NEWS & NOTES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 15 September 1909, Page 4

NEWS & NOTES.

SLEEPING SICKNESS IN ETJEOT'E'', Occasional cases of sleeping sickntfSe hxe still reported in Europo. Tuo lr.tcSt victim is a P^eiicll priest, Who was sUiCken recently While in . the Luxembourg ;Gardeu, iv Paris. <H_ is a mfembei- of the- Ordre dv Sflmt Esprit, a niah of middle ago, having a robust frame, and, fin til a y6af or two ago, a x fine pres&neo. Pivd years ago he w.nt oiit to take charge. . of a Roman Catholic mission in' West Africa. Ho made several journeys in the Upper Uibangi, and two year. ago felt the first symptoms of. tho sleeping sickness while visiting those parts. He was invalided home and sought the best treatment. There Is another case of sleeping sickness ,in the latent stato in Paris. The patient is Dr. Gustav Marpin, wAo contracted tho di.ease in Wcßt Africa) through, he believes, the bite' 8f a tsrtse fly. Returning to Paris' about two years ago, he suffered . the 'first symptoms of the disease, being generally in a state of intense las-, situde. During the last two years he has undergone tho r.ocogn.ised treatment. There is said to be verjr slight hope of an absoiuto r'edove'ry, but thus far he has escaped tho later symptoms manifested in Father Beaucheno. Tho cost of old ago pensions in the British Isles from April to June was £2,046,000, A plain' porringer of the time of Charles 11., dated 1675, weighing 61 1-5 oz., was sold at Christie 's recently at £14 per ounce. Tobacco .in Holland is looked on with so favoura-io «ln eye that ministers see nH irroverance in smoking ii pipe or cigar iii chiir-H; As a result of the Royal Naval and Military tournumont, £4000 will be available for Service charities. The receipts amounted to £21,323. Delegates representing 1600 Esperanto clubs and societies in all parts of tho world woro represented at the Esperanto Congress at the White City The Territorials numbered ou IstJuly 260,676, or 86.3 1 per cent of a

possible 382,047; 98,335 .-were under. twenty, and 62,506 engaged for a , only only. , .■;••■' . A Chinaman convicted-, of piracy -al Singapore, and setnenced to death,, declared that he -would "take his. eftSO to the oouTt of th.'next world.',' About half a million specimens of leaves and flowers a month, said Mr Melvill Beacbcroft, are sen roand to London day schools for lessons on nature - . At an -n^-^S- at "Stepney. "tin a Wdman -who died _u_de'niy, it .was stated that she had been insured by about forty relatives irt : difle. eiit in-' Buranco. companies. ... . . ' Children in France, as a general rule (says "Footwear"), are remarkably -trill shod. Nothing is too good for the' youngsters, whose fathers and mothers treat them invariably Willi indulgent solicitude; In consequence of it Strike of clergymen nt Liengnita> in tsiiesia, one of the prisoners in tho local gaol has been uuthorise- to hold the Sunday service there. It is' neurasthenia (says the ' 'British M.difial Journal") which breeds the almost universal ahslety about health, . which is one. of the sign. Of the times. ■ This leads to a corresponding prevalence of quackery of every kind.. .'"■■'.. The members .Of the Hairdressers'' and, Barbers' Union -of •Cork have de : cided to afford all the men in Cork City, who are out of work owing to '„ the strikes and lock-outs, free hair .cutting and. shaving, every -day of tiio "weefe, Saturdays excepted. There are about _666 striker's who are ide 'For a pair df Chine.c . tiioMolnin beakers, 13% inches ;higlf. of tlie Eang-he dynasty,: enainolled with peonies, prunus; and' chrysanthemums "in famille verte on a back ground, £2730 was lately paid at Messrs Christie's rooms. Tho baptism of the twin children of Mr and Mrs ' A. GUlingham at' Kirkham, near Preston, lately, was attended by the ' father's twin sis-, fers, w-0 acted as- godmothers, and by the mother's twin brothers, who wero godfathers. -, Anioiigst the, plans ' recently passed by the. IV.oria Town Council were: .— Bock's Pi:-k £5100,. and the Olympic Eink £3(».-0. "In addrosßing the students of the St. Martin 'a.. Aft Silhool; Oastle-st., : W.C, Sir Hubert von Herkoiher advised them not to let methods come too readily. His beet work was often done when he did not care n -straw about it. Certainly all the pictures ho had given -W-y were his best. -.When the Declaration of Bights was drawn up and liecame the law of the land, one of the first propositions therein laid • down (writes the "Spectator"-- was the right of Englishmen to bear arms in defence of; their liberties. But it is useless for a man to bear arms unless he has been trained to uso them. If an enterprising firm of European boot manufacturers started a boot factory in India (says the '^Shoe aud Leather Bocord"), and worked on correct' linos, handsome profits would eventually be earned. Labour is cheap, but native workmen in tbo boot trade, havo a very great liking for strong drink. Upon a recommendation coming before the Strand Union guardians that ah artificial leg be provided for a patient, a member (Mr A. Sargent) remarked that "the unfortunate thing about the supply of artificial appliances for patients is that they 001 l them." Mr »A. Burden: Surely •in would not sell his legl Mr Sargent: One fellow sold a nose which ■'• psve him. '.'rwing iii his annual report the ' ■«< for mental disease, Dr Willini/. Priliam, medical superintendent of Bc'i-Jst District Lunatic Asylum, gives first place to healthy regular work. "It is admitted to-day," he says, "that the best, cure of all mind disturbances is digging iv the soil. Thero is somefhing about mother earth which gives steadiness, poise, balance — in a word, health physical and mental.".