MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume L, Issue 4738, 8 January 1890, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

One of Her Majesty's ships collided wir_ another whilo clearing out of the Portsmouth docks, and bnd ber bowsprit carried away. Tho captain promptly notified tho disastor to tbo Admiralty iv a dispatch worded as follows: — "My Lords, I regret to have to inform your lordships that H.M.B. , while leaving the harbour, collided with another vossol ; and hor bowsprit has been carried away. Awaiting instructions from your lordships, I have tho honour tc romain," ic. Promptly came an Admiralty wire m reply : — " Report who carried away bowspri ', ond where it has boen placed."

Whilo at OxFord tho other day, wo (Hospital) hoard an extraordinary story of tbe elfectß of cocaine used ns an injeolion. A professor bad tho eooaino injected m his jnw, and immediately 'became unconscious ; artificial respiration was resorted to, and after six hours conaciotianesß roturned. Tlio professor says that though apparently lifolees he heard all lhat was going on around him ; this is one more lesson to doctors and nurses to bo very careful what tbey Bay m tho presence of one they believe unconscious. The poor professor, over sinco ho recovored, has been haunted by tbe romembranco of a case of drowning, where ho tried artificial respiration for two hours, nnd then pave m j had his I doctors given m at tho ond of two hours, whero would tho professor bo now *

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