GENERAL NEWS.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXII, Issue 141, 20 June 1910, Page 2

GENERAL NEWS.

Much of the family washing in. Japan is done by getting into a moving boat, and letting the< sheets, shirts, etc., trail astern from <a long rope. Hardly any animal is more difficult to tame than the young of the wild rabbit; on the other hand, scarcely any animal is tamer than the young of the tlame rabbit. The snobbery of dogs is one of their quaintest traits. Nobody looks down upon poverty like your prosperous dog, -and no sudden, wealth can so dazzle a human being as it does a dog. Not one of our domestic animals can be named which has not in; some country .drooping ears; and this is probably due to the disuse of the muscles of !t ; he ear from the 'animal being but seldom alarmed. If an annual plant produced only two seeds—and there is mo plant, so unproductive as this—and their seedlings the next year produced two and so on., then in twenty years there would be a million plants. Theire are over sixty catacombs known to exist in Roane or its immediate vicinity. The entire length of the passages that have been measured is 580 miles, and it is estimated that from 6,000,000 to 65,000,000 dead aire there interred. A Russian apparatus for restoring hearing consists of a light rubber ■shell, furnished with a microphone, which is connected to a small galvanic battery. It is claimed tbatfc the microphone causes even the softest speech, to .reacft on the .auditory nerve of the deaf when the apparatus is placed toi the ear. William Holland, who died from injuries caused by falling off an omnibus, bad sold newspapers in Lom-bard-street, London, for several years. He made 8s or 10s a day, and employed an .assistant at 17s 6d a week. George Panrtdteh, a smartly dlressed youth who was charged at Belgrade with conaUantly pilfering benzine f.roim a chemist's, said be took the spirit, a few drops .at a time, to "perfume" his clothes so that his. sweetheart milgbt believe that he owned a motor-car. A Clerkenwell'-boy of six wbenr in charge of an elder sister, rolled up a piece of brown paper in. the form of .a cigarette. His sister took away some matches and placed them on .the mantelpiece, but the child stood on. a- fender, to reach them and his clothes caught fire. He died' shortly afterwards. A wild beast trainer named He« / - .rioksen was exhibiting a dozen lions and ..tigers at Busche's Circus, Berlin, and had introduced a favorite .chimpanzee into the cage. He was rehearsing with the latter animal, and for a moment took his eyes from ,a particularly ferocious tiger. Suddenly the tiger sprang upon l the trainer's back, but before he had itime to claw him the chimpanzee, sprang like lightning on the tiger's back. This so .astonished the beast that he loosed his hold, and, retired .to a. corner 'of the cage, snarling. Henricksen was got out unhurt. M. Nieuport went up with a Voisin biplane at Mourmelon, intending to qualify for the Aeroi Club's certificate as' a pilot. He had already made one circuit of the field, and was at a height of about 40ft, when some of [the essence, took fire. He tried to ,put it out, but got his hand' burnt, •and the flames >spread to his clothes. The : aviator's coolness saved him. He shut off the motor and allowed the machine to glide quietly to the ground, when he was able at once to. put out the flames and to save himself as well as the machine, which .was only slightly damaged.