30 APRIL 1932, Page 11

It is said to have been ascertained that a whole

family, who have been under treatment for the cholera in St. Giles's, actually brought the seeds of the disease with them all the way from Cork.-- Morning Herald. [This is is mistake—the seeds were found in unpacking a mummy, sent home the other day by the British Consul at Alexandria. They had lain, without germinating, for 3,687 years, in the cold hand of the Egyptian, but no sooner did they touch the warm palm of the Irishman, than they budded and bore fruit.]