GENERAL CABLE NEWS

Southland Times, Issue 17345, 16 May 1913, Page 3

GENERAL CABLE NEWS

-» (Sydney .Sun Service). RESTORING ANIMATION. WONDERS OF LIQUID GAS. NEW YORK, May 4. Some experiments recently conducted at the John Hopkin’s University in Bal- ; timore, lend interest to the theory that i it might have been possible, if proper means had been employed, to resuscitate- ) Captain Scott and his comrades after s their frozen bodies had been discovered. . The tests carried out at the university < showed that animation which had been i suspended for thirty days had been re- s vived at the end of that time by means i of liquid air. | Frogs, rats, snails, and fish were plao- 1 ed in jars and frozen in liquid air. and i when thawed out after a lapse of sev- 1 oral weeks were found to be apparent- i ly as well as ever. In some cases the t animals’ intestines were removed before the freezing process was begun, but i nptwlthstanding this they were all re- 1 vived. ’ - i MARCHING FOR VOTES. 1 NEW' YORK WOMEN PARADE. 1 LONDON, May 4. t A great suffrage demonstration was held yesterday in New York, 30,000 wo-.-men taking part. They paraded through t the streets dressed in white and looking i as solemn as they could. Gaiety or an t appearance of festivity was discouraged, i The object of the par&ders was to con-- t vlnce onlookers of their earnestness and 5 determination; - 1 The grand marshal in charge of the I procession Issued this order; —“If friends t will not march with you. cut them < dead. March with eyes front. Let < there be no talking or laughing. Keep step with heads erect and shoulders 1 back. Remember you are marching for 1 a principle.” 1 A contingent of 3000 men joined the 1 procession. 1 i CONSUMPTIVES’ SANATORIUM. ] ■A MONTREAL SCHEME. ’ MONTREAL, May 4. , Dr Friedmann, whose consumption j cure is just now being subjected to con-' , siderable criticism by the profession, ( both in Canada and in the United States, ( is at present in Montreal. j It is reported that plans are about to ( be laid for a huge sanatorium, where the Friedmann treatment will be'admin- f istered. ; ] AUSTRALIA IN PARIS. i PREMISES OPENED. < i LONDON, May 4, ) New premises for the Australian Commonwealth were opened in Paris yester- 1 day. They will be shared by the Com- t monwealth and the British Chamber of 1 Commerce in Paris. Captain Collins, < secretary to the Australian High Com- 1 miasioner’s Office, waa present at the < opening ceremony. ■ 1 Australian products will be exhibited I in the building with the object of adver- ] tising frozen meat in particular. i < “GREET HIM W’ITH HOOTS.” * SOCIALISTS AND KING ALFONSO. LONDON. May 3. ‘ The Socialists in France are exhorting ‘ the masses to greet King Alfonso of Spain, when he arrives in Paris short- , ly. with storms of hooting. j The police are taking special pre- , cautions to safeguard the King from . anarchists. , SKIRTS STILL TIGHT. PARISIAN SPRING FASHIONS. i LONDON, May 5. “The Times’ 'in a special article on the ■ spring fashions in Paris states that skirts for morning and evening gowns are still straight and narrow, yet there are signs of a revolt against the ultratight skirt. NO GOOD AS FOOD. THE INNUTRITIOUS ASPARAGUS. : LONDON, May 3. The “Lancet” asserts that asparagus is useless as an article of food. According to this well known authority, the vegetable that is so highly esteemed by many people does not possess any nutritive qualities, and anybody attempting to subsist upon it would starve. “PIT" OF HOME RULE. “GOVERNMENTS t MAD ENTERPRISE.” LONDON, May 3. At the annual demonstration of the Primrose League, a Tory organisation, at the Royal Albert Hall, London, yesterday, Lord Curzon said that the matter of Home Rule was drifting nearer and nearer to the abyss, and unless the Government stopped in their, mad enterprise the pit into which they would fall would be the pit of fratricidal strife. Writing a letter to the meeting apologising for non-attendance, Mr Bonar Law, the leader of the Opposition, said : “The Constitution has been destroyed. Churches are threatened, and the integrity of the kingdom is again imperilled.” MELBA AND KUBELIK. • ALBERT HALL CONCERT. ' LONDON. May 4. Mme. Melba and Kubelik gave a concert at the Albert Hall to-day before a Iremendous audience. The diva was in excellent voice. MURDERS BY MICROBE. A STARTLING DISCOVERT. LONDON, May 3. Consternation has been caused in Europe by the • discovery that people of criminal tendencies are able to purchase living microbes from the official laboratories, providing that they describe themselves as qualified practitioners. Several cases of administration of dangerous bacteria with felonious intent have brought out the information. DO YOU VAC 7 LONDON, May S. There is a small pox scare in Sweden. Everybody is being vaccinated. Fashionable guests are invited to “five o’clocks,” the doctor arrives and vaccinates them, and dinner follows. i : LEVER EAGER. | LONDON. May 3. \ tV. H. Lever, of Sunlight soap fame, has renewed his offer to the nation of his 23 years' lease of Stafford House, London. He suggests that it shall be used as a museum to house the collections now in Kensington Palace.