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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLVIII, Issue XLVIII, 13 July 1915, Page 6

1' Stoker .Turner,-.- of. the Lusitanaa, has survived three of the greatest wrecks jn history- Ho was.saved irom the Titanic, .and was also on the Empress of Ireland when she sank in the St. Lawrence on J May 29 last year. He was'safely.landed J at Kinsale after.'' his third disaster. j Large companies of Berlin and Char- ; lotteiribuTg grammar school boys have been organised as horticulturists.. In their free time some of the teachers march them out to the suburbs, where such schoh? as make application are each \ supplied with an acre of communal land, | which they 'engage to cultivate. Tie ' well-known Goethe .gymnasium has or 1 gxtnised 50 hoys of the third form _as ! gardeners, with the object of raising ='' aiimmer vegetables. ' The Emperor Fried- ' rich School devote 100 boys to the I raisingof potatoes. These two schools \ educate, the sons, of the most opulent or '. the citizens of Berlin. The "Petit Journal" (Pa.rr.s) publishes an interview with Dr Jultis Glover, who has made a wonderful' discovery in connection with the telephone, which is about to be communicated to the Academy of Medicine, by Professor Arsoeval ,Di- -Glover iays :—"I have found a way I of telephoning which loaves the face free I for reading and hands free' for wriitng Lwitbxmt any apparatus for the mouth or nose even at the'side. The voice is particular! v pure arid clear. lam looking afier Vounded soldiers at Bwiujon, andwhile ■ auscultating them by means < of 'microphones I succeeded, little by little, ' in discovering the nw telephone transmitter by means of microphone ausIcultatlnp" of the voice,"