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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1039, 31 January 1911, Page 6

"When a Japan wo appeared to prosecute in a caso of theft at a London Police Court some considerable difficulty arose as to putting him on oath. The magistrate asked hint if he would he sworn by the breaking of a plate ot the burning of a candlc. The man decided to be sworn by the candle method. . A candle was brought into Court and' remained alight on the edge of tlio witnes-box while the oath wns administered, tlio idea with Orientals being that, as the eandlo is 6nuff«l out, so will (heir souls be snulTed out if they do not tell the truth. - A remarkable caso was referred to at the St. Asaph Board of Guardians. . It was decided to relieve the case of a girl stated to be 15 years of age, who had been born without bone. She is 36 inches in height, and weighs 301b. "Nature seems to be evolring a new sok i it is certainly not man, and verv unlike what we used to know as woman. Thus Mr. Plowden at Jlarylebone, on hearing that it took three policemen to tako a woman to the station. At Great Yarmouth Christmas cattlo salo a bullock that had been grazed by Mr. Thomas Cook, and weighed one ton 2cwt. 2qr, 221b., was purchased by a local butcher for JJSO, tho highest price ever given in tho eastern counties for a Christmas os. ' A young Italian peasant and his bride, of liondovl, -entered a. train for tlio first tlmo In their lives in order to spend their honeymoon in Turin,' Hut they wero fio terrified by the train's motion that they jumped out, tho bridegroom being seriously hurt.