FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 9796, 16 July 1903, Page 4

FRISCO MAIL NEWS.

HOME AND FOREIGN HAPPENINGS. LONDON, June 13. The King and Queen leave London on Monday, July 20, for Ireland. . The flood waters hi the Mississippi have reached thirty-seven feet, a height not attained previously for half a century. The King and Queen of Italy visit the British Court m November. Mark Twain is making his home at Florence, Italy. Britain's ninth 1 submarine boat has been launched. A cablegram to the American Man states that Mrs Maybrick, on her releas© from /prison nest year will go "on tour" m the. United btates. Guillermo, the most daring rebel leader left of the Filipinos, has been captured by the Americans. Queen Wilhelmina is suffering from general debility, and tuberculosis being feared, the doctors recommend a trip to Madeira or Egypt. The new telephone, line from London to Brussels, 60 miles, the longest submarine line of its. kind m the world, is now open. Last year's output of coal m England reached the enormous'totai of 227,085,000 tons, and 805,100 colliery workers received over £61,000,000 m wages. A balloon occupied by Dr Valentin ascended 22,000 ft at Vienna. Mr Roosevelt completed a. tour of 14,---000 miles, the longest ever made by a President of the United States. Judge Slover, of Kansas City, Montana, divorced fourteen couples m ninety minutes one day last week. The performance began at 10 a.m. and was over by 11.30. Tunbridge Wells Corporation made a profit of £1,130 on electric light during the year, and £480 on hops grown on the irrigation farms. A Bradford wedding had to be postponed until the safe, containing the register, had been forced open. In* postponement caused a scene m the church. „ The Salvation Army is to have a biograph theatre m New York, m which the cinematograph will reproduce biblical dramas specially played by a stock company. King' Leopold of Belgium, interviewed by an American journal, says that idlers fill no useful place m the world, and that everyone should work. The German Daimler motor works at Cannstatt, m Wurtemberg, have been destroyed by fire, the estimated loss being £300,000. It is stated to be the intention of the Queen to give a large children's party at Buckingham Palace before the close of the London season. Mr W. K. Vanderbilt, who recently married Mrs Rutherford, has promised Ms wife money to establish a hospital for the poor m Paris — the best that can possibly be devised. A huge bird cage is being constructed at the St. Louis Exhibition. In it will be placed a collection of 1,000 live birds representing every variety m America. A remarkable operation has been performed at the London Hospital. A man, stabbed through the. heart, had the breast wound reopened and the cut m the heart sewn up. He is still living. A Viennese journalist, who witnessed the automobile race from Paris to Madrid, says that the motor wagons as they approached at full speed looked and roared tike wild beasts. A cod-liver oil famine is threatened. Prices have risen from 5s to 25s a gallon, owing to the failure of the Norwegian fisheries which is attributed to the cold weather having killed the small fish on which the cod feed, for the cod caught are very thin and almost liverless. Two thousand firemen took part m the international fire brigades' competition at Havre, France, marching past with their engines. The Aldershot brigade went past at a gallop with their engine, exciting great enthusiasm. Three Austrian ladies — Princess ObolenskL Princess Lubomicski, and Mms. Isacescue-rpwill attempt to swim across the English Cluinnel from 'Calais to Dover. Mr Middleton, the late chief agent of the Conservative party, predicts a keen-ly-fought fight at the next general election if the issue is Mr Chamberlain's new policy. A riot between English and alien residents of Bethnal Green occurred on Sunday night. Sticks, stones, and pokei'S were used, and about 2,000 people took part. Ten sheep suffering from foot-and-mouth disease were discovered at Deptford, where they were landed from Buenos Aires. They were destroyed, and 1,300 sheep and cattle consigned with them were slaughtered, and their heads, horns and hoofs burnt. The boy Patrick Knowles, aged ten, who is m custody at Stockton on a charge of murdering one baby and decoying another^ has confessed to being the author of an attempted burial of a two-year-old baby last March. Mr Mill, of Port Chalmers, New Zealand, has arrived at Plymouth. He states that he is willing to gratuitously provide the relief ship Morning with coal 'sufficient to take her to the Discovery and back to New Zealand. The fastest train m the world starts from King's Cross, London, the Great Northern Company's "Flying Scotsman" doing part of her journey at ninetj r miles per hour, thus breaking all American records. N The grand fancy dress ball at the Albert Hall m aid of the funds of the London Hospital was a brilliant success, socially, artistically, and financially. There were nearly 5000 persons present. Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman, m a fighting speech at Perth, likened the Ministry to a cuttlefish, squirting the inky iluid of fiscal revolution m order to escape m the ensuing confusion from the consequence oftheir faults and failures. For the first time m England hypno* tisin has taken the place of ordinary anaesthetics m a surgical operation. The patient, a Clapton woman of 38, had her leg taken off while under hypnotic influence, exercised by a fully qualified medical man. The pet elephant presented by the King to the Dublin Zoo 27 years ago killed its keeper while the latter was dressing the animal's foot^ which had become sore. Its death has 'been decreed. Eton has just been saved from another fire calamity. A 17-years-old boy somnambulist was detected starting a fire m a wing where 40 boys were sleeping. A boy of thirteen checked the outbreak and kept up an all-night vigil. The Rev. H. E. Eardley, vicar of St. John's Church, Tunbridge Wells, has undertaken the management of a local temperance hotel for twelve months by way of experiment as a counter attraction to public houses. The trial of the" so-called "female Bluebeard/ Mrs Przygodda, who poisoned four husbands with arsenic, and who was detected by the fifth putting the same poison m his coffee, ended at Allenstein, East Prussia, m a verdict of guilty, and she was sentenced to death. It is estimated that the losses from fire, flood, and tornado m the United States during the first ten days of June amounted to fully £8,000,000, not reckoning the heavy damage caused by the floods. Profesor Koch is strongly m favor of the isolation of patients m an advanced state of consumption. He points out that the last three or four weeks of life are the most deadly m the spread of infection. The late Mr Thomas Best, of Edgbaston, Birmingham, bequeathed £100,000 to various local charities. Dr Frank, of Charlottenburg, near Berlin, states that he has discovered a means of utilising the nitrogen of the air m making calcium nitrate, which has proved an excellent manure. The source of this supply is inexhaustible. ''Sandbagging" by ruffians. has become frequent m the outlying parts of Pretoria. A number of masked men "held up" a store m the town and shot the proprietor. They have not yet been captured. In the course of a speech delivered at at Manchester, lowa, President Roosevelt made the following characteristic remark : "I do not fight unless 1 have to. But if I have to, I let the other man know that there has been a fignt. This is the whole of my doctrine m regard to our foreign policy." Pi??vv^ l€?ie if^S'ven away over ±.18,000,000 m all for public libraries and other public uses. The greater portion has gone to the United States, where he made the money, and Scotland, the land of his birth, although England, Ireland, Canada, and Holland have also benefited. WALK OF "CAKE-WALKERS." The mile and a half cake-walk walk from Ludgate-circus to Kensington, on Saturday, June 20, promises to bring to a, distinctive climax the prevalent craze of pedestrianisin. There are already 140 entries. Stockbrokers, city clerks, music-hall artistes, and profesional "cake-walkers" will convert one of the greatest southern thoroughfares out of London into a kind of ball-room m this contest for eight prizes, valued at £40 A which will be given for tin best walkers, and the additional awards for the most eccentric couple, the most ridiculous couple, the couple most strangely attired, and the couple who are considered to do the most "genuine" cakewalk stepi even if they finish last. A NEW AIRSHIP. Mr James Holland, inventor of the submarine torpedo boat, is now devoting his attention to an airship which he thinks will revolutionise aerial navigation. His machine is to be lifted and propelled solely by wings, the power being applied manually and by treadles. Its weight will only be 30Ibs, and the machine can be strapped between a man's shoulders: It can be detached instantly m case of necessity. BURNED IN BLAZING WHISKY. Three men, three boys, and a woman

were injured as the result of the fire at a whisky distillery at Glasgow. Thousands of casks of spirits exploded, blowing down a wall of an adjoining flour mill. The victims were buried beneath the debris, around which the blazing whisky streamed. A million gallons of whisky were burned. MYSTERY OF RADIUM. A German scientist, Heir Lunden, has made a series of experiments which demonstrate the marvellous qualities of the .metal radium. Rats, mice and other animals placed within a short distance of a piece of radium weighing throe-tenths of a grain . died witliin thvee days from no oilier cause than the proximity to radium. Brought near the human body radium I causes wounds resembling burns, though cold, not heat, wa.s felt by the. person j affected. Its qualities are not solely destructive but are also beneficial. The rays reflected from radium, he says, penetrate even to the brains of tho blind, enabling them to see more or less clearly. Heir Lunden cites tho cases of two Russian boys, who, though totally blind, regained their sight through treatment By radium rays. They can now read and write easily. He declares that all blind persons can derive the same benefits from radium. CHEMICAL TRIUMPH. At the- sitting of the International Chemical Congress at Berlin, Dr Frank, of Charlottenburg, spoke on the utilisation of tho free nitrogen of the air for agricultural and industrial purposes. Dr Frank said he had discovered a method by the employment of electrically obtained carbide, of transferring nitrogen from the air into compounds of amide and cyanogen, which provided raw material for the manufacture of ammoniac salts, prussiate of potash, and cyanide o! potassium. Calcium nitrate so made had proved to be an excellent manure, which opened up to agriculture an inexhaustible source of ' nitrogen independent of foreign countries.