GENERAL CABLE NEWS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 15141, 4 November 1912, Page 9

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

j [FROM AUSTRAIJAN PAPERS.] I AMEEICAN NEGRESS'S CRIMES. A negress. Clementine Boynobel, of Lafayette, Louisiana, •who in a period of nine months murdered no fewer than 29 negroes while they slept, was last week convicted of her crimes, and sentenced to imprisonment for life. Such was the terror created by tliii; woman's butchery of her victims that for months the negroes in the districts in which the murderess moved were afraid to go to sleep at night.

ANTI-RITUAL OUTBREAK. ' An exciting incident occurred last week during a consecration ceremony, at which was present Princess Marie of Schleswig'-Holslein. The Suffragan Bishop of Willeaden had just taken his seat at ' the altar, when three men rushed down ' the aisles to the sanctuary, and began addressing the Bishop.. The interrupters, who were discovered to bo followers of the Lite Mr. Kensit, the famous anti-ritualist, were promptly ejected by the choristers, assisted by others. WINGED BICYCLES. An aerial exhibition now being held in Paris includes some remarkable inventions, amongst which are •winged bicycles. The machines are provided with wings like those of the butterfly, and the rider propels them by means of pedals. CHINESE OVERSEAS. In a leading article in its South American eupplement the Times mentions that between 1870 and 1910, 10,000.000 Chinese found new homes overseas. " The AngloSaxon race," proceeds the article, "impelled by sure instincts of self-preservation and lay recognition of the economic yellow peril, has closed its doors to this class of immigration, which was consequently being diverted on a rapidly increasing scale to the Latin Republics and the undeveloped territories of South America. The experience of Guiana has demonstrated Jie superiority of Chinese, tropical colonisation in places where whites become derelicts and negroes a burden." MODERN BEIGHAM YOUNG. The Police in Philadelphia (U.S.) have arretted a man who ha» been committing bigamy on a wholesale scale. It is re- ! ported that this man has no fewer than [ten wives and. four affinities. The children representing the issue of these marriages were numerous enough to fill the courtroom in which their father made his appearance. The prisoner, who is 39 years of age, was only 18 when he started j his polygamous career. ' * n 1 MENTAL EXPERT'S WARNING. : Sir James ton-Browne, an authority 011 brain diseases, has read a paper on 1 " brain rest." He maintains that children of ages from 4 to 17 year* should have 12 : hours' sleep in the 24, persons between 17 and 21 should sleep for 9J hours, between - 21 ,-uirl 27 for 9 hours, and above that age for 8 hour.-. The sleep of the. rising , generation, he declared, was being detrimentally disturbed, and a rich crop of neurasthenia would l>e the result. c SUTRO ON DULNESS. J Mr. Alfred Sutro, the well-known author of plays, discussing stage, fashions, says that the most, deadly sin of the playwright 1* oulriiss. Clergymen, ho adds, are the only persona who hav© a right to bo dull, with statesmen as a good second, and h-acJ.-renters third. "If Shakespere were alive to-day," remarks Mr. Sutro, "he s would still give us his characters, but liesdcrnoiu would play hockey, besides '' taking her university degree, and Ophelia. * would induce Hamlet's mother to send ~ him for .-> rest cure." »