GENERAL NEWS.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11928, 23 October 1919, Page 7

GENERAL NEWS.

f 100—AND SITLL DANCING. Betsy Arnold—a centenarian, K joined In a dance round a tree ’ planted for peace celebrations by the Mayor of Abergavenny. [. NISH USED AS FUEL. f Owing to want of coal in Soviet , Turkistan, the locomotive furnaces * are now bred with dried fish. 8000 t tons of which have been requisitioned *■ from the fishermen of the Aral Sea. * SUBMARINE IN TRAWL NET. The steam trawler Boyhat recently * entered Lowestoft with a portion * of a German submarine with a i machine gun, attached to it. The * prize was fished up in the Boyhat’s r trawl net. It is 10ft. long, is very rusted, and has the appearance of ' having been separated from the rest of the hull by tire. THE EMPEROR’S PHOTOGRAPH. Because he'took a picture of the , Japanese Emperor and Empress in the course of a passing parade, a press photographer was recently thrown into jail, while -the society editor of Jiji, who printed a picture of the Emperor, was grilled by the police. The Tokio newspapers are highly critical of the action ot the police. WHEN THE ESKIMOS HEARD. News of the Armistice (November 11th) reached one part of Labrador on February £J7th, when three dog sleighs with flags flying arrived at the mission station. A message from a member of the Overseas Club says the Eskimos had a bonfire on the ice, and brought out all the bunting they could find; the National Anthem was sung. } DEAD MAN'S HUMOUR. A Parisian, with a sense of humour, recently bequeathed 300 francs to, each relative who abstained from attending his funeral. Only one poor relative insisted on following ther deceased to the grave, and her loyalty was richly rewarded, for by a codicil to his will, the deceased left the residue of his large fortune to those relatives who were prepared to sacrifice the 300 francs. 1 REVENGE BY BOMB. A bomb explosion at Los Angeles, followed by a fire, has destroyed the home of the es-Assistant Federal Attorney General, Mr Oscar Lawler, who, with his wife, is probably fatally burned. The outrage is believed to be an act of revenge on •' Lawler for having prosecuted a i group of dynamiters several years ; ago. It is added that Mr Lawler’s i three children were also seriously 1 burned. j 1 FARMERS USE GAS MASKS. J Gas masks are in groat demand in ( Indiana for threshing and shipping , the wheat Infected with Australian ] “takeall. ” All the grain is so j saturated with formaldehyde that j the workers cannot stand the fumes. x It is being shipped to the United s States Grain Corporation at New York, where all grain from infected districts in Indiana and Illinois is being held pending an investigation. GOES TO GAOL BY AIK, The first man to he Conveyed to prison by airplane departed from Stamford'Conn., en route to Mineola, , where he was to be given in custody of the commanding officer at nazlehurst field. Private Charles Lowden, a member of the Third Aero Squadron, was the prisoner, and though he is to be held on a technical cnarge of desertion he did not | appear greatly disturbed. Lowden waved his hands gaily to the crowd | tiiat assembled to see him off as the , biplane took to the air and bummed . off across Long Island Sound. , d STRUGGLE IN A WELL. "" j I While being shown round places j of interest at Lumley Castle, a man j named Fisher had a narrow escape from death. In order the better to j examine the historic well in which t the Lily of Lumley—a member of a the Lumley family in the Middle v Ages—was supposed to have been j murdered, lie got on a old disused ladder, which broke. He fell into Oft. of water. There was no rope in the well and Fisher had a great struggle to keep from drowning, but was finally rescued by means of a tree branch and a rope thrown to him. c