GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXII, Issue 8867, 18 July 1907, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS.

Mrs Mary Tumble, who weighs nearly 30 stone, accidentally fell on her eighth husband and crushed him to death. She is the stoutest woman in America, and known in Washington as “Mother Bumble Tumble. ” Mr Tumble, a wealthy merchant, was roller skating, and fell. Mrs Tumble, immediately behind, fell upon him. He w<is unconscious when rescued, and examination by a physician showed that the pelvic bone was crushed, and that he had sustained other internal injuries. Ho died before reaching the hospital. In nearly every case Mrs Tumble’s husbands have met with misadventure causing untimely death. Her seventh husband was killed by the sudden closing of a folding bed, caused by the breaking of a spring under her weight. Saturday, May 18th, brought a double dose of affliction to Reinhold Brueniug, a Berlin carpenter, who was not only locked out in consequence of the great conflict in the building trades, but also sentenced to nine mouths’ imprisonment for lese-majeste, His offence consisted of putting out his tongue one day last November as tire Kaiser drove past the building on which he was workiug. The case follows close upon the Kaiser’s new injunctions for greater clemency in Jcsoanajeste prosecutions, one of Iris edicts of thanks for his success at the Reichstag elections in January. Mrs Honor Coleman, who resides iu a cottage at Cleeve, Somerset, is generally considered the oldest woman in England. She has recently attatiued the remarkable ago of 107, with her faculties only slightly impaired. Her mother was a centenarian, her grandmother lived to be 101, while her daughter, who lives in tire same cottage, is nearly 80. She attributes her longevity mainly to three things—strict teetolatism, no medicine, and no doctor. She is particularly severe on the medical fraternity, and bolds the somewhat startling "opinion that if only people would “steer clear of them quack gentry” they would all live to a ripe old age.