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Cromwell Argus, Volume XLIII, Issue 2286, 26 February 1912, Page 2

Carlo Buongiovanni, a young Italian peasant, and his bride, Maddalena, of Mondovi, recently entered a train for the first time in their lives in order to spend their honeymoon in Turin, but they were so terrified ey the train's motion that they jumped out. The bridegroom received seri oub injuries, the bride being unhurt. A Girl belonging to a wealthy Geneva family had just threatened to bring about a referendum in Switzerland. Her fiance has been arrested on what she considers unjust grounds and she threatens, if he is not released, to obtain the necessary 30,000 signatures, and refer the matter to the entire nation.

Someone, discussing a member of the Government who had been a great failure, once remarked to Mr. Lowe: — “ They want to make him a peer!” “ No,” retorted he, with his usual acerbity • “ they want to make him disappear !” A plague of snails on the coast of Ceylon is assuming serious proportions. Millions of snails are to be found, and some of them weigh as much as a pound. The snails have begun feeding on the young cocoanut trees, and it is feared that they m«5 attack the young rubber trees.