TRIPLETS IN SHOP WINDOW

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 791, 22 August 1923, Page 12

TRIPLETS IN SHOP WINDOW

Triplets born to the wife of Mr Turner, an unemployed Middlesborough engineer, were exhibited in a gift perambulator in a local shop window, attracting - large crowds. The pecupiers of the shop were fined 40s for causing an obstruction in the street. JEWEL CONNOISSEURS. The Hon. Mary Pickford, younger daughter of JLord Sterndale, Master of the Rolls, was lately robbed of jewellery valued at £IOO by two men who called at the house on the pretext of cleaning windows. The thieves ransacked a bedroom and disappeared. AN ECHO OP ZEEBRUGGE. The alarm bell used by the Germans on the Zeebrugge Mole, which was presented by King Albert of Belgium to the town of Dover in recognition of the fact that the fleet for the famous raid on Zeebrugge set out from Dover Harbour, has been placed in its permanenfposition on tlxe front of the town hall, under an artistic canopy, an engraved descriptive tablet being placed lower on the face of the hall. DOCTOR'S TRAGIC DEATH, s Dr. Ronald Munroe, of Ibstock, Leicestershire, was found dying in a small wood. A wound above the heart had apparently been made by a steel for sharpening knives, which was found lying near. The discovery was made by a young colliery clerk, Thomas Heap, champion mile runner of Leicestershire, while walking through the wood in the ingDr. Munroe was only 22 years of age. and came from Edinburgh, where he had a brilliant record as a medical student. SATISFIED HIM. A Scotch farmer famed for N his strength was often challenged by people from a long distance who had heard of his reputation. One day there arrived from London Lord Darby, a well known amateur athlete. He found the Scot working in the field. "Friend," said his lordship, after first tying his steed to a tree, "I have come a long way to see which is the better wrestler." Without saying a word the farmer seized him around the middle, pitched him over the hedge and resumed his work. His lordship slowly gathered himself together, whereupon the farmer said: "Weel, nae ye any thin' mair tae say tae me?" "No! But perhaps you'll be so good as to throw me my horse!" A SIMPLE SOUL. M. Witos, the new Polish Premier, is distinguished by the simplicity of his sartorial appearance, which has created something of a sensation in fashionable circles in Warsaw. He abstains from wearing either a collar or a tie. and his shirt is buttoned at the neck with an' inexpensive stud. A good deal of amusement has been created by the efforts of a Polish newspaper to open a "Cravat Fund" for the Premier. The Minister declined to accept this token, and the sum was handed over to the local Red Cross. The receipt read "Instead of a tie for M. Witos." A PAINTED BABY. Rouge and powder were blamed by a Kingston husband for his matrimonial troubles. His wife, Mrs Wall, asked the local magistrates for a separation order, on the ground of persistent cruelty. Quarrels had started, said the husband, when the wife used rouge and powder, not only on herself, but on their girl of seven also. He added that his wife was also annoyed because he would not tell her all that happened at his Masonic lodge. A separation order was granted. ENGLISH "LOURDES." There is a well in tho vicarage garden at Willesden which has had a reputation for efficacy in cases of opthalmia for 400 years. The vicar said he had been vicar for 21 years, and had to deal with continual applications for quantities of the water. One of these came from Southend, and the patient had been very greatly relieved. The church dates from the early part of the fourteenth century, and it is recorded that devotees from various parts were formerly attracted to the spot by an image of Our Lady, renowned for dispensing benefits. • HUMAN TRANSPLANTATIONS. A paper has been issued by the Salvation Army, entitled "Transplantations," in which are set forth the results of General Booth's women's migration scheme, which was carried out under a fund raised in 1916, of which the Public Trustee was the honorary treasurer, and for which an appeal for another £IOO,OOO is made. Under the scheme 1769 women and ,1000 children have been transferred from unsatisfactory conditions and established in comfort in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere. Many of the women were widows, and a proportion were single women who went out as domestic helps. A great many of the widows have remarried, and the single women have been equally fortunate in finding hiisbands. BOGUS V.C. Edgar William Melsome, GB, a salesman, who arrived in Australia from Wales (Eng.), in 1914, was sentenced at Darlinghurst to 12 months' imprisonment. He had pleaded guilty to a charge of having failed to account for money which he had collected on behalf of the Mosman war memorial. Melsome cut quite a dash in Mosman district by posing as the holder of the Victoria Cross, Croix* de Guerre, and Military Medal. He claimed to he a brother of a noted film actress. He gave addresses from public platforms,