A Berlin doctor claims to have discovered a specific for consumption in the turtle. The turtle, if we remember aright, was also the .basis of much that De Rougement prepared for consumption. Bov Scouts in Guiana have sent the Chief Scout, as a wedding present, a stick mounted with the motto “Be Prepared.” It is sad to find the young taking such a cynical view of matrimony. A prize of £20,000. to he contributed to by all the chief motor-car clubs in the world, is to bo offered, says “Excelsior,” for a new motor-car fuel, rendered necessary by the rapidly increasing price of petrol. The inventor of the waterplano has been awarded a prize of 2,000 francs by the French Academy of Science, The usual practice is to wait till an inventor died, and then erect a much mow expensive memorial, -
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 3768, 1 March 1913, Page 4
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