NOTES AND NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 10508, 11 February 1928, Page 6

NOTES AND NEWS.

Nine jurors, who admitted that they had been drinking during the hearing, of the evidence in a liquor violation ease in Lot Angeles, were dismissed by the court tor “betraying; a filtered I rust.” The Westminster Gazette announces a “romantic sequel to the Wn rath h’s reception and dance at Swansea—the engagement of Harold Tailored to Miss Vera Morgan.” The story, however, is denied bv the manager of the team. Denizens of monkeylnml at Hie Highland Parle Zoo will go to the movies soon.. If the monkeys exhibit emotion in' the showing .of “The Gorilla.” a group of University o. Pittsburgh, professors will be there to make due note of it. The last time all the monkeys went to sleep. “Nonsense!” said a shingled woman resident of Beading when she was summoned for leaving her motorcar for an unnecessarily long time in a. street. .“It wasn’t unnecessarily long,” she explained. “.' L takes me quite an hour to get my hair dime.” An unprecedented decision was giv--m in the Berlin courts recently. A youth, in a lit of jealousy, had dashed tile face of his beautiful liahcee with a razor, permanently disfiguiinc her. He’ was sentenced to marry her -r go to prison.

Accidental suffocation h.v inhaling a feather from a. bed was the verdict at a -Norwich (Eng.) inquest on a sevon-weelft-old child. The child was found dead’ m bed; A doctor said that a small feather had been found in t ie child’s larynx. It seemed that the feather had come from a pillow and that: death was due to suffocation.

Savs a Baris message: A modest taxi'cab used as a car is earning a reputation as sinister as the bmo'isine in which the Austrian Archduke and Archduchess were killed at Sarajevo. since it has been attended by tragic results, clespjte changes of ownership. Bast June its- chauffeur. Sou lie. was shot bv an .architects cleric who recently was sentenced to death.' Now, the same, cab has 'been found abandoned on a lonely roadside with a pool of blood on the floor. Tt is assumed that the driver, Cadorin. was killed and his .bod.v thrown in the river. ‘

When, at the civic "recent ion to the delegates to the Science Congress, the Mayor of Hobart announced that those wearing badges would be admitted free to the Hobart Zoo, a scientist,, in a hack 1 seat quoted a once popular song: ‘‘That’s tbe way to the zoo: the monkey house is nearly full, but there's room enough for you!”

I It'is not often that on a document 180 stamps are to be seen liemarks the Southland Times). A lawyer. the ’other day sent a Eed up to Lumsden and mentioned that a 15s stamp required to be affixed to it. To his surprise when the document came back 180 penny stamps were on it. Little else could he seen.

At a church service held at Byhone, England, on Armistice Sunday, a remarkable incident occurred. As the vicar was offering a prayer a white dove alighted on the memorial. After a moment the dove rose rind circled the memorial twice or thrice, and again alighted, to remain there for the rest of the service, which was being listened to by 5000 people. ■

According to reports at the Treasury,_lhe new degree of E-.H.D., or “DoCt&ff of High arid J)rv;” lias boon awarded to 25 special’ agents, who have been attending the first time o! the .Government’s prohibition school, which opened on November lj The agents took a course in ‘’General Enforcement Problems, and now are to return to their vaiious districts and spread learning among their fellow workers. Doan Seymour Lowman, who is also assistant secretary ot the Treasury, in charge cf prohibition enforcement, announced that the second term, a ■ post-graduate course dealing with ‘‘specific enforcement problems,” would open on November 2S. What degree successful completion of that, more advanced course would-win, he did not. saw

An alarming experience that was welcome in its subsequent- result holed a Bell Block ((Taranaki) farmer this month.’ Ho had been engaged for several days sinking a well for water on his property and when a depth of 6oft. was reached without any apparent satisfaction, the farmer •cctantly decided to abandon the shaft and try in another locality. Suddenly the ground began to tremble and lift beneath his feet in. a most alarming manner. Hurried calls were made for a bucket,, and ; the farmer, without waiting to collect bis tools, was hauled out. Before he reached the surface, however, water began to pour into the well, and in a few minutes it was estimated it had reached a dept of 40ft. The following day it was within rive or six feet frorn the top,. .... . ~

. “Jazz has swept over the world like a horrible disease-spreading epidemic. A lowlier sensual assault lias never been'made on the ears pf musie-lovcrs,” says Mr. Jan Ivhbehk, the famous voiliiust, when interviewed by the “Kvening News.” ”Edueation is steadily increasing our appreciation of art, amitherefore jazz will die suddenly, it is 'not even a slip in the march of progress,'but is a giant step backwards.”,;: Mr. Kubelik is reported to lie. planning a world tour, which wilt include A-Uslralasia'.

London : critics praise. “Lumber Love,’-’ which was Hirst produced li t Birmingham last month before a crowded and enthusiastic audience. The “Birmingham Gazette’s” dramatic critic predicts that it . w ill be a second “Bose Marie,” and pays' - a tribute to the charming music, .in the revision of which Bertc Adams and Miss Emmett Adams collaborated. The London ' “Evening News' says it is delightfully tuneful and extraordinarily vivacious.

Signor Cinnnini, President of the Bank of Italy, a Californian hank which had a remarkably rapid rise, lias given his income for 1027, £d(JL,000, to the University of California. Giaimini was horn. 57 years ago . in a lininbio rooming house. He started his bank in the immigration areasjof California in a small way about .20 years ago. He grew with the .development of the fruit and vegetable, industries of the State and consistently backed Italian migrants who went into these industries.

Tin* world’s oldest motor car, ~ n one horse-power Pnnhard, built- in 1801, and with a speed of eight miles an hour, is still in' working order, and has covered 200,000 miles, according to the Baris correspondent of the '“'Weekly Dispatch.” It is for sale hv its owner, .the Abbe of Gavois. who originally, paid £72 for it.

■Two. Scots attended a music-hall. Among tlie items was a conjuring ’performance.. , “W'eel, that was A- a grand juggler.”, ‘‘What,” exclaimy.l the other . ‘‘He was the worst L ov-m-. saw.” “Woel.” said the lirM, “maybe tbe body wasna verra cleyor, but inan, 1 gave him a bad ten-shi 1 - ljn’ note for a trick and ho gave me a. guid yin back.”

Hypnotism was'used in place 'of :i'i anaesthetic for a major surgical ty - oration at St. Luke’s Hospital, Ch‘ - ago. The operation, performed on :i young woman, was for the removal of adhesions in the abdomen and wasrim - ported a success. She was uriejor hypnotic control for more than an hour. Medical authorities said th-. use of hypnotism in surgery had bee i. reported for almost 75 years but that actual instances had been few.

The weakness of old age is responsible for my not personally receiving you, but .’ . . the sound of joinvoices and the, smell of your cigars will be a link Between us.” This; is the text of a message from th'e Dowager Duchess of Grafton read, to£B2 ex-Serviee men whom' she entertain- C; ed to dinner at her home Harlestqro f House, Northands. The Do wag-- ’ £ Duchess, who is 93, and an invalid, had the door of her room open,%o that she could* hear the songs. As she is half French the company sang “The Marseillaise’ in her honor s and also’her favorite hymn.* There was a comedy of errors; at> Winchester Assizes. A police sergeant in the court signalled to a policeman in the public gallery toboqnest a man to remove his hat. -T, bo policeman ignored the signals and the hat remained on. The clerk ; ,the court then sent instructions H o the policeman. A message came hack, that the man was a woman. 81 io wore a soft collar and tie and was Eton cropped. The sergeant blushed and the court smiled.

The superstition of Cumberland practice, of rubbing a stye on the-eye-lid with a gckl ring to effect a revtain cure was quoted by Dr. Quirm, local medical officer of health, in: a lecture at Wjgton (England), recer. - Iv. He declared that a lady assured him she cured herself of sciatica by burying a piece of grey cotton worsted, lin long, at. full moon in tie back garden. These and- other, similar practices were survivals of .old days when superstitition, cant- a d hypocrisy played a great part in the fib-lit against disease—when - alleged wise men compounded in dark ehai tbers cures comprising eoneoelions of rabbits’ ears, rats’ Howels, and frogs’ livers.

“We are threatened with a tax Lit a very unpopular figure, but can visualise most of the 170.000. vehido drivers in New Zealand taking sudden interest in their carburetters ” said an Auckland garage propriif-o” anpros of the petrol tax. He, added that a considerable portion of the Dominion’s annual petrol consumption of 14,<XK).CC0 gallons was blown inefficiently into, the atmosphere. -A substantial increase in price would result in a sudden interest in mileage per gallon, cost per mile, and other matter which the. motorist neglected after bn had been driyin" for a few months.