OCR Text |
Show 1 V SHORT AND CRISP. Hi Professor Lors, the Greek rifle shot, is attracting at-tracting much attention by his feat of shooting shoot-ing a glass ball from his own head. The trick is performed by shooting at the trigger of a rifle held in a frame, with the muzzle sighted at a glass ball dangling by a striug directly over the marksman's head. The umbrella is undoubtedly of high antiquity, an-tiquity, appearing in various forms upon the sculptured monuments of Egypt, Assyria, Greece and Rome, and in hot countries it has been used since the dawn of history as a sunshade a use signilied by its name, derived de-rived from the Latin umbra, a shade. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted, per-mitted, no hotels are allowed to open their door from midnight on Saturday until Monday Mon-day morning, and anyone driving past a place of worship at a faster pace than a walk while service is in progress is liable to be stopped and summoned by the policeman on duty. Every sentimental traveler in Switzerland repudiates the theory that the story of William Wil-liam Tell is a myth, and will rejoice to know that a magnificent design has been accepted for the monument to be erected to the patriot's pat-riot's memory at Altorf. Kissing, of Zurich, Zur-ich, is the successful competitor for the statue. A physician in New York city is now using an attachment to the stethoscope by which, he claims, he can establish the outline of the heart so accurately that it would be possible with certainty to thrust a pin through the patient's chest to a point within a hair's breadth of the heart without touching the latter. |