THER LANDS.

Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 46, 6 July 1908, Page 2

THER LANDS.

♦ ' , - rir> 1 ' >i; " 1 T " i'H"VH'I Sa,C"S'Sw!j^w lN '' ri‘ i 1 ni'K or ‘A fpiT." - two lions have been IBMlartilleol „t <•..[■. nh-.ir -n |..r the m«v*t axtruoiitinnr> reason—to provide a bioscope owner mill it realistic picture of a lion hunt. tgHL He bought the lions front Itageubeck, the threat, ntenaperie provider, §|H antf had them trundled to it lonely spot, which had carefully decor9HH sted beforehand with ‘‘properties'’ to j m Two UirtdiH were used as a lure, and j huntsmen, suitably arrayed, were in i|f|iH rvttifirifss. wh«*n tin* poli* •• stopped the I performance. Not to bu—baulked of I WSKIm his idea, the enterprising bioscope |lkl man secretlv carried out his plan a GSg| few days later. When the lions were H *t*flrst listless, but aUor a time they |§GG becans* furiouis, and attacked each other M'i.‘, lv. Aitqr the fight had HHHm lasted for some time the hunters. BH who wore Rood marksmen, shot both IhG GIRI/S LEAP TO DEATH. for three tense hours a crowd of horror-stricken people watched a tragedy iir midair at Saggart. CounGBS| ty Dublin, recently. At the end of 9HB| that tfnie a girl threw herself from the top of the church tower, which iyGgy was 120 feet in height, to meet with H Minftffe Hunt was the girl. She GBSy had for ” some time been strange in |BBy her manner. The doctor who had exiyyy| arnined her suggested she should be |yyy| kept under observation. Hut she csWm raped and ran to the top of the HBB church tower. Here, in view of a crowd of horrified spectators, she sat Mm on the edge of the parapet. Effects Mm were made to reach her from the inWm side, but it was found that she had Wm locked the door. She also threatened Mm that she wquld jump if anyone came BRB The (local priest and a sergeant WM opened the door at the ground and succeeded in getting quite near the Wgm poor girl, but she refused to come down. For three hours Father See- ■■ vi-rs knelt on the staircase beseeching Hyß| tie girl to return. Holding out a crucifix towards her he entreated her iyyy| to take it and come in, but she refsHy fused. When he offered to go tolyyyi wards her she would step forward as iHi The situation was a terrible one. fH. Suddenly si r leapt over the parapet and fJI o*i tin- gravelled walk, of the lyyi chur<rf\urd’!'*«\Vl)rii picket! up she was ■B ofcHMAX SAVES DIUTON. gggg||i For an act of marvellous heroism |H| and self-sacrifice, Dr. Albert von JIHfG Lccoq, a German physician, is to reWm ceive a ran* and special honour. He wm to h<* presented by the Prince of iyyy! Wales and the (,'hupter-General of the Order of the Hospital of St. .John of |GH Jerusalem with their life-saving WM medal, struck m gold, for the first Mm Last year Dr. von Lecoq was travlyyy elling in Chinese Turkestan with Capyyy tain J, I). Sherer, Koval Garrison Artillery, wh**n tin* latter befame ill Wgm with entric ie\er and pneumonia. Leaving all his meat and other for the use of the invalid, the to travel for nine consecutive days, crosting th-* glaciers of the dreadful Mm Sasser ami Mungiti Passes, and living Wm meantime on flour balls dipped in SS£y I)r. von Lecoq. who himself was in Wm poor health, crossed, the Sasser and |H Murghi Passes three times in fotirteen days, the third time in a blindHB iftg snowstorm. The Sasser Pass is nearly eighteen thousand foot high, - J3TFALI M! ELEPHANTS. Wm An elephant is hardl.v the kind of article one would expect a thief to |f£y| forts from one of the Kntish Conhave been stole,, just recently that **** ’ *' a • m<lie»trv is being seriously ||B Ninety-nine of the hug; animals are reported .is mi>s,mj. amoue tb.-m one Wm belonging to the Hritish Government. Wm DISEASE IN HANK-NOTES. |||||||f It appears that a terrible danger may lurk in bank-notes, for, as the ESSy result of counting American “grtsenbacks, ” Major Co (On, the Cnited Ugßi States Army Paymaster, contracted Jißgi a disease which necessitated the umwm put at. ion of his arm. Hut English exports declare that such accidents are obviated there by social p reran - lions. When a clerk has to count a -|III|II large numtver of cheques and banknotea, he dips his Hngers into a glass bowl of water, •which is renewed afmm tor each batch, and the water keeps HHB the microbes from the fingers. H| MOTOR’S FATAL RACE. MM Trying to beat an express train, a motorcar collided witli th., engine at Ashley Crossing. Massachusetts, and ■mm four of Its live occupants were killed. 'Hrala The automobile, driven by Mr. Chas. Root, had whirled for more than a Wm mil? alongside the New Vork-Pitts-||||||l field express, unci Mr. Root a inanu'iGralf facturer and wealthy man. had fqrged ahead of the train. The passengers lyyi in the express, craning their necks from the windows, saw Mr. Root, in a spirit of fr n/.ied bravado, as they jGsGf allege, maJ<e a sudden swerve tor } m wants the tracks in the effort to Wm Hhow that he could not only beat the train but cross ahead « 4 f ii The car smashed into th * side <>f the engine tender anti tiounded buck, hurling Plie occupants high in the air and far 888 from the rails mm Ml K*»ot was killed outright, toyßy gwther with his ag«'! mother and an fcunt. Mr. Root's sister was fatally .i arul I is 1•‘ tD* ni*‘>-e. the only o , 'i'ii; ant nt th.* car. escaped serious injury. I/>.NG SWIM. .BnHfl|r r.rui .. I- mm - ’ a saln.n yyyyPFltt bro-Tht tu lc ri v.lun tin* nets .faken up by a party of lisherurn Viaorit which was fo.n l among the a. mark vvl.i.-t, I'm.".! the lish had journeyed to the Aberdeenshire Doe, a distance oi 12b miles.

- ;.r-- V ’-3 ’ • WHALE DAMAGES A SHtP^ Nine Norwegian sailcys had an extraordinary’ experience, which was reported by the trawler Salvia at . Grimsby, recently. Skipper Rowson informed the authorities that' li« had discovered the Norwegian steam 1 trawler Diamon in a crippled con--1 dition ofl Faroe, and hdd taken off 1 her'crew. The Diamon had eneoun- J tered a huge whale while whalehunting off Maymess. The monster 1 was harpooned, and made for the , | steamer, striking her with such terrific force that her plates were stqvo in, and the engine-room filled with water. The Salvia just arrived in 1 : time to save the nine hands from ! drowning, and to tqw the sinking 1 i vessel into Nestmann's Haven. I NO MORE CRADLE CANNONS. Billiards will no longer be rendered ridiculous and tedious by aidless 1 successions of cradle cannons. That is, if the recommendation of the Bil- : liard Association Committee is carried at the next general meeting—as jit is practically sure to be. The committee have drawn, up a new rule ( bv which four 12in. baulk lines will ;be drawn from cushion to cushion I across the four corner pockets. Inside these lines only five consecutive cannons wild lie allowed, after which one of the balls must be driven outI side of the line. This will be the first time since 1898 that any alteration has been made ‘to the rules of the Hilliard Association in England. ELEPHANTS AS FIREMEN, An amusing story of trained elephants acting as firemen comes from Wheelwright, Western Virginia. The cablegram states that a special train convoying a travelling menagerie was wrecked at a spot near where the railway lino crosses the Monongahela River. Nine highly trained elephants, among them being the mother of the once-Tamous Jumbo, were passengers by the train, but escaped unhurt. The driver of the locomotive was pinned lieneath a heap of debris, and several of the overturned cars caught fire ; but, under the direction of their trainers, the elephants formed themselves into an effective salvage corps. The mother of jumbo was made to tlift sufficient of the wreckage to enable the imprisoned driver to crawl out, while her eight companions trotI ted smartly r backwards and forwards between the wreck and- the river, filling their trunks with water from the latter, which they poured on the burning cars, eventually extinguishing the flames. BLOWN AT BALACLAVA. The trumpet on which Trumpetermajor Joy sounded the world-famed charge of Balaclava is once more the property of the- 17th Lancers—the “Death or Glory Boys”—who took part in the rido. The late Mr. Thos. G. Middlobrook of the Edinburgh Castle public-house, Regent's Park—who has just died at Ramsgatepurchased the trumpet at an auction sale, and promised that on his death it should revert to the Regiment. The Duchess of Sutherland, within a few hours of his making the purchase offered him 1,000 guineas—2so more than he paid fqr it—for the trumpet, but he refused. Besides this—historic relic, Mr. Midodebrook's treasures at the “Regent’s Park Museum”—valued at over £6o,ooo—included one of the finest cqllections of eggs in the world, and an assortn ont of coins tfiat was the envy of nun.i matics the world over. He gave 300 guineas for one of his i five great auks’ eggs—the highest price ever paid. One of his coins dating from the time of Canute was valued at £1,200, and he refused £1 ,000 for a shekel, supposed tq be one of the identical Thirty pieces of Silver received by Judas Iscariot for betraying Christ. As may be imagined, burglars have several times tried to lay hands on Mr. Middlebrook’s treasures, but alway’s in vain.