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MAIL WEEK NEWS.
In the French Senate the Woman's Suffrage Bill was defeated by 166 Votes to 134,
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1. Mending large holes in stockinge orunderwear is often a heart-breaking
A Crimean veteran, Mr. James job, but if you tack a piece of net over Chatham, of Leicester, who joined the the hole and darn through this (cut-Royal Artillery in 1849, has died, aged ting away the edges of the net when 92. finished) you will eave a great deal of time and wool, and strengthen the garment considerably. 2 When darn ing woollen stockinge or sock use wool one way only, and cross the darn with darning silk (or eubstitute,) This makes a strongerdarn than using wool both ways-M. W, ia the Star. Spablingor Treatment.
The Ecclesiastical Commissioners have promised 110,000 towards the fund for the restoration of St. Paul's Cathedral.
Lausaune, Berne, Bile, and Zurich are reduced to only Socialist and Catholic newspapers owing to printers' strike,
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which stond in the public square at The status of ex'King Constantine. the Rirwus, the Port of Athens was
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MODERN SUPERSTITION.
ASTONISHING VARIETY OF
MASCOTS.
Kirge and Queens treasure talis- mans of their own, writes Ignatius Panytoin Pearson'e Magazine. The -wellers' shops display motor mas- cols of quniat design, no-well as lucky Pigs and mankoya, tiny hunchbacks, and magic ceine, often eet with precious stones. Thus the turquoise is a proteation against enemira; the diamond stands for reconciliation; à, sapphire guards against sicknees; the cat'a uye against babies' ailments; the emerald kreps the sailor safe at eda; and so on.
Tho famous fountain pen with which he sigae! the Pence of the Peace with Ireland is a symbol Yerrailles and still greater triumph
TUESDAYS JANUARY 9 1923.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
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THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR BUTTER,
Think of it as a vital food and not as a luxury.
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The British Red Cross Society is to provide the money which will enable. the Spalling-r treatment for tulier culosis to be thoroughly tested. This diver, and everything found to be in salirium investigations which, it
prelirainary The steamer was pro is considered, have established proof order. ceeding to ora, and had reached the that claims of the inventer are not dock entrance preparatory to catering unfounded. The Society appears to The following monthly reports the river, when it was found that anba #itisfied that a case for further British Empire Exhibiton at Wertrifes in lü ky jado for the stock 1
obstruction was impeding the port and thorough inquiry has been made out by Mr. Spallinger. The Spabl propeller. She immediately returned to dock and arrangements were
inde for an examination, when it was ingor treatment, the invention of Ir.
from the agencies of the Imperini Merchant Service (uild indicate little or us improvement in the call for the services of sea-going officers, and the
Sop windows, owadays, are fuli of mascots. There are golden. Canada and Nesfoundland have golliwoge for the in tarist, au mameli decided to be represented at the ed two of clubs for the card players,
bloy, Middle ex, in 11:4
broker gem fantasies of many kinds | for the public anger and cinema per former, as well. as gifte to be ex
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Base discouraging resulte have been found that between 200 and. 300/Henry Spahlinger, of Genova, consists was stated that the cost of education changed between superstitious folk of experienced at headquarters during fathoms of rope had become entwine the uen of serum and vaccine, this year would be £13,500 000, all ages and degree. There is coral |
the exact nature of which is kuuwo The round the blades of the propeller.
Ae an examination of the propellernly to the inventor.
A good maay years ago, at Dunkeld blades had been made when the ship Flanting Trees with Gaus.
against £15,000,000 Jast year.
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the period under review. American demand for coal seemed at! bae tinis to promise work for a
Though professedly supporting the Government,. the Hungarian,
for babits, lapis lazuli against de prension; the topaz against sleepless nights; beryle for the nely-wed; the amethyst agai it intoxication; the
through the endless gamut of the positives and negativis of Luck.
portion of laid up abips and their entered the Brocklebank Dock the some curious tree planting was carrie Fasciamo; or anti-extremist organisa garnet fo: gaiety of soul, and. 84 un
inference must be drawn that it was crews, but owing to the temporary character of the boot these bones picked up from the bottom of the out by means of guns. On the estate tion, has been ordered to disband.
rocky crag,called Ornigybarns, which were disappointed, although a few dock. It is the considered opinion of of the Duke of Atholl there was n VACapeies were created and uomo divers and others engaged on the case
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For the acciden'al death of hor
in a Japanese ship. Ms. Jones was awarded £3,450nt Glamorgan A sizes.
oflicera were shipped at short notice.that it is unique in the bistory of the wae absolutely destrüte of vegetation. paband Philip Jones, a matheaver Whilst it is gratifying to learn from port. Probably it is a lost wire rope the official figures thauseniploym at fram some vessel previously moored in shore occupations is steadily in the same berth, and as the "Devon" decreasing, no such beneficial progress at the time of the disaster was draw
It was desired to get soine trees plant- ed on this great rock, but it is so precipitous on all eiles that it wa impossible for any au to climb up
ed that the seeds of suitable trees
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BELIEF IN LUCK.
Belief in Lack, both good and bad, is as universal as mankind itself, There are charms that ward off disease, or cause rain to fall on the farmers crops. There aes apreife against rheumatism and
A young servant girl at Jersey wa suffocated by gas esc ping from a pipelancholy. In the tombs of ancient balle of gold, with written formulas in which a hole bed been gnawed by kings are trinkets of all kinds-filigrea in them, braceleta and sings, tiaras and crescents and discs, pendants, sachers, and turseshoes, the game a wo buy to day in the West End of London.
is yet apparent so far as cortificated ing zome 30 ft. 0 in. 'aft elie wouid and do the planting. It was eu found dead in bed having been remo martere and officers of the Merchant be. under those círeniustances "Service are concerned, of whom there "amelling" the bottom, this se are large numbere still ashore xl to be the most likely explanation of For several days work has been carried on clearing the propeller, and bout 200 fathoms of the ropo had been removed, but there was still a great deal more for the divers
the accident.
might be planted there by means of gunfire. Accordingly, two old muzzle loading cannon were called into use. A number of canistera were filled with the seeds of various kinds of trees and plaats. The gure were loaded with der, says very lay Science, and the canistera put into them and fired. The canisters burst against tho. faos The "Devon," which is a twin-screw of the rock and the seeds which they
available for immediate service on Application to this society.
Captain C. T. Dana, the agent in London, states: "Two secund officers, one third and one fourth officer have obtained appointments during this to deal with.
criod. Since making my last report
Lord Allenby, the High Com missione, left Cairo for a tour of inspection of the Sioni Peninsula. He will visit the Mo astery of St. Catherine near the Blount,
August I regret to say I find ao/lour masted steamer of nearly 10,000 contained were scattered in all direc who died from ipjuries caused by boat sixpences for the hazard of play. ↑
improvement in the demand for officers. To my knowledge only five of our mensbere have been placed, During the last fortnight no calle whatever have been made to us for officers. One well-known firm who had asked for applications from officers and cargo. with of experience now informa me they already have sufficient for their wable at the present."
matour Wireless.
tuns gross register, has been delayed tinus. A great many of the seeds fell week as he result of the accident to the ground, but quite a number but it is hoped that the remaining lodged in the crevices of the rock and w the rack is covered with vegeta. turns will shortly be cleared and the vigsel be able to resume her voyage tion ns the result of this curious man to Australian ports with passenger ner of seed planting.
Itfrequently happens that steamers get a few fathoms of wire rope around thair propellers, but the mystery Captain E. Cireg, the agent for the which the divers and everybody You interceted in the case woulu like to clear up is how so many fathoms could have been picked up by the “Devon's" „piopeller,
NAVIGATING OFFICCES'
RESPONSIBILITIES.-
The development which has taken place in the manufacture of wireless apparatus for amateur uso since the Pustmaster General agreed to permit the regular brondenating of music and other matter of general public interest by wirions telephony, islemonstrated
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At the inquest on Lord Judlow fall when returning from a mest of the Hertfordshire Heunds, death was found to be due to heart failure following injuries.
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A leading Belia railway trade unionist is reported to be in custody on a charge of giving information to Inter-Allied Military Mission concern- ing a consignment of pistols at the Anhalter railway station.
In Ening a man for being drank the Middlesbrough etipen liaty magistrate
Here are a'ephants' bairs, mounted with gold or platinum., Here are badgere teeth, spade guineas, and There are ever bits of jet instead of coal, and representations of the pet's tongue and the mole's foot, which ensures success in ery game.. Kess tou-crosses, lockets for hair, triangles for folks bor.1 in September; stringe of acoins against indigestion, and groterqu” dolls without number.
QUEEN ALEXANDIA'S TALISMAN. A golden pig will prevent the loss of money, or help to find articles you may base lost. A necklace of beads, wande from roots of the white briony, will assist baby's tuething. A broken. lovers who aspire to a perfect court- hairpin is bruit into rings and worn by
to a remarkable extent by the recent held that the police had tha exhibition at the Horticultural-fall. right to enter a house, and arrest Westminster. A couple of years ago husband who hid gone to bed after ship. The June bride roast avoid lilac tha-needs-of-the-few-amateurs.the-turning-his-wife-into-the-streat.-- interested in the subject were supplied
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and went a swastika if she aspires to fortunate vifehood. There is no end
Bristol Channel district, says will see by the figures of this eleven masters and officere have secured preilions in the time covered by this report and there are one or two other, vacancies pending, I ain pleased to my that there is a better tune of late, but the real improvement is, after all, only slight. There is also a slightĮ
by some half a dozen firms, whered On the retirement on December 2 At a recent meeting of members of the upparatus shown at the Hertical of Sir William Vincent, the Home to these magical tenite, and all have] improvement in the number of mea! rogistered for employment.” -
Captain R. Whitebead, of the Association, held in Liverpool, the tural Hall has been produced by over member of the Government of India, 50 different concerns,' Moreover, Sir William M. Hailey, a member of Tynsete Agency, writes: "During responsibilities resting of ice rays Engineering, the exhibits have the Viceroy's Council, will take charge surmounted by a little hunchback in this jeried employment has been of the watch was under discussion, hun confined entirely to goods of of the Indian Home Departmcat.
green enamel. This nugget is hollow; found for four chief officers, two and much criticien invoked. on the British manufacture, and as this second, threw third, and one store action of the many shipmasters who etage has been reached before the A length of green window curtain revealing a heart-shaped ornament of it opens at the touch of a secret spring. appointment. Inquiriçu for officers refuse to allow their officers to ex
regular broadcasting bus actually woven in Taninshire and made with New Zealand Jade." This singular are not been over numerous af ercise their judgment when in charge commenced, it is not unreasonable Lanes-hire dyas, bas ben sent to Mr.mascot was given to her mother by late, and this state of affairs of a ship's brig, or allow them to throws light upon presen" posicion in prove by their initiative that the to suppose that the industry will grow | Lloyd George by girls employed in the the late Duke of Clarence.
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the Mitreantile Marino Service
regard to this department of our future commanders are officera
their devotee.
Our own Queen Alexandra values as a talisman a certain nugget of gold,
does not ocen: in the English language Strange to say, the word "luck" before the sixteenth century. Stranger being a short form of Celult, or in modern German, Gluck which means happiates or good fortune. As for whether public, family or individual
mascota as the emblems of luck-
to important dimensions during the dye-making trade there for his new next few years, The Postmester house in Vintert-equare, Westminster work, and of things in the shipping resourcefulness and able to nesume General's recent recommendation world in general. Matters will have the responsibility vested in them by that for a certain period Lbs manu During armistice night calebrations to mare a good den! quicker before she Board of Trade. The majority of factura and sale of witelres apparatus at Cambridge, undergraduates till, it was "Maie in Germany." we are able to say lor certalu whether; those present were
of opinion should be confined to British fim, niotor, car valaining filets, the the tide has at last turned to the that masters are too rigid in their will also doubtless enable the inby Mr. Alfred Painter, of Harleyford floud. The position is very acute for night ordera, which they compel dustry to crtablish itself sufficiently road, Kennington S., but the police maly of our members, a good many officers to sign, and act upon whee
i belcro it was much of whom have been out of employ taking over charge of the. watch, to meet foreign competition in the resoured
damaged. ment for six, twelve and eighteen Several members in forcible terms
expressed their unanimous feeling that Porting Tomatoes.
Before a tomato crop can be die
Lord Burnham will preside over a months.
to consider the Captain C. Leo, the Clyde agent, standard general orders should be writes: "Very slack indeed" must framed by a recognised authority and patched from the grower to the whole joint committee still, I regret to say, be the report with coupled with penalties for their non- ale market, it has to be carefully in suggestion of the Education Authori specto, and then graded according to ties that owing to the financial condi regard to employment mattere in performance,
size. It has hitherto been a custom tion of the country the teachers should this district. Since my last report Three opinions not only came from five members have been placed in the junior members but were the to employ a staff of men to sort out offer a temporary Induction in the
the fruits and separate the amal! calory scales.
future
there are of the highest-antiquity;} Thus, a tenth-century aha'ice al Venetian or Byzantine glatz is the mascot of the Musgraves. And on the sale keeping and preservation of this the welfare of the family is sup posed to day end.
MIND AND MATTER
"Mind" raye Sir Oliver Lodgs
tind with the material world." "What effect the canying of a mascotas upon the human-wil and the turn of ovente-is a matter which is now found worthy of scientific investigation.
During the astonishing run of Chu Chin, Chow, it is a fast, that on three out of the five anniversaries of this phenomenal pince, a strange black cat appears at the stage door, and was promptly. installed in a life of luxury.
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Designs placed before the Mayor 1rovide for the greatest structure ever erected in point of magnituda. and cpan at a cost of $17,250 000. It is suggested that the oust could easily bebrne by Marin, and San Francisco. counties, bat the bridge design is no- companied by statistical tables of obtains caution and approval of the mate to show net earn
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junior capacitive, and four others have expressed views of senior mastera and medium, and large specics into their The Executive of the Miners' "seems to need a material vahidle for notified me that they have been re officers, many of whom had long separate bins, but an ingenious Dutek- called to their former shits, which experience in command, and who were man has invented an appliance Federation will meet ja London its manifestation; and mental activi have been laid up for some time part, giving vent to what they stated were which, controlled by a single unskilled to consider the low wages ty, which is a psychical and not a but all of which were registered at serious injustices inflicted upon them attendant, will accomplish the day's prevalent in the coalfields and the physical fact, is a thing to be in porta other than Glasgow.
when they themselves were officers, work of thirty sorters in an hour, possibility of bringing prreure-to vestigated in its temporary connec Mr. A. Hindson, the Ifaber agent, A few members were of the opinion thus effecting a great saving of time. bear on the Government to grant advised. Through the medium of this that the sole responsibility, for the labour, and money. The tomatoes. them State aid. agency we have found employment safe navigation of the ship must be after having been inspected; atb for four chief officers, two second, and vested in the master, but the general tipped into abia at the head of au The King has approved of the one third. We now have on or opinion of the meeting was that the inclined: jumping board on to appointment of the Queen as Colonel booky the names of 3 unemployed officer of the watch should be given which they afterwards automatically in Chief of the 100 h (Worcestershire member. This is the lossest number greater freedom and more scope for drop. A number of groves, or gutters and Oxfordshire Yeomanry) Brigade, of names we have been able to repost pillative to enable him, in times of running down the board, direct the Royal Field Artillery, from the for a very long time past. It is most immediate danger, to take the noces passage of the fruit over a series of Oxfordshire (Queen's Own Oxfc21. encouraging; for we believe it shows eary action for the safety of the ship holes which increase in size gradually shire Hussars) Yeomanry. moid ships are getting away."
until such times as he can communitill right at the bottom they occupy cato with the master to enable, the the whole width of the channel. The It is proposed that 800 Czech" All magic," eaya Sir James Frazer, War Department, will open a new eta eta of operation and mainten latter to take ebarge,
notion of the machine, which is miners should be employed i France, the great anthropologist, is based for San Francison rays the San ance. The municipality does not disclose any plan for obtaining the electrically operated, is to jerk the particularly in the Courrieres mines, upon the law of sympathy-that is to Francisca Chronicle board and propel the tomatoes for which the Germans destroyed in 1018 ay, on the ascomption that thing The congestion of the harbour will consent and approval of the United edge States War Depa turen), wajch is, of ward antil they find a hole into which but which have been reopened; it was not upon one another through some
couran, ass-ntil to such con fuotion. There is no use of our boating around they can drop, every aperture being at Courtieres that in March 1903 secretk Here: we have the be relieved and a vast area, anw Sta
raison d'etre of the mascot,"
virtually isolated, will bo brought
The bridgs de-ign was worked out into direct contact with this city. by Joseph B. Straus of Chlongo, the bush" We might as we out with connected by a tobe to a bin io 1,10) miners lost their lives. it Brat as la to. We want you to try accordance with its size. A machine Chamberlain's Cough Remedy the next
Fully 90 000 population in Bausalito, moted bridge engineer, from data`sup.- time you have a coughs or old. There at present in use in the South of After 51 years' service in the tale iano leaton to far as we can see why Eugland (says the Weekly Telegraph) graph department of the Great Ono hundred and thirty lots of San Rafael, Petalums and Santa plod by City Engineer M, An extraordinary disaster has you should ust do so. This properation is designed to grade tomatoes Into Northern Railway, during which time Biftish butterflies and moths, amorg Ross would gain direct tra occurred to the Fed-tal-Houlder by its remark,blo curo has calnodneven different sizes, but larger ones he has been in every signal box on the which were some remarkable examples tion. Nivigation will not be hindered: - Brite-liver Devon " whiin berthed in world wide reputation, and peop's avers:
whose pest of it in the igness to win operation in Holland are far more line between King A Cada and Not a bilous variation in the Magpie). the Brocklebank Duck Liverpool. It of
sil Chemists criticals werking all kinds of fruit, tingham, Mr. Harry Windsor hastilled. Edthacin old £93 Ti Stezent Owing to thegreat height of the bridge the 6700 feet between the shores of appears that the "Devon" arrived at and Storekeepe
into fourteen different cissifications, at Spalding Lincolnshire, aged 71; 57| Auction Houma, King streep, W.Q. apana
Mt. A. McKenzie, the agent in Funderlard ports: "I am pleased to state that shipping here has im- proved which may be the means of further employment."
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