A HEROIC INVENTOR.

New Zealand Times, Volume LVII, Issue 2411, 17 January 1895, Page 2

A HEROIC INVENTOR.

Our Masterton correspondent writes:— Some .few days ago I mentioned that a local resident had discovered what dm claimed to be an antidote for scalds and bqrns. The resident in question is a Mr J ones, otherwise " Professor ” Jones, an erstwhile second-hand dealer qf Wellington. The Professor intimated through the local paper that ho intended giving a public exhibition on Tuesday afternoon. Accordingly a largo and sceptical audience assembled on a’ vacant* section of, Japd, where the Professor had a copper toiler full of water. After applying a lot of fuel and enduring a lot of banter, the Professor decided that the water was boiling, and removing his coat and the covering to his cranium, and turning up his sleeves, ho made three dashes at the water with his hand. Then he performed a sort of Maori haka, and rushed for a pot containing a thick yellow substance, which might have been taken for paint or anything else. The perspiration fairly poured out of the Professor as he sought relief from the pain occasioned • ~ by the_. scalding. For half an hour or more his hand was steeped in thh magic pot, but to no purpose. T|m crowd was unsympathetic, and mocked it the torture of the unfortunate man,' whose hand was covered with blisters. The Professor admitted that the experiment was a failure, and although he intends giving. another exhibition ho does not think there are as many millions in the discovery as he at .first anticipated. . ;