Untitled

Otago Daily Times, Issue 16600, 25 January 1916, Page 6

Mr Rudyard Kipling prefers the night hours for work," frequently sitting up until 2 or 3. He is most elaborate in his methods, and pronounces aloud every word that he writes in order to test its fitness. It is noted as an astonishing and unprecedented fact that the British navy has now afloat no fewer than two admirals —Jellicoe and Colville —nine vice-admirals, and 23 rearadmirals, each, of course, flying his own flag on his own flagship. To find the location of o. £150 diamond ring which she had accidentally swallowed, Minnie, a trained elephant at a Cincinnati zoo, was compelled to submit to being X-ray photographed. The elephant was eating peanuts out of the hand of a man wearing the valuable ring, when playfully she slipped the salivacovered end of her trunk over the hand, nnd off came the ring. Seven X-ray plates were marked to correspond with the numbers painted on her side. One after another the photographs were made of her interior in an effort to find the cxact, location of the missing ring. It showed upon plate No. 1. The ring has become firmly lodged in the throat of the elcpHant, and she could not ccugh it up, nor would it go down. A veterinary surgeon was summoned, and he probed the animal's throat for the ring. The valuable gem was soon recovered, and the elephant was none the worse for her novel experiences.