DELAYED CABLES.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10692, 9 July 1913, Page 7

DELAYED CABLES.

Sydney Sun Special; • TELEPHONETRICKS, ' : ALL THE SCHMIDTS AT ONCE. ■ • ■ ■ D,r. Strauch a mental specialist, J giving evidence at the trial of a Berlin lawyer named Pachter, who is alleged to'have used abusive language to girl telephone operators, declared in effect that the new kind of telephones, with no handle and an automatic "calls," was , np!: to disturb the mental balance even of people with vary placid temperaments. ' ...:" Dr. Strauch mentioned the case of : a well known surgeon who .had been driven completely insane in Berlin owing to exasperation over the ."telephone since the introduction of the automatic "call." . The accused lawyer adduced l]!:evidence that girl constantly played tricks on subscribers. For example, declared that girls connected and called up all the people named Schmidt in the telephone directory, shrieking with laughter at the bombardment of replies, "This | :is Schmidt," which came from all quarters. SANDALS FOR WOMEN. A marked reaction against high heeis for women is the latest development in the Parisan mode. So complete is the change of fashion to be that several well known leaders of society in matters of dress have already appeared in public wearing sandals fastened round the ankle bv ribbons like the buskin of the ancient Greeks Suppleness and flexibility, argue the adherents of fashion, are the dominant features of women's dress at the present moment. ■imiiljiiLiUJ 11l nil PAINLESS BULLET. An American inventor has produced a "painless bullet," which, it is proclaimed, could rob war of much of its terrible pain and suffering. The device has been submitted to the American' military authorities, and tests are being made by a committee of army officers, police officials and sportsmen. A minute particle of morphia is carried in a tiny well in the steel jacket of the regulation army bullet. The inventor claims that the slight indentation in the steel jacket in no way interferes with the effectiveness of the missile, and oauses no splintering when it comes into contact with a bone. "The soldier," he says, "receiving a slight flesh wound from the new bullet fights no more that day; he calmly stretches himself on the ground and goes to sleep. The man receiving a serious wound surfers no agony as the narcotic from the bullet is absorbed by his system, and he is insensible to pain. The man whose wound is mortal sleeps away his last hoar." £IO,OOO ATLANTIC FLIGHT. Mr Jack McGee, an American airman, has sent the follownig telegram to the Daily Mail: — "Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Monday. I will cress the Atlantic in a Burgess-Wright aeroplane about July 4th, starting from Newport, Rhode Island. Jaok McGEE." This is another intending entrant for the Daily Mail £IO,OOO Prize., the rules for which are being considered by a committee of the Royal Aero Club. Until these rules are completed the entries for the competition cannot be officially recognised. TYPHOID IN EVERY TAP. An outbreak of typhoid in the Latin Quarter, responsible for 20 deaths, has been traced, says the Matin, to the carelessness of a plumber employed in the preparations of the Congress of Physicial Culture and Hygiene recently held at the building of the Faoulty of Medicine. The plumber connected a pipe leading from the building of the Faculty of Medicine to the River Seine with the main water system oontaminating the drinking water of a large area of the city.

DAKATQ'S MARRIAGE LAWS. The fact that the State of North Dakato, U.S.A. has passed a law providing for a general I medical examination of persona contemplating marriage and prohibiting imbeoiles feble-minded, has excited the interest of the Victorian Board of Health At the Board's meeting recently Councillor J. J, Brokenshire drew attention to the Dakota law and said that the Board, as custodians of the people's health, should know the full context and effebt of the American measure. Mr F G Wood : * 'Certainly we should know all about it." It was decided to communicate with the North Dakota authorities on the subject.

£12,000 FOR AN HOTEL NAME. The Paris Tribunal of Commerce is considering whether the name "King Edward VII." is worth £12,000 as the name of an hotel. M. Malmassoand M. Sylva are claiming'this, M. Kolhien, a former hot 3l proprietor, to whom they made over the title in 1911. The hotel bearing the title has now been acquired by a company, and the applicants, under their agreement with M. Kolhein, claim half of the proceeds the sale of the name.