GENERAL INFORMATION.

Pelorus Guardian and Miners' Advocate., Volume 26, Issue 63, 3 August 1915, Page 3

GENERAL INFORMATION.

Germany has taken to the manufacture of artificial teeth out of old paper. They are Bald to retain their colour well, and are less likely to chip than ordinary false teeth.

A woman professor of music, who recently died at Marseilles, France, has been burled in her piano in obedience to her final wish. She gave as her reason for this strange request that the happiest hours of her life had been spent at her piano. Owing to the great size of this original coffin an immense grave had to be dug.

What is said to be the first lighthouse built for airships has just been erected on the top of a small railway building at Spandau, Germany. It consists of thirty-eight powerful electric lamps, which shoot a flaring light skyward. Its purpose is to guide the dirigibles of the German army at night. One of the great gun plants of Germany is located at Spandau.

A farmer in Lincolnshire who, some time ago, lost a hand, and now wears a steel hook on his arm in its place, was caught in one of the recent storms. A terrific flash ol lightning rendered him unconscious, and on coming to he felt severe pain in his maimed arm. Looking down, he saw that the hook had been straightened out and twisted, his coat sleeve and the leather sheath (which is fitted to the handless arm and to which the hook is fixed) were torn to ribbons, and the stump of the arm itself was severely damaged. He was otherwise uninjured, but the am is completely paralyzed.

Mr. Pierpont Morgan has just bought thrpugh Mr. Jacques Seligmann, of Paris, eighty-six of the moat wonderful little watches in the world. He paid £60,000 for them, or an average of nearly £7OO a watch. All of them date from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century. The first little watches were made in the sixteenth century in Nuremberg, in Paris, and in Italy. One is eggshaped, made of Limoges enamel, and is no bigger than a canary’s ’gg. There are only two of these in the world, and both are in Mr. Pierpont Morgan’s possession. Many of the watches are in the form of crosses, and can be worn as pendants. The smallest of them might be used as a cravat pin. ■

A medical map writes "Youi flints about the feet have been very good. May I add some other suggestions ? Change as often as convenient from one pair of boots to another. Sponge occasionally with alcohol, or still better, a five or ten per cent, solution of salicylic acid in alcohol. Bathing the feet at night in a solution of permanganate of potassium is also serviceable. A dusting powder composed of alum, boracic acid and talcum is very agreeable. Chilblains are usually re* lieved by painting with a strong solution of iodine. Corns should be extirpated ; during the pleasant months of early summer.''