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{GRIM VIENNESE. HUMOUR
Even on tragić subjects which! Will the Spanish Civil War be-jaffect them closely the Viennese Com a problem for the League of wits are always ready with a puu- Nations?
rent comment
DIONNE QUINS MAKE A PROBLEM
MULTIPLE BIRTHS IN ANIMAL WORLD
SOME CONJECTURES
POSTULATED
FOR SCIENTIFIC OBSERVERS ·
That is a question which is giv-! The latest Viennese joke told in ing rise to some concern in more connection with the anniversary than one European capital of the murder of Dr. Dollfuss byj
The strife itself. being a purely Nazis was obviously put into cirTVER since the
tute
domestic affair of Spain's, cannot, culation by those who cherish his E Dienne quintuplets were bounce 15 puppicord
Hittle her 18 puppies. The largest rat
Hong Kong. Monday, Sept. 14, 1936, be the supply of arms to the rebel "Article I of the unpublished is especially interested
bel forces.
Government of a country has
Intervention Feared
*
sarde
seems to be 12.
Animal births are not recorded.
of course, come under the parview memory too warmly to be able to they have had focussed upon them the largest rabbit one to be 10, and of the League. What could give forgive and forget quickly. It the interest of a considerable por- the largest mouse one to be eight. it international significance would runs as follows:
tion of the world Medical science Tet none of these animals, except forces The Spanish Government gentleman's agreement between because it is the first time
in them, perhaps rabbits, have been bred has the right under Article X of Austria and Germany: The high medical history that five human offspring. Perhaps if some animal in especially for large numbers of Belladonna
the Covenant to appeal against such contracting parties, Germany and babies born at the same time have breeder tried to produce many rats intervention by a foreign Power Austria, are agreed that the late all lived so long. It is this, and or rabbits at each birth, he might It is stated that Spain contemplates Chancellor, Dr. Dollfuss, died of not their number, which mainly succeed in equalling or exceeding Although man does not differ materially from other mammals taking such action. in view of the appendicitis."
concerns science. for there are the one-score record of the Port in his bodily chemistry there supply of Italian planes to the re-
other recorded cases of human Moody pig. NICKNAMED BY FLEET STREET quintuplets, including one as far are innumerable and curious
It is this fear of foreign inter- Germany's three pocket battle-back as in the works of the ancient | singularities
Sextuplets ughout the vestion. more particularly by Italy ships-two of which are now in Greek philosopher Aristotle of of course, with anything like the animal kingdom. human body accomulations of and Germany, that has led France Mediterranean waters are very are even two reliable instances of uric acid produce gout, while to to suggest that the Powers should formidable fighting machines.
six babies born at once, and some Large litters of piglets, puppies or completeness of human births. Their speed of 26 knots enables more doubtful instances of seven the dog and some other mam-age to non-intervention. Such a
other creatures mals uric acid presents no dif-more is not strictly in accordance them to run away from ships they and even eight.
may attract mo- with international law. 23 ficulty, for it is able to be
the cannot fight Their main arma- Among the lower animals which mentary attention but they are not oxidised to a more solnole and properly elected and recognised ment-six 11in guns-makes them bring forth their young alive, studied and reported by the phy innocuous substance. The rat
amore than a match for a cruiser, there are examples of much larger sicians as similar human instances is not liable to contract scurvy right to import what aras it rewith its sin guns.
numbers, even in comparison with would be. Another exceptional, quality of normal litters of these
The most authentic instance of even though he be deprived per-quires to maintain order. manently of vitamin C in his!
the German ships is their range-species. Indeed, the question of human sextuplets was recorded in diet, for ascorbic acid, its exact It is however, the fear that 20,000 miles-which they owe to how many little ones can be born 1903 from the West Coast of equivalent, is synthesised in his Germany, Italy and Portugal may their Diesel engines.
at one time to mammals. of which Africa by two British doctors. Dr. system. The rabbit can eat, intervene on the side of the rebels, They represent the answer of man is one, is something that has Wishart Kerr and Dr. H. Cook- without being poisoned, the thereby turning a domestic strug-German naval architects to the long perplexed scientists, and they a Unlike Dr. Dafoe, who look. leaves of the Deadly Night-gle to an international one that limitation of 10,000 tons dispiace are not agreed at all on what the ed after the Dionne girls, these
pro- shade. Atropa belladonna, which has led France to suggest a
Iment laid down in the Versailles limit can be.
physicians were not lucky enough. pos that might win the support is highly poisonous to
to preside over the birth itself but Treaty- and many other animals. The of these three Governments.
Eighteen Pups
they did arrive shortly afterward Article X of the Covenant, which tolerance to his powerful poison
The 18 St. Bernard pups recent-and saw the six babies. all of ly born appear to constitute a re-whom had died shortly after being cord for dog families, but this re-born. There can be little doubt. Officially they are designated cord is exceeded in at least one therefore, that the Negro woman instance by another animal the who was the mother really did pro Panzerschiffe--armoured ships- ordinary domestic pig. Pigs or duce a set of human sextuplets ships-Linienschiffe--and cruisers of
young, although families of 10 or none survived. Another instance even 12 at one birth are not un-generally accepted by medical men согдов. A farmer, of Port was reported in Italy in 1888 by Moody, British Columbia, reported a Dr. Vassalli, otherwise unknown early this year a litter of 20 to fame. "What is an easy way to make piglets, apparently a record for all sheep wash?" asks a farming corres-kinds of animals of the mammal pondent We can only suggest ap-group to which man belongs. It
to their finer feelings
Recently another instance of the la interesting for the theory that birth of sextuplets was reported controlled by from Rumania. There was still One of the troubles in this modern multiple births are
same mother mother in South age is
too many people are heredity that this
Africa in 1929 spending money they haven't yet previously had produced litters of and one in Brazil in 1930. The tarned for things they don't need to 14, 15 and 14 respectively, all well only American report is one from impress people they don't like. above the birth average.
Alabama in 1899. In none of these Not even the rats, mice and instances, however, has science re- toms displayed by a person poisoned by belladonna are i "If you use this glass and look
un-ceived an accurate report from a Frankly usually productive, ever piled up competent medical TARD OF highly characteristic; dryness through the diamond in the light ther we ever stop to think exactly rabbits, all supposed to be
where our money goes to. of the mouth, flushed skin, mild you can see where it is cracked," we don't; we are too busy wondering records equal to this, or even to scientist. delirium, and so on, but more said a barrister at Westminster where it's coming from
the record of the St. Bernard with (Continued on Page 6.) especially dilatation of the County Court last month to Judge pupils of the eyes. The last is Dumas The diamond, in a ring.
Man
"The Members of the League`un-
is in fact curiously distributed Spain may invoke, declares that throughout the mammalian series. It is known, for dertake to respect and preserve as instance. that the leaves, the against external aggression fruit and the root of this plant territorial integrity and existing
the
Their nickname originated in Fleet-street. It is now generally fused in Germany, where they are
called Taschenlinienschiffe.
are poisonous to human beings, political independence of all Mery.to differentiate them from battle-dinarily have litters of six to eight) who were abre at birth although
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dogs cats and birds. Horses ben of the League. In case and oxen are little affected by any such aggression or in case of-Kreuzer. eating belladonna, while pigs, any threat or danger of such goats, sheep and rabbits can aggression the Council shall eat it with impunity.
yise upon the means by which this The "Deadly Nightshade is a obligation shall be fulfilled." common weed in England and
other European countries, and cases of belladonna poisoning among children who have been attracted by its beautiful pur-! plish black fruits are not. un- common in the countries where!
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WOMAN'S CLAIM FAILS Judge And Cracked Diamond
a familiar effect, for the drug was said to have
been damaged}
is frequently used by oculists to when its woman wearer fell from facilitate examination of the an omnibus step.
eye, and occasionally by vain The judge, after examining the women to attract the attention diamond. said he thought that he, of other eyes to their own.jcould discern what an expert had The different susceptibility to described as a crack and also a poisoning by belladonna of natural defect which had been human beings and animals is mentioned.
illustrated by a case reported Mrs. L Appleby, of Osbaldiston- only a few weeks ago in Eng-road, N., claimed £59 10s 6d from land. A woman in Leeds who the London Passenger Transport! was suffering from pernicious Board, the bulk of the sum being anaemia, maintained her health for depreciation of the diamond. by taking liver extract. She She said that when she was board- had finished six bottles withing an omnibus in Mare-street, no other than the expected Hackney, it suddendly moved on effects, but a dose from the She was thrown off the step andį seventh was followed by, illness dragged along, her left hand and with all the symptoms of bel-thigh being bruised. ladonna poisoning.
dismissed the
LIFEBELT TOO HEAVY
She ré- The conductor and a man pas-: covered; but the next dose of senger declared that Mrs. Appleby liver extract was again follow-tried to enter the bus just after it ed by the same symptoms had left the stopping-place. Enquiries were made and it was Judge Dumas discovered that a similar case clain, with costs. had arisen where a patient had taken a dose from a bottle" of liver extract that came from the same hatch as that of thei first patient. Chemical analy- sis of samples from the bottles People from drowning in the River and from other bottles of the Crouch at Hullbridge told the batch showed the presence of a cormer at an inquest that the life- poison of the belladonna type in belt provided was too heavy it the liver extract. The possi-weighed half a hundredweight. ibility of the accidental entry of
A ferryman
who has saved 30!
the poison into the extract dur-jdrug from the plant stored - in jing manufacture was ruled out the liver of the animal had by facts, and the conclusion was passed through the whole pro- forced that the ox or sheep liver cess of extraction without from which the extract had being destroyed and had finally bere made must have contained poisoned
the
unfortunate belladonna.
patient. It was a rare though Having in mind the fact that not an unheard-of event, for it some animals are not poisoned had already been put on record by the drug there seems to be that a man, two women, a cat a high probability that one or and a dog having between them more of the animals whose eaten half a rabbit, had been livers
were supplied to the poised apparently by bella manufacturers of the extract dorna The other half of the had fed on Atropa belladonna rabbit being analysed was found shortly before it was slaughter-to contain a quantity, which ed (for the poison is one which was actually isolated, of the is rapidly excreted through the atropine alkaloid which is the [renal system), and the deadly poison of Atropa belladonna,
that
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