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A Name Of Strange Significance
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"MISS LIBERTY" IS 50 YEARS OLD DETAILS OF NEW YORK'S
FAMOUS STATUE
GIFT FROM FRENCH PEOPLE TO AMERICAN NATION
• John A. Menaugh)
(By
N October 28 last the Goddess After the Franco-Prussian war Alsatian sculptor,
0 that thes
the
American humourist, Win THE KING AS ORDINARY. publication should be addressed to Rogers was in a plane piloted by All communications intended for August 15, 1935, the famous
The closing of Westminster Ab- the Editer, and be accompanied by Wiley Post Between Fairbanks bey from Jan 4 to the first Sun- the Writer's Name and Address and Point Barrow,
the day in August, on account of the not necessarily for insertion, but motor began to miss. In an en-Coronation, is in accordance with es a guarantee of good faith.
deavour to glide to a river, Post precedent which goes back to the banked the plane and crashed 18th century, earthward with terrific force.
Whether such a long period is lonely, Eskimo seal hunter saw the catastrophe and ran 15 miles to necessary in these days of tubu-) message lar steel scaffolding for the erec- Point Barrow with the "Bird men dead, Red Bird blows tion of galleries and other modern statue that stands at the entrance Frederic Auguste Bartholdi.
jof New York's upper harbour, was commissioned by a group of lead-
fifty years old...
ing Frenchmen to execute Hong Kong Tuesday, Nov. 3, 1936. up." This message was presently devices may be doubted.
For a half century, the famous Statue of Liberty and to proffer it (to plunge America into grief over The Office of Works, with which
seen to America as a symbol of friend- the untimely end of its famous
The terrified the responsibility resta, is stand-lady of Bedloe's Island has Salt Of The Sea
itwa occupants.
that ed States. The gift was to com- Esicimo's name was Clare Oakpes. ing firmly on tradition. The Dean shipload after shipload of immi-ship between France and the Unit- offers liberty and equality. She memorate America's 100 years of Though the "auplumbed salt The three syllabies are strangely and Chapter have no option in grants pour into the land
win the matter. ・・・
has been the last to say farewell independence. Bartholdi suggest- estranging sea" becomes less associated with the life of
The Abbey is a Royal Peculiar to voyagers on their way to the ed as the best location for the estranging with the increase of Rogers, who was born in CLARE- safe and rapid means of transit, more, Oklahoma and whose middle and the King, as the Ordinary, old world and the first to bid them state the island in question, which This welcome on their return. Berlby that time was commonly known has the final jurisdiction. it becomes more and more salt initial was iP. with the passage of the cen! turies. If one could extract the CRICKETING WIVES salt from a cubic mile of the Atlantic Ocean one would be in possession of an astonishing and mountainous mass of salts:
million 128
tous of com- mon, salt,
and
18 million
Willing To Travel Without Husbands
he exercises through the resporlofty torch to-day seems to shine as Bedloe's Island, after its original out as the only, light of its kind owner. On February 22, 1877, con- gress authorized President Hayes (sible Minister.
After the Coronation members in a troubled world of the public will be admitted to
Last month there were staged to set apart a site there.
this ceremonies at the base
First Section The first section of the "Statne
of
the
the Abbey to view the strange-. great statne in which Americans) ments made for the ceremony. and Frenchmen took part-theat Liberty Enlightening Melbourne.
This is also in accordance with statue, as everyone knows of World" had been completed some Although the rules governing tons of magnesium chloride the Australian women's cricket established precedent, and will should know, was the gift to Ameri-time previous to President Mayes: One would bave besides team to visit England next year serve to recoup the Abbey fins-ea from the people of France. It official act. This section, the hinge.
thousand tons of magnesium bromide and 14/forbid married members to be acces for the loss sustained by the has helped link two great nations forearm with the hand bearing the hundred tons of fluorine com-companied by husbands, four arepension of services for seven in a firm bond of friendship. bined as fluorides. "And why women have not allowed marriage months.
to interfere with their hopes of is the sea salt" once asked a young pupil-teacher of a class being included in the side.
Mrs. Peden and Mrs. Ogden, of j New South Wales, and Mrs:
of small boys in the days when children were permitted
to
CONTROVERSIAL; ADMIRAL
Admiral Sims, America's war
torch, was exhibited at "the Cen- Bedloe's Island, upon which the tennial exposition in Philadelphia Statue of Liberty stands, is alin 1876. The head of the statue twelve-acre plot that has had alwas completed in time for exhibi- number of names since the Dutch tion at the Paris exposition in first settled in New Amsterdam 1878. It was not until 1884 that
Iteach children. "No, no. You Monoghan and Mrs. Fitzgerald, ofime C-in-C. in European waters, early in the seventeenth century.the gigantic sizine was complet. "Western Australia, are among the was not one of those who believ-The Dutch called it Oyster Island-led. On the Fourth of July of that is because of all the salt her./61 girls and women who have ap-fed that the U. S. Navy should at Governor Lovelace in 1670 gave the year it was presented to the Ameri
are all wrong," she said.
rings swimming about.". Other plied for positions in the team.
Your Daily Smile!
Vital Statistics
"How many in your family, "Just my husband and I,” "No children?" "No."
tempt to emulate the British by name of Love Island to this "cercan Ambassador, Levi P. Morton, becoming another silent Service. taine little island in ye bay neare in Paris. A month later the cor He was constantly involved in this citty," which became a "privi-ner stone of the pedestal was laid controversies with Washington (leged place where no Warrant of on Bedloe's Island.
and the naval authorities. His attach or arrest shall be made of In June, 1885, the French ship most dramatic incursion into po-force or served unless it is by e Isere brought to America the great and statue in 210 seperate sections, all ladylities was in 1921.
Governor's Special Warrant
He returned to England, where Case of breach of ye peace or carefully packed in boxes. The pedestal by this time had been he had been extremely popular, in Cryminall Mattra" order to receive his Hon. D.CL.
Sold For $100
constructed and the task of
fantastic reasons have received popular credence. One remem- bers the old fairy tale of the wicked, rich brother and the good, poor one, and how a won- derful mill capable of grinding out, at the will of its owner, his heart's desire, was presented to
from Cambridge. At the Pi- Isaac Bedloe held a patent tosembling the parts of the statue the poor man by the fairies, (of and how the rich
|grims' dínner given to him and to the land of the island in colonial was begun. "Do you have s
16 Years After course the better business man)
"Now, have you any musical in- Mr. Harvey, the U. S. Ambassa- times, but his daughter, Mary-
dor, he made a slashing attack on Smith, sold it for $100 to a Cap- On October 28, 1886, 16 years succeeded in getting possession of it. Putting it on one of his *Indeed not. And why, if I may the activities of the Sina Feinertain Kennedy. British naval com- after the project was inaugurated, & mander of New York. Kennedy the statue was unveiled. President Ships that carried salt, "Mill, ask, all the questions? Is the Gov. The immediate result was
storm in Irish circles in America, built a summer home on the island Cleveland and several of his Cabinet mill, grind salt!" said the wick- erament taking another census**
"No, lady. I'm not ed salt magnate. And the mill, refusing to stop, is still grind-merator. I'm just the Suzan who in-and a telegram from the Secre-and changed the name to Kennedy's members were present at the dedi.
man
"Any cats or dogs?"
Zadio?"
struments"
I census-ent-
ing out salt at the bottom of tends to rent the house next door.” the sea
*
*
*
tary of the Navy, Mr. Denby. Island. In 1750 New York pur-cation ceremonies. Also present which read:--
chased the island as the site of a were M. Bartholdi and his wife. Remainder your leave revoked. You pesthouse, and in 1800 the city and a number of French celebrities, will return. United States immediate-presented the island to the nation-including the aged Count Fer- y, and report in person to Secretary al government for use in connec-dinand de Lesseps, General Philip- Navy, Acknowledget --
retion with harbour defences. Fort pe Pelissier, Admiral Jaures, Na- Admiral Spas, however,
poleon Ney,, grandson of Marshal turned for his reprimand with no Wood was constructed. there
1841
(Continued on Page 7) undue haste.
Willing to Wait
By dint But there are more probable Jones was a bootmaker. and less romantic explanations of hard saving he had managed to
"All send his son Büly to a good school of why the sea is salt..
One afternoon Billy came into the the rivers run down to the sea
shop yet is not the sea full" says "Father." be demanded, "I want the writer of Holy Writ But five shilings to go to the theatre."
"Do you "What!" cried Jones. prevents
to sole and heel five the sea from overflowing, leaves realise that I've the dissolved matter behind. three pairs of shoes to make
shillings?"
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So the sodium chloride and the Billy sat down comfortably in other chlorides and fluorides chair.
Artful
his line
and bromides washed out of the "All right, father," he said. “121 land are continually being de "wait". posited in the sea. Besides the mountain of salts that your
An Englishman was walking along cubic mile of the Atlantic
river bank in Ireland when it! Ocean would yield there would started to rain. Presently he found be a small fortune in gold and an Irishman Sshing with silver, and there would be other under a bridge.
"Why," he asked, "have you got! metals. There would be ninety tons of iodine in the mass. The Four Line like that?"
"Sure, yer honotir," replied the last substance has in fact itsangier, "on't the fishes be crowdin" chief source in the sea. Its in out of the wet?" distribution is interesting.
It
occurs widely in small quanti-hundred feet below the level of ties in the land and, the rivers the Mediterranean, its level and in the bodies of animals and having been reduced through plants. One three-hundredth long ages by evaporation and its of a grain is present in a gal-salt content having been cor lon of sea-water, but its con respondingly increased. It is centration in many marine eight times more salt than the animals and plants is much ocean. Its density is such that Of late higher. Sponges, in particular, one cannot sink in it... are rich in iodine. It is sigui-years bathing in the Dead Sea ficant that burnt sponge was has been practised and is sup
have a "slimtring" anciently used as a medicine. posed to
It has often been remarked effect, so that we may hear of that the human blood resembles the establishment on its shores the sea in its saline constitu- of fashionable watering-places Today the high tion: not the seas of to-day, but for the fat. the more dilute primaeval seas salt content of this extraordin- whence our premammalian anary inland sex, forty miles in cestors. emerged perhaps two length, is being industrially ex- hundred million years ago, ploited by a company which Sea-water diluted with three extracts quantities of common times its volume of fresh water, salt, potash, and bromine from with slight differences in the its waters, the last product proportions of the various salts, being in great demand for use may be said roughly to repre in anti-knock petrols A gal- sent both our blood finid and lon of sea-water yields about the ancient home of our fish-four grams of bromine. The Like ancestors. An inland sea classical name of the Dead Sea, receiving little fresh water, Lake Asphaltites, is in refer- especially where evaporation is ence to the bitumen that is rapid, may be expected to in-cast up by it after an earth-y Crease its concentratio of salts quake. The Arabs call it the more rapidly than ocean, Sen of Lot, for it has always salt been associated with the destruction of the Cities of the Plain, but in the Hebrew text of the Bible it is always the Selt
and to become"
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