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THE ART OF FICTION.
A DANIEL
THE TIGER AND HIS CARCASS.
have
his
never
had dead
AMUSING TEMERLOH STORY. London, Feb. 20.
A perpetual motion clock invent- Some of the secrets of the The strange case of a Ind whose The Rev. Francis Bacon wased by a young engineer, Jean Louis Patent Office were given up when eyesight was perfect, but who could ist of all other branches of the erloh and given judgment in a
The overshadowing by the novel.
À Daniel has appeared in Tem- sentenced, at the Old Bailey, to Reutter, of Neuchatel, the son of Mr. A. A. Gomme, Librarian of not "see" letters and words proper-profession of letters, which is the curious case. day, to 15 months' imprisonment the municipal treasurer of that the Patent Office, lectured before ly, is related by Mr. A. M. Mac-most notable feature of recent both in the second division. town, appears to have fulfilled the the Institute of Patentees at the Gillivray in
For some time the people of the Bolton ultimately
the "British Medical literary history, is not without its district have been greatly worried. Caxton Hall, London, on the Journal." pleaded wildest hopes and dreams of past material contained in the Library. guilty, but Bacon persisted that
embarrassments to himself... The by the presence of a Congenital word blindness, as it novel is coming to be subjected to carried away their cattle for his tiger which he was not guilty.
Reutter, who has been patiently was invented as early as 1845, memory for letters and words is that was formerly reserved for the these depredations, whom we shall
The pneumatic tyre, he showed, is called, means It was stated in court that pursuing his experiments for over but proved unwanted until the ar-defective.
that the visual the minute and detailed criticism dinner. One of the victims of Bacon, who is a married man with ten years, started by postulating rival of the fast-moving bicycle; a family, was born in Canada in the feasibility of harnessing to the fountain pen was patented in in the eyes or eyesight, and no trou-thor of a treatise on Browning's with a pot of rice in his band. his solemn productions. of scholarship call Mat for purposes of identifica 1857 and came to Great Britain clockwork the energy produced by 1809, but found little acceptance, ble experienced with Sgures or use of the split infinitive, or on the double barrelled or it may
No other defects may be found and science. But whereas the au- tion, betook himself to the jungle as a child. He returned to Canada perpetual motion ever to hand in and roller skates were invented in at the age of 21, and acted as a the varying differences of the at-1823, but the bad state of the volunteer missioner and lecturer mospheric pressure
manners and morals of the plesi-been only, a single-gun on and the tem roads prevented their being ap-Mr. MacGillivray, who is surgeon to ing only to face the attacks of his teeth when he obtained the
The lad's mother brought him to osaurus, may be fairly sure of hay-shoulder and an oath between his: degree of LL.D. (Canada), and perature. His instrument is really preciated.
that he would a clock propelled by a metal baro D. (United States), and was ap-
After referring to these and the Dundee Eye Institution, to see fellow-grammarians or paleonto-return home meter.
until he pointed a
If there was anything wrong with logists, with whom he is presum-collared curate in London in
similar inventions, Mr. Gomme
the There is, in fact, a certain kind of said: "A keen observer of pre- he had been to school he appeared happy novelist, whose theme, is patiently with the body of a newly
marauder the boy's eye-sight, as ever since [ably competent to den!, the 1920, at a nominal salary of £5
alive. un-for barometer already in existence sent-day tendencies in social and
He lay fr per annum. He undoubtedly did which is a metal box, the surface of Industrial affairs might obtain totally unable to recognise the writ-common life, finds himself beset killed calf. good work in regard to the
He waited long but emigration of slum boys, and his which has a system of concentric from these old records many ten letters of the alphabet. by the innumerable specialists In his patience was eventually reward- appointment to a living last year, undulations in relief. The air rub-ideas, which, reintroduced under His teachers had thought the midst of whom common life ised when "Stripes" arrived, and he with a stipend of £389, was part-bing against this, irregular surface more suitable conditions and with simply backward and stupid lived. If his characters, go on a shot him. The tiger was an old) ly to enable him to continue his exercises pressure, which...connect-all the improvements in construc-kept him in the infant class; railway journey. como erudite hand at the game and took to his ed un with a needle, indicates on tion and detail made possible by he could learn figures and do sim Bradshaw scholar may convict heels limping rather badly and en The Recorder said that. Bacon [the dial face the value of the vary, the greater resources we have at
them of starting from the wrong his way he had to pass had been leading a double life for ing pressure. The barometric vari- our disposal to-day, could be put.
terminus and travelling by a train Indian labourers' lines. a decade, preying on the agony oflations thus produce a continuous into successful practice with less
consecrated exclusively to the. Ramasamy, Meenatchi, their chil- poor expectant mothers and con-working movement, by which it is trouble and at an earlier date than
transport of milk-cans; if they fall dren, uncles, aunts etc. were having cealing an illicit traffic under the theoretically possible to make a if they had to be thought out ab
Fick, Harley-street will patronizing a quiet confabulation at the time cloak of hypocrisy.
clock work. Under analogous con-inilio."
ly observe that the treatment they round a home fire in which were Earlier Proceedings.
ditions the daily variations of tom-
Gold From Wheat. [Earlier messages stated:perature should provide a similar The records of the Patent
prescribed by the profession for logs. Lonion December 6-A. sensa-source of energy. But the energy Office, he said, included tional revelation was made in the produced is very minute, and in- jeuriosities, dozens of perpetual South-Western Police Court by ufficient to propel ordinary clock-motion machines, portable guns Sir Travers Humphreys, who work,
which could be made to fire aquare
work.
many
-prosecuted in a case in which Reutter's iden of applying this bullets at Türks but round ones at Anne Bolten was charged, on re-energy to 'clockwork admittedly is Christians, a cure for consump mand, with supplying certain not new. Others have tried to in-tion based on a mixture of brandy noxious drugs. He said that vent a clock which need not be and garlic, and a means of pre- Howard Barron, otherwise the wound un And is driven, by energy paring tea and coffee from mangel Rev. Francis Bacon, Vicar of Allerived from atmospheric pressure wurzels and of extracting gold Saints, Spitalfields. hnd parti- The attempty, however, have been from wheat. There was also a cipated in running the Powell made to apply the principle to cr-comparatively recent patent for ufacturing Company, which dinary cocks. Reutter perceived the manufacture of edible gramo- carried on contraceptive business that he must reduce the amount of phone records from chocolates and a factory registered under energy required by clocks if he was
and other sweet-stuffs. the name of Dr. Hannah Browne, to succeed in inventing one that
of which Bolter was the manager. would go perpetually.
A detective gave evidence that
Barron, when questioned, said
the business.]
or
Successful Trials.
His two new clocks, which have
some į
To define what could be patent- jed was difficult, but, briefly, any article might be patented: that that was a saleable commodity. was novel, useful, not illegal, and
Mr.
him
and
yet
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cases of housemaid's knee: if they Suddenly the apparition of a inherit great possessions from un-lame tiger came into view. The suspected and intestate noble tiger had his own troubles to look kinsmen, genealogists pour scorn after and had no time to weigh on the proofs of their pedigree and the pros and cons of an attack on conveyancera expose the invalidity the homely gathering, but Rama- of their title-deeds. Their invest- sami and his company Heized the ments must satisfy the censorious position at once. The tiger they judgment of Tattersall's or the found was walking only on three Stock Exchange, their sports please lega. Therefore, they argued, he critical and expert eyes at Twicken was maintainning Bomewhat ham or Lord's; while their creator precarious equilibrium. cannot even consign them to thejecture proved right grave without anxiety for some sami's first blow made flaw in procedure which may
ex-squnt on his haunches. pose him to the ridicule of sextons, whole force In the lines quickly undertakers, or monumentul ma- came and belaboured the tiger to sons. We can scarcely wonder at such good effect that the labourers the increasing tendency of contem-were able to bring the carcass to porary writers to take refuge in the Temerloh police station and
ask for the usual reward.
Their con- and, Rama- the tiger Then the
a strong protest with
that the drugs which were sent now been running without stopping Thus, it was not possible to patent out were of an ordinary medicinaland without rewinding for nature. The Magistrate ordered months, require only
a system of book-keeping or a pro-
the old dictum that every man another remand. A barristersandth part of the amount of energy tobacco..
one-thon-cess for disguising cabbage as
possesses the material for
In the meantime Mat had made one watched the case on behalf of the ordinarily necessary
good story, and to confine them- futile search for his quarry and to drive a Bishop of London. London, Feb. einck. The smallest daily variations
Popular Fallacies,
selves to variations on Z121
finally came to the market just to auto- 14. The Rev. Francis Bacon and of temperature and atmospheric never been patented, and
Many valuable discoveries had
biographical theme.
relate the story to those who would Anne Bolton pleaded not guilty at pressure are sufficient to keep there Gomme gave as examples the ple sums.
believe him and you can imagine the Old Bailey to'n charge of con- clocks in motion till fresh energy wheel, the screw, the mariner's nese and no history of eye
Endoubtedly there are some his surprise when he found the tiger spiring to incite women to ad-is supplied by the next variations, compass, printing, paper, gun-bles, yet when asked to read print- stance, are historical novels, not
He had no serious ill-books to which it is fair to apply which he had shot in the possession minister to themselves noxious A certain amount of surplus energy powder, and spectacles. A knowed letters could only do so correct because of the disturbing effect of He lodged
trou- these exacting tests. Such, for in- of some Indias labourera. drugs. Sir Travers Humphreys, stored in aring so that freak-ledge of the literature in the Pat-ly after several unsuccessful
Mat would not let things alone. who prosecuted, said that female fish ann-variability of temperature ent Office library, he said, would remedies costing a few shillings is provided for. The new inven- enable the reader to detect the
at-their casual inaccuracies on the the police and claimed the reward were sold for two
tempts..
minds of students of history, who three
himself. The Indian labourers guineas, and the banking accounts tio may truly be described as per- fallacy of such popular notions an
Good at Pictures.
are too small a class to be entitled were as adamant. There was here showed that the defendants had Petual motion, for the only factor that James Watt invented the even the simplest words, such as not primarily addressed to them. sergeant found it far above himi
He was totally unable
row which the police) to read to special consideration in works now a nice drawn substantial amounts from which would make the clock cease steam engine, or George Stephen "cat" or "dog." but the pictures of but because an historical novel is
going would be an accident or the son the locomotive, or Fulton the
to solve. wearing out of the parts.
steamboat, Galileo the telescope and named correctly,
a cat or dog he at once recognised by its very náture didactic. How-
The services of the District) Reutter claims that the friction in Faraday the electro-magnet, or
ever modest the author's intention Officer were, therefore, requisition- the clockwork is so slight that the Marconi wireless telegraphy. He could write slowly and dismay be, the majority of his read-ed. All squatted on the ground and life of his new clock should be at Careful research would revealinetly, but was unable to do so to ers are sure to accept him at his after hearing all the evidence he HOME OR CAREER ? teast ten thousand years. There in such facts as that the roll-top: dictation. He, showed & marked face value as a teacher of history the reward and the Indian labourers decreed that Mat should be awarded every reason to believe that, apart desk was described in 1772 and aptitude and keenness for drawing. it is right to expect some GIRLS' EDUCATION
from the great scientific vatue of safety razorg in 1762, while the Had the conditions been discover-ance that they are not being mis-should be given the carenas. Thus this invention, it will be a commer-taximeter went back to the begin-ed earlier, special tuition in spell-led. The presentation cial proposition. for these
per-ning of our era. There was, heling and reading could have been in-Knights of the Temple as priests, Temerloh saved by a decision which Should boys and girls be netual clocks can be made in any said, a loud speaker in 1671 and stituted with the hope of overcom- and of a Franciscan frint is only a Daniel could so quickly have taught different subjects, and form and size. It is believed in a diving bell in 1664 and a perising the disability. Several suc-pensing lavish hospitality in an
reached. on different lines?
clockmusing circles in Geneva that cope in 1702.
eessful results have been recorded English forest at a date when St. Tais educational controversy the present invention heralds a
by various authorities.
Francis was playing in his nursery has again arisen in connection complete revolution in the clock-.
It is therefore highly important at Assisi, are real, if minor, flaws with the establishment of a new making industry, and may lead to!
that all cases of children who ex in a great masterpiece, because public school for girls, Weston very important developments in REBUFF TO MOSCOW. hibit marked difficulty in learning "Ivanhoe" is definitely an historical their letters (comments the doctor)novel; the infant Perdita's landing should be carefully examined and on the sea-coast of Bohemia le special individual tuition adopted tracts nothing whatever from the if "congenital word blindness" be greatnesss of "A Winter's Tale," diagnosed.
which no one has ever taken for "PSYCHIC GLOVES."
THRUSTING HAND INTO MOLTEN WAX.
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Two people unwittingly became a geographical play. Another class film actors and amused a crowd of
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curacy is justly demanded is the junction E. course of education that will "to- and initiative.
of propaganda. Though by mail of Russian railway, bonda some extent break away from the A prominent member of the "bearing interest at 9 per cent."
some play must here be allowed to upper window of a
The screen was a blind of an conventional lines of high school Headmistresses' Association:
rhetorical exaggeration, and though which five several people, while the
store above CAMPBELL MOORE Mr. Kellogg said:" training," which they declare is The Headmistresses' Associa-
Thrilling testa to produce we'do not expect the authorities for actors were a man and woman in
19, Queen's Road C. Tel. C. 151 The State Department objects"psychic" gloves by normal means the administration of brimstone the room. Their shadows were pro- "too closely modelled on the curri-tion is doing everything possible to financial arrangements involv-were made at the Queen's Gate and trendle to be cited in footnotes.jected on to the blind, culum of boys and too acutiemic to make the examination standard ing the fetation of a loan in the Hall, South Kensington, London, a disproof of the historicity of movements could be seen by the and their ... in outlook.
for girls less cramping and acade
United States, or the employment recently. mic. It is rather too bad for
the main features of Dotheboys crowd below,
Training for the Home.
"J agree absolutely," Miss headmistresses to be attacked, in C. J. H. Cowdroy, Principal of view of this. for their teaching as Crouch End High School, told a being modelled too closely on the "Daily News" representative. curriculum of boys and too "A boy grows up into a man, academic in outlook. and goes out into the world, while most of the girls get married and An official of the National become mothers.
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They were apparently on affec-
of credit for the purpose of mak- Mr. Stanley de-Brath, who is Hall would reduce "Nicholas ing an advance to the Soviet re-connected with the National La-Nickleby" to the rank of a geur-tionate to me, and this was noticed boratory of Psychical Research, rilous libel, With some other with considerable hilarity by the In accordance with this policy after having his arm tightly novels of specialised themes we the Government does not view strapped, plunged his hand first reach more debatable ground. The
crowd below. with favour financial arrange-into a bowl of molten wax and writer of a detective story, recent crowd grew bigger, and bigger until As the dumb show continued the rents designed to facilitate in then into a bowl of cold waterly pilloried in our columns by aa policeman on point duty had his
His attempt was unsuccessful, member of the force for ignorance attention drawn to it
any way the sale of Soviet bonds
is confident
Other
in the United States. The De- and he suffered great pain owing of the relative precedence of a police arrived, quickly dispersed the "The great difficulty with girl, however, is to train her so We are
that to the heat of the wax. The glove chief constable and an inspecter, crowd, and told the two people partment not in favour of en- That she can keep herself if neces-couraging different standards of
banks and financial institutions broke into fragments in the at- might retort that professional behind the blind that if they were sary, and at the same time may be education for girls and for boys.
will co-operate in carrying out tempt to remove it. able to look after her home if she After all, girls have to go out into
police procedure is only incidental not so near, the bind they would this policy.
A second attempt made by Mrs. fo his subject, that no sane man not be mistaken for a cinema show. gets married.
the world and earn their own live-
Among the large United States Relph was successful, after a would come to him for instruction Then the show ended: "Most of the girls that pass lihoods the same as boys now corporations that were formerly struggle to remove the glove. A through this school marry.
On adays, and they run a great risk holders of old Russian bonds, since good cast was obtained, to the depon it, and that he could not be expected to anticipate the extension who work and remain unmarried, that they cannot enter for the with the State Department was the vice president of the National La- Scotland Yard. Exponents of that himself and pride in his calling, the other side we have some girls of being handicapped if they find repudiated, which, had filed protests light of the audience..
Dr. R. J. Tillyard, honorary busmen to the inner circles of If he has a proper confidence in
of the traditional recreations of I am really sorry for them. I same subjects as boys in the con- New York Life Insurance Co. don't think that as a rule they are ventional examinations..
They infomed the State. Depart-boratory of Psychical Research, happier when they are older. Miss Froud, secretary of the ment that at the time of the Soviet said he thought these "paychic" popular branch of the art, the def sweep aside all theso irrelevancies sert novel, may claim that the with indifference or scorn, protest "I quite agree, too, with the National Union
of Women revolution they gwned Russian rail-wax gloves' could be, produced by sheikh is now universally undering that his craft is the craft of choice of a headmistress without Teachers:
way bonds representing an invest- normal means, though spiritual any scholastic experience. A We are amazed to hear that meat exceeding £4,000,000. There ists claimed they could only be stood as a purely ideal figure, and Homer, and his subject, by his headmistress should be a capable such an appointment should be had been repudiated by the Soviet,He thought such gloves could thank if she experiences any in-be judged, is not tailoring or as- that a reader has only herself to toeatment of which alone he can produced by spirit means. organiser, and able to lead girls, made. We think that a designa- and the company asserted that the be produced through a person hav-convenience from using one of tronomy or jurisprudence, but men and then school governors often tion of headmistress to such an present Soviet Goverdment offering ing a tourniquet bound tightly these works as a manual of eti- and women, whose innermost hearts only give them a woman who has appointment is a misnomer. Since represented an attempt to realise just above the elbow while the quette in the polite society of the will not be seriously affected done well at her examinations." she seems to be concerned more here on the credit of the Russian hand and arm were hanging Saharas: And the writer who is though trousers be creased, down The Founder's View.. with the social than the educa- alleys, while at the same time down, so that the abnormal prea- no specialist but a simple story the sides and the moon rise in the The Rev. P. E. Warrington, tional side of the school, it would repudiating an earlier obligation of sure caused the hand to swell, and teller, and who in told that, before west. And perhaps the art of Vicar of Monckton Combe, Somer appear better if she, were called the same railways to American then in this condition plunging it he sends his manuscript to the fiction will not be grievously set, the founder. both of Weston "Warden" and not headmistress Investors-Beuter.
first into hot liquid wax and then, printer, he must go the rounds of paired If, with all this bynercriti I feel that, we want to make be an inclusive fee of £200 a year.
into cold water, until the layer of the experts and have the hero's cism of the trivial, be rather a new departure in the There will be no extrás of any
wax was fairly thick and harden-wardrobe censored in Savile row the exaggerated realtem Mr. W. R. Gardiner, of the Eas-led. education of girls. We want to kind. Six scholarships ranging tern Extension
and the heroine's in Bond-street, it proceeds, placing the ace revise it and make it more com- from £40 to £100 will be offered, Singapore, has allod for Home as war glove could be removed with Greenwich and their marriage Heart's Desire and
Telegraph Co., Dr. Tillyard claimed that the the moonlight of their betrothal at his next story the Lan plete and to realise that 'all girls and six exhibitions of 40 each, furlough
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