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SPOILED BY WAR,
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London, Nov. 8.
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EARTH'S ORIGIN.
FLOATING CONTINENTS ON PLASTIC LAYER.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1927,
LOVE TRIANGLE.
GIRL SEEKS ANNULMENT OF MARRIAGE.
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P10,000 DAMAGE BILL.. A remarkable astronomical clocki
Society life in Berlin, as it In the course of an address" on More sensational than any other Patition for the annulment of that accurately indicates nearly At a special meeting of dele- flourished under the Hohen- electrical installations to members hypotheses which have sought to the marriage of Dorotea Cabrera every time clement used by the gatea yesterday at the Portland zollern regime, existe no more. With of the Electrical Federation astronomer has been constructed Clubthe autocrat of the bridge the advent of the republic, Novem- Queensland Mr. J. Grier, (Chief ental regions of the earth is that with having abducted the girl of explain the origin of the contin- to Domingo Casino, who is charged by Herr fohn Usherbacher, an world-majority calling was turn-ber, 1918, the Junker class retired Electrical Engineer,' Depart of the actual horizontal instability from San Pablo the night before Austrian residing at Brixen, in the
to their country castles, whence the numerous accidents as the result
ment of Public Works), referred to of the continental masses. It has her marriage to another man was Tyrol. This clock was completed ed down officially. only after 17 long years of pains- Instead, the older style of auc- they only made sporadic reappear-of the use of domestic electrical ap- been assumed that, at a certain scheduled to take place, was filed taking labour. Its design and con- tion bridge calling by value of ances in the capital, whose social pilances. Much has been said in depth below the earth's surface, the with the court of first instance, struction demanded not only, the suits is to be the recognised prac. Istic administration they hated and regard to the accidents and fatal-rocks are hot and crushed, and have Manila, on December 22. skill of a first-class. mechanic, but|tice.
despised, while the old court set ities which have occurred in so little strength that they must 'The petition also requests the the learning of an astronomer. Tho A kind of cabinet council of of titled generals and admirals add- Queensland during the last year" yield to relatively small, long-con-court to have Domingo Casino pay builder, after all his years of card experts authorised the aned the word "retired" on their he said, "but these can be attribut-tinued forces. The continents are the sum of P10,000 which patient effort, had counted on dis-nouncement against majority call visiting cards, and put their gold ed to carelessness, and in some supposed to float on this plastic supposed to have been spent in poaing of the clock to a Germaning after a secret session lasting brilded uniforms inte moth sheets, modern appliances, are reasonably layer, and to be capable of mation the preparation of the girl's, wed
cases to faulty apparatus. The University, but the War, with its for more than two hours. financial consequences, ruled
only to reappear before the public anfe," he said, "but we have got to on it, much the same as a piece of ding to another man.. out Representatives from the fol- gaze at sonid semi-military func- cater for the individual who is not paper atuck on to the surface of a this possibility, so that clock ro-lowing clubs attended:-Turf, Na- tion. And the German public is as reasonably careful, and this can globe with wet paste could be "escape" of Darotes Cabrera with The story of the romantic mains in the hands of its patient tional Liberal, Bath, Carlton, fond of gold braid and brase hats only be done by making fool-proof moved or slid. It has been assum- Domingo Casino
This clock consists of five prin- White's, Almuck's, Baldwin's, as any other public, only more Mo.
of Lucban was appliances." He favoured the ed that there was originally one featured in focal newspapers when elpal parts, one being fixed on the Conservative, Devonshire, and St. Meanwhile, the Ex-Kaiser's for creation, by the Federal Govern- undivided land-mass, and that, it was top of the case, the other four con- Stephen's, in addition to the card mer Intimates who happen to be ment, of a National Laboratory, in under the influence of some kind of had been found to Manila. The discovered that the girl sisting of various diala, being on committee of the Portland Club in town occasionally get together to which all parts and apparatus com- long-continued strain, this broko giri was reported to have decided its four faces.
the parliament of card players. exchange the latest gossip about ing into the country would be test- The armillary sphere on the top A report was given to the con- Doorn without the event being referring to the use of the electric drifted apart. Thus the outline of Lucban as the man she was about ed, was done in America. In re-into various fragments which then to run away with the boy from of the clock shows the constella-ference of the cativass taken of all ported in the newspapers, Geramn iron, the speaker stated that by the the west coast of Eur-Africa is to be married to was forced upon tions of stars in their yearly, daily, the chief London and provincial newspapers carry no society gossip use of a three-pin plug, and even their hourly motions. It clube on the question of bridge columns, and news of the doings of proper earthing system, this op coast of the Americas; and if the
and a rather similar to that of the east her by her parents.. is equipped with a meridian circle, laws revision. This report re-the former aristocratic
The foregoing story, while a sliver ring on the celestial vealed the unpleasant fact that
however, is pliance was perfectly safe. Mr. latter continents could be slid was corrected by the girl herself globe represents the zodine, and is there was a majority of eight
J. H. Hindman (Electrical En- across to the East, the two land in a statement given to news- There are three or four promin- gineer, Brisba... City Council) also masses would nearly fit into each reporters who went to see her in 16/19, Connaught Road C. divided into two equal halves by clubs in favour of the new calling. ent monarchlatic familles in Berlin referred to the subject, stating the the elliptic. The globe, showing the constellations and the stars up For a time the cause of the die- whose salons
City Council was insisting on
There would be a gap in San Pablo.. In this statement, to the fourth magnitude, moves hards seemed lost, but ingenuity meeting places for princes of the there was any element of danger, by the southerly shifting of Green- taken from her bedroom in her recognised three-pin plug system whenever there north which could be filled up she related how ahe was between the meridian and the eventually came to their aid. It horizon, turning according to aider was found that a re-perusal of the royal blood. Dinner parties are "Electricity is an unseen quantity" land.
home in San Pablo by Domingo given here regularly on the Ex he said, eal time. The sun, the moon, and voting at the different clubs show: Kaiser's birthday, whom
"and familiarity breeds Australia could be made to fit Casino and how she was brought to the planets Mercury, Venus, Mars, ed that 243 more people had voted rises on the stroke of midnight to only observe
the host contempt, but if the people would into the Indian Ocean-and so on. Manila and married without her and Jupiter turn outside of this against majority calling than for propose the health of the War A case was instanced where a lady the longitude of a place may be threatened with a revolver and
common-sense rules To verify such an hypothesis we consent. globe in the apparent revolution of it.
there would not be any fatalities." ought to have some evidence that the planets, as we see it every day,{"
The girl contended that she was had replaced a connection in The whole is moved by clock-work.
The vote of the, clubs as units/ occasion a source of considerable electric fron after it had
undergoing change (thus giving an that the marriage was performed The face shows a 12-hour dinl
become parted, without any knowledge of indication of "drift"), and this has after the first minister called upon Belgar it is un astronomical dial on conference passed the following foreign missions who happened to the effects of her action, with the been said to be the case with to officiate the ceremony had re with the equation of solar time. Was therefore ignored, and the which, the degrees, the zodiac, the unanimous resolution as an offset be among the invited guests, and result that she received a severe respect "to Greenland. 12 months, the monthly length of to the fact that practically every who doubted the propriety of toast- shock as soon as she handled the some competent cause. leading to Angel del Rosario, a minister who Further, fused to solemnise the wedding the days, the four sensors, the one is now playing majority call in the exiled Kaiser while they
were accredited to the republic. age of the moon and her phases ing anyway:-
Incidentally, the affair caused and eclipses are indicated.
Vote Ignored.
"We do not consider that there
scarce.
are the
Bet
Lord of Doorn. This was on one
embarassment to some chiefs of
the
other.
Another face shows the 24-hour is any general desire for the friction between the host and his the use of any electrical appliance.longitude, and the effect of a small pay him a good sum, the San Pablo!
Thene
dial. A small dial below it shows adoption of majority calling in the ruling planet; on the right are place of value calling. The con the ordinary and the leap years.
ference further decides to return Beneath these is the chronologi- to value calling in the revised cal dial with five hands. hands show the golden number, the laws of auction bridge." epochs, the solar circle, the Sun- One concession, however, was day letter, and the Roman indica-given to the confirmed majority tion. Thus this is a perpetual calling advocates. It was agreed calendar for finding the movable that an addendum should be add- holidays. The hands change their ed to the new laws of auction points at midnight of New Year's bridge permitting majority call- Eve.
ing if there was a desire for that
Yet another dial has 24 hourly method of play among four play- divisions. From a sector the "sun" ers sitting round a card table. turna in 24 hours in such way Honours are to be scored in the that its rising and setting harmon- old way of ascending values. The ise through corresponding shifts un both sides.
decimal system of counting hon-
Underneath is the planetary ours is to be forbidden altogether.' system of Copernicus. Mercury re- Another point decided was this: volves around the sun in 87 days Clubs which have adopted major- 16 hours 41 minutes, 25 seconds; ity calling should continue it until Venus in 224 days 16 hours 41 Saturday, but after that value minutes. 26 seconds; the earth in calling will be operative in all 365 days 48 minutes 46 seconds; clubs which recognise the author- Mars in 686 days 22 hours 15 ity of the Portland Club." minutes; and Jupiter in 4,330 days
9 hours,
Finally, another section of the
clock shows at the top the poly- CHARLES DICKENS.
topic din from which the exact
INTERESTED HIMSELF IN
MACHINERY.
son who WAS in the republic's diplomatic service and who pointed out to his parent that he might as well any goodbye to his career if these entertainments went beyond the strictest privacy. The father took the hint, and these parties have since been restricted to those whose loyalty and devotion to the monarchy are beyond question,
OLD FOES.
MAY GATHER WITH GOLDEN FLEECE.
'Will Premier Poincare, France's War President meet Ex-Emperor William the Second of Germany?
The announcement from Madrid that King Alfonso will, preside at congress of Barcelona in 1929, a the Knights of the Order of the Golden Fleece, has brought thé matter before the French public.
MILE A MINUTE."
REGULAR FRENCH TRAIN SPEED.
iron. Provided all parts are sound, drift of the continents it was stated, and reasonable care found. Tested with regard to the performed the
must be lives at 2376 Juan Luna, Tondo, exercised, there was no danger in
ceremony after evidence for the change of Domingo Casino had promised to long-continued force in deforming girl stated. the layers of the earth body that The petition states that at about have small strength, this hypothesis three o'clock in the morning of has still to be verified. This December 8, while the girl was hypothesis, known as Wegener's sleeping in her bedroom a San hypothesis, or the theory of float-Pablo together with two other com- ing continente, was originally sug-panions, Domingo Casino of gested by inspection of the forma Lucban, Tayabas,forced his way of the oceans and continents, by into her house and threatened her certain lines of geological evidence, with a revolver if she did not fol and by the modern theory of low him. At the point of, the re- Isostasy.
volver, the complaint alleges, the present, any established theory of where three men were waiting and We do not appear to have, at girl was forced into an automobile the causes that have produced the then brought to Manila to No. 10 distribution of continents and Progreso Street, Sampaloc, where oceans. Such a theory will, no she was married. Because of this doubt, be made when geophysical incident, the lawyer of the girl research has progressed sufficiently. statos, the wedding which was -Ex.
scheduled to take place in San Pablo and in which the girl was-to be the bride was frustrated, entail- ing an expenditure of P10,000 to all parties concerned.
More than a mile a minute train speed is now regular schedule time for the "Sud Express" on a part of its journey from Paris to Madrid. The fast run is from Bordeaux to Dax, 92 miles, on a part of the road that has been electrified.
The train daily makes the run in an hour and twenty-nine minutes, or at the rate of 62% miles an hour.
Much higher speeds, have been attained on other electrified roada in experimental runs but the Sud Express time table, recently vised, is the fastest schedule in France.
re-
TORTOISESHELL CATS. The tortoiseshell cat remains a genetic anomaly, although the work of Mrs. Bisbee and Miss Catherine Herdman sheds further light on the subject. Normally, tortoise-
but in rare cases a male tortoise eroas between yellow and black,
shall
All the reigning sovereigns and heads of the large European de- time of each of the five continents
mocracies are members of the may be instantly read off. A plate
order. A special clause says "that with the 24 hours turns in 24 hours
sovereigns who have abdicated or within a circular ring on which
retired" must also be convoked. the 300 degrees and the principal Dickens became greatly interested
As a newspaper editor Charles This would cause the King of places of all the continents are in development of machinery to aid Spain to issue invitation to both shells are females derived from a engraved. Below on the left is the farmer.
former Presidents Poincare and small dial with self-regulating. "It was this item, from the Lon-Loubet of France and Ex-Kaiser date. The hand leaps automatical- ly from the 30th to the 1st of each don "Daily News." September 30, William of Germany.
These congresses are few and far 1851, when the novelist was editor, month, and in February of the which inspired him to encourage between. The last one ordinary year from the 28th and in mechanical progress every way pos- under the presidency of Emperor was held a leap-year from the 29th to the Bible: 1st of March. On a small dial.
Charles-Quint during the 16th The Marquis of Tweeddale has Century, after his abdication. alongside the week days may be at length succeeded in bringing to
upon this occasion that A great degree of perfection a steam months, the four seasons, and the ng experiments have just been was inserted into the rules of the The lower dial contains the 12 plough, with which some interest the "abdicated sovereigns" clause number of the year, changing into made." tho-following year during the night)
scen.
of New Year's Eve. In the same way, the month hand leaps during the night at the end of the month into the next month, and the hand of the four seasons changes pre- cisely at the hour of the passing from the one seison to the other.
All the works of this remark- able clock are driven by two springs, one of them serving as a spare in cuse the other breaks. The clock runs eight days; it haa, therefore, to be wound up overy weak. It moves on pivots and has a compensation pendulum: The "total. height from the bottom of the little box to the meridian is about 5in. The width is about 7in,
The globe on top has a diameter of 2in. Inside it is the clock-. work which drives the planets which revolve outside. In all, 40: wheels and springs are in constant motion.
Since the proportions of this clock are so small, the building of the intricate mechanism necessit ated an enormously difficult task. This task required great patience, skill and scrupulously accurate mathematical and astronomical cal- culations.
It took 17 years of Incessant tofl to accom Ish this worki
ROYAL ENGAGEMENT
COMING THE BETWEEN ITALY AND BELGIUM.
**Turin, Dec. 22, A persistent report is current tain that the engagement of Crown Prince Humbert of Italy and Princess Maria Juge of Belgium fa Impending wit The Ga
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Romey says that the
Kemer
will be announced in April:
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and that the marriage will follow
hot long afterward in Turin.
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It is alleged in the complaint that the girl and Domingo Casino had never lived together as husband You need not be a witch or aand wife The court. is enjoined wizard to the able to read certain to annul the marriage contract and facts from your friends' hand-order Domingo Casino to pay writing. It is safe to say that you P10,000 as indemnity for the ex- can tell by a glance at a letter whe- ther the writer was in a hurry or eases occasioned by the frustrated| not. If he writes a careful hand marriage-"Philippine ·Herald.””. he is tidy. If a very hurried writ- ing it is almost certain that he is talls to p's, g'e, t's, and y's are sup busy with a thousand things. Long posed to depote a vivid imagina- tion. A person who feels impor tant will take a good deal of pains over his signature; perhaps wrap- ping it up with many flourishes. Gymnastics for the brain are earnestly recommended by the SUNRISE AND SUNSET. President of Princeton University, who believes we all have the mak Date,
Sunrise, Sunset, ing of our own minds in our own p.m. hands. He lays down these rules: (1) Those who love flowers should read, botany books; those who love engines should read about engineering. ter
may occur. Numerous theories have been 'put forward to appears that either there is a explain these and related facts. It difference in the dominance of black and yellow in the two sexes or both colours are sex-linked. The
of either sex have a few scattered December authors favour the latter view, having found that all yellow eats
black hairs."Native."
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