IN THE PAPERS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 3142, 6 November 1922, Page 7

IN THE PAPERS.

- Duty to the amount/of £IOOO was paid to the English Customs by .Mrs Wichfiold, a millionairess, of Washington, !>.('.. who recently arrived lit London from Paris. The luggage of herself and party comprised SO large boxes, and it took the Customs oflieials two days to appraise the perfumes and other dutiable articles they contained'. This is probably a luggage "record' for Transatlantic visitors. A large motor-lorry was necessary to transport the boxes from Victoria, to the Mil/. Hotel, where Mrs Wtchheld and her party of four, including the Duchess of I ha nines (also an American), together with six servants, were staying. Queen Alexandra remains faithful to tho "Ess Bouquet," which has been in use by the Royal Family since 1820. Tho recipe for this perfume is jealously guarded by tho manufacturers, and handed down by them from father to son. When a great Court perfumer talks of so' mighty a .secret as this, he becomes purposely vague. AM he will say of it is that it is composed of amber mixed with tho essences of roses, violets, jasmine, organe flowers, and lavender, "a fitting bouquet from which to cull a perfume for a beloved Queen." Mr King C. Gillette, now in London, told an interviewer how the famous safety razor came to lie invented. "A friend of mine asked why T could not invent .something that everybody would use and throw away afterwards, and then come back for more." he said. "Except pins, I could think of nothing. The next day in shaving I dropped my razor and damaged the edge. Then the idea, came." Probably the smallest bell boy in any ocean liner is Dau. McLain. of the American liner St. Paul, whicli sailed for Southampton recently. He is 42in high, weighs 751b, and is 23 years of age. Previously ho was "buttons" at a New York hotel. A horse at Epinal (France) killed two men who had maltreated it. "It is a case of self-defence." said its master to tho police, for "the horse is very docile. More than once, however. I have found these two men unmercifully thrashing it." One of the men had gone into tho horse's box and struck it. The horse broke away from Us stall, and, rearing, struck 'the man on head. Hearing the noise, the other man rushed in and, seizing a pitchfork, attacked the horse, but he also was killed. An airman's farewell to a comrade in'a falling aeroplane was described at a Folkestone (England) inquest. Piloted by Flying-Officer Walker, who had Aircraftsman Frank Kershaw with him, a new aeroplane crashed on July 26, and Kershaw was killed. In a statement made in hospital after the accident, Walker described how the machine got into a steep but slow spin, and all efforts failed to right it, as it did not answer the controls. When he realised it was beyond control he leant over to Kershaw and said: —"Good-bye, old chap. We are for it." He remembered: no more until after the wreck.

A novel method of advertising has been adopted at Brighton (England), lb has been tho practice for some time to send up from the beach box-kites displaying advertisements printed on strips of linen and other material. Advertisers, however, are now sending up with tho announcement a bell to draw attention to it. Kept in action by the breeze, the bell rings continuously, and can be heard .for hundreds of yards around.

A New Jersey (U.S.A.) motorist, driving a car with the license number 131313, had a hit of bud luck. Passing over a stretch of road with heavv timber on both sides, he saw in the'track of his machine two snakes, apparently in deadly combat. With the intention of killing the reptiles. he steered Ktvvught tor tl\«u\, but Uwy bw t \\wi entangled in the stcevhig-gear. As: a result the car ran off the road and turned turtle. An eminent medical authority states that in the body of an average man there is enough fat to make seven bars ()l soap; lime enough to whitewash a lien coop; phosphorous to make .2200 match heads; potassium in sufficient quantity to make a toy cannon go off: iron that would make two good-sized nails; sulphur enough to rid a dog of fleas; sugar enough to fill a sifter for the table; as much magnesium as would make a dose of magnesia. The actual value of the materials of which the lord of creation is made is four i-hillings and a penny. A great bridge, over two miles long, joining the island on which the City of Galveston is built, in the Gulf <>l Mexico, with the mainland of Texas, haw been completed, and' is now open lor traffic, its total length is 10,68511 and its width 63ft, and it haw, in addition to a. fine roadway for motor traffic, tracks for steam and electric railways. It is supported on 107 arches of steel and concrete, and cosf nearly a million pounds to erect. 'There is a man still living in America who spoke with Abraham Lincoln' only a few hours before the pistol of a madman put anend to one of the greatest lives in tlie history of mankind. Senator Cornelius Cole lias just reached; his 100 th birthday. He has had a useful and interesting career, and can still l talk with vigor and liveliness about the affairs of the day. Considerable support is being given to a proposal to anchor a floating nio-ni(M-iaJ over the Lusitnnia's grave, and a French sculptor has submitted a design. It in to represent a mother adrift on a raft with her child, and will be 80ft high. Provision would be made to have the memorial illuminated at night. Hans Mnyr, who played the part of Pilato in the "Passion Play" ac Oberammergau. was struck dumb after a, recent performance. It will be a year, dcotors think, before he recovers his speech. t Mr Lawrence liorlc, .hi expert of the Washington Bureau of Standards, is hoping to prove that insects communicate with each other by means of wireless signals. 'The antennae of wireless stations are the namesakes of the antennae of insects, and Mr Herle is trying to discover whether they use them to radiate some sort of special which he can detect by means of a special listening-in apparatus. The tiniest wireless waves are now known to be very much akin to the waves of light and heat, and it is quite well known that fireflies and glow-worms radiate energy in the form of phosphorescent light, Alj an evening party a lady said thai she had had a quarrel with her husband, but had made it up again, and to commemorate the event had planted a sapling. "There, you see,'' whispered the wife of a wealthy landowner in a tone of reproach to her husband, "if we had done that, what a splendid avenue, of trees we should have by this time,"' General S. had some shj.rls made at a fashionable hosier's, and the cutter, a few weeks; later, met the general with a friend. The General remembered the. face, but could not place him. and the cutter greeted him with: "Good morning, General." The general stopped, shook hands, and the cutter, perceiving that General's mind needed refreshing, said quietly, "Made your shirts." "Oh, I beg pardon," said the- General, quickly, and, turning to the gentleman with whom he was walking, he said, "Colonel, allow me to introduce you to my friend, Major Schiirtz."