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Nelson's Spirit.
Admirals nll, they said their way (The vchoes bre ringing still). Admirals all, they went their way
To the haven under the hill. But they left us a kingdom none con
take-
The resin of the circling sea- To be ruled by the rightful sons of
Blake
And the Rodney's yet to be.
Admirnis all, for Britain's sake, Honour be yours and fame!
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1931.
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DOGS WITH GLASS EYES.
Remarkable Surgical
Owing to the transportation at ferent context, whether a scien-angle by Euclidean geometry. tist should.
but contends that he is at least night of pork from slaughter houses We seem to meet two or three five figures ahead of him.' to markets in Sanitary Department involving the con- times, a season the hero of the
The feat of trisecting the moal vans scientific novel who, with a grand angle, which for twenty-five censumption of additional electricity. gesture of resignation, buries hie turies was believed to be impos- the sum of $250 is required over secret - whether it be death sible, compels the Bostonian to and above the 3800 provided in this rays or the elixir of life as announce that he has devised a year's Estimates. too dangerous a toy for mankind.system whereby he can trisect But there is a French meteoro- the angle in five different ways. logist whom I find more disturb What is more, he knows how to ing than these fictitious dis- reduplicate the cube. And yes, coverers. He has been looking sir, believe it or not! He can at sunspots and finds there will square the old circle - that is, be na good Summer till 1934. It providing ni is proved to be a is a tip for hostesses at garden | positive value.
all How original are parties, but I feel that most of
mathematician's us would rather not be told. Let the amateur prophetic meteorologists whisp methods may not altogether es- er their dismal tidings to each ape questioning. The achieve- ther at secret congresses if they ment of squaring the circle re- must. But for my part I should ceived considerable public atten-
In the kennels at Wembley 1 prefer to eling to unscientifiction not very long ago when heard remarkable stories of the hope.-M.S. in the Daily Tele- culinary engineers contrived to operations which veterinary sur- graph.
transform the circular boundary geom nowadays perform on rac- encompassing the various fillings ing greyhounds (says a Special of a well-known piece of pastry Correspondent of the Evening into right-angled retaining walls. Standard).
Mistress Mariners.
In the general advance of women upon all masculine posi- tions it was to be expected that the sailor's trade would in time be captured. I seem to have heard of a female engineer in a British ship.. Among the many miracles which the new Russia Thas advertised there was some- thing about women sailors. But he sea has not yet been con- spicuously changed.
of
Skill.
AND FALSE TEETH.
As for trisecting the angle five The commonest accidents that ways, the jibes of a number of befall them are breakages of the jokesters would indicate that leg, which at Wembley almost in- his mathematical method has variably occur to the dog's right ong been in vogue among numer-hook at the second (left-hand) ous custodians of boarding-
bend of the course, and what is House pies.
called "track foot." It seems fairly certain, how-į Once upon a time a dog with a ever, that the Boston salesman uroken leg would be regarded as nay claim the distinction of hav-finished, but a good greyhound is ng discovered the means for re-too valuable to be scrapped with- It is from Turkey the new light tuplicating the cube. What a out effort to save it, and often it comes. Emerging from the soon this discovery may become is saved. hushed seraglio the Turkish when the method is made public I was shown a dog called houri has already become a street an be easily conjectured. cleaner and a lawyer. Now the 'magine what it will mean to the Barney, which had never won a race till after its leg had been Merchant Marine School of Starn-oungster who Inps from his broken.
boul, where they train officers and engineers, has opened its doors to women. Is it not time that England should wake up?
Once the Turkish corsair was the bane of the sea. He domin
ted the Mediterranean, he took Britain would immediately feel his prisoners in the Channel, and the effects in the increased cost even from our Western shores. of food, and ultimately in actual Now that women are going on the Turkish bridges the reign of ter- privation. That is the simple cor
The may begin again. reason why the British Empire female of the species is more Even needs a Navy strong enough to deadly than the male. police the ocean routes in time of sailors, who, as tradition boasts, do not care, have admitted some- peace, and to meet any
emer-thing of this. To that ancient gency that may arise in time of toast of Saturday night at sea, "Sweethearts and wives!" is it not commonly added, "May they never meet!"?H.C.B. in the Daily Telegraph.
war..
It is the first purpose of the Navy League to keep these ob- vious, but too often forgotten,! facts constantly before the Bri- tish public. In the interests of
has been reduced to
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For and Against the Motor.
A nice little debate could be arranged round the assurance from the South-west Lancashire Coroner to the Wigan Rotary Club that "the motor-car is the curse of civilisation." It would
spoon the last semblance of a de-
A Broken Toc. icious cube of ice cream. What
And I saw Melksham Royal ould please him more than to Tom, which ran at the White eduplicate the cube? The wis- City recently; it had been operat lom of applying this processed on successfully for a broken night be open to question. But
n view of the likelihood of such toe, a peculiarly difficult defect to mend in his case, because he contingency arising, the is one of those dogs with long, methods for dealing with the flat feet, whereas the usual rac fourth dimension should be more ing dog has short, high feet, videly known. Christian Science with bunched tocs, rather like a Monitor.
cat.
News in Brief.
The lowest open air temperature The yesterday was 63 degrees. aumidity was 60 at 10 a.m. and 63 it 4, p.m..
I was told of a dog. Maiden Show, when banged its head against a hurdle and had its skull badly displaced; that, too, was skilfully remedied.
Some of the cures and opera- tions performed by dog surgeons saved dog-owners thousands of pounds. The most famous ex- ample is that of Mick the Miller. Owing the increased cost of gas When this marvellous runner was a vote of $6,500 is required for the a two-year-old in Dublin, its Prisons Department; which also fame yet to come, it fell ill with requires a vote of $750 for photo-distemper and was at the point of death when Mr. A. F. Callanan, now one of Wembley's celebrated A new Gestetner duplicator, cost- trainera, took him in hand and
the Police Department.
graphic works.
of course, be quite easy to building $1,300, is to be purchased for saved his life.
Cannot Be Bought.
ed that, the motor-car suffers
The pre:
+
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even
Siamese
ciation of the work of the Silent Empire. The little that Honglions of people do derive a great Forestry Department's ear' will cost given the greatest stimulus to
in recent
;
An honor as long as waves shall economy the strength of the Navy
break Tu Nelson's peerless name?
the very minimum consistent with safety. We can write nothing original
There must be no further reduc- about Nelson Day and we do
Lion. Every one must be up the case for the prosecution;
Mick the Miller is now in- not intend to try.
Abler pens
valuable. It is impossible to buy use for eight years. made to realise that expendi- the physical disaster which the sent machine has been in constant than ours have waxed most
him. Though five years old, he of a year, and all the ruin and eloquent to a degree worthy of lure on the Navy is not in the motor-car achieves in the course
Out of $4,500 voted for passages was this year less than a length Of the local nature of "militarism" or waste, heart-ache which it leaves in its
hip-recor the great theme,
out of necessary insurance. train, would alone seem to justify and relief of restitutes a balance of behind his record speed of last. japplication, we have for years
a lability of But at the Royal Veterinary In furthering this purpose the Mr. Brighouse's proposition that only $700 remains. As the Govern-year, endeavoured to urge every Briton
"nothing in the world to-day ment has incurred
repatriating destitutes, College they tell you of in our midst to join the local Navy League has already many contributes less to the welfare of $829 in
a further vote of $800 is required. more remarkable operations on !dogs. There are dogs running branch of the Navy League, the great achievements to its credit. nations than the motor-car."
But it ought to be remember- Owing to increased land sales and about with expensive sets of membership of which remains at Thul work has been deservedly (an appallingly feeble level. In lauded by the greatest in the from the fact that its tragedies the issue of new leases for sub false teeth and with glass eyes ; times of stress — yes: It should and, none of whom can, by any and tribulations are "news" and division of existing lots $1,500 is the teeth and the eyes are taken This sum is and cats that squint have been be comparatively easy to obtain a stretch of imagination, be term-jare everywhere recorded and ad- to be expended by the Government, but at night and cleaned. Dogs
'vertised
as such, whereas then boundary stones. simply hundred new members a day, ed Jingnes. They are
satisfactions and pleasures that recoverable as loisees are called upon given normal sight
stones.
trouble; and there are dogs with taking advantage either of the patriots with a far-secing vision it affords are private property to pay a fee for the provision and cats are peculiarly subject to this
artificial legs and paws. call on the Navy or of our appre of the needs of the whole and pass unnoticed among the fixing of boundary
world's affairs. After all, mil-
But it is dog racing which has The upkeep of the Botanical and Service in the Colony and in Kong can do in the cause of the deal of comfort and
pleasure China waters. But, with the re- Navy League may in a sense be from the motor-car; far more $800 this year, mainly for petrol, veterinary surgery" turn to normality, anything dis-insignificant; but it is nevertho-town-dwellers get far more often oil, and accessories which have been years.
put into the countryside than affected by the fall in the value of The
As provision was Matterhorn is the German namo agreeable is forgotten or at least less valuable and valued.
They used to do as a result of its the dollar, shelved and the membership laying of a wreath on the Cenonvention. Though it is not pos-made in the Estimates for $508 a of the famous Alpine peak, while the French call it Mont Cervin, and of the Navy League doth not taph may. to some savour of a sible to strike a balance in such further vote of $300 is necessary. superfluous formality; but it is matters, there are thousands of
The proposal to instal ascend.
nerfectly happy excursions to The Navy, the organ of the something on a much higher every accident and if more autographic plant in the P.W.D. is Navy League, in its issue of plane than that: it is a symbol people would only try to drive in abeyance, but the sum of $1,287 October, 1980, stated that "it of remembrance to the illustrious with care and intelligence the ac-is to be voted to Mesars. Preece, idents could be diminished with-Cardew, and Rider, consulting en- will be a bad day for the British Nelson; it is a token of gratitude out in the least impairing the gineurs, who carried out consider-
able investigations concerning to the point of being untruthful, Empire if, ever October 21 is al- the Silent Service for the pro- pienies.-Manchester Guardian. lowed to pass without fitting re-tection accorded us throughout meindrance." On this day 126 the years; it is a hint to politicians Pi Versus Pic.
To permit of the economical pre- years ago Nelson finally secured and meddlers that, so long as it
had less success in dealing with gress of the work on the naw No. for Britain the command of the is necessary for the Navy to the fourth dimension than the 2 Police Station a vote of $40,000 to connect with is required. Actual expenditure Disarmament talk or no safeguard British trade routes duffer trying
the the golf ball on the first swing, last year was $99,200.95; revised es- disarmament talk, it cannot be and communications for
this year, expenditure too strongly emphasised that transport of that food upon but it is beginning to seem as timated expenditure though the calculus tyroa have $165,000; estimated four-fifths of the foodstuffs neces which the Homeland is ever de- that clusive. intangible some next year, $125,000, making a total
other almost within of $889,200,05.. sary for the subsistence of the pendent, so long will the local thing or people of Great Britain are branch, be with the parent their grasp,
An amateur mathematician in A debate is to be held in the the Juntor Leagues. This More League inpirit and in deed. Boston who sells cotton waste by Sailors and Soldiers' Home, this give players & senior and 6 junior brought from overseus.
"Hong Kong expects every Briton day but who delves into the in-evening commencing at 8 o'clock. matches each week up to the over, to buy the food Britons eat
this day to do kis duty!";tricacies of "natural relations" The motion will be: "That in the middle of March, but does not in- Britons have to sell their coal and
Aby night, has just thrown a modern world the penalties of mar- clude the Hong Kong Football their manufactures abroad. Over-
hombshell into the stronghold oflage are more grievous than those Club's competition for the Shield: mathesis. Not merely does he of celibacy." The affirmative will und if this takes place, which no claim to have gone one better be taken by Mr. W. Sprague, nup-doubt it will, several League gemo than the president of a mid- ported by Mr. D. S. Le Prevost, will have to be played lu mid-week. We do not often ask nowadays western university — whio
It is to be hoped that the League. re-The negative will be led by Mr. C., off, or even seriously diminished, whether a doctor should tell, cently was reported to have ac Carruthers and seconded by Mr. G. Committee will seo that, the matches
are kept up to date. every man, woman, and child in Lut we do ask, though in a difcomplished the trisection of an Simtos.
Bea.
seas trade is, therefore, yital to the very existence of the British Empire. If it were suddenly cut
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From Other Pens. Scientific Gloom.
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Mathematical novices have
a tele-
various types of facsimile ap- paratus.
the Italians, Monte Silvio.
To-day's Thought.
Some people are agreeable even
Ten Years Ago.
From the "China Mail" of
October 21, 1921,]
To-day's dollar is worth 2/10%.
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The football season promises to be very successful one. There are 11 entries for the First, and 12-för will