ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXV, Issue 41, 18 February 1908, Page 2

ACCIDENTS AND FATALITIES.

[BT TELEGBAI'I?.— PEESS ASSOCIATION J , DUNEDIN,' 17th February, in© uoay of a man, supposed to bo that <jf Alexander Reed, a 'single "man about- lorty years of age, was found in th» -Molyneux river, near Clyde, to-day. -'Deceased, who waa a rabbiter, was )to>t--*een on 7th January, near,, tho river.' INVEROABGILL, 17th, FetyunrF. At the inquest on Snenoer, who was ' drowned at tho Bluff while trying-to «ay« a. boy named Buobanan from" drownine, tho jury found that h$ was "drowned Si nn heroic effort to cave life, txit Mama being attachable to nuyone; and, recommended that tho life-saving efforts of J3anjel Johnson, Alfred Towner, and 3ames -Price be made known in tho proper quarters with a view to some 'fitting acknowledgment. The jury also recommended the erection , of a notice ; board, with a warning that the beach is dangerous for bathing, and that a lifebuoy be nlaced at a convenient position.

A qurious sidelight is thrown upop! the divorce question in America. A 'mother C3rfio mto the room and found he; two children quarrelling about a doll .\,She fc ?"fi "f w , «"»«> ttop quarrelling; or I shall take the doll away, I ,' "Wa aren't realJy quarrelling, niaiurn*.'' eaid ouo of the little girls, "we'ro playing Jennie's suing me for divorce, and we'ro trying to decide who'll have the custody of tho child. ' When it is remembered that 1,300,000 divorces have been recorded in tho UY.ited State 3in a period of twenty years, perhaps it is not surprising that children should play at divorce ts they play at going to echooL >^ Tho story is told of- Mark Twain entering a bookshop iv Washington and aeking tlve prico of a oertain volume." It was 163. "But lam a- journalist!" 'Mark Twain continued. "Will you hot' allow mo a reduction?" "Certainly."' '• "I also write for the toagazincs, and'X you roducoj prices vi such caeesf- r"YVa do " "Well, I've writton one or, tw» books an well, and I belong to the American Society of, Authors. , That generally procures me a reduction, too." '•teo,witi - make that reduction as well. "Now^look here. I'm a shareholder in the £ria that publishes tho book Can't I get a further ■ rebate on that?" "Undoubtedly.'* ""My namo is Mark Twain. Perhaps you have hoard of me Don't, rou think T oiighfc to be favoured a little?" "Of" cdureo you should be.". Excellent," raid Mark, Twain, "and y,ow. how muoh havo, l to pay for tho -book?" - "Nothing '}£ - *11," was the answer ; "on the -contrary* the firm owes you at loa«t thres ebillinsfe *nc! vxneiut:,,