NEAR AND FAR.

Evening Star, Issue 15074, 4 January 1913, Page 5

NEAR AND FAR.

Dr Sido'nie Weiamann. a young woman physician at the Mannheim City Hospital, has saved the life of a woman patient by consenting to allow sufficient of liar owrbleed to be taken to arrest the ar,a?mia from which the patient, was dviug. BrJi the patient and her benefactress are ooinir well. °

Miss Dora Rcdrigues, a. Dutch girl of 19 years of age, daughter of an Amsterdam diamond merchant, who is engaged in making a walking tour round the world, ia now tramping through the United States on her way to Cuba. Her only companion is a big 38-calibre automatic revolver, which, up to the present time, however, she ha; had no occasion to use. Miss RodFigues, upon her return to Holland, will probably publish her experiences in the form of a book.

Cross education is the term used to describe a phenomenon that has recently been under investigation at a laboratory attached to one of the New England universities. Experiments have shown ihat the effects of practice on one side of the tody are transferred to the other «=ide, where there has been no practice. For instance, a fencer, practising lunges with a toil and using only his right hand, 'gained in two weeks 56 per cent, of accuracy in '?i im ; >.-"? ■ tl, , e same tirae > lfc was found . that his lett hand had gained 36 per cent or accuracy in the same exeicise, although it had no actual practice. So the exertion of the muscles of the right arm likewise increased the strength of the left

,•■« l ? ei , e T v ™ re two quaint bequests in the will, of John Dipple, a licensed victualler of Leytonstone (Eng.), who died in October Jast leaving estate worth £25,799. Ha leit two sums of £250 each to the treasurers of Leyspring and Leyton Lodges o! Freemasons, of which he had been a member, on trust for investment, the proceeds to be applied in providing a silent toast to be proposed and drunk to his memory at the annual installation of the worshipful master ot each lodge. If for any reason the bequest shall be held to be void or inoperative, then the money is to revert to the lodges absolutely; and if or when the lodges are dissolved, then it is to be divided equally between the Roval Masonic Benevolent Institution, the Roval Masonic School for Girls, and the Royal Masonic School for Bovs.

A case in which a woman's death was ; said .to have been caused by sheer fnVh* was investigated by the Willisden (London; coroner recently. Mrs Grace Ethel Frost M)), of Staverton road, had used, as was her custr.ro, a carbolic mouth wash. A few minutes later, in a state of great excitement she entered the room where her husband was sitting, and said : "Oh 1 have swallowed some of the mouth wash' and it is poison !" Almost immediately •she fell down and expired. The doctor who made the autopsy stated that, although the mouth wash was labelled " Poison/ it was so weak that the whole contents of the bottle would not be harmful Mrs lu-ostjiad died from heart failure caused by inght.