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Reater's New Orleans correspon dent states that physicians at a local; hospital decided to furnish a complete record for medical journals of the case of a man of 50 who died after living twenty-six hours with his heart exposed to the eyes of the hospital surgears. While he was working in a local coffee grinding plant the man's left sleeve was caught in a His arms was mangled, machine. asd a piece of flesh the size of man's head was torn from his breast,

leaving his heart exposed, the ribs directly over that organ also being torn away. The fact that the injured man lived twenty-six hours after the accident is said by physicians observ- ing the case to be one of the most remarkable ever recorded in local practice. Anti-Smoking Women.

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THE COMET.

IF IT STRIKES US.

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THE CHINA MAIL.

A BRAVE AMAK.

ARMED ROBBER DEFIED.

SEQUEL TO “HOLD UP.”

Pleading gmity to charges alleging assault with intent to rob, a Chinese named Wong King was sentenced to five years'imprisonment with hard' labour by the acting Chief Justice, Mr. H. H. J. Gompertz at the Criminal Sessione to-day.

The Fons Winnecte comel, which is at present an object of considerable interest not only to scientists but also to the average man, is by no means one of the large or important men bers of the sun's family of comets, says the astronomical correspondent It was explained by the assistant of the Manchester Guardian. It was Crown Solicitor (Mr. F. Dyer Ball),

who appeared to prosecute, that the} first seen as a faint telescopic object charge arose out of as occurrence by Pons, Marseilles, a famous French which took place on May" when astronomer who devoted himself to Wong King, and two other men this branch of astronomy, on the 12th entered a house in Wing Lok-Street June, 1819. The great German astro- and held up the inmates Wong King nomer Ericke, whose name is borne threatened the master of the house by another comet, assigned to this with a knife then an amah inter- faint object a revolution period of posed herself between the two men about 5 years. At the end of that allowing her master to escape into period, however, the object was not the kitchen and give the alarm. The A San Francisco couple, Mr. and seen, and it was given up as lost intruders then made off and only Mrs. Wiliam Mitton, have just been until on the 8 March, 1858, It Wong King was captured married a second time, having was rediscovered by a German been divorced 16 years ago.

observer, Winnecke, at Bonn. For some time Winnecke regarded the comet as

the conclusion that it calculating its orbit be was soon led to was identical with Pons's lost comet of 1819." Since 1858 the comet has been recognised as a regular member of the sun's comet family, and bas been observed at most of its perihelia or nearest approaches to the sun. In 1909 the comet was due at perihelion, and it was successfully

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Twins, a boy and a girl, were born in the Pacific liner "Oriana," which has just reached Liverpool from South America. The mother is Polish. The girl was named Oriana.

Hundreds of Birmingham bakers are pledged to bake dinners for the public at id a lb during the strike. Boiling water has been available, free of charge, morning and evening, in

various centres.

Lieut. Colonel Amery informed Rear-Amiral Adair, in the Horse of Commons that the number of terpe does fired from British battleships and battle cruisers at the Battle of Jutland was respectively five and seven.

A spring campaign against tobacco has been opened with a big distribu tion of leadets by the Women's Christian Temperance Union, New York, which is leading the movement to place tobacco with alcohol on the

With a foot severed, an arm prohibition list. The public is urged fractured, and other injuries, Dorothy "petition clubs and colleges to Scarrott, aged 17, lay on the railway abandon smoking concerts, to create tracks at Midsomer Norton Somerset, a general sentiment against girls and for eight hours after being knocked women selling tobacco in hotels and dawn by a train. She died a few theatres, on railway stations and else.bours later. where; and to request the State Boards of Health to prohibit smoking

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The Importation of Plumage (Fro- in the markets and other places hibition) Bill, signed to protect where food is sold. Another poster beautifully plamaged birds such as aske, "Can a man smoke and respect the egret and the bird of paradise the rights of others? Every smoker from torture and extinction, was read should consume bis own smoke."

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In sentencing the prisoner His Honour said that the amah deserved mach credit for her courageous con- duct.

THREE FISHERS.

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MARINE COURT PROSECUTION.

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Bogey Fool, 14th, 15th, 18th May. As no card was resumed better than "4 down" the amount of the "Fool" will be included in the Boger Pool Competition cu 21st to 23rd isstant.

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observed by a number of astronomers. It was found, however, that owing to its near approach to the giant planet! Jupiter its orbit had been consider a different excuse to offer the Bench Per Mr. Chan Kang Yue ably altered. By the time of its were presented before the Marine next return, in 1915-16, a further Magistrate (Lieutenant Conway Hake change had taken place, so that RR) at the Marine Court this the comet's orbit now intersected morning to answer charges alleging the orbit of the earth. On that they threw articles into the June 28, 1916. Mr. W. F. Denning, harbour from their boats in order to the greatest living observer of meteors, prevenI SAZIKE. noticed a shower of meteors which It was related by Lance Sergeant had never been seen before. The Carey of the Water Police that on meteors, he stated, were "indivi- May 17 while on duty near the 2.5. "Wah Wa" be saw the defendants' dually not very noteworthy. fairly bright, showy objects. The sampans leaving the vessel's side importance of his observation con- As soon as they saw the police turned around rsisted-not-in-the-nature-of-the launch................they.

meteors themselves bat in the fact and made back to the vessel that this new shower was observed and when he chased them at a time when, owing to the per around the stera they scattered. terbations produced by Jupiter, the When he ordered them to orbit of the Pors Winnecke comet alongside the launch they refused intersected that of the earth. and began dumping coal into the The detection of the intimate refs-water. One of the men made away tion between comets and meteors from the launch and two shots we Mount Everest is believed to be the

was one of the greatest discoveries fired at him. highest peak in the world, the apex

Lau Kau, the first defendant, ex- Dewlish, of the nineteenth century. For being 29,000 feet or almost exactly Dorset, on a three-year-old child centuries men of science had regarded plained that he was merely catching fire and a half miles above the level named Loveless, it was stated that meteors, or shooting stars, as atmos shrimps and as he was

be did not of the sea. The great question is when she was standing outside her pheric phenomena. In 1883, Low-distance Sky

the police Jaunch. this: Can a man live at the height of home the cow, which had a calt ever, a great shower of meter took see 29,000 feet, where the atmosphere is rushed at her and pinned her against place, and was carefully observed by

I was rowing over from Hong only half the density of the air in the the wall with its horas, killing her capable astronomers. It was seen Lara said the second defendant, Pang valley of the Ganges? On the 5th

that ali the

which Fa," and my daughter was wasting: September, 1862, Mr Glaisher, of

fell during this shower seemed her clothes" "I was just balling Greenwich Observatory, with Mr.

Except that he cannot move bis to come from the same part out my boat," said the third defend Coxwell as pilot, ascended from Lon head sideways, there is no hing to of the sky. That is to say, their aut, Lai

Their gelbness availed them not At about the show that Lient, R. W, Lonar. of paths when traced backward were height of 25,000 feet both men be- Tonbridge, who was married to Miss feund. to converge to a point near for they were each ordered to pay a came unconscious. Fortunately, some Nancy Ferris at Nether; von (Wilts) the star Gamma in the constellation fine of five dollars or to go to gaol time later Mr. Coxwell recovered bas a broken neck. He rect ved this Leo. This chorvaticu gare

the for seven days.

A similar charge, was proved sufficiently to pull down the valve fine with his teeth, bis arms being injury while in Gallipad was in death-blow to the view that meteors

hospital for a long time.

were of terrestrial origin. Opinion agafest and a similar penalty imposed boar quite helpless, and saved his own life

now moved rapidly towards the view upon Ko Kam, a cargo and that of Mr. Glaisher.

Percy Buck, 3 boilermaker's that meteors were simply small mistress and Lam Lui, a cargo boat" aceroid recorded a maximum height of eight miles, Seven years ago labourer, who was summoned at particles of matter revolving round foki... three men went up in a balloon to a Newport for the payment of 17s the sun in swarmsa meteoric shower height a thousand feet lower than 2d income-tax, was stated to have being the result of a collision be the peak of Everest, but they all were earned over £85 in seven weeks, an tween the earth and one of these

average of £12 49 103 a week. He swarms. dead when the balloon came down, Viceroy and the Oath.

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· 3 YEARS' DESERTION.

the order being suspended for a known meteor showers were computed NEW GROUND FOR DIVORCE IN month.

The newspaper reporters in Bom- bay did not catch the significance of Lord Reading's action when be took! the oath of office. They remarked that he sat down without kissing the Bible, that there was a consultation, and that then a “Bible" was brought then he rose to his feet, put on his hat, kissed it, and resumed his seat. What really happened was that the ordinary Bible, which of course, is the Old and New Testaments, was provided for him, as a matter of course, He did not kiss it but asked

The body of an Italian has been for the Hebrew scriptores, the 60 found in a field in a New York subarb called Old Testament. This was with beside it, the man's tongue brought, and he completed his oath pinned to a piece of paper. His Laking in the usual manner.

murder was the revenge of comrades International Football

in a gang of highway robbers whom he had betrayed to the police in that same field seven years ago,

ground run. The best assent hitherto has been 13t.

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··LORDS' BILL, `

over half a century ago by some of the foremost mathematicias of the time, and to the amazement of the scientific world, Schiaparelli of Milan. The Matrimonial Causes Bill, in the greatest Italian astronomer of the troduced by Lord Gorell in the House century, found that the August sae of Lords with the object of facilita. teors the Perseids moved in 30 ting divorce proceedings, - was orbit identical with that of the comet amended in an important particular of August, 1862. Later he showed by the addition of desertion

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MONDAY,

The Aero Club of France is offer ing a prize of 25,000 francs (norm ally £1.000) to the pilot of the first helicopter which mounts vertically through an imaginary cylinder BUft. high and descends on the same spet A helicopter is an aeroplane that ascends and descends without that the orbit of the telter known for three years to the causes for

| November meteorsile Leonids which divorce may be obtained...

was identical with that of Temple's As it was introduced, the Bill made comet of 1866. In a little volume adultery the sole gromid, for divorce, published a few years later Schiapa- but allowed the dissolution of a relli showed conclusively that "mete marriage within the first year on the oric currents are the products of the grounds of insanity, epilepsy, O dissolution of comets, and consist of venereal disease at the time of minute particles which certain comets marriage. Lord Gorell said that if have abandoned along their orbits by desertion were added he would no It rained international football de

reason of the disintegrating force longer be responsible for the Bill cisions on Saturday mail week.

which the sun and planets exert on -In spite of this opposition, however, Ireland went down at Soccer"

the rare materials of which they are desertion was carried by 66 votes to before Wales at Swansea. In Paris

A boy of six, named Andrew composed. All doubt was removed 48, largely as the outcome of a the Irish were also beaten by the French, who following on England's Beveridge, had a remarkable escape by what took place in 1872. In Nov. powerful speech by Lord Buckmaster, narrow victory over her Alls are ear Larbert, Stirlingshire. While ember of that year the earth crossed who will for the future take charge

BTK-covered Drawing Room Suite, showing rapid and consistent im he was travelling in a fast train the the orbit of the lost cornet off of the BIL

Lord Burnham moved the omission Single and Double Bedsteads, Black. door of the carriage suddenly burst Beila, which had not been seen for provement in the" Rugby game.

day open and he was thrown out. Ficked twenty years, and the consequence of a subsection which made it unlaw wood Table, Chairs & Cabinets, Wark But the event of the year up a few minutes later, he was found was one of the most brilliant showers furto publish any report of a divorce robes, and of the Association to have escaped with cuts on his of meteor within human memory. case tatil the conclusion of the pro-

between the two countries-wa the match in which Scotiana head

Mr. Denning announced some time ceedings or to publish aby pictorial ago that there is a prospect of a bril-Freund cof the proceedings. He pro bowled over the prophets and best England at Glasgow amid extra Judge Pigot, at Limerick awarded liant shower of meteors this year on tested against attempts to interiere or about June 27, when Our with the common right of publishing | ordinary scenes of national fervour, a sum of over £22.000 on claims planet once again crosses the path the reports of matrimonial cases. Trae to tradition, Scotland played under the head of malicious injuries of the Pons Winnecke cornet. There His amendment was carried without The close game and again revealed a Close on £17,000 of the total amount has indeed been considerable discus

a division: high standard of ball-control ander were allowed to relatives of deceased as to the possibility of a collision weather conditions which were some police constables who lost their lives between the earth and the head hat adverse to the Scottish style. in the ambush which took place on of the comet., A comet's Lead

The increasing number of England's experimental attack was February 3 last, when a number of appears to consist simply of loose not a success. Once more it is constabulary were shot dead by an stones enveloped in gaseous material. Kwangsi troops has greatly frighten clear how much England stands in armed party in wait for the police.

Were our world to strike the comer's ed the businessmen of Wuchow who need of a great scoring centre for

head, where the stodes are clustered fear hostilities will soon begin there. ward. That seems the pivotal fact

By imagining a tramway-car with most thickly, the result would-be and injure their business interests. which some of the southern optimists a tank siperimposed you have a simply a meteoric shower of unusual. Its reported that many

picture of the amphibious vehicle brilliance Possibly some of the firms are making preparations designed by a French enginem, M: larger stones might reach the surface suspend business, reports the

Time Festing that the CAUSE OF DESPONDENCY. - Foeoquinon, Carrying five passengers of the earth, but the rast

the scent

etween the ESPONDESOLL olien cased by amis machines diabéderarous jobstad would be raised to incurs

xiigestion and "conslipstion, and cles abore, and thes, siding down a redu

appears when. Chamberlain's bank into the ses, masde à – voyage then the digestion and more, the driven by a propeller. Besching *For unle by all Chemists and shore again, it climbed back op

overlooked

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