GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12609, 25 June 1904, Page 5 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

| , BARON'S SKOCKIW , MATS', ■ : " , ; Babon be Bobies was burned to death rI»V ..,' ! cent]!y,in. : the Hotel Helder, Mont« Carlo.{'j He had been in the habit of tiring on. going to bed a lotion containing highly inflammable ingredients, incautiously, ap- ■''..- proaching a lighted candle thif took fire, ■■'. ''-' and in a moment; the baron, and the bed on. which he lay were a mass of nanus. His cries alarmed Lis secret who rushed into the room but was unable to nave the un-: fortunate man, and was badly burned himself. Baron de Bobies, who was seventy years old, was a native ot Lorraine, where he owned considerable property. He was well known in Monte Carle- ; paris SNAIL FACTORS. " . - . A sensation i* ; said to have been caused among-Parisians, to whom* the succulent snail is a delicious delicacy partaken of on. all,occasions of festivity, and purchased at prices ranging from 6d to 8d per dozen. The excitement is due to the furl;, revealed in the- course of an action brought by* workman . demanding compensation »for ' the loss of a finger, that there is at, least on* factory,; in Paris where artificial snails are manufactured. The evidence showed than v ." '..} the workman had had a finger broken by a machine, whose object ; wan to k cut boiled calves' lights into portions shaped like Mi small corkscrew for insertion into the empty.' ■'-«' v shells of snails which had been thrown into dust-bins after their contents had been consumed, and thence gathered by the .".chiffonniers," ■or .rag-pickers, - and sold' to the , proprietor of the factory. The artificial es-' eargot is said to have a special Savour, which is highly appreciated, and it is affirmed that some Parisian epicures prefer the sham snail' to the genuine article, even when the latter & ;: \; %; has been among the vine leaves in Burgundy.. f : . " mother eddy's'' EB-itOf. . . Mrs. Mary Eddy, the founder end head of Christian Science, who is popularly known as "Mother Eddy," has son:.'out a notice to''.;". all Christian Science branches of an amend- '.. ment to the constitution of the Church ins the , United - States. The : new amendment '-y • £f-| forbids the members to, belong to any,club - ' , or organisation which excludes, either sex. "Mother Eddy" excepts the Masonic Ordar ;■'.',■» from' this law, but bans all other; organisa- ; i'Vj tions that do not admit both sexes on equal '\ r ■'; terms. ,1 She declares that the amendment bus been formulated in order to prevents " race suicide" among Christian Scientists. WATCHED BY A SPECIAL PBOVEDBNSE. •;;>': J;j ,'A : story of a wonderful escape from death ,v* ,' i has . just ■. been■ told before the magistrate sitting at Tredegar, Monmouthshire."":;Tha,,'V '■' driver of a passenger, train on thu «con " '' and Merthyr Railway observed, as tha'trauv; V was. going at a high speed, that » man lay at full length on (ho track. The brakes were applied, but r before the train was brought.to »'standstill the whole ht.it h'adr|pt|| passed:over the man. Dismounting, the officials, found the man to bo in * drunken .• ' > sleep and absolutely unhurt J The magi*- '"'.i trates fined the man £5. "'..-,] ';'''• :;';;'-..;• church i* the WAT. " £i i J^SH flatters" have come to a deadlock in tl» .Question of granting .a license J for Mi'-*; J. 't 1 ; ft £ 8 l new hotel,,j recently i completed *x!-#i on Fifth Avenue. New , York. V« The hotel* which is called the St. Regis, is an '.'tl storey building, and claims to be the finest;' : :i % hotel in the world. It was built at a cost of ■''*' ' t £600.000. > Under/ the liquor laws of New York, no lice?:- can be obtained .fof.»i"i '. .- hotel or saloon built within 200ffc of a church; «nd there is a church in-. the same street just opposite the St. Regis. To get,a >< ] htwnsu it; is also necessary to secure the con'--'' $' :i pent, of '.two-thirds.-of,.the dwellers; in aft hotuiei! standing within: 2001 fc of the hotel: In the present oast! there are. many prominent people dwelling within this radius, and seve- m ral of them are f:trongly opposing the license. .K:•■-'.» ■; ■ .fmßßTauisc. " , - , '„• * .Scientific investigation has discovered that . that troublesome disease,.'dyipepii*;' can be cured tby short intervals l of. tsxuosure to inteniie cold," followed by hearty eating, ;' M.f.7). •'.' -' Rioui Pictet, a Swiss gentleMaaiSr'is experi-.- V- ?i menting with a very low temperature. aHe * >i hud produced an■:artificial: teniperfttrire in a now of Pit which caused the> lh«nwauter',•''' ! torink to 140 to 150. degress below; stem: : ; :! Among other experiments' 'he exposed him- - V - ( self for brief interval to tin* temperature lowering himself into ihs pit. ■On emerg■inff he found: : himself intensely l!iUMry;i and\- / - : "- ; - ate freely. The process wa* repeated several times,, and as a result he fontd himself cured i& /of cbttofe tadigestioa, from wliich he had r u*«d i for years. ; y >pf : .AMEBIC AJfS AND TEE Mm- 1 - % 'HKS^fl - American i Roman Cafchol ere finding co.is.uTable difficulty; in obteiniiw audiences of \he Pope owing to the following incidentA sho;,v. time « go . a party of :Ai*»rK4r«'poV'i ; v'■ ■'~"-J of ;.he Roman Catholic faith obtained tickets# M for a lipeoial private" audience with IBs Soli, %Mm mm, who received them with hi,« usual aff^X'-~'| oility.'and kindness. .^Whtn:*the'moment;! £'-s'A came for the visitors Jo kiss the Pope'ii e^'tK::' tended hand they.refused to do so. This act of .. gross discourtsey .: censidtwbb- 'an- jl"j noyed not only the Pope, but more especially those in attendance, with the result tha* s -,' ■ ' orders have been j smart the . no *m*<-i i n Khali be admitted '■: to the Vatican tor ' iu» P' tf I andience witth the Popo unless ho is in pos"Mm of ar^specialfitter; of / ijitrodn&a lrom the bishop of bis diocess in Ai&eriea. * ■~; ; ■ TKACETED Br INK ■ TJRAJK. - •'•' ■' | . ■"& twrglar recently. broke into a hotel - , **' ,i J iUmtvam and ; was disturbed in I the act'' «J T -' ■•;' v .j transferring the contents of;the strong be* i '- ; 1 into to pockets by the proprietor's daujrh- •-•■.' Uv. Unwilling to leave the premise* with*', ?• ■ J out a souvenir,:the.burglar took a roassivii:. .-V'-i silver inkstand and decamped. -.Theink,:" -"S- \ however, ; dripped •'■ from his pocket dnriaa*Mral his flight, , and the 'police had'llttlsV difficulty in tracing .the/hbusebnjakiir/who wii'li«%a found in a cafe soon after and arrested. V^^.^ .: ; »mUJjU3T/WTOa BOLIS INTO *JHB aw. '. >;\ ; f. A . tragic story of a baby in a perambulatoi> laJJiinginto a harbour comes from Granville, in France. A M«i«- Oueria was waUdog . with her six-months-old child in a perambtt!*toir along the quay, ad joining tit' harbour* W; hwhen she stopped to talk to'a relative, and for a moment let go the handle. Before she could • arrest it, th& perambulator ran" down the decline, and fell'; into ih't "vrt&we- A' -'•''' captain 'of a sloop made ail hieSfectaal attempt to rescue it with': a= I oat hook and at the same time a Customs 5 officer dived'-,; - j from the deck of a steamer which had just' \iikrl arrived in the harbour. At. the:third at-" :' ! tempt he was successful in bringing up! the f.. ;:;.; perambulator, but in' spite of' immediate •• r l medical aid the baby • died in its--weeping ; jt r \ ''moihet'B'armß. * - "};, i • ■- ~■ - , -I'fl ■ ,-;. nsmsa bravebt rewarded. ~. •v_v « • A pleasing French tribute to British $#1lartry : was afforded at ; Soutliampton, when' . .■>■ ,1 the Mayor.on behalf of the French Ooverpwoejit, presented Captain 'Keraß,' of the .' . j s!oiith : Westera steamer Ella,' with a patrol.'': .';..] ! handsome i binoculars, • and four' members : 61 the crew with medals and certificate in'ac- ''■-. ; ''■;, '\ knowledgment of tie r servicar by them during, the recent gale in the Channel \ in rescuing j twe ..boys, vat; great Vpsrii-StA'^jj^ : themselves, from -a, sinking French ' pilot-"- *' '', bait, i Other members of the crew had been washed away, and the boy would .■un-\?;sf|j doubtedly have lost V their 1 lives but for the timely assistance rendered by, •■ the '}. Ella's - % : crew,;: :: ; -.; - ..■ •. ■ ■ .. : ,, }^^; - f ;^pJv|J MAIL steaukr irYsraßr. : ;v- ; ;'.. i ':-^ : i . On the arrival at Plymouth of the West 1 . African; mail steamer Oron, details : trans- ..: r ; pircd' concerning the death 1 ! of Lieutenant : j : pharleß^-Bi^champ ; i 'v*yyj^,^|of^th^|4^ > (Militia) Devonshire Regiment;';third son of^a^ ' the Rev. H. ;F. ;Vyvyan, rector of Withiel, C/Oinwall. Deceased, who was M, had been. V,v ? . a'' District Commissioner at Lagos : since ■'_''• June, 1901. and was on hiss way home on fur-V';.';'>;. lough on the Oron, which saiied from Lagos v^r:j on April 15. When ho cam? on'board;lie?> 1 '\ i was' not in the best of health, apparentiy suffering from the effects of a sunstroke sup- /■ ' tained "oma time since. The-following , ! . : ; morning he , was missing;' and .iti is generally . supposed that he jumped through the port-' < i ; holo of hi- cabin ,>; u * lf PBENCH SCHOOL fiCANDALi j ' %&& A serio'Ji* charge-'-.has^.been^l»ronght|fe^ ■ against an assistant master of the \ Dorian School, Paris, .a , municipal tech- ■ nical institution, -triers orpans and the ; children of poor parents >: are;.; taught-il^'^ trade*. It is alleged^hatin^coiiseqapnco^^fl^'g ■ an impudent remark,; the master raimtmraed • the bey. to his room, where he seised him by the hands, which hi scorud- with r pen knife until; they were ', covered with ' blood.'l.'l:' : . and tl stabbed him in tb«=: rsjion; of;ta»';: :^xs hea.rt. - ,The school authoritie.-!, nowum, r\ maintain tha 1 - the boy'is injuri*!:.'irftre v?:»/^ .., , , .1. t. . '.. ..' ...'i^f.it^atlK^