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中華民國庚午年潤節月廿六 1846

HONG KONG, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 1930.

SCIENTIST'S DARING AMERICA ́· HEADING

EXPERIMENT.

Inhaled Poison Fumes in Steel Chamber.

EXPLORER AS COMPANION.

FOR BANKRUPTCY ?

Deficit of $200,000,000 at End of Fiscal Year. REDUCED BUSINESS.

Washington, Yesterday,

"GODDESS OF

CHOLERA.”

Superstition Leads to

Murder.

"A STRANGE STORY.

Secunderabad, July 29.

How Professor J. S. Haldane, in order to test the effects of car-

A deficit of $200,000,000 is bon-monoxide poisoning, shut-him-

A report of an uncommon pecur self up in a steel chamber with a feared, for the end of the fiscal rence in which superstitious fear companion and inhaled the dead-year, June 30, 1981, due to in- drove a mob of villagers to asanult ly fumes is described in the Bri- creasing expenditure, shrinking a man and his wife with athies, tish Medical Journal.

revenues, and reduced business till the latter died of injuries, comes activity.

from Adilabad.

mental

Expenditure from July 1 to

to appear, and August 15, excluding the National

When a saturation of 30 per cent. or 40 per cent. was reach- ed, he states. certain

According to the report cholera symptoms: began

was raging in Gujal, ä village of became more and more prominent debt redemption, exceeded the Adilabad district, and the super- with increasing volume.

The corresponding period of 1929 by stitious village folk were perform pressure in the chamber corres- ponded to that found at 25,000 $29,000,000, taxes collected are ing ceremonies to propitiate the feet above sea-level, and he and $56,000,000 · less and customs goddess of cholera, when one of the his companion (a Mount Everest have dropped to $36,000,000. women present, named Munni, be explorer) werd unacclimatised.

Of one hour of this experiment}

It is believed that it may be came hysterical and it was belloved |

he had not the slightest memory, necessary to use any cash pay that the goddess had taken posses- afterwards; although, according ments that foreign Governmenta¿sion of her.

to his companion, who was less may make to their account of Calling upon the goddess of affected than himself, he was talk war debts to meet the current ex-cholera, they asked her why she had ing all the time and answering

pressure penses, instead of applying them come to scourge them. Replying on

questions. Until the

STOWAWAY FINED.

said she had not come amongst them of her own accord but had Įbeen invited to their village by the

wife of Kishtiah Kanbi

Was increased his companion to the redemption of the National behalf of the goddess, the woman thought that he (Professor debt-Reuter's American Service, Haldane) was not suffering to any degree, but at length he noticed him take up‘a. mirror to look at the colour of his lips, and; found that he was looking, with- out being aware of it, at the back of the mirror. The blanks of MAN WHO WANTED TO GO brought the curse on their village) memory were often filled in with purely imaginary events.

Memory and Movement.

of

TO JAVA.

the J.C.J.L. Tjisondari. He admitted

Along with fallure of memory

A Chinese named Cheung Chung went failure of co-ordination movement. The gait became like was to-day charged before Mr. T. S. that of a drunken man; the hand-Whyte-Smith with atowing away writing became progressively irre- from Java on. gular. Sensory perception of every kind seemed to be dull, and he tried to grasp at objects which offence. were some distance away under the impression that they were Magistrate that the accused was within his reach.

on

1.8.

the

An Officer of the ship told the

found. among the steerage pas-

After consultation they decided to chastise Kishtiah's wife for having

and a gang of twelve men, who were. deputed for the task, armed them- selves with lithies and under the command of one Malliga proceeded to Kishtlah's house. At nightfall they called out both husband and wife and belaboured the unfortunate pair severely.

The woman died of her injuries. The police have the case in hand. Allahabad Pioneer..

"Really!" replied the other. "You don't mean it?"

"It's a 'fact."

Two friends met in the street. Professor Haldane told a report-sengers on the day after the ship"I say," said one, "do you know er that the experiment took place left Java. He refused to pay for Sammy Binks has broken off his

the premises of marine en-his passage when asked to do so, engagement with his young lady?" gineers in London some two years and also refused to give his name. ago. Since, then the ́explorer who The Officer added that there was was his companion was killed another man without ■ ticket in while climbing in the Himalayas. the steerage, but he claimed to have

"I do not regard these things lost his ticket as very dangerous," he said.name and gave all particulars about "though. they are very alarming himself. In this case it was de Lo people round about-they think cided to give the man the benefit of something is going to happen. the doubt and not prosecute him. But I always knew pretty well The Eolice informed the Magis- what I was doing. I have often trate that when searched the carried out what looked like very accused had no money on him. risky experiments, but there is no His Worship Imposed a fine of danger-it you know what you $60 or one month's hard labour in are doing. I was very soon all default. right after this particular experi- ment, but I felt just a little funny

"My word, you do surprise mol and supplied his Didn't he give up smoking to please

her?"

for an hour or two-in fact I had not a very good temper."

taking part in risky experiments,

He added that his friends some- but his wife was "now quite times tried to dissuade him from | bardened to it."

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"He did."

"And didn't he refrain from all gambling to please her?"

"He did."

"And I heard be even kept better society to please her."

"That's a fact."

"Then why, in the name of good. ness, has he broken of the engage ment, after doing all that?"

"Well, it was like this.

He gave up all his bad habits for the sake of the damsel, and now he has come

to the conclusion that he is too good | for her."

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