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Sassoon's Jamnagar won the Harrington Hurdle at Nottingham ráce meet- ing.
Balliol, with a total of 41 points, led in the first round for
Oxford' the
Inter-Collegiate Athletic "Cup. Oriel, with 271, took second place.
Sir James Roll, Bt., who was Lord Mayor of London..for the year 1920-21, has died at his home at Cambridge Park, Wan- stead, at the age of 80,
Out of 7,483 calla" received by the London Fire Brigade last year, 1,786 were false alarms and 729 were malicious calls. Al together there were 4,132 out- breaks of fire.
One of the most prominent sportsmen in Essex is stated to have agreed to buy, the county cricket ground at Leyton and secure it for all time for county cricket.
By an overwhelming majority the members of the London Co- operative Society Ltd. rejected al proposal to make a grant of £22,000 from the current half- year's proft to the Miners' Wives and Children Distress Fund..
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The Court of Criminal Appeal quashed the conviction of Robert Hughes, first Lord Mayor of Cardiff, who had been convicted of false pretences and larceny and had been sentenced to three years" penal servitude.
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Mr. Edward Clark, chairman and managing director of Mesars. R. and R. Clark, printers, of Edinburgh, who left 2411.079, directed, after providing for eattain legacies, that the residue of his estate should be distributed among charitable bodies in Edinburgh and London.
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For the lose of one wicket, the M.CC team scored 218 in reply to a Ceylonese XL's total of 166.
Lord Brownlow. who has undergone a third operation for cellulitis, is doing as well as can be expected.
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Mr. E. Brunetti has presented to the Natural History Museum, South Kensington, a collection of some 60,000 specimens of two- winged flies, especially, rich in Indian and North American material
A campaigh has been opened by the National Chamber of Trade to secure the taxation of co-operative societies' profits by the forthcoming Budget.
A recommendation haa been made by the Chamber that
In the opinion of the Wireless Organisations Advisory Com mittee an alternative programme scheme is the only means of en- suring a broadcasting service that will commend itself to all listen- era.. Reports embodying, the wishes of listeners are to be pre- pared by the various societies.
Good progress is being made by the new miners' unions in Dur- ham and Northumberland, Notts and Derbyshire, and South Wales. So widespread is the loss of con- fidence in the Miners' Federation that other and older unions open to workers of any occupation, are enrolling miners as members.
After being... Invested by King Neptune with the Order of the each of the 300 amilated bodies Old Seadog when his Majesty's "should communicate with the Chan-ship "Renown" crossed the line, celler of the Exchequer.
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the Duke of York was duly initiated, with 1,000 novices, by being lathered, shaved, and duck- ed in a bath, Queen Amphitrite presented the, Duchess of York with the Order of the Goldén Mermaid in the form of a little! copper sea nymph.
Although no imported fruits ever equalled our strawberries, gooseberries, or cherries, this asset too often became discounted by inferior methods of marketing, Mr. H. V. Taylor (Deputy Con- troller of Horticulture, Ministry! of Labour) stated in an address to the Farmers' Club. To meet the increased competition. which. was expected in the future: the British industry would have to commercialise its grading and pucking.
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Sir William Nott-Bower, who was entertained at dinner by the Authors' Club, suggested that all small
borough police forces should be absorbed in their county forces, there being too many forces which were too small for 'training, constables, properly and too small for effent admin-
An official denial of the exist-tion, constipation, solle, wind vomit- ence of a joint Coalition fund has ink and diarrhoea. They quickly re-istration and police work. A been issued from the Conserva- duse favor, allay teething pains, qulet very great improvement in the the nerves.. and bring calm, health- tive and Unionist headquarters. giving sleep in a perfectly natural way appointment of officers to high During the whole of the Coalition Ara guaranteed absolutely free from posts would be effected, he believ period, it is stated, the finances narcotics or other injuriens drugs, and ed, by the adoption of a system of of the Conservative party were as.
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ODDS AND ENDS.
wick Borough Council Schools, and States. Many things now in several hospitals, a new form of garded as necessaries in. those glass called Vitaglass has been in-countries are still in the nature stalled, and the installation has of novelties here at home. That led to remarkable, results. Vita- glass is the inventien of Birming- ham acientists. Mr. F. E. Lamp lough, M.A., and possessed this pro- perty of transparency to the curative ultra-violet rays of natural light.
is a condition that advertising is doing much to improve.-Charles Holt Stirrup in" "Chambers's Journal
Girls-Then.
Scratching and Microbes.
Experiments recently carried out at the Pasteur Institute by the bac- teriologist, M. Metalakoff, says a Paris correspondent; seem to sug- gest that when a deg. is scolded by his master for scratching himself he is a victim of injustice-that in spite of modern codes of manners, he is right, and his master wrong. In certain eircumstances; scratch- Up t quite recently it had been ing is a sovereign defence against found that quartz or fused silica were the only known substances microbes. M. Metalaikoff began.
property his researches by asking whether that possessed this the study of conditional reflexes, tranparency, and their high cost buch as the instinctive withdrawal had rendered the possibility of their of a hund when it is approached by application to windows quite pro hibitive. The coat of Vitaglass is, however, very little more than or dinary window glass, and a the question of its installation in fact made tories and industrial centres comes of considerable interest.- "Morning Post,"
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A little while ago I was, in common with other people, asked by a daily paper what sentences had influenced me. After some hesitation I replied that the fol- a needle, or a flow of saliva at the sight of a tempting dish, might not
lowing sentence, taken from a have a parallel in connection with
very early Victorian novel, had A mark upon my microbial diseases. He experiment
be-imagination: She had pass- ed on fourteen guinea-pigs, which
ed her
shet first youth ; ¡for fourteen days were given grad- uated doses of microbial cultures.
was twenty-two." What a vista It was noticed that these dosos
this opens on our world less than were always followed by scratching
a hundred years ago a world in of the affected part. At the end of
which lived a number of men and a fortnight it was proved that the The complaint that advertising women who are with ԱՅ inoculated animals were immune
encourages: the purchase of to-day....and it is no exaggera- from the diseases for which they articles which are not neces- tion, for in those days a girl of had been treated, but this immunity only lasted for a few weeks aftersary to family life stands good position came out at sixteen, to one's certainly not later than seven- the inoculations had been stopped. or falls according When he was certain that the im- understanding of what is teen; when she reached eighteen munity had completely disappear.necessary.. Usually, on being it was thought high time that she ed. M. Metalalkoff continued his pressed, the critics mean things should be married, and as she' experiment by simply scratching the that are new things that had no approached twenty her parents affected part of the body, but with-place in the homes of twenty or began to worry. Charlotte might out renewing the Inoculations, and thirty years ago. There were no stay on the shelf, that is to say he was astonished to find that as a result of this treatment the immun- gramophones then. Advertising soon she would interest no one. ity reappeared. The animale which has since helped the sale of mil- The peculiar side of it is that if had been scratched absorbed with lions of them. They are not she did marry she would interest out harm deadly doses of auch ml- necessary, but who shall say they no one either. She remained erobes as those of cholera, while have not contributed greatly to interesting only so long as she othere were easily infected and the intellectual pisasure and in-was a young girl. Indeed, the died. So perhaps the ill-mannered
nocent amusement of the people? position of the married woman dog is simply practising a hygiene Then there are dining tables that was a dull one. I do not mean which his instinct taught him, be-
are also billiard-tables. Not that in early Victorian days wives foré scientists were able to dis- cover "Daily Telegraph."
necessary, of course; but many awere not loved, or that they fall- father and mother have blessed fed to rule their husbands, for their purchase, because they fend women have done that since the to keep sons at home at night, age of stone, and will do so ten No one has benefited quite so thousand years from now. What At a recent meeting of scientists much from advertising as the I mean is that the married woman in America, an eminent physician busy housewife and mother an- not only lost all her charm, ex- declared that our ordinary glass xious to do the best she can for cept in the eyes of her lord, but windows were one of the greatest evils that we suffered from, as they her children. It has given her she accepted the situation. She gave the illusion of light and and continues to give her count was respected, she was loved, she warmth, and prevented the occu- less hints of practical value, has might have a large social circle pents of a house from venturing helped her to solve many of her and be an important figure in outside where cold winds and domestic problems, and has con- politics...but she was no longer damp rendered thesa blessinge less tributed to the beauty and com personally interesting as e obvious when there did happen to fort of her home and the well-woman. She was realigned to be any sunshine, This startling point of view (says "Industrial being of her family Instead of this. I have eanong my acquaint Welfare," the organ of the Indus having done too much in the way ances an old indy of over eighty, trial Welfare Society) has since ro- of promoting the sale of things who married at seventeen, had ceived corroboration from one of the representative of new ideas, ed-five children before she was most eminent of our own Medical vertising has not yet done early twenty-five and then put on a Research Counell. Whatever light enough. The standard of living cap, that symballe soap, which passes through a window of ordin- of most of our people, including meant that the retired Trom the feminine field. I may add that at the age of seventy-eight she has had herself shingled... Inded that means something W George in "BvAL.
Evils of Ordinary Glass............
ry window glass, it is entirely the middle classer, he not so high robbed of the beneficial ultra-violet as it ought to be prot
ane apart from the sensation the standard prev warmth, can have no effect on bodily efficiency and well-being Canada, Australie, South Recently, however, at the Smeth New Zealand," and
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