NEWS BY MAIL

Gisborne Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 11841, 24 January 1933, Page 2

NEWS BY MAIL

DOG GOES TO SURGEON There is at Harrow, in, England, a bull-mastiff named Jock, and it is Jock’s master who tells this story, vouching for its accuracy (says the '‘Daily Mail”). Jock .recently had a growth on his nose. He was taken to a veterinary surgeon, a mile or so away and was operated on. It was necessary for Kim' to have a daily treatment, and every morning at a given hour he was taken to the surgeon. One morning Jock could not he found. Later in the day, however, he reappeared, and it was clear that he had had his surgical treatment. It was then found that because the man who usually took him to the surgeon was engaged Jock had gene off by himself. He walked into the surgery, placed his head on the surgeon’s knee, and,, closing his eyes, kept still while the surgeon performed a painful operation--5,0Q0 PLANTS IN OFT. HOTBED. An electric hotbed costing £l, twith eight 25 watt suns supplying heat and light to germinating plants, has produced interesting results in the Westinghouse laboratories at East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), says the “Popular Science Monthly”). Five thousand plants, representing 50 different varieties of common garden flowers and vegetables, were produced in the 6ft. by 4ft. bed at an average cost for electrical energy of less than l-30th of a penny each. This is about the same as the cost of deliv ered manure, ordinarily used in hotbeds, but the electric method has the great advantage of automatically sustaining an even temperature, as it ha s a thermostat control. During tests last spring the. outside temperature!'dropped ns low as 10 degreeFahrenheit, but the eight lamps kept the interior of the bed to 60' degrees. On a miniature scale they duplicate effect of the sun by providing heat and light, SIR HENRY I.YTTON’S RUSE Sir Henry Lytton, Hie veteran Savoyard, recently recalled that when he first joined the Gilbert and Sullivan opera company in Glasgow near, iy 50 years ago, he and his wife posed as brother and sister (say? the ‘Daily Mail.’). “Some of the managers in those days,” said Sir Henry Lytton, did not like to have married, people. in their companies, so my wife and I thought that the brother and sister business would be a good way out. Wo carrion on for many years like that, and it was the stage manager who gave it all away. He began to get very fond of my wife, ancl told me he would see my ‘sister’ home for me. So he and my 'sister 5 walked off together while I walked behind. In the end we had to produce our marriage licence and it was all right.” .

WHAT CAN A WOMAN DO? Will Miss Estelle Taylor, Hie film star, marry Air John \\ a r burton, now acting in the film production ol “Cavalcade”? (asks the correspondent of the “Daily Mail” at New York. ■ The one-time wife of Jack Dempsey, the former heavy-weight, boxing champion, now in Chicago:—“No,_ no are just friends. We do not even write to each other.” Mr Warburton has been escort to Miss Taylor on several social occasions in the film colony, and has appeared with her in two pictures. Miss Taylor’s explanation of the rumour is:—“ln Hollywood jf you. go out with your husband you are suspicious; with another woman’s husband, you are wicked; with another woman you are unttractive; with a bachelor you are engaged; and M you stay at home you are morbid. "What can one do?”