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Dunstan Times, Issue 3128, 31 July 1922, Page 2

A Geneva woman made a comfortable living for three years by feigning toothache. AVitli her head in blood-stained bandages, and simulating terrible pain, she used to call on likely victims to beg them to help her out of her agony. “I have just been, to the dentist,” she would say, “but I’ve left my purse at home, and he won’t take my tooth out unless I pay.” Nine times out of ten the stratagem succeeded. AA’hen she was arrested the woman was still wearing the bandages. ••Well," she exclaimed in triumph, “it’s been an easy living. The people were all such mugs.” The “Great Tree of Tide,” in Oaxaca State (Mexico), one of the largest trees in the world, is beginning to show signs of wear and tear and will wither away, it is believed, before the present generation has passed. The giant tree, a cypress, is about 800 years old, 175 ft high, and it.s branches spread about Isoft. It stands in the courtyard of a tiny church at Santa Alima del Tide, where the people revere it almost as much as one of the saints. It is known to have been a very large tree when Columbus discovered" America, and history records that Cortes and his Spanish soldiers slept under its branches centuries ago when on their way to Honduras after their conquest of .Mexico. English coal i® vapidly gaining ground in Germany since the removal ol the prohibition on importation. The orders placed last week exceeded one million tons, the chief purchaser® being the great industrial enterprises in German towns. British coal is needed for the improvement of gas.