10
IN SARAWAK.
NATIVES FEAR OF A LEPER.
of
STILL UNHONOURED.
STATUES FOR CERTAIN PUBLIC BENEFACTORS.
of
The following which occurs "The news that a statue is going in the report of one of the to be erected to the farmer's wife district officers Sarawak who discovered the Becret shows that sophistication has Camembert checae suggests that not penetrated every fastness many of the world's unconsidered Above Nanga Spak, Ulu benefactors have no. plastic monu Layer, it was seen that a very ments to keep their memory green," remarkable number of land writes the London correspondent of
the "Manchester Guardian." slides had occurred, the like of
"The inventor of Cheshire cheese which, according to the oldest should have a monument-who he natives, had never been seen in or she was history does not relate, their lifetime. The continual but Watts's humorous picture of the rain has caused great floods hero who tackled the first oyster and not only have padi huts but has set a precedent.
"But there are others whose also a solidly-built house has been washed away. Other mis-names we know, Only recently fortunes include the burning to saw the centenary of John Walker death of a man in his hut and a surgeon and chemist of Stockton- on-Tees, who produced the first box
the death of another through of matches-friction lights, as he falling over a cliff. It was with called them. And then there is great difficulty that the Dyaks Joseph Priestly, the father of could be induced to offer an sodawater, who published his opinion as to the cause of the 'Direction for Impregnating Water trouble and when they did with Fixed Air in 1772, Then speak it was to give the astonish-there is Shillibeer, who ran ing reason that the old gun had firats omnibus on the Paddington
Road in 1827. › been removed from Mt. Sadok.
the
"It would be much more amusing That such things would hap-and senalble to have statues of pen in such an eventuality they these men than the innumerable said had long ago been foreseen second-rate generals of the eigh in dreams. The explanation teenth century and unremembered was all the more extraordinary politicians whose statues obstruct in that two cases of interest, of our public places.
auch a description that would in,
What of Tobacco?
former days have obtained for "The number of great men in the culprits death by impaling, whose debt we lie is prodigious, but are at present going unpunished where are their monuments? in the district,
What of tobacco? It was Sir John
It was to attempt the arrest Hawkins, not Raleigh, who first of one of these persons that I brought tobacco to England.
"That was in 1565, seven years went as far as Nunga Tiga. after Franscisco Fernandes intro- The attempt failed as the manduced it to Spain. Then there was: fled into the jungle many days Thomas Garway, the founder of the before. In the ordinary way famous coffee-house Garraways:" the Dyaks themselves could. He was the first of the English ten probably effect the capture but merchants, and he wrote such a
the man in question is a puff of the virtues of tea leper and prepared to fight for Pepys tasted and approved of it:
ав
to
his freedom, fear of the illness keeps them from, coming grips with him,
BONE-FORMING VITAMIN.
THEORY OF ULTRA-VIOLET RAY RICKETS CURE.
That
"Even base objects have led to noble discoveries. John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich,, had so great a passion for the gaming. tables that he invented the sand- wich so that he need not break his play for a meal.
And Trousers Braces.
"If he also combined mustard with his sandwich he deserves of big' and fine a statue as money can buy.
"Then as, to clothes, the English are under a perpetual obligation to Scientists in London and Liver-Mr. Macintosh, the inventor of that, pool are investigating a rare sub-indispensable garment. stance which it is believed will "Braces, too! London should cer- help to eliminate rickets. and tainly have a memorial to Mr. other serious ailments arising Mortimer von Bulcheb, of Berkeley
Square. from deficient nourishment.
"This eccentric. Londoner of the Professor Isidore Heilbron, of eighteenth century used to ride Liverpool University, one of the about on a grey pony ornamented investigatore, said to a "Daily with spots and stripes of purple, Mail reporter that the cure of black, and green. rickets in rats by ultra-violet "He started life as a dentist, rays led to research into cho-passed on to the manufacture of lesterol, a white, fatty, cry-trusses, spring quilts for saddles, stalline, alcohol, found, in the and, last, elastic trouser braces. bodies of all animals and fishes. "Let us hope that the statue of The latest step is the discovery the Camembert lady will point the that the beneficial effect is pro- way!"..
duced by a substance consisting of only about one-ten thousandth part of the bulk of the cholesterol, and then only when it has been flooded with ultra-violet raya, which, it is thought, change the substance into vitamin D-the bone-forming vitamin..
·HUMAN- OSTRICH.
PRISONER WHO SWALLOWED METAL ARTICLES.
"There still remains," added Ostrich-like: propensitics-caus- Dr. Heilbron, "the task of isolated the death of Alfred William
ing and analysing this substance."
A New Excuse
active Jacobs, aged twenty-two, a waiter, of Newport, Isle of Wight, an inmate of Winson Green Prison, Birmingham.
Prison appliances were fre quently found broken and parts missing, but what had become of them remained a mystery until Jacobs was taken ill and an operation was thought
["The fact that artificial ultra- necessary, violet rays are being used experi- It was then found that Jacobs mentally on a large scale for the had swallowed the pieces, and manufacture of beer was mention the doctor removed from his ed at the British Pharmaceutical Conference at Brighton." News item.]
Barmaid, barmaid,
brightly,
beaming
Agitate the beer pump, do! Fill the bowl and pass my nightly | Sample of your famous brew. Not for me the ancient tipples,
Not for me the older awipes
stomach..
Two spoon handles,
Two pewter hair-combs, A tooth-brush handle,
A hook screw from a
bedstead,
Twenty metal links from a
spring mattress."
Death occurred soon after the
Give me of the draught that operation.
ripples
From your scientific pipest
Never mind the hops, my laggle, And the malt you may omit Ale that's up to date and classy
Doesn't need such things a bit; Virtues ripe flavours pleasant. ;
Now are sought in other ways- See the vitamink are present
And the ultra-violet raya. Thank you, thank you, for this
tankard,
Which at last is mine to lift! Gee, but how my soul has
hankered
For this pure, synthetic gift! All day long I've trusted blindly
To this mixture as before Cheerio, miaga Would you kindly ANYON Fill the tankard up.once morer
And If I should start to frollég And a gayer mood begins, Do not call it alcoholic
N
Put it down to vitamins, AU Let me alt høre, slumber scorn
Binging with increasing ch Lo we won't go home till mor
Till the violet raya appea
JOCKEY'S EARNINGS.
£3,000
Damages amounting were agreed as the basis of the settlement of an action brought by the family of Michael Tighe, the steeplechase Jockey who was killed-in a collision between three motor-cars on the Crawley- road, near Lowfield-Heath, Surrey, on December 15, 1926,
The plaintifs were his widow, Mrs. Ethel Mabel Tighe, of South court-road, Worthing, and her five children. The defendants were Mr. Robert Leach, Florence-road, Brix ton, S.W., Mr. William Charles Goff, St. Lawrence-avenue, Worthing, Mr. Reginald George Parsons, Central Hotel Garage, Railway Approach; Worthing, Mr. John de Vere Naun ton, 5 of "Pagham," Bul Avenue Worthing, and . Boar, of Westdown-road);
Dru
that the
wer
THE CHINA MAIL.
SATURDAY, AUGUST
ANNUAL
CLEARANCE
1927.
ALL
THROUGH
THE
MONTH
OF
AUGUST
ROCK-BOTTOM PRICES TO CLEAR EXCESS STOCK.
*LADIES' HOSE. Odd makes and sizes in Lisle, Art Silk and Silk. Usual Prices 1.95 to $3.50,
BLUE.
TICKET
BARGAIN
$1.00
PAIR
CORSETS
105 pairs
W. B. Corsets. Odd numbers and sizes. Slightly sviled.
BLUE
TICKET
BARGAIN
and Comfortable. $6.50 to $8.50%
HALF PRICE
Cork Bath Mats: Compress-
ed cork with edges bound
wood. Bize 20 by 24 ins.
Usual Price $4.50.
BLUE
TICKET
PRICE
TCHED
HEM-STIT
$3.50
HUCKABACH
Great Value TURKISH TOWELS,
The "Monster" Value Turkish towel. Semi bleach. Hard wearing. Worth $1.50.
BLUE
TICKET
PRICE
75
Sheets
CTS.
EACH
THE
WINDSOR
THE
BRAND
ONE OF WHITEAWAY'S STANDARD VALUES.
69 pieces
CRETONNE
Beautiful designs.
and colourings. Usual prices $1.25" to $1.95 yard.
BLUE
TICKET
PRICE
75
CTS.
15 dozen only: Pure Linen Hackaback Towels with coloured hem- stitched ends.. Usual Price $1.50.
BLUE.
TICKET $1.00
PRICE
4 only
BRASS SWING CRADLES 日 illustration. Usual Price $45.00.
BLUE
.TICKET
96 pairs
FINE COTTON BED SHEETS Free from dressing. Ready for use.
$29.50 Size 2 by 3 yards.
The ALL STEEL CABLE COT
BLUE
TICKET
BARGAIN
YARD
FTERNOON
TEA
BARGAIN
6 only
BLUE
EACH
Usual Price
$6.95
PAIR
CHILDREN'S COTTON OVERALLS in striped and [ancy designs. 3 sizes.
BLUE
TICKET
$1.00
·· PRICE - EACH
THE "CABLE" ALL STEEL CAMP
COT. Very Strong,
$15.00.
TICKET
BARGAIN
$9.50
BEACH
ILLOW
CASES
MEN'S LISLE THREAD GOLF HOSE.
Fawn or Grey with
coloured turnover tops. AII
Sizes,
SPECIAL
BARGAINS!
SOCK
LADIES' ART, SILK VESTS in White, Pink and Blue. Light, Cool 60 only
Usual Prices
SAMPLES OF BABY'S BIBS. Chic and Nice. Perfectly. Fresh, Fred HALE
BLUE TICKET":
PRICE BARGAIN
BLUE
TICKET
* PRICE
HALF PRICE
36 yards
26 dozen
| HEAVY COTTON PILLOW CASES. Hemstitched Border. Size 20 by 80 ins. Uaual Price $1.75.
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TICKETS
BARGAIN
COTTON DAMASK TAHLE CLOTES. H. Good deriga.,
Hard Wearing Cloth Bize
58 by 68 ins. Usual Price
BLUE
TICKET
$1.35
FACIL
500 only
SALE
$3.00
PRICE
PAIR
ODDMENTS IN CHILDREN'S SOCKS Plain and Striped. All Sizes. Usual Prices 85 cts. to $1.75
BLUE
TICKET
HALF
BARGAIN PRICE
GENTS FULL END TIES Wellassarted designs and
colour
$1.50 to $1.95.
Usual Prices
$3.95
PRICE
BLUE
TICKET
BARGAIN
$1.00
DACH
CLOTAS
29 dozen
WHITE DAMASK TEA CLOTHS with coloured borders, 36. ing. square.
DO NOT FAIL TO SECURE THESE BARGAINS
BLUE
TICKET
80
CTS.
PRICE
EACH
BOYS' RIBBED COTTON HOSE with fancy turnover tops.", Sizes 8 to 10 Inches. Usual Price $1.50.
BLUE
TICKET
BARGAIN
ESIGNS
$1.00
PAIR
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