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YESTERDAY'S There
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The Duke's Starvation
FREDERICK, August, ruling
and Everywhe
• Dum-dam bullets, the use of
Duke of Anhalt-Zerbst (1734" DUM-DUM Notice To Contributors. All communications intended for 1798), who was the brother of publication should be addressed to Empress Catherine I of Russia. the Editor, and be accompanied by was in Luxemburg when he learned which in the Abyssinian war has the Writer's Name and Address of the execution of King Louis be strenuously denied by both January 21, sides, take their name from the not necessarily for insertion, but AVI of France on
1795. He was so shocked at this cantonment of Dam-diam ļas a guarantee of good faith
blow to royal dignity that be im-Calcutie mediately started on a complete (fast of 43 days, which ended with of the Bengal Artillery from 1783.
his death from starvation in March, 1793
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SLIMMING IS ALSO
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SUPERFLUOUS FLESH
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BALANCED DIET WITH NO SEARCHY FOODS NEEDED
(By A Medical Correspondent)
Case
to 1855 Later it was famous for TT is quite a mistake tor I would impress upon all who its ammunition factory.
imagine that women are intend to slim the necessity for The Duke is famous as the man It was there that the hallow the only individuals who are a preliminary medical examina
the who sold 1,160 of his soldiers to loosed "dum-dum” were first mann-interested in the problems of tion and in every
An international de diet with a view to reducing approval of their doctors.
Some there are who are con- Hong Kong. Wednesday, Dec. 11, 1935 England, for the purpose of fight-factured.
ing the American "Tebels" in the claration was made at the Hague weight. To-day, possibly more Revolutionary War."
Conference of 1899 forbidding the than ever before, men, too, are stitutionally fat; reduce them use of such bullets.
keenly alive to the advantages and they feel less well and less The Roving House
of a reasonably slim figure active; often in such One has only to go any day theirs is what may be termed It may well be that in the Since 1991, L. F. Martin's home FOR STOPPING BIG GAME
into a London club to over-la healthy obesity.
These instances, however, gre days of the old diplomacy there in Hollis Okh, has been in four By strict definition a dum-dum hear some such conversation as
few and far between, and doc- were situations as paradoxical different counties, four townships, is a lead bullet of which the nickel the following.——* as those that we can see to-day, two States and one terary, Fet covering at the point has been re- "My dear fellow, how well tors as a whole are agreed that but the new babit of dealing it has never been moved. During moved. It expands on penetrating you look, and how much thin-the more closely an individual with fundamental questions the years of growth and develop and causes a terrible wound, par ner you've got! You seem five approaches the ideal weight for thrusts the oddity under our ment in Oklahoma and Northern ticularly if it strikes a bene. years younger than the last age and height notice in a way that the older Texas, all boundary lines were
In stalking and big-game hunt-time I saw you." To which the healthy will he be. school would have taken great shifted Lither and you, and Mr.
Ideal Weight ing
"soft-nosed" hallet is reply is: "Well, to be frank, I've 2 pains to avoid. After person-Martin's homestead -being pecu generally used. This also mush-(been slimming.”
One is often asked. "What is knew al introductions the Naval Con-liarly located, he scarcely
rooms." A nickel bullet frequent- Slimming, as a problem for ference met on Monday in Lon-from day to day where he was.
fa completely accurate answer ly goes right through the animal men, presents certain well my ideal weight, doctor?” For don to consider the reduction Without moving, he has lived-in
defined differences from the special statistical tables must of their feets, a move which is Texas, Oklahoma Territory. Okla and has little stopping effect
A lion shot by a nickel bullet has question as it concerns women be consulted, but a reasonably only rational on the ground that thoma State, in counties Greer,
approximate estimation may be Women, as made by the use of the follow- a long period of peace is ex- Unassigned, Greer and Harmon, been known to kill the firer and us in general, their faults are of pected.
Next week the Sanc- The four townships were: Duke, many as four other people before a different order.
dying. tions Committee is to meet be-Martin, Looney and Hollis cause there is not actually a state of peace but rather state of local war, which one of
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the parties at any rate consi- TOMBS
ders likely to be enlarged into
a general, or at least a wider.
war, in which all parties would!
OF BRONZE AGE FOUND
require all the ships they can Struck By Plough On
Silesian Farm
commission. It must be ab Ivious that there is some ex- planation to be found, but it is
Berlin-A farmer ploughing the not easy to be satisfied with felds near Cassel in Upper Silesia, such an interpretation as that came upon relics of tombs which it is only due to the personal proved to date back to the Bronze eccentricities of this or that in-Age. dividual
is
Your Daily Smile!
a certain district in East Afric Besident Magistrate. When be
the in üre
it were, tend to nibble," they ing simple formula:Multiply so often indulge in snacks be the number of inches above tween meals; they are fond of 5 ft. by the constant 5.5 and chocolates and cakes and sweet ladd to this 110. and fancy biscuits.
Sedentary Life
As an example, a man 5ft. 6in. should weigh: 6 (inches is away a doctor acts for him
Men, on the other hand, tend over 5ft.) multiplied by 5.5 (the Recently each agreed that be had to overindulge in the way of constant), which equals 83. heavy and This figure, plus 110, becomes broken the law by riding at night consuming to
without a light. Both thought that
the law would be vindicated if each Savoury meals, usually contain-143h, which is the answer. appeared in court before the other. fing an excess of meat foods, For a-person less than 5ft a The magistrate sat first and fined while they greatly enjoy a pint modification is to be observed. becomes: the doctor When was the of beer, stout, and other kinds The formula then doctor's turn to administer the law of alcoholic beverages
inches below ft. multiplied by he fined the magistrate £20.
Another factor that bears 5.5 (the constant) and subtract- The magistrate looked aghast, but
is exercise led from 116. the doctor justified his severity by upon their case
was Most men in their younger, Suppose the height is 4ft. emphasising that an example
The difference between As a result, archaeologists have needed. since obviously the offence years are more or less keenly 10 One reading of the omens is been able to unearth a whole burial was becoming a cremon one these athletic, but as they approach 4ft 10in and 5ft. is 2in.; 2 that Signor Mussolini aims at field, comprising forty urns in 21 had been a similar case that very an amendment of the terms of different graves. In the vessels day. the Covenant which would con-were discovered traces of honey, fine it to Europe, on the lines millet and wheat-Beuter. of M. Briand's proposal of a
United States of Europe." He
ment.
+
SO IT SEEWES
the thirties and forties it is (inches below 5ft) multiplied usually the case that they give by 5.5 (the constant) subtract- up more active sport and, in ed from 110 gives the approxi- "Say, dad, the early birds don't get general their lives become mate weight as 99th. all the worms, do they?"
more sedentary. It is no in- Two Categories Why, I always, understood they justice, however, to state that! For practical purposes those in nine cases out of ten just as who are overweight fall into “No, the early apples get some of much, if not more, food is habi- two categories: those in whom tually consumed despite this the excess is an established and restricted activity. All obvious factor, and those (a
The result, of course, is in-very large class) who are con evitable: the girth measure-scious that they are definitely ment begins noticeably to beginning to put on weight.
(Continued on Poge 11)
IN PLAIN ENGLISH" Bill-"I love you, dear, more than
Agas "I am sorry that I cannot return is yet I shall always respect
anything else in the world."
your taste.”
argues without any authosion to be taken within a few did ity from the text of any treaty days
and are worldwide whatever that he has not
No polite cirhem.” epoch-making.. broken any obligation because
will be able to cumlocutions the present war is merely co-hide the fact Either the war lonial." He claims therefore to is to be stopped by the pressure take part in the deliberations [of the League and of the Naval of the sanctions, or the world Conference as though nothing goes back to the old drift of
Farmaments, and more had happened to interrupt the eats, and more war peace-seeking engagements ar What is there in our present arrived at at Stresa. The policy experience of the vicious circle or keeping everyone in the that is likely to deter men from Council Chamber" if they are the old attempt to solve their ready to take a seat there is problems by war? The antici- sound, but the world has grown pations of future horrors does too small for that sort of argu- not seem to shake the lack of imagination of the ordinary hu- Nor is there any need to fake man being. And it is, quite it too seriously, for it looks like true that a peace based on the a late afterthought. Yet again calculations of fear would not it is wise to lay logic on one be the sort of peace that in- side. One experienced, writer suires men to make the most of on foreign affairs considers their civilisation A much that by remaining in the stronger motive with thought- League in spite of the condem-ful people is the impossibility nation by so many other States of making a war the means of "Mussolini has done the big-securing a good peace. Those gest thing in his career." The who are blamed for the mis- meaning of the remark is that takes of the Versailles Confer- he thereby admits and declares ence retort that they did their the necessity of peace and al-best. That may be so, but if liance with the peace-loving that be admitted it is only a nations of Europe for the pre-stronger argument for having servation of at least European no hopes of anything better peace, and recognises that it is coming out of similar circum- unly possible to attain that obstances A cynic has remarked ject by strengthening the that "we told the men last time League "That policy - ignores that they were fighting a war the fact that if he succeeded in to end war, the next time we ring out his African cam-must do it." It seems at pre- paign in the eth of the sanc-sent as if the country that is de- tions he would destroy the termined to fight, can defy all League utterly. How is it pos- the rest of the world that is sibi
double not equally determined to fight. headed ulaz
conThe 52 nations simply cannot siste
one afford to allow themselves to he be defied Jibes about the mi- litarist pacifists may be witty, but it does seem that next week: there will be decided the great question whether or not the will of the majority of the ns- tions is to prevail or not
If we shall
suppo
calentate
tives will member
Ito:
increase.
“BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley
100000 MEN KISSED
THE
FACE
FIELDMARS
1784-1877
A HOLENEWALL WAS CUT OUT AND FRAMED "
HOLE MADE BY A CIVIL WAR, CANNON BALL WAS REMOVED, FRAMED AND PRESENTED TO "THE HARRISON COUNTY CUB
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