MISCELLANEOUS.

Timaru Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 11985, 6 February 1903, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

Eighty leading medical men of Chicago have subscribed a sum of £BO,OOO for the purpose of building a great hospital 11 storeys in height, which, besides being equipped with every Juxury for the patients will include sumptuous suites of rooms, furnished as* in a high-class hotel, for the accommodation of friends of the inmates. The amount subscribed is exclusive of the cost of the site and equipment of the building.

Mark Twain is said to hare announced to his friends in Hartford that under no condition Trill he erer allow another novel of his to be dramatised. The transformation of his story of " Huckleberry Finn" into a conventional musical comedy so disgusted him that he refused to attend the first performance in Hartford, and Mr Lee Arthur, his collaborateur, is authority for the statement that the only line in the play which Mark Twain really wrote was cut out- at one of the preliminary rehearsals to make room, for another song and dance. Miss Gaston, the leader of the American Anti-Cigarette League, has planned a novel crusade. She is asking a million school children to write long letters to the American Tobacco Trust protesting against the manufacture and sale of cigarettes. The project was originated in Chicago, where the Mayor and City Council hare given it their support. Great consternation reigns at the offices of the Trust. If the million children begin to write, a hundred waggons will hardly hold the letters, and an army of clerks will be required to sort them. Their arrival will also greatly interfere with the regular correspondence. The exposition at Dusseldorf, Germany, last year was remarkable for its metallurgical display, which was the most extensive ever collected for any exposition, those of Chicago and Paris not excepted. One of the most striking features of this metallurgical collection was a great nickel-steel armour plate from the factories of Fried. Krupp, of Essen. It was 45ft long, lift wide, and 11.8 in thick, weighing 106 tons or 233,2001b. This plate has a remarkably smooth surface and regular shape. It was rolled from an ingot of steel weighing 130 tons, which was 14ft 4in long, 12lt 6in wide, and 40in thick. In rolling it the heat of the casting pit was not utilised, but the ingot was cooled after being taken from the pit, and then heated to a white heat in a reheating furnace before being rolled. In trimming it down with the circular saw it lost twenty-four tons in weight. The special car for transporting the plate from Essen to Dusseldorf was the same that was used to transport the forty-centimeter Krupp gun to the port of Spezzia, Italy, and the forty-two-centimeter gun to Hamburg for shipment to the Chicago World's Fair. This armour plate—the largest that has ever been rolled—is not intended for use on any battleship, and on account of its immense size cannot be so used, but was merely exhibited to illustrate the capacity of the Krupp plant. Ten Bold Assertions Regarding Chamberlain s Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy —l. It affords qnick relief in cases of colic, cholera morbus and pains in the stomach. A. It never fails to effect a cure in the most severe cases of dvsenterv and diarrhoea, o. It » a sure cure" for chronic diarrhoea. 4. It can always be depended i upon in cases of cholera infantum slt ' cures epidemical dysentery. 6.' It prevents bilious cohc. 7. It is prompt and effective m curing all bowel complaints. a. it never proauces bad results 9 It a pleasant and safe to take. 10. It'has saved the lives of more people than any "ther medicine in the world. These are DOW. assertions to make regarding any medicine, but there is abundant proof of ejrery one of the above statements regardinj; "us remedy. Every household should have a bottle at hand. Get it to-dav. It a me - J " C - oddie sells it,— l-aQVt.) I