IN THE PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3137, 2 October 1922, Page 8

IN THE PAPERS.

"»•»- ■ Sixty-nine years of age and married to five women without the formality of a divorce, Thomas Worland, of Chicago, smiled with relief when sent to prison on a sentence of from one to five years. Two of his wives advanced 1 to the bar of justice arm in arm. Worland was sent to prison in 1917 on a charge of bigamy. He admits he "has a way" with women and they cannot resist him, some, he declared, even going to the extreme of kidnapping him. Worland, after being releaised on: that occasion, "married'" Olive Helth and' Til lie Darlington, both of Chicago, in rapid succession. It was his fourth "wile" who caused his rearrest. Doctors at the Beth Moses Hospital'. Rrooklyn, state that three of the vital organs in Abe 1 Glazer, aged twenty. are misplaced, but otherwise he is in good l health. The fact that Glazier's heart, liver, and spleen are reversely situated became known at the hospital when ho went under treatment for rheumatism. Dr Bernard Sternberg applied tho stethoscope to where the heart ought to be, but eomld l not detect the slightest beat. Further examination showed the organ in question was oil Grazer's right side. Dr Sternberg called Drs Weinstin and Weitzman, and the >atient underwent a more thorough examination. It was then found that Gtazer'w liver, usually on the right side, was functioning on the left side, while bis spleen was on the right side, whereas it should be< on his left. A timid bidder at the Hotel de Vertex, in Paris, recently, preparing for the summer vacation, offered 16 trams lor a haltered trunk, win :h had been abandoned by a client of the hotel. Tt was knocked down on the first offer. The woman opened her properly, rummaged among some old papers and found a sack of 1.5,000 francs in gold, including several coins of numismatic value. Her rejoicing was cut short, however, by the auctioneer, who claimed the sack in behalf of the Government under an anei-mt law providing' that unclaimed coinage reverts to the Stnte._ Beginning from July Ist "Walk on tho left" is the rule for Loudon's sidewalk traffic. The Safety First Council lias studied tho problem of sidewalk congestion from all angles l and decided to organise a concerted effort to remedy it. Practically all tho twentyeight metropolitan boroughs .have lined ii]) to put into effect the leftward rule, posting notices along the streets. Heretofore' the sidewalk rule, if any, has been to the right, while street'traffic goes to the left, thus causing many accidents. in addressing a. mass meeting of several thousand persons in New York lately. Countess Markieviez denounced Mes'si's Collins and Griffith for signing away the freedom of Ireland, and said that evidently for these weaklings the glamor of ~\fr Lloyd George was too .strong. ' '.fu-day in Ireland," tho Countess said : . "it is a question of a Republic such as America versus a miserable travesty of Canada's Constitution." Since her arrival in. New York, says a correspondent, Countess Markieviez has learnt that the -Sinn Pei'tiers are in a, derided minority in the United States, and that for' the vast majority of the American people there is opposition to> any movement exploiting that country for the benefit of either side. Some leading Sinn Feinere publicly announced their ad!herenee to the settlement effected, and oppose the raising of money by envoys of. the Irish Republic. "Sparking" pews for young people are the attraction in one Kansas City church, where the pastor, the Rev. C. A. Finch, has reserved two pews at the buck as w. aid to Cupid. "Tlwsse> v?l\o .simply cannot live without one another should be given every opportunity possible to Jbe together," he explained. "Lovesick young persons are easily ombarrased by the unsympathetic eyes of dignified church deacons and puritanical matrons who perhaps have forgotten their romantic yesterdays. That is my reason for reserving the rear pews for youthful lovers. I consider it far more appropriate for the younger generatio nto 'spoon' at church than in motor-care along lonely country roads. Let no youthful couple search for the place to tell love's

story/' he adds. "They can 'spark' in Central Church. A tarantula has killed the leader of a pack of man-eating sharks. Sailors aboard the United Fruit Steamship Tivives, which arrived from the Canal zone, state that after the vessel left Jamaica, it was followed for twentyfour hours Iry several whales. But latn on Sunday an attacking school of sharks made its appearance, and the whales Hod, leaving two of their number dead. The passengers got nervous when, the sharks insisted on staying alongside, so the sailors made a "dummy" man of painted canvas filled with banana, stems, on which they discovered a. big and deadly tarantulla. They deliberately "riled" the venomous creatine, and then sewed up and cast their dummy overboard. According to their story the shark leader grabbed it and instantly ripped it open. A i\'\v minutes later the ugly man-eater started to flap weakly in the tvator, turned over, and died. It comes with all the agreeableness of good news that Mr Drinkwater is to prepare a play on Robert Burns and bis literary life, says a. Loudon paper. Whether the dramatist will introduce that one significant occasion when the hoy Walter Scott was able to give Hums the name of the unknown author of a poem just quoted, or whether he will introduce the immortally small tradesmen and small debt that came down with the extremities of legal pcocess on a dying yet death-

less poet is t» bo seen. But into liis work Mr Brinkwuter will most happily weave a selection from the songs and ballads, and these will lie sung to the old tunes or model settings. Tn that method of selection he will have abundance of scope, for the complete edition shows well over 260 "Songs'' and "Ballads'- - so named, not to consider the dozens of other pieces ju lyrical, form. The Surrey County authorities htive resolved to put a limit to vocalisation by passengers on motor coaches, and thereaneut a London daily remarks s : The policeman's l lot grows more and more unhappy if we may judge by the growing complexity of the demands made upon dim. How, for instance, is lie to cope with the new resolution <yf I lie Surrey county authorities against "loud singing'' by passengers in motor coaches. He would have known what lo do if all winging had been banned. hut what is the proper definition of loud singing:- 1 Would 1 a OarufiO ill a. motor-coach he arrested, while some tuneless person who only hummed went scot-free And by what method is he to measure for a: bench of magistrates the precise loudness of the singing which may move him to an arrest-? The Daily Berlin American, a new Knglish language paper, began publication in Berlin in March. This is the fust daily in the English language ever printed in that city. It is fivo marks a copy, about eight times more than that of the German dailies.