NEWS OF THE WORLD

Greymouth Evening Star, 10 August 1920, Page 8

NEWS OF THE WORLD

“GHOSTS” OH A PHOTO. x\. great sensation lias been create.u at Jiurdwani, India, by the appearance or gliosts on a photograph. One .Lain TTundau juai liapur died one evening about a motitil ago. As lie was a Surjabangivi Ksiultra, bis body was not creniatecTTlll the appearance cl tire sun on tile following morning. Before Ike cremation took place, in accordance with cust.in, a photograph was taken of the body by the nephew cl the dead man.

vv lieu tJie negative war. developed an amazing discovery was made. In addition to the figure eF the dead man there were five other figures faintly visible. Two of these have been recognised as Lalas first wife and son, both of whom died many years ago. The remaining three are not sufficiently distinct to be identified.

SLEEP-WALKIN'G TRAGEDY

The theory that a voting woman, while walking in lie • sleep, mistook a wall for her he ’, and, in trying to lie on it. fell a Knit 35 ft. was put forward bv a witness at an in finest at Y'-va-wark on Eileen Stewart Kobinson , a children’s nurse, enr loved at Earl’s Court. The dead woman's father sahl liis daughter was a somnambulist, and had gone thr ugh an anxious tang, as Iter mistress, to whom she was devoted, had hee" l seriously ill. In the hospital, she said, “bad, I didn’t,” meaning that she did not throw herself from the window. Mrs Drury, Miss Robinson’s employer, said her theory was that the nurse, in her sleep, got out of bed, stepped through _ a window on to a ledge, and, mistaking the encircling wall for he 1 ’ ’■■oh tided to lie on it, and fell, over. A verdict of death by misadventure was returned. ELECTRIC MILK. Professor -I. Martin Beattie and Professor E. C. Lewis, bacteriologists. of Liverpool University, have discovered a means of sterilising* milk by electricity, which the Medical Research Committee, (National Health Insurance) report to. bs “a practical method, of which the use on a large scale becomes now a problem for closer financial and administrative examination. ’ ’ The two professors have been experimenting since 1914, with, the result that they have succeeded in destroying by electricity

the two chief dangerous species of microbes commonly found in milk. These are tlie bacillus of tuberculosis, which is the cause of the death of great numbers of children, and the bacillus coil communis, an agent in the production ox appendicitis, kidney disease, and summer cholera of children. Milk so treated keeps good for several days at ordinary room temperature. “The taste,” says the report, “is not altered, and the properties are not in any way impaired. The milk can be described accurately as ‘raw milk’ free from pathogenic (diseaseproducing) bacteria. Children take it verv readily, even those who object to heat-sterilised milk.” TWENTY OBESE WOMEN. Waddling' into the off!ee of Dr John Dill PoWCson, Health Commissioner of Chicago. 20 fat women, whose weight -wwavad a trills over 2201 b, presented themselves in response to his iuv;tatr-a issued through the newspapers, t > fine and be relieved of khnr surplus avoirdupois under Ins Cf"tion, free, gratis. Dr Robertson bad called for 50 heavy-weight volunteers, ha!‘ • thorn to he ■"mn. Only one fat man appeared, and mas on iiand eaias , but wiio-a.. he- found himself sun 'unde-t hv 440011) of feminity lie took alarm and fled. The reducing’ course will cnmnrise prescribed dieting’, gardening —e slle c i a l l v gardenia g—w a 1 k - inp’ and otlm ■ exercise. The mend ->rs of the class dinned overalls and started out to tdl n large field, which (Dr •Robertson observed genially ) “needs it, goodness knows.” Later, as thev straightened up- to rest their aching backs, map their brows and compare notes, it became bruited about that the field belonged to- the Health Coramissjoner, and this engende v ed suspicion that his scheme might not have been prompted by unadulterated altruism. • However, the doubters, encouraged by viscous of a return to sylph-like pulchritude. decided to go on with the experiment..