LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 34, 25 September 1911, Page 4

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

The members of the Stratford Volunteer Fire Brigade wish to thank tho Rev. Father Treaoy for a cheque for one guinea towards their funds. Wo understand Mr. X. Fulton. Government Dairy Inspector, has purchased Mr. W. G. Hoad’s property in Romeo Street, at a satisfactory figure. __ A few days ago a man went into a Xapisr chemist’s shop, and asked for something that would kill within hve minutes. The man could not be persuaded to leave the shop, and persisted in demanding a drug to put himself out of his misery. 'Tho chemist, seeing that the man was determined to do away with himself, gave him a black draught, and then communicated with the police. Finally the man was taken into custody, and lias non been-committed to a lunatic asylum.

“Males inherit the characteristics of their female parent, and females inherit tho characteristics of theii male parent.” Writing in support oi this theory, a correspondent of tho “British Medical Journal” says:— “Go often notice how rarely a great writer, great poet, or great artist has •a son who follows in his footsteps, although the daughters may write or paint. In the same way when ,an amiable woman marries a bad-temporod man, the sons will be amiable and tho daughters bad-tempered.”'’ A well-known no-licenso lecturer, the Rev. S. Fee, speaking at Woodville recently, readily admitted that he was a “wowser.” The term, according to Mr. Fee, is a corruption oi “rousers.” Somebody had tried to say “rouser,” but being three sheets in the wind, had been unable to get his tongue round the “r” in rouser, and so had . made “wowser” of it. The word ought properly to be rouser, and they would lind that lie and those associated with him against the drink traffic were rousers, and next November they would rouse the traffic out oi existence. It may not be generally known (says a southern exchange) how vicious some stags become as they grow old. A lino animal, with magnificent antlers, was recently killed at the Buller, which had previously disembowelled three cows. It was caught in the act of mangling the third cow. Another animal of flic same species, which had been' brought up by hand, became so aggressive as to be dangerous to passers-by, and had to bo made away with. -Instances are also cited of stags having viciously attacked horses at surveyors’ camps.

■ A foreign journal describes a wonderful mechanical contrivance—a watch made in Switzerland that call: out the hours in a voice like that of r human being. This mechanical curiosity is tlie invention of one Casima: Divan, who based its principles upoi his knowledge of the workings of liu phonograph. The case, instead oJ containing a striking apparatus, a; some of the late costly watches do. it provided with a phonographic cylinder, which is fitted with a sensitive phonographic plate, which has received the impression of a human voice before being inserted in the watch.