SUBMARINE CRAFT.
PARIS Feb. 8. —Dr Unchutzkaempie, the promotor'of‘the recently, much a is-, V expedition. here from Vienna to confer with some French scientists wno will accompany ffiEW he elated; the plan at Munich a year ago ami nas now perfected and tested the monel, o a powerful submarine boat capable o rapid progress at a depth oi ninety X which is sufficient to clear ice. in the coldest regions. . He will go as far north as possib.e loan ordinary, arctic vessel, then with his submarine boathe hopes to : reach the pole in in four days, breathing oxygen renewed chemically. The doctor is confident that he wi he able to rise to the surlwe olten.i openings being numerous in thei polar seas. Polar scientists agree that the water at the pole proper is noV frozen- The submarine vessel will be built in France or America, according to which country makes the best bid for itg
NEW FUEL APPROVED. PARIS, Feb. B.—French navy exrcrts, after exhaustive trials, enthusiastically. endorse the new fuel discover d by a French engineeer recently called petroleum briquettes-. By a secret process petroleum is made semi-solid, then mixed with coal dust, and the mixture is pressed into hard t’icks. It constitutes the best navy fuel, makes no dust or ashes, is easily stored and handled, and an equal volime represents four times the heating power of anthracite coal.
LONDON, Feb. B.—ln Beerbohm Tree’s production of Stephen Phillips's classical drama, “ Ulysses,” the principal actors and most of the supers have appeared with bare arms and legs. To that the London County Council censors have taken exception, and Mr Tree has been requested to provide himself and his suoordinates with tights. So histarical accuracy has to be made subservient to modern propriety. PARISH Feb. 25.~-Pretty Mine. Ravelole’s love for her husband is so intense, he declares, he cannot endure it longer, so he has asked the Court to grant him a divorce. Among other things which M. Ravelote alleges to substantiate his complaint that his wife’s affection and jealous temperament are intolerable, ne says that three months ago he casually mentioned at table that a certain woman he was acquainted with before lie married would come to town within a few days, whereupon the young wife flew into a towering and threw the crockery about, doing great damage and endangering his life. Peace was made after several hours of such stormy argument, and the husband promised not to see the woman in question during her stay in Paris. Nevertheless his wife remained suspicious, and he testified that she caused to be constructed unknown to him | and in a distant room of their house, a cage like those used in menageries, into which, with the help of a powerful servant maid and the coachman, she thrust him, interning to keep him U.us imprisoned until the woman who had excited her jealousy left Paris. Ravelote alleges that he would not have been released until then had not his brother happened to will and discover the situation.
The captivity lasted, the petitioner a.serts, three days and three nights, during which the wife passed food through the bars and let her husband sleep on the cage floor rather than nsk letting him out. The wife was not represented In Court, and the Judges issued an order for her appearance a fortnight reuco I to “ corroborate or deny, the pet** \ .tioner’s almost incredible charges.,
PARIS, Feb. 25.—Richard Russell, an American Mahometan, whose wife (nee Gladys Vandercook, of Boston), died here two months ago has gone liack to his estate at Zagbouan, Tunis, with his three other wives, nine of his sixteen children, and a wlwte retinue ef Oriental servants. Russell’s eldest daughter remains here. She is a student of science in a girls’ college. . , . . Two of his sons are being educated in America. , At the time of Alice Vandercook s death some clergymen demanded that Russell should be prosecuted as a polygamist, but the Government bal answered that Russell was not a French citizen, but a Tunisian, whose religion allowed a plurality of wives Russell’s parents, now dead, settled in Tunis before he was born, and were favored by the Bey then reuping. Russell was reared as a Mahometan, and is a devout believer in the Koran. He is enormously rich.
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Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 384, 8 April 1902, Page 3
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