The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-08
OF CASUAL CONCERN.

A monkey in the zoo at De Soto Park,
Rome, Ca, Is entitled to the degree OF
M. D., according to its keeper. one OF
the monkeys In the cage swallowed d
marble. 1t had ~presenceiof mind enough
to suspend itself by the tail ana nang
head down in an effort to let the mar
| BILE drop from it's throat, and failing, II
called for help in the simian language,
and one of its brothers responded. The
! doctor rammed his slender arm down
the afflicted Ones throat and extracted
the marble. The relieved sufferer seized
the marble from the doctor land threw
il from the cage with all its strength.
That Moroccan officials have some
unpleasant manners is proved by the
following from Marrakesh: Some time
ago a kaid offered to sell a personal
| enemy of his own for a certain price.
The bargain was struck inc the man
was captured and crucified in the court
ward of The kaid's house, where, before
the cruciHed mans eyes, he held a fete.
On the third day the wretched man
was taken down, hacked to pieces and
his flesh thrown to the dogs, musical in
strunents being played to drown the
cries of the victim"
Naval officers and a~eronautical ex-
perts have witnessed the successful
trial of a new balloon water anchor,
the invention of Leo Stevens, the aero
naut. 1t is SO constructed that 1t may
be dropped into the water and will hold
the balloon as long as desired. BY
pulling a cord the bottom is opened
and the anchor is easily lifted. The
test was made with a twenty-horse-
power motor boat. The anchor was
dropped from the stern and held the
boat stationary. When the bottom was
opened the boat shot ahead at full
speed. Those who witnessed the trial
said it was very satisfactory. 1t Is
the purpose of the anchor to save the
lives of %aeronauts who are blown out
to sea. In case the balloon was being
driven out to sea the anchor would
be dropped and signals made for help.
II no ships appeared the anchor could
be released and the balloon would rise
and go on again without sacrificing
very much ballast or gas
In an effort to establish their claim
to an estate of S25. 000, 900 members Of
the Rupp family, of Columbia County,
Pa. opened the grave of John Rupp.
who was buried in the old Reformed
Church Cemetery at Numidia In 1873.
The disinternent was required owing
to the fact that in those days it was
customary to bury the birth and bap-
tismal certificates in the coffin and
these We're necessary as a means of
proving the heirs claim to the estate.
The papers We're secured. They, are in
q fair state of preservation and show
that John Rupp was So years old when
he died, and a SON. George Rupp, who,
1t is claimed, was the direct heir to the
property, is in Germany, and the heirs
now claim to have all the links in the
chain of evidence necessary to prove
their claim to it.
DIR. Chaufard has recently brought
before the Paris Academy of Medicine
the tendency to malign the oyster.
The oyster. in the doctors opinion, is
a perfect food, excellent for both chill
dren and invalids in general. He pro-
tests against the superstition of only
eating oysters in months in which the
letter r. appears. DIR. Chauffard had
his prototype in Whitstable in the mid
die of the last century in one DIR. Will
Jams, a local practitioner, whose prin-
cipal prescription was oysters and
stout. The doctor was looked upon as
a success. and was very popular. His
portrait in oil presiding at the punch
howl adorns the, dining room of the
Rear and Key, an ancient Whitstable
hostel.