News and Notes.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8074, 26 August 1905, Page 7

News and Notes.

During a bull fight at Dnrango (Mexico) a drunken spectator hurled a piece of iron pipe at Silverio Chico, the matador, just after he had killed hi 3 fifth bull and was preparing to plungo his sword into the heart of the sixth. The iron struck Chico on the head, knocked him; insensible on the ground before an enraged bull, which charged and gored tho matador in a horrible manner before he could b-> carried from the arena. As soon as the people realised what had occurred, they made a rush for the drunken offender, and he was lorn to pieces by the incensed populace, his dismembered body being hurled into the arena where it was kicked and trampled upon until it bore no resemblance to that-of a human being. Chico's injuries are of a serious nature.

In the correspondence columns of several leading New York newspapers a strenuous campaign has recently been •waged against the domestic tooth-brush, which is declared to be insanitary and hurtful to the gums. Dr. Palier, in a health paper, started the rumpus by declaring that undue dental scrubbing is largely responsible for American's bad teeth, which, usually speaking, - are the worst in the world. "Nowhere," he says, " is the brush used with such vigour as here and nowhere is the demand for artificial teeth as prevalent." Scientists say that the bristles irritate and inflame the gums, separate the latter from the teeth-roots, and by allowing the natural bacteria of the mouth to work 0 1 the raw, weak, and sensitive structures, indirectly • starts the first process of decay... The substitute for the tooth-" brush chfefly favoured is a pledget of" sterilised cofctou, which can be gently used as-a purely mechanical swab, and afterwards thrown away. The correspondence admits that the daily consumption of sweets and~ icecream by Americans is largely responsible for dental deficiencies.