NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 122, 15 February 1908, Page 12

NEWS IN BRIEF.

Saved 932 Lives. Some 932 lives were saved by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's boats during' tho past year, and, 43 vessels were safed from partial or total loss. , Real or Artificial? After 40 years' experimenting, John Lucas, of Hazleton, Maryland, is displaying, a number of pearls which ho- asserts he grew with l.iyo fresh-water mussels. Ost Causes Child's Death. A cat went to sleep over the face of the infant daughter of Mr. Potter, of Matlock, England, and suffocated her. At the; inquest the . jury : returned ' a verdict of accidental death. ■ Mounts a Roof. • .: A Midlandf train came into collision with some empty coachcs at Stockport Railway Station, and the, end. coach, mounting tha buffers, was pushed through the station roof. Honour for Speaker. ; Cumberland county, magistrates have de* cided- : to. present a portrait of. Mr. J. W. Lowther, tne Speaker, to the county, in re» cognition of his services as chairman'of quarter sessions. ; . Hermit sent to Prison. • ' John Curchin, tho "South Lincolnshire hermit,": who lives in the fields and subsists largely : on vegetation, Was sentenced to 12 months' imprisonment recently , as an incorrigible .rogue.; '"'!' ", ' . ... Office Boy's -'Joke." ' .- -f ■ Six girls were locked by an office boy in a fireproof and airtight room on' the 12tho floor of a Chicago skyscraper. Tho boy found he could not reopen the door, and the girls were almost suffocated when help arrived. Race In the Snow. While, suffering from pneumonia arid-deli-rious, a Belfast carter named Stewart leaped from a second: floor window and, dressed only in a shirt, ran for two miles in the snow. He was caught by a cyclist and,is recovering, i Pursued by Bad Luck. Charles E.! Davies, of Brooklyn, who had bought, raffle. tickets for'a lifetime without gaining a prize.* becamt so annoyed at his ill- ■ i luck that lie tlirew away his last'purchase. Ho now learns that ho was entitled to a' £200 motor car. : ; Medical Inspection of Children. V. i Somerset; County Education Committee has announced its intention of appointing a chief medical inspector who will devote all his time to tho medical inspection "of children,attending elementary schools, at a salary, of £500 a, year! / -v,,-,- : '.. . .■ '• '.!./' Seven;Tlmes Forgiven. 1 > A'■ wite, who' sunioned her husband at Brentford, .England for: desertion, said ;she M(1 lkft him seven times, but had''forgiven him on each occasion. "You must in reality be very fond of ono another," said tho magistrate. "I'shall adjourn tlie case in tho hope of a settlement." Thirteen at Table. Fifty-five years ago, on New Year's Day, 1853, Lord Roberts sat down—one of a' party of 13—to dinner' at Peshawar. Eleven years later; not one of those 13 had died,: though most of: them had taken part in the suppression of' the Indian Mutiny and fivo or sis had.been'.wounded. //' • 72-Years a Collier. The funeral lias taken place at Exhall, . Warwickshire, of John Sliephard,, aged. S6, 'who worked,in coal mines for 72 : years., Engaged 24 Times. ... > Mrs. Janie Brown, of Atlantic City,-vho has just, married,-has been; divoroed three times, engaged, 24- times,, and has won two breacli of promiso cases. . .'■ . ' 1 * ' Deputy Mayor asTram Driver. ;': A' party of municipal guests, invited to a luncheon at Dover recently,' were driven from , tlio town hall to' tho hotel, in a. special tric tramcar by tho deputy mayor; Mr. E. M. ; Worsfold. » A Good Reason. ; Bcforo-1 wrote "Tho Christian" novel and play, tho nowspapers were more kind to me [ than to'almost ally other writing man of my genciution. Sinco then thby have been less ' fair'to mo than to almost any- scribbler of the century—Mr. Hall Caino, in the "Play." 1 Long-Lived I oor

Tho Dunmow - Guardians ascertained recently; that out of 600 persons in receipt of out-roiiof, 300 woro-.moi'o than 70 years of ago, 208 moro than : 75,105 more than SO, 27 moro than 85, and four moro than 00, whilo ono was 97. - . , ■ Pig at a Wedding'A pi;x, gaily bqdccked with ribbons, formed tho chief attraction at a wedding at AYalton-orv-l'rytit. Whilo oif tho way to tho church tho aiiimal,' which 'was a present, from; a frioiul of the bride and bridegroom, escaped amoii f ; tho wedding guests, and was chewed through: tho stroets by an excited.ciowd. : ■