GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 14299, 19 February 1910, Page 6 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

21 CHILDEN—AND THEN TWINS. v :.'.;.■;-;;&:.';;;/■ ,«...'- ■'•■■'; A woodcutter named Grasset,; of Givrjr, near Fontainebleau, has become the of • twins—his twenty-second arid : twenty; ?'.] thrid children. ,; **-JMjrf I ■ i < i",«.'CVi TWO-HEADED SNAKE.- ' ' £jsft A snake with two well-defined, heads hat''^; been captured/at Leeche's - Creek, &'•'; Cilgandra. Australia. The reptile was in^i good health and very lively. ' 'I* v ' - , FATE OF ANDREE. ■ 'if The Roman Catholic Bishop ; of Princ* Albert announces the receipt of a despatch ■'■'*■■&' from a missionary in Saskatchewan, ,stat- C; ing that . Andree's, balloon has, been discovered by Eskimos near Reindeer take, ; . and that Andree: and his companions weri killed, by- the natives. . ; , • ' ~; SERVICE FOR SWEETHEARTS. ' " Pastor Thomas Nicholson, of the Marylebone Road Chapel; will henceforth hold';;; special monthly services, followed, -by '/.-'■ soirees, with the object of giving single ; young men and women in London ah opportunity of meeting under pleasant con* - dition.?. . , ', '->•«§' SCOTTISH 1 BREAKERS. 1 ;; > ? Twice as many people per 1000 of the population were committed to prison in; :.°. Scotland last year as .in .either. England. or ~"; Ireland, says the annual report of ythi .: .Howard ; .Association,-; The,, figures .are.;-*- / Scotland, • 12! 64;,... 1000; .'./ England vani ■■■■■■'■' Wales, 6.03; /Ireland;'': 5,&;!^/.^/y-' "i ; '<#<## - •.,;.. -, .„ _' ~; ...," ;\^|ff| '-." LOOKING FOR BACON'S;WILL./ ',: • -A --strange explanation -is- now forthcoming -as to what'two American doctors : have been .ißearohing-«for<.rn : a-- cave at,. : ( Chepstow, Castle,/ Monmouthshire. /It|s||| ■"now 1 r stated,, on excellent authority^-;-thr \ - the doctors -were.*looking.. for, a will' I 'Francis 'Bacon,.:;which.. they- believe, cmppt, tains'. an announcements.to the ' effect thai 'he 'was -the" author.:o£„some- of. the '.plays ■;; • "commonly-attributed ; to-Shafcespere. a ' .; , !,;.-,' *" rr-7:, '~ . ,!«i ~; "'.' BABY HEIR, TG £515,000,000^i/i;I?'& Messrs-.- John McLean -and Thomae-Walsh, multi-miHionaires. 'have 'been made' £*«--*.'!- fathers-by the birth-qf »' sort* ttf'Mr: and Xj Mrs'. Edward Beale-*McLe&n> - the "Jattr being formerly % Miss Evelyn ; 'Walsh' ■':■,;, a New .:■ York correspondent). Mr. MiMre.; ' McLean, "parents of ; the baby,/are'; the?drily|Sf children of the multi-millionaires, and the i kittle newcomer iff.-thus heir to the ;<com-? ;} bmed. McLean 'and' Walsh -fortunes: ' l fe' wealth of Mr. * John-McLean is estimated on-a moderate basis of £5,000,000,.: and ljs thatof rMn- Thomas Walsh at* £10*000,000* :;.:,::v:m//-vv/^v:.^^;/>/,/:^U^mSm FARMER MAKES A OTTUife,' , '' The farming Career. of Mr. E. A:' Guille-.''•; '■:. -ihin'; ■ <ff • iPoVger;- • Saskatchriwani * reads-like ; v a' romance; 'and'shows the possibilities of iv individual energy and ability "in,the"West. '| ! Starting with a money capital,of aH«mfcftsfi|j3 in ' 1891 ■;-* Mr. Guillemaaibegan .farming, on ~';'.' - which 'he • homesteadcd by ! borrowing' enough moneyto make^p:bis|^p@ fee. Last year Mr.Guuleman-* harvested. ' 50,000 tf-bushele;.' of s wheat--besides. other ; ; ( ' farming; ;43 quarter '■■ sections of land. From.his- start with small? begin-/';: ' rtings this 'Saskatchewan < farmer f sold land enough at a recent sale to. give him a:comfortable fortune., . , • ■ • ! (.>' " v ' j:. ■■:■; ''."AVIATION',LAWSUITS/;, %*£'ss : TheWright Brothers have won the first round ; of. their great legal fight with;; the ~i inventors > of •< rival 1 aeroplanes. vyThey; V* eecttted'- a:, preliminary, injunction p against 4 rCurtiss ' Company .and-Mr.fi>: '■ Glenn ivCurtiss ■■-. restraining : them .' i rom ;> manufacturing ;■ or i selling aeroplanes.- •,.'.'. patently the 'Wrights' victory wiE-nw/ if' ; : F not prevent, the great . :flymg'i. ! «reek :ais; ranged at Los Angeles. M. -Paul- ■'■■•<, han, who has arrived in New York with the object of flying at Los Angeles, was served recently with an injunction" against , making flights in America.on the gronnd 1 that; his machine infringes >-the ' Wright y\ patents. _ ' '■>■'- ■ . mm SLAIN BY THE USE OF RADIUM,". ?. ' A remarkable crime is engaging tfafe at* f tention of the police and doctors at Liege, 'f An old man was found dead in. his house ■':.;, and at' first death: was attributed to. heart ;, - failure. .; The discoloured appearance of;.' the skin - and marks 'resembling burnß> ': however, led, to the belief; ' that "the* man';'';; had not died a natural, death.'" A.'distant' ''' ■:. relation who ' lived'with , the [ old man had r disappeared, and .in his room were found of " experiments with" radium and ■■;:■ X-rays.. Other marks .found; on the body /seem to show- that the old .man had been.'; 'tied-down4n.'bedj and subjected to'lonfe| .exposure. to;radhinx.and.^rays.'j It is,' as- v sumed. that the, student either!miuidered '; his relative for ,his money, or that.' an ex-< - periment ended disastrously. V '.'.,' _ . , ' ;•:':-'; ,;;.,' . "DUTY FIRST. ' "?? 0 ' v : Horace; Collins is a distric^inessen^geri. • aged fifteen. '■■<■ While crossing Piccadilly, on his -way 1 to ,deUver. an • • message i: he was knocked down: by .a " :at once, .without a. murmur as to his pain,/ crawled,to a. policeman -and asked him; to» take the message "and 'ree 'that' it.' waa , safely delivered. .'He: then and ' it 'found ' r that :; his; leg iWtis:- feS; fractured- f Lord .Frederick' Hamilton, j$ brother of Lady ; Lansdowne, -has taken ; a great; interest,in the ; boy, .who has /been ,* at St, George's Hospital for two months . and is no^'afc./Boy^ood.: Castle,, the. seat °£ v/| Lord Lansdowne.;; Lady Lansdowjie. has - t engaged a, special nurse to. look after him, li and has deputed Mrs. Sayers, the coach- . man's wife, to act a* : his temporary mother while >he- is away. "Lord FEe'dorick'' has i given ins < j>ructipns,,tha^ the boy is, to have everything .he :i wants; and thoroughly enjoy, : himself.' .V . ~ ..:,;.-.-.,/..,'; :^\--: , - , ~~7T- , - ,* • HUMAN PILLAR-BOX. \, ,'" W7the benefit; of'/Ea^t)'Londoner*, is l r human'. pillar-box - was' provided fey the", fPostmapter-Geheral -the other : afternoon* , 'Wh#' the'first.' aftei*odh''c:6llecti6n of let^: : . ters;- wsts^riadfe.'«tf» the ' comet of '' Berriers-; I street, Commercial Road, Ei,-the lock'on the pillar-box door was found ; to be dam- \ 'aged.'! ;It could rati'" be^-fastened p and jit < was: reported;,. that 'it had been tampered"■ : ■'withrby': a ; gang', of daring letter; thieves? " who contemplated an ingenious robbery; Postal 'packets containing money ? and ! :, cheques are' posted in this particular pil- .' lar-box ; at'regular intervals, : for many of the Jewish workers in the neighbourhood are in the habit of sending remittances to; their families; on the Continent. As soon as the damage was,discovered the door, of 1 -: the box was removed for repair by 'the t • postal authorities, and a postman with a bag over his shoulder was put on duty at the corner The human pillar-box stood;;, there all ■ the - afternoon, ..and /.when .East .; Enders arrived,with their.letters and |jesfc|:J cards he held out his bag ; ." _ V .",,"'; ."" ' NOVEL HUNT SCENES. During a fox-hunt near SiUcth, a Cum. .- berland aeaport; the sfoxj escaped over; th« " -;: folf course to the seashore. It was chased y some fishermen,; and .';', ran/ under, the; pier; ; but found itself faced < with the al- \ ternative of either ; swimming;, across a ;i channel or jumping into the ; docks. Tt/ chose the latter. Some : workpeople f pelted,: :it while it .was in the water, but eyentu-/ ally it was hauled into the . boat with; a) ■; rope and lodged in a hie house. ,Passen». gers in a local train from ; Dover to Deal Sad tho'unsual experience of seeing a'kill ...on the.line, - -.The • East/Kent y Foxhounds, met about six ,miles from Dover,,.and;» .little way, ontof the town many membei*of the hunt were ; seen on the,hejgth3i, above the train.. When the .engine;^pund-!f { , ed a, curve .the ..jnfta^l»r^.and--:tfce>vh^|«iim^;. .as well,as hounds, wej^;,^|^ r rounding, the i 1 PiS , killed. ..-The-.huntsmaaa- xo»k off r.i tod ■■■. coat and waved it until tbVHSrtytr wlfl4'{| I up. The train • waited wfcjk'the. : ,"|oi : gt*(K I I broken ur. and : w««||; vtke&l ~ ".: ;sV' ; ' :.'.■.•'• v .l'.'"--. : :'C-i"!^.,;;-..<,--";.",.'•>