HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16875, 28 October 1922, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

i AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. ® I d d 3 POET BANDIT’S FAREWELL. A bandit with poetical inclinations recently escaped from the South Dakota Penitentiary, Sioux Falls. He is Omer Crawford, a South Dak ota rancher, horse-thief and all-round tough character. In the following lines which ho scrawled on a piece of cardboard He bade adieu to the gaol:— I want to pro back to the range again. To the smoke and the dust of the plain* With a horse and a saddle between my knees. And a Stetson hat to catch the breeze; Where friends are honest, straight and true, 1 And the grip of a hand means a lot to you So I'm goinsr back to the range again, To the gold and the rose of the plain? again. Where the coyote sings her serenade From the hills at dusk -in the evening shade: Where your girl is loving, sweet and true. ! And she waits through eternity's dawn for Crawford did not enjoy his liberty for long, however, and the second time he was recaptured, on his father’s ranch, he was shot and badly wounded by the sheriff when resisting arrest. AMAZING MEALS OF A CHILD. *> Food contaminated by flies was reT > sponsible* for the death of a child of named Henley, it was stated at an inquest recently at Little Wymondley, year Hitchin, Herts. According to an analyst’s report the food had set up a bacillus of a virulent! )- ! character. The chield overfed, and this weakened its resistance to infection. Earlier in the day before the child became ill it had the following meals : BREAKFAST. Fried bacon. Two jam tarts. Bread and fat. DINNER, l £ Potatoes Small piece of fat Carrots beef. Yorkshire pudding Custard. TEA. Bread and butter and lettuce. SUPPER. Cold boiled bacon fat. x Bread and dripping. NO RENT TO PAY. 7. ’The mystery of that hitherto unknown social product—the landlord who never asks any rent and pays his tenants’ rates as well—has excited the curiosity of the entire population of Hull. The inhabitants of the two shops r, and sixteen houses concerned hav *i ! come to regard him in the same lightias the French revolutionaries looked g_ | upon the Elusive Pimpernel, though it t_ cannot be truthfully said that “ the*, a seek him here, they seek him there. these tenants seek him everywhere."’ [g One of the occupants remarked to a 3s “ Daily Chronicle ” representative yes iV terday that the amenities of the neigh--,0 bourhood were hardly such as would g_ hold out any inducement to people to live there, even rent free and rat6* free. There are, however, scores of ;r houses in the same locality where the same conditions exist, and the tens_ ants are obliged to pay regularly. Cer•e tainly, the property is old, but it is in ie better repair than many other houses in the same area. Repairs were even carried out recently at the mysteries ous landlord’s expense! sfc * COSTLY CURIOSITY. r. Another painful reminder of the daD y. ger of keeping explosives as war souv.n enirs comes from England, a hoy namo ed Frank Dellow having his left hand ir blown to pieces by a heavy shell detonator. The souvenir was given to a member of the family five years ago by -e a soldier friend, and the lad discoverte |ed it in a drawer- Taking it to liis 1- | father’s workshop, he began experis, I menting with a hammer and a screw--1 driver. He probed the interior with piece of iron, and then, holding the s. j detonator with his left hand, placed it e j on a block and struck it with a hamo j mer. Suddenly the detonator explod - n ! ed. blowing the boy’s hand to pieces, e j Fragments also broke two windows an 1 1 penetrated a wooden box an inch in | thickness. At the Miller Hospital, e Greenwich, the remainder of Dellow hand up to the wrist had to be amputated. MILLIONS OF EXTINCT INSECTS The bodies of millions of prehistoric r insects of a kind which became extinct thousands of years ago have been found a by C.S. Government scientists frozen into an ancient glacier high in the mountains of Yellowstone Park, an area of 3348 square miles in Ay yoming set aside as a nautical park in 18«2t The glacier was discovered in 188.'. since when it has been known as the Grasshopper Glacier owing to the num- y f ber of supposed insects which could be r e seen through the face of the ice will *2ooft high forming the foot of the glacier. Early this summer Dr William Clinton Alden, an expert n glacier geology, led a party of scien--3 tist-s there from Washington. They now report that the insects are no« [ grasshoppers, but belong to no known , species. The insects are perfectly preserved, and it is possible to study every dotail of their anatomy. It ie stated i that except for the finding of mastodons in the Ice Cape, Northern Siberia, > this is the only known case of the actual flesh of pre-historic creatures being preserved. TRIALS OF A JURY. > An extraordinary legal process has . just been concluded at Bari (South l Italy), in which the jury had to ae- ■ complisli what must surely be a record ; task. This process arose from the • pitched battles in July, 1920, betweeu ; the landowners and peasants m a . southern district, caused by Labour disputes. The accused were 17 pro- , prietors and 40 peasants. After a trial lasting three months, in which 42 counsel were engaged, and an innumerable host of witnesses examined, the jury retired to consider verdict on Wednesday morning sSt nine o’clock. They had to answer no fewer than 12.000 questions, and 78,800 documents were issued to them to help m coming to a decision, and review the evidence. Sleeping accommodation in the Court precincts was arranged for them beforehand. No paper reports the answers in full, but all the accused were acquitted except two peasants, who have been sentenced to penal servitude for culpable homicide.