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THE WAY THE WORLD WAGS.
Wed After 50 Years.
At Springfield, Massachusetts, Gilbert Taylor wooed Emma Buck 50 years ago, but their plans to marry were disrupted by a lovers' quarrel. Taylor, a sailor, departed in a huff Both married but have been widowed several years. Meet Ing recently, they rekindled the old romance 'and will marry.
Woodpeckers are natural enemies of the European corn borer."
An instrument called a dendro- graph has been invented by which a tree can write its own dairy.
Leonardo da Vinci, the famous painter and sculptor, demonstrated the first principles of mechanical flight.
The Instituto Boutantan in San Paulo, Brazil, is one of the most un- usual establishments in the world. Here are housed many thousands of anakes for the urpose of finding antidotes to their Vénom,
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The liner Munorleans came Into New York a little late recently be- cause of large schools of whales and off Cape porpoises encountered Charles. The captain reported there were at least hirty whales and about 1,000 porpoises and, fearful of
Here's 1927 Model.
Files from Cholers.
According to experts of the The chief adviser, of lbn Saud, National Hosiery Exposition in King of the Hejaz, chartered an New York City recently, the perfect aeroplane to convey him to feminine leg of 1927 is just a little Bahrein Island in the Persian more rounded than it was in 1926. | Gulf to avold Baara, where The approved measurements are: cholerà is raging, and paid his Ankle, 9 inches; calf, 14 inches; fare in seven different cur- knee, 14-1/2 Inches: thigh, 20-1/2 | rencies. inches. Last year's winner had a 7-1/2-inch ankle, 18-inch calf and knee and 20-inch thigh.
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Cicero's tomb in Formla, Italy, has been transformed, into a stable for mules.
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Patent for a microphone built by
The average weight of the human a German inyentor, Emil Berliner, were filed in the United States near-brain is 49.5 ounces for men and 44 ly fifty years ago.
ounces for women.
Now that flying across the Atlan- tic has become an established fact the next thing you know somebody will actually be squaring a circle or perfecting a perpetual motion, ma- chine.
Cuba is self-governing in every respect except that it does not have the power to declare war.
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The president of the United Statea has absolute pardoning Moscow theatres are presenting power except in cases of Impeach- "The Red Cinderella," a bolshevist ment. version of the old fairy tale. The play ends with the victory of the proletariat and singing of the Inter- nationale by the audience.
Easy Life In Jail.
Editor Sued.
Carlos Ronquillo, editor of Taliba, the leading vernacular daily, in Manila is named defendant in a libel suit filed by Epifania Santos, Henry Fuller, arrested and jailed formerly school teacher In Balinag in Simpsonville on a charge of Bulacan. Miss Santos seeks to col- drunkenness, says he will sue the lect P1,000 ns alleged damages. city for false arrest despite the The plaintiff alleges that the defen- kindly way he has been treated. dant some time ago published an fouling his propeller, with one of During his month of confinement be article, which was defamatory, ex-
was taken
to ball games on hot posing her to public ridicule. afternoons and was escorted three times a day to the leading restaur- ant, where he had his choice of the
the monsters, he went off his course.
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Cloth Allows Tanning.
Science has discovered new fabric, which will be used for sports dresses, that allows the ultra- violet rays of the sun to penetrate
it. This means that the wearer can get a good cost of sunburn without uncovering her arms and neck-provided, of course, that her undies are not proof against the
rays.
manu.
The U.S. National Association of Travellers' Aid Society helped 1,300,000 persons last year and a million dollars was spent in the task, according to the annual report.
Among the many thousands of objects which through the death of Mr. Hill Gray are to go to his Alma Mater, Stonyhurst, are
A serious epidemic of infantile
broken a paralysis has
out prayer wheels from Tibet;
Three finely-worked polo stick and ball Hungary and Roumania. from the city of Iskardo, Tibet, hundred children have been where polo had a home long be-stricken in Bucharest, of whom 150 fore its introduction to England died. and America; wonderful foun- Through the courtesy of King tains from Java; a bamboo piano George, the international Boys' from Bangkok; deadly sam- Camp of the Y.M.C.A. In Windsor pitans or blowpipes, with quivers Forest has a direct link with the of poisoned arrows; drums of Roman Empire. Its site was mark-human skin; Buddhist wells; ed with a stone given by His idols, demons, women's orna Majesty. The stone is from a col-ments, precious porcelains, and
weapons from many lands,
lection of Roman and Corinthian ruins brought from Tripoli In 1852 by King George IV and exhibited at the British Museum.
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A picnic party in Rainier Nation- al Park, Ashford, Washington, re- turned to their parked car after a short hike and found a large bear clambering onto the top. The top of the sedan gave way under the animal's weight and let it down into the tonncau, where it smashed its way to freedom. All of the car except the chassis was demolished.
U.S. PRESIDENCY.
WIDE COMMENT AND SPECULATION.
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Washington, Sept. 18. William G. McAdoo's announced decision not to seek the Democratic presidential nomination is occasion- ing the widest comment and specula tion in Democratic ranks. The chief speculation concerns the plans of Gov. Al Smith.
CHILDREN LIKE, CHAMBER-
Five policemen,.anawering a call broken into a penny arcade at Coney saying that three young mẹn had Island, arrived in time to catch the youths as they staggered away under the weight of 18,850 pennies. It is known that there were exact- ly that number, for the policemen had to count every one in making their report of the 'arrest.
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The Ministries of the Colonies and of Foreign Affairs at Lis- boh deny the rumour that a movement has been set on foot in China to reassume control of
LAIN'S PAIN BALM. For "black and blue" bruises, sprains of wrists and ankles, strains of corda and muscles, stub- bed toes, cute, burna and other mishaps of childhood, Chamber lief. Does just as much for older the Portuguese colony of Macao. lain's Pain Balm always gives re- people too. Eases their rheumatic pains, backaches and neuralgia. This territory. It is pointed out, Just rub it on the sore spots. It has belonged to Portugal for the is penetrating and quickly helps. past 400 years by treaty and not Sold and recommended everywhere, as a concession.
McAdoo's announcement that he wouldn't be a candidate for the nomination was in the form of a let- ter to George F. Milton, publisher of the Chattanooga News,
Isadore Dockweiler, Democratic national committesman. from Cali- fornia, said that McAdoo won't run because his erstwhile financial backers refuse to spend any more money and because California dele- gates are against him.
SENT TO MEXICO.
NEW YORK LAWYER & BANKER AS AMBASSADOR.
Washington, Sept. 20. Dwight Whitney Morrow, well known lawyer and banker, was to day appointed by President Coolidge aa United States Ambassador to Mexico.
R. Sheffield.
Norris of Nebraska, Meredith of Iowa and former Senator Pheland The last Ambassador was James of California are being groomed for While most of the Democratic candidates their friends say leaders in Washington refused to Associated Press.
Vice-President Charles G. Dawes, and Governor Al-Smith, two, possible candidates for the U.S. Presidency in 1928, at the ceremonies dedicating the International Fence Bridge connecting United States
and Canada.
talk for publication, some of the Southern senators did not hesitate to voice a hope that Gov. Smith would get out, and thus clarify the atmosphere of the religious and wet Issues A
Senator James A. Reed often mentioned as a candidate, declin to comment at Kansas City. Bén-
ator Caraway of
a regret that McAdoo
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Harris of
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Florida
PLOOD IN MEXICO.
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take steps immediately to sever con- Morrow announced that he will
nection with his law firm and to as- sume his new post without delay.
It is realised that the Mexico City position is a difficult one at present, due particularly to the re- cent troubles over land laws and religious persecutions, and Morrow is felt to be one of the few men well qualified to fill it.Morrow holds the D.S.M., given him in 1919 by General Pershing "for excep tionally meriterious and distinguish- ed services" in connection with milltary shipping matters and the Military Board of Allied Supply.|
His public services include the holding of the chairmanship of the Prison Inquiry Commission of New Jersey, and he also has been chair man of the New Jersey State Board on Institutions and Agencies. He is a trustee of Amherst College, and the Union Theological Seminary and of the Russell Sage Foundation, and is a member of the board of direc tors vf the New York Association for Improving Conditions of the Poor,
Morrow entered the employ of the law firm of Simpson, Thacher, and Bartlett of New York in 1899, and was a member of the firm from |1905 to 1914. – He has been a mem
ber of J. P. Morgan and Co. and of the General Electric Co. In 1918 he was made, a director of the War Savings Committee of New Jersey.
Mexico City, Sept. 18 Towns situated along the Lerma river, in the state of Guanajuato,United Press, have been flooded as a result of s sudden rise in that: stream. Much damage has been done; and several persons are missing. The city of El Oro in isolated in the centre a vast whirling; lake which/la rising. Residents of other cities have sought refure in the
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