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Gisborne Times, Volume XXX, Issue 3564, 2 July 1912, Page 2

A bank manager at Prague recently explained an ingenious invention of a, new safe room cloor, costing £2OOO. After closing the door, however, it- eculd not he re-opened, and two clerks were imprisoned in tho room. Five days’ work was necessary before their release, ancl in the meanwhile tho men were fed through tubes.

Dr. Buizard, the eminent Frencn physician, makes the startling t»uggestion in the Paris-Midi, that society instead of executing murderers snouici make them subjects for medical research. He adds that, many a criminal would, rather than submit to capital punishment, prefer to allow himself to be inoculated with disease germs. At present medical researen was hindered by the fact that doctors except in rare cases, had only- dead bodies on which to experiment, and if they had healthy, living subjects the value of the knowledge gained by inoculating them with typhoid, diphtheria, and cholera germs would he inestimable.

Such was his love for his favorite dogs, Jim and Toby, that their future maintenance is provided for by their late owner, Mr. James Norton Dickons, solicitor, of Heaton, Bradford, whoso estate has been sworn at £33,101. He bequeaths one shilling per day for tho maintenance of the dogs, and in addition left £20,000 to various charitable and public uses, including the Benevolent Trust Fund for the aged workpeople of Bradford, the Bradford Infirmary, Bradford Tradesmen’s Home, the Royal Halifax Infirmary, and tlie Halifax Tradesmen’s Benevolent Institution.

Owing to the sharp rise.in the -cost of living, a movement has been s«.a. *- ed among certain French .physicians to augment uniformly the hitherto prevailing charges for their professional services. A French scientific periodical states that an unmarneu doctor must earn about £340 annually in order to cover and yet, according to statisetis recently issued by a medical writer, out of 20,000 French physicians 40 per cent, do not earn £2OO a year, and only 20 per cent, make more than £4OO. A church in Upper Broadway, hew York City, has made a play garden of its Church yard, and invites the mothers and'children in the neighborhood to make themselves happy in it, IPhe spirit of Jesiis ? s invitation, “Suffer little children ;to conic unto Me,” has seldom had more loyal recognition than in this effort to make the church a. weekday joy as well as a Sunday blessing. ~ For Children’s Hacking Cough at night, Woods’ Great Peppermint-Cure, Is 6d, 2s 6d —Advt.