NEWS ITEMS.

Colonist, Volume L, Issue 12186, 9 March 1908, Page 4

NEWS ITEMS.

la an elephant's skull found in the KJondyke region a gold nugget worth £150 was discovered. A message from Rome states that it is hoped shortly to unearth the remains of Antonius Piug and Marcus Aurelius. One of the feature of the forth"coming Edinburgh Exhibition will be a model hospital, complete in everything, where practical demon strations in home nursing will be given daily. At Pagasae, in Thessaly, 150 tombstones of the second and* third centuries B.C. have been discovered. The stones are ornamented with colored designs, the colors being mar- ! vellously preserved.. j Frogskins to the value of £070 ' were exported from Yokohama. From them are made purses, pocket books, ! etc. |They have made bread from peanut j meal for many years in Spain. The j bread is light and porous, but rather unpalatable, and is eaten only by the middle clasps. j An Englishman named Battenberg put up the other day at a hotel in Granada (Spain) "and* was waited on in state by the Mayor and Corporation, who concluded that "His Highness" was Queen Eugenie's brother. A large wild cat has been captured ia the Argyllshire Mountains and brought; to Edinburgh alive. Great javages have recently been wrought by these animals in the district of Lochaber and Eastern Argyllshire. J A well-dressed man of about forty ascended the Arc de Triumphed Paris, telling the guardians that be wished to obtain a good view of the city. A few, minutes later he had thrown himself from the summit of tne monument 160 feet from the ground, and a large crowd had gathered round the lifeless body. An earl and his wife were refused entrance to the restaurant of a large London Hotel because they were not in evening dress. The earl's protest led the manager to ask for the opinions of his patrons as to whether the evening dress rule shou'd be enforced. Only seven out of 373 favoured abolishing the rule. •'There are no organised two- up schools in Wellington at the present time," said Chief -Detective McGrath, in conversation with a "Post" reporter. "Two- up" was, he said, still played, hut only under the protection of scouts and in quiet remote parts on the outskirts of the town. IJMrs Eddy has given a million dollars to endow in Boston a school of free instruction for indigent healers who are to apply the principles to the needs of others, under the direction of the Christian Science organisation, Australia has now a modified rival of the Great Wall of China. In one part of Australia there is an unbroken wire- netting fence of over 2000 miles in length, which has been erceted to check the advance of the Australian Tartar— the bunny. At intevals are trap gates where the rabbits are lured in and destroyed by thousands. In Russia, where, in October, 190;"), working men were given the right to organise industrially, the seamen have not been slow in forming unions of their craft. In the Caspian Sea the union boasts of a membership exceeding 4000. In the ports of the Black Sea and on the Baltic there is a constantly growing activity in trade unionism among seamen. For the first time since the thirteenth century a Manxman— and the son of a Manxman — has been instaled and enthroned as Bishop of Sodor acd Man, the ceremony taking place in St. George's Church, Douglas, on January 9th. Dr Drury, the new Bishop, is the elder son of the late Rev. William. Drury. some time vicar of Braddan, one of che most respected of the Manx clorgy in his day. ;.~'.; A correspondent under our notice tiie wonderful sagacity of a native dog at Maungatautari. Some grass had caught tire and the canine, in order to attract the attention of some workmen, commenced to barb loudly. No particular notice was taken of the animal until a while after, when it was observed to plunge into a creek and afterwards shake itself near the fire. It repeated this performance several times, anc] there is no doubt, we are assured, that by doing so it prevented the J^n're spreading. S^SSI^~iHi£HI news the death of Major-General J. " W. Youughusband, late of Haslemere, Surrey, reached India, his native servant, j Ibrahim Khan, of Mardan, who although he was seventy six years of age, was in excellent health, took the letter conveying the intelligence to the mosquo, and laying it on the ground before him said: "God, I am . too old tnat I should stand this shock; take me also that I miy again serve my old master. " From that day lie gradually sank, and died a few weeks later, saying, "I go to dervemy general Sahib in heaven." On the occasion of a visit to Coloey Hatch Asylum, the late Rev. A. L. Green encountered a patient who assured him that he was Baron Rothschild. As Mr Green was leaving one of tno other Jewish patients approached him. "1 was \ery pleased," be said, "to see how you indulged ti;..i poor fellow. I hear Che same story clay after day, but what can you do? The poor man is mesbuggab, ao 1 let him fancy he is Baron Rothschild." "Quite right," said Mr Green. "But," continued bis interlocutor, "of course you know that he can't be the baron, because 1 am."