ECHOES FROM EVERYWHERE.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9605, 21 December 1896, Page 4

ECHOES FROM EVERYWHERE.

LECTURE BY A MADMAN. ¥ The Daily News' Vionna correspondent ~ writes:—" One af the patients of Profeseor L , Kraffb Ebing, who occupies the Chair of Mental Diseases at the Vienna University, on October 31st delivered a lecture before ~ the professor's students, speaking for an hour. The patient suffers from periodical seizures, which return every year,- and will end in permanent madness. , During these attacks, according to the above-named specialist, he is much cleverer and wifctfer than in his sane condition. When the patient was introduced in the lecture room he mounted the platform with a grave air. The professor asked him what subject he would lecture upon, and ho replied, ' Upon " TJitf -" Mental Condition of the Maniao in Periodical• Attacks of Madness."' The audience.often interrupted Iho speaker with sincere ■' applause, and when there \jras laughter at hie witty remarks ho looked* flattered. Hβ loft the platform with grace and dignity and J returned to his ward. The professor, told nj tho audience that at college he had had'a :?| fine record." - ■ f _— /I A NATION-OF WAITERS. -O Mr G. U. Siine is Raid to be responnible fo* '-• a good story from Berne. A Referendum "j was approaching its, completion; the votes had been given, aud tho Chairman'was ready to declare the figures. In %hm moment of anxious expectation, when the fortunes of - ' tho country were at stake, a voice from Jthe ' public gallery was heard crying " Waiter V , " ■ The result was instantaneous. . The whole sovereign assembly of the S.wise people rose ■;;. to its ieet as one man and answered, " Yes, \ sir." - -'' * r .' , ? ' l ' ' ' > THE RIGHT TO BACKWARDS. :X A milk-boy, named Goorgo, .obtained,'. ! twenty guineas damages in the WestyxiinstflPt / County Court recently for personal injuries;-- !._ received under singular circumstances. • was walking along Sussex street when hia- ■*' attention waa attracted by a. wedding., 'J3e- £ turned round to look at it, but kept art walk« jj .ing. An open cellar-flap happened tepbevin* \ his rear, and he disappeared down ifcwita much hurt to himself. ■ Tlifl > defence war- .: that tho flap,wan properly protected, aftil •, K had the jjlaintiff been walking face first he "■; would have escaped. Judge Lumley.Smith said that the late Chief Justice, had beJ4, ;,: that a man had a perfect right "to walks '• along the streets looking at the stare, -f. Besides there- ought not to be any traps. -T. He did not find that there waa any oontri-, butory negligence on the part of the boy*' ■" ij SOME EFJTECTS OF X RAYS. : The correspondence column of Kature ii.fe, r-M regular repository of contentious raatter,>£|§|| the Chinese puzzles of Kumagusu Wn&\t&ty\W and of phenomenal records from differehH||| parte of the world. Under the latter gory falls " the strange case of an operator," who states that after being engaged for some months in demonstrating Rdntgen apparatus, he has lost moat of hi* fejg finger-nails and the akin of one hand three times. Beaides this, he hoe suffered from severe eruptions and discomfort, including ft !fg painful swelling and discharge from the of the fingers. The only remedy he n* B found effective is to cover the hands ally with lanoline, hie theory being that ti&S-gl X rays, which are practically a concentrates fss form of actinic light, bum up the oil of the ,skin. The Rundschau also contains an account of an ray operator whose hands have peeled, & ?, ( **sS who is threatened besides with baldness. This phyeiological effect of raye, which is now pretty well confirmWlf.tffi opens up some interesting possibilities as its future use in cases ol cutaneous orders, for a thing which harms may fi eB rally be employed as well to heaL • - j;;^ CRYING IN~THEATRES. , _ " Why do people ory when they go tb^W f theatre?" This was the problem' which Mr Bernard. Harrow school,, discussed in a lecture livered by him before a meeting ,of National Society of Professors of Trench» in England, m ' Edmund Qoaee ' P^β