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"THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER 15, 1938.
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This giant copper kettle, in daily use at Abridge, Essex, holds five gallons of water. It was made 25 years ago by an Abridge man and has been in constant use since. Photo shows two future. housewives inspecting the huge kettle.
“REASONABLY SOBER””
BRITAIN'S
66
'GHOST" RAILWAYS
Britain's ghost lines
on which only time passes under review.
railways
are
None is stranger than the Dover, St.. Margaret's and Martin Hill Light Railway.
Each year for twenty-eight years the Government have renewed the order to allow it to be built. But so far the railway consists of a few bits of track and a great deal of grass.
There are many other forgotten lines and stations in this country. Felling-on-Tyne, for instance.
One hundred years ago, when engine-drivers wore top hats, many a long-chimneyed engine puffed its. way through Felling. Then they diverted the line, and Felling's business fell in.
According to Yale University physiologists, following years of research, the average man can drink one whisky-soda, one Martini cock-
Now the L.N.E.R. tail, or three pints of American beer use it again
are going to and still be "reasonably sober." One In Devon there is a station from - as a museum piece. gets drunk quicker on gin than which thousands of passengers are whisky. But the effect wears off booked every year, but quicker.
no train,
All of which seems like trying to draw a straight line in moving sands.
NEXT PLEASE
Earl Fine-frock got a job cutting corn and set out to show his farm. er-employer he was worthy of his
hire.
In no time at all, he had cut 30 shocks and was still working full speed when the farmer came along and stopped him..
He'd been working in a neigh- bours' field.
FIRST PALESTINE
SALVATIONIST
First Salvation Army soldïer to. be enrolled in Egypt. is Rachel Anishka, twenty-four-year-old Rus- sion refugee. She is now working în Jerusalem, and is the only Sal- vationist in Palestine.
DAUGHTER FOR PRINCESS
Princess Elsa, wife of Prince Charles Bernadotte of Sweden, has given birth to a daughter. Princess Elsa was formerly Countess Elsa von Rosen.
YOU OWE IT TO FATHER DIVINE
Credit for keeping. Europe out of war is claimed by Father “Di- vine. New York's negro evangel~~ ist, who is "God"" to his followers. Ho refers to the telegramis which he sent to the heads of the | leading States, and writes to his magazine, The Great Powers may have thought they ignored me, bút that which I planned has been ac- complished. I did it, through men-
telepathy
YEARS IN ONE OFFICE
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For sixty-seven years, Mr. Caleb William King, of Upper Tollington- park, Hornsey, N. was "althful and valued clerk” to Gamlen, Bow- erman and Forward, solicitors, of Gray's Inn, and their predecessors. 7. He died. Inst Jüzf, aged eighty- three, leaving 422,665 gronk.
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A river flows between Dartmouth station and the railway line, so al- though they take their tickets at the station passengers have to be ferried across to the trains.
The
Singleton, in Sussex, is another staff and ghost station. It has no trains, no
no passengers. it as being to let Southern Railway have advertised
With yet 6 months in hand, many buildings at the New York World's Fair are nearing comple- tion. The great steel globe known as the Perisphere, and steeple by its side, will be the theme centre of the Fair. Inside this great 190ft. hollow ball visitors will be able to see "To-morrow's World", and the 700ft. triangular obelisk will serve as a beacon and broad- casting tower. It will be bur rounded by a lake and fountain. Photo shows the huge Perisphere in course of construction.
·LOST-CADET SHIP WRECKAGE
TOMMY JUNIOR'S MILK RA- TIONS. Army recruits get a break every morning during their training and are given a ration of milk. This picture were taken at Chaucer Barracks,
Canterbury,
Kent, where raw recruits-many of them mere lads-are sent to be. put through a course of physical training to make Al men out of them.
bottles an hour, machines which rate of 6,000 an hour. Were on show can fill bottles and seal them at the at the National Dairy Show,
TRAIN COLLIDES WITH
ITSELF
*
An L.M.S, goods train collided. with itself near Haddon Tunnel, be- tween Bakewell and Rowsley (Derbyshire). The train, consisting of engine and sixty-five trucks, broke in two between Millers. Dale
WHAT AN ACHE
A mammoth's tooth weighing more than 11lb. was netted in the River Savá, near Sremska, Mitro- vica, by a Yugoslav fisherman, It is in good preservation, says Reu-' ter.
Its finder, Milan Popovitch, states. that he has discovered other fragments of an enormous skull.
ULSTER OURS FOREVER
"The Loyalists of Ulster will never give up their citizenship within the United Kingdom," Mr. J. M. Andrews, Northern Ireland. Minister of Finance, told Duncairn Unfonists in Belfast.
"We hear rumours," he said, "of conferences between Northern Na- tionalists and Southern Republicans. with a view to adjusting their dif- ferences and hatching a plan for separating us from Great Britain and bringing us under а central. Irish Government.
"Such, a plan is foredoomed to fail.”
FASCIST BAN ON CHARLIE
A campaign to "purge" the cine ma of Jewish comedians has start- éd in Rome.
Charlie Chaplin, the Ritz Bro- thers and the Marx Brothers and many other actors very popular in. Fascist newspaper Il Tevere. Italy, are bitterly attacked by the
TONIC SOL-FA FOR COWS
Music is the food of Shakespeare thought.
love. So
milk food firm. goes one better.
But Sir Harry Hague, head of a
sheds on three farms. And the He's had radio installed in cow--
· and Bakewell, and just cows are giving more milk, win-
it was due to enter the tunnel second portion caught up with and crashed into the front part. Eigh- teen trucks were derailed..
* * HONOURED BY BELGIUM
A new medal, stamped with the head of the King of the Belgians, is to be presented to eminent scien- tists in Great Britain and the Em pire. It was struck for presenta tion to scientists who contributed to the collection compiled by King Leopold during his tour through the Far East in 1928-29. Among the recipients is Miss L. E. Cheese- man, of the British Museum.
IN DUCHESS'S MEMORY.
A stained glass window depicting St. Francis and the Birds was un- veiled at St. Mary's Church, Wo- burn, Beds, yesterday, in memory of the Duchess of Bedford, who Wreckage of the missing German lost her life while flying last year. training ship, Admiral Karpfanger, The window. was given by the Duke
is reported to have been found near of Bedford, who attended the ser- the island of Navarino, off the ex- vice. treme south of South America.
The Admiral Karpfanger, a four- 90,000 WOMEN DEFY LAW masted vessel with a crew of
sixty- eight, forty of whom were cadets, left Port Germain, South Australia for Falmouth on February 7 with a cargo of wheat.
·DAIRY ROBOTA AT OLYMPIA
Automatic" bottle washers and sterlisers which can deal with 1,600
every
ning show prizes.
NO "EXES" SO NO MAYOR
Chief honour of Sudbury, an- cient. borough which was once one of East Anglia's 'most thriving towns, is too expensive.
Nobody wants to be Mayor.
The reason is that Sudbury re- fuses to make a grant for Mayor- al expenses, estimated by one ex- Chief Citizen, Alderman John Al- ston, to cost between £70 and £120 in an average year.de pa
A retired railway guard, Alder- man Harry Coe, aged sixty-five, was first approached.
He had to say “No.”
"To be Mayor was my greatest ambition. But I simply can't af- ford it."
Other members have also re fused,
An official predicts that some- one not a member of the Council' will be asked to be Mayor
1682 STAMP SOLD FOR $130
More than 90,000 women year defy the law against illegal 1682 the only known copy outside
A handstruck postage stamp operations in England.
the British Museum-was sold.
This was a statement made at London for B180). the conference............‚ of the National - The stamp, an excellent specimen Council of Women in London when of that
a resolution was passed-making a strong plea, for the legalizati abortion.