom," Bavnet Rosenberg, aged 33, a tailor, was charged with being in-arrears under a wife maintenance order. Mr. Ernest Wurzal, who appeared for the wife, Hetty Rosenberg, said that more than £300 was owing under the order. Referring to the scene in the synagogue, Mr. Wurzal said that when the ceremony was stopped there was general commotion. The "poor girl," he added, had to return all her wedding presents, and over £100. spent on the reception, was lost. Mr. Wurzal also asserted that an a (libation order in respect of a girl in Stratford-on-Avon was made against Rosenberg, and another order in regard to a girl in Hutldersfield. Rosenberg was ordered to pay tlie money or go to prison for three months. STAINLESS STEEL ROMANCE. The story of the discovery of stainless steel was told at» the annual confercnce of the Incorporated Sales Managers' Association at Blackpool recently by Mr. A. J. Grant, managing director of Messrs. Thomas Firth and John Brown, Ltd. During the war Mr. Harry Brearley, the metallurgist, was investigating the question of the erosion of rifle barrels. He tried various steels to see whctl er he could make an improvement in evsting practice, and, among others, he made a small, charge of steel containing-a larger proportion of chromium than had ever been tried before. The mechanical proSerties, however, were not such as Mr. rearley was looking for, and' the broken test pieces were thrown away in a corner of the laboratory with many others. About a fortnight later an assistant called attention to the fact that one of the test pieces had not rusted. Mr. Brearley immediately realised that this was something new. and, before saying anything about it, lie had a knife-blade forged from this chomium stool. He loft it exposed to the weather in his garde;i for about a month, and at the end of that time it was perfectly bright. Owing to the stress of war work this discovery lay dormant for .1 time. Eventually it resulted in the wellknown cutlery steel which was now rapidly disnlacing the old carbon steel knife. Mr. Grant declared that had it not been for the efforts-of the Sheffield steelmakers the Allies would not have won the war.

THE PRINCE'S FUNNY STORY,

The Prince of Wales began by ordering a drink for every man in the room, when, as Colonel of the Welsh Guards, he dined with past and present members of the regiment at the Horns Hotel, Kennmgtoii, which is in the Duchy of Cornwall. Then he told stories. There was a man, he said, who went to a doctor and complained that he had a lot of pains, but really didn't ' know where. The doctor told him to put a piece of paper under his vest, and make a mark wherever ho felt a pain. Later the doctor called, and asked for the paper. The man asked his wife what she had done with it, and 6he asked their daughter. "Oh," the daughter said, "we put it on the pianola, and it played 'I'm Heading for the Last 'Round-up.' " The Guardsmen roared with laughter. LORD MAYOR'S APPETITE The favourite meal of the present Lord Mayor of London, Sir Charles Collett,. who, in his year of office, has to attend about 230 public dinners and luncheons, is beer, bread and cheese and an onion, said Lord Horder, the eminent physician. This disclosure was made at an eight-course dinner of the Aldersgat.e Ward Club at the Hotel Victoria. Lord Horder said he commented at the last dinner of the ward, that though Lord Mayors had to attend a great number of functions, he had known very few Lord Mayors as "cases." One reason why they were healthy was that they were temperate people. They worked hard, with discipline, and sometimes asceticism, which made for good health. He bad just noticed that Sir Charles Collett had omitted no fewer than four courses. HAWK OMEN OF WAR. Mr. W. J. A. Grant, a Devonshire rain, has in his possession the mummy of an Egyptian hawk, 4000 years old, which drips blood whenever war is imminent. A few weeks before the South African War a liquid like blood appeared on its breast. The dripping continued until Lord Roberts entered Pretoria. Before the Great War the same thing happened, and continued at intervals till six weeks before the Armistice. At the moment, in spite of the international situation, the bleeding hawk is as dry as a bone. The story of the mysterious hawk was told by Lord Baden-Powell in a speech delivered in 1930. He refused then to divulge the name of the owner. Mr. Grant, who is 83 years old, is about to set out on an exploration of England after globe-trotting for the best part of 60 years. He said: "I set out on my first travels in 1874 and have since then visited every country in the world almost, except Persia and Baluchistan. In the 'eighties I was with some of the Arctic expeditions, and was one of the party which discovered the large tract of land to the west of Franz Josef Land, which we called Alexandra Land."

MOB STORMS GAOL. An infuriated mot) stormed the prison at Puigcerda, Catalonia, to rescue a prisoner who was being thrashed for attempting to escape. The convict's screams attracted the attention of passers-by. Soon a crowd collected. First they smashed all the windows in the gaol. Then they stormed the main. gate, brushing the guards aside. They discovered the beaten convict, lying in a serious condition, and when they were unable to discover the warder who administered the thrashing they took vengeance on another, who had to be taken to hospital with grave injuries. The mob threatened to set fire" to the prison, but were eventually appeased by the Governor's promise to punish the warder guilty of beating the convict. The beaten man was one ot five prisoners who -broke from gaol and made a dash for the French frontier. Civil guards, frontier guards and police joined in the man hunt, and eventually two of the escaped men were discovered in hiding. 25 YEARS' "STONY SILENCE." The French Divorce Courts will be called on shortly to decide whether a husband's stony silence in the presence of his wife for 25 years is cruelty entitling the woman to her freedom. The couple were married some 30 years ago, but five years later they had a serious quarrel, as the result of which the husband vowed his would never speak to his wife again, lie kept his word. After that, all communications between the two were in writing, the wife being forced to make out her accounts weekly and lay them on the table before the husband, who handed her the money necessary to regulate the bills. All attempts on the part of friends of the couple to bring about a reconciliation failed. It is only now, after 25 years of this silence, that the wifd has decided to go to law in order to obtain her freedom, because she. says she cannot endure this any longer. The couple never go out at night. Each sits by the fireside reading or listening-in with earphones to their rival wireless. At first the wife tried to relieve the monotony.by talking to her husband, but she never got tlie slightest response, and finally she'came to the conclusion it was better that she also should lapse into silence. The couple have turned 50, and there arc no children of the marriage. Even when they have company, a thing that happens only rarely, they do not speak directly to each other, but each carries on independent conversation with the visitors.