GENERAL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3725, 10 January 1913, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS.

Berlin is starting a campaign against women who persist in wearing dresses with long trains, and the wearers are indignantly protesting. The police have issued regulations prohibiting, under heavy penalties, women’s dresses from dragging along the ground in such a way as to' raise the dust. A houseboy in Salisbury, South Africa, was found to be suffering from sleeping sickness. Several thousand natives in the vicinity were examined and found to be infected. Th oy were all segregated, and strin- | gent steps are being taken to prevent | the further spread of the disease. g A recommendation that the words jj from Psalm cxvi., “All men are I liars.” should be omitted from the | Prayer Book service, the Churching B of Women (the office which follows ■ childbirth), was adopted by the Lower House of the Convocation of Canterbury. A respondent in an action to set aside a Workmen’s Compensation Act J award stated in Lambeth County Court, London, tha t lie was suffering 1 from neurasthenia and his wife did 1 everything for him. Counsel: Does J she shave you?—Yes. I cannot shave j myself because my hand shakes so, and I might cut myself. By thirty-two votes to six a motion by “ Mr. Thos. Lawlor, declaring against the sending of bodies of the destitute poor to schools of anatomy, and see’king to provide that those not claimed by relatives should be decently buried, was rejected by the South Dublin Guardians. On Mr. Lawlor i asking a lady guardian whether she g would give her body “to be hacked | for research work,” Mrs. Greene said * she would, and the chairman said he - would give his body willingly, al- * though, he added, members of his family might refuse to carry out his i will. ' Lecturing in Dublin under the auspices of the National Literary Society of Ireland, Mr. W. Dawson alluded to the proverbial beauty of Dublin women, and said the most beautiful were to be foundt among the women who sold fish and other things on the pavements. They were really beautiful and really Irish. j Mow a mouse made its home in a Jg coffin was related at a Neath inquest on a collier. Dr. Evans, of Seven Sis- 1 levs, raid that he performed a post- B mortem examination, and found two wounds, one above each eyebrow. A portion of one of the thumbs down to the bone had disappeared, and this ap- i peared to have been due to mice. The | left ear was also eaten away. When || they lifted the body out of the coffin I they found a live mouse underneath. |