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Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVI, Issue 11657, 12 June 1912, Page 2

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WOMEN INSURED FOR £240.00!). Mrs Charles Nechter, an Americ-.n paper declares, is one of most heavily insured woman in tlie- [Juitod States', carrying- £24'.),000. Slit. 1 mud*.' her fortune in Chicago estate and in tlic departmental store business. The store, when she assumed charge, was a tiny affair, struggling along in an aimless way. It is now many-storeyed and covers much of a city block.- Despite her busy life. Mrs Nechter finds tune for social duties. TRAMPS' REVENGE. Two tramps revenged themselves with fiendish cruelty on a farmer named M'olnar. living at JiatUield, in Hungary, who'had refused to give them alms. Finding his child, a. boy of six years, outside the farm buildings, they tied him bv the feet 1,0 the long tail of a horse in a field, and then drove the frightened animal away at a gallop across country. The Molna:'.; iui.-..sed the child' at night, and his formless body was found next day still dragging at the heels of the horse, many miles away. j WALTZ COMPOSED IN PRISON. The principals in the Haverda murder ease, a Hungarian cause celebre. have been employing iheir time in prison in musical composition. Marie Haverda. who was tried for having instigated her lever to murder her mother, in order to inherit, her fortune, has published a waits entitled the 'MiKzi" waltz, ,tuui prison. Anton Yoiuer, the lover, who is undergoing jxmui.l servitude for killing Fran llaverda, lias, with the permission of the prison authorities, sent a large bundle of manuscript music to his lawyer with the request that a publisher be found for it:' Ail the compositions are of a cheerful character. Another man tried for complicity in the crime is composing an operetta. COMEDY OF A ROBBERY. ? The villa of M. Compere More!, the i ■ Socialist deputy for the Department oi j the Card, has been entered by burglars, I and lie has lodged with the authorities | a- formal charge of burglary against a , person or persons unknown. M. Morel ! is nolonlva Socialist but a linn preacher, of the novel theory that no man has a right to have more money than another. This theory does me. prevent tie.' Socialist deoutv from enioying considerable wealth", though ho "lias not vol distributed all his own fortune, M. Compere Morel considers, as his speeches have borne witness for some years, that pro; perty is theft. He would like to see all I property in France and elsewhere nation- j aiised and redivideJ. The burglars have | proved their agreement with him by j taking everything they could iiud in the j villa.' ' I

AKCTIC COLD. It is difficult for tlio Englishman to form any conception of the, decree oi cold represented by the; SOdt'K- "'' frostsometimes experienced in parts of "ussia. Sir Leopold M'Ctintork tells us how, in one of his Arctic expeditious. ;i sailor was foolish enough to do some outdoor work at precisely this temperature. His hands fruzo, and when lie rushed into tiie cabin and planned one of them into a baiin of cold water, so cold was the hand that the water was instantly converted into a fo'ock of ice. "At 25r10^.,' ! Dr Ksjii; says, "the moustache, and luider-lin form pendulous beads of daimlinp; ice. Put out your tongue, and it. instantly freoy.oK to this icy crustinc;. Your chin has a trick of to yonr upper, jaw by the luting aid of your board. My eyes have often been .so id tied a.s to show that even a wink was unsafe." . t