REBELLION OF STUDENTS.

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume L, Issue 12145, 9 January 1908, Page 7

REBELLION OF STUDENTS.

PROFESSORS PELTED WITH EGGS

IN PARIS

■ Disorder reigned at the Paris School of Medicine on Friday and Saturday, tho Bth and 9th of November. The students have rebelled against the appointment of two provincial professors. The ■ professor folded his arms and stood at bay. There was a sudden silence. Then arose a .solemn chant, "Resign! Resign!" from the students. Other professors came in to support M. Prenant and were greeted with howls. A chemical bomb, noisy but harmless, hurtled, through the air and exploded among the professors. The latter retreated in good order, the chant- " Rosign! Resign!" following them. Frantic uproar ensued. The students ran downstairs and into the courtyard of the school with books, chairs, and everything they could.lay hands on. A huge- bonfire was lit, and a war-dance performed, around it. M. Nicolas; the secon dvictim, tried to lecture the next day. Before he could open his mouth there came from every corner of the hall a hail of tomatoes, carrots, cabbage stalks, and potatoes. Next came a rain of eggs. As hefore, other professors came to the support of their colleague, and their robes were quickly stained with yellow blotches where the eggs struck.them and burst. M. Nicolas was undaunted, lie faced his persecutors smiling—aijd received ah. egg between th"-c.eyes. He retired,: but came hack a moment,later, having: washed, his face. Applause of his coolness mingled* with the-hisses. M.-Nicolas made a last effort to address the students. He was shouted down, and then the students fled. Hypnotism is always an interesting subject for the speculative mind. The London papers are telling a story of a woman who went to the dental hospital to havo five teeeth extracted under chloroform. The ueual preparations were made for the administering of the anaesthetic—ethyl chloride. The indiarubber cap was placed over her mouth, the screw was turned for the liberation of the anaesthetic, and when the lady camo round her troublesome molars were all standing in a roiv on a silver tray. • Then it was discovered that, somehow or other, the apparatus had not worked, the ethyl chloride had not been released; and therefore the patient's unconsciousness must have been self-induced. " Auto-hypnotism!" all the doctors are exclaiming, and most of them have made a : note of tho facts with a view of saving expenses on future operations. Certainly it is a most remarkable, story, altogether, and the disciples of Mesmer are entitled to make as much capital out of it as they can. Still, it is a wonder to us that nobody has yet put forward .the theory that tho pain-racked lady -may have swooned with fright. Sucli things have happened. A Danish girl living in her father's homo in Denmark, having probably heard; something -about Sydney, and anxious to add to her collection of postcard views from New South Wales, hit upon a plan the success of which will probably' astonish her. Having selected a card with a very pretty rural scene of the home in which she lived, the little maiden addressed tho card in English, " To the cleverest girl in the biggest school in Sydney, anti would she please send a card in return." The mail duly arrived in Sydney, but the postal authorities were perplexed as to whom they should deliver the letter. However, the card was delivered by a postman to the Girls' High School, in Elizabeth Street. The judgment of the postal authorities (says the "' Sydney Herald") was evidently wrong in this matter, for, while the High School, judging by their successes of the year, may havo some very clever girls in it, yet it is well known that Fort Street, if not Cleveland Street, is the largest school in the State, and is four times as large as the Girls' High School. The receipt of the card by the girls in the High School aroused a spirit of emulation. The pupils, numbering some 500, aro going to each forward a card to their unknown Danish friend. She will, therefore, receive 500 post-cards. If the card had been delivered at Fort Street she might have received a much larger number. Tho onus of selecting tho cleverest girl will bo thrown on herself.