THE CHINA MAIL, APRIL 19, 1939
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MUSIC FOR THE NAVY. -- A number of boys are being trained as musicians at the Royal Navy School of Music at Deal. They will eventually join ship's or Royal Marine bands. Photo shows tho
Navy's future violinists ander in- struction.
PRESENTED FROM COURT
From London's Highgate Police Court:
Woman: No, I never count the He money my husband gives me. always tells me that he makes sure he hasn't given me too much.
Same Woman: I appealed to my husband to stay for the sake of the children. He put on his hat and said: "Application dismissed."
Motorist: I have had a lot of mo toring experience, so you can take it from me that if a car is travel-
ASTRONOMERS "FIGHT" LIGHTS
London must become more soberly lighted, or Greenwich Observatory will have to seek a wilder- ness in which to perform its duties.
That is the alternative suggested by the Astro- nomer Royal, Dr. H. Spencer Jones. He says that modern astronomy included photographic expo- sures at night. But the time had come when as- tronomers at Greenwich had to contend with the continually increasing brightness of the skies caus- ed by London lighting. Some types of astronomi- cal work had so become impossible.
HIS DAILY ROUND
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In Carisbrooke Castle (Isle' of Wight) thère's well 161ft. deep: beside it there's a treadmill wheel. More than 800 years ago, prisoners used to be taken from their dungeons and made to draw the castle's water supply by walk- ing in the wheel.
But when Mr. Balchin, the at- tendant, demonstrates Caris. brooke's ancient wheel-well for visitors of to-day, he calls in ex- perts at doing donkey work.. Neddy, or one of Neddy's two companions-only donkeys em- ployed by the Office of Works.
ling at thirty miles an hour, the EARL TO SELL A VILLAGE
driver is also travelling at thirty
or thereabouts.
Referring to increasing necessity for accurate tims checks, he said that one new clock was capable of keeping time to within one-thou- sandth of a second, a day.
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£100,000 INSURANCE FOR
MAGNA CARTA COPY
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Lady Kennet, the sculptress, is now at work on a statue of the late Lord Delamere which some of his friends in Kenya havo commis- ́sioned. When finished the bronze will be shipped to Nairobi and erected in the main square in memory of one who was a pioneer in the colony. The statue, 9ft high, represents Lord Delomere as he was best remembered-wearing a cardigan open shirt and flannel- trousers.
The copy of Magna Carta which is being sent to New York to be shown in the British pavilion at the World Fair has been valued for in- surance at £100,000 although по amount could measure its value.
So that it should not suffer the "RAT SHE CAUGHT slightest injury in its journey from Lincoln Cathedral a special casket WAS BAG OF MONEY has been designed.
was
A St. Briavel (Glos.) farmer had Another exhibit requiring special
a shock when, on returning home care was Mr. Frank Salisbury's
from Chepstow Market, he felt in picture of the coronation scene at
his pocket and discovered that his Westminster Abbey. This is 17ft. long by more than 10ft. wide and money-bag, containing £53, Earl Poulett is to sell the agri- had to be packed with the utmost missing, "Hm. Pickpocket, I sup- pose," he concluded, and resigned cultural portions .(about 3,200 skill. Another woman: I do not know acres) of Hinton St. George, be There are in fact four copies of himself to his loss. where my husband bought these tween Yeovil and Taunton, in the Great Charter signed by the goods. But I do know they were Somerset. This comprises nearly seal of King John at Runnimede,
all the village of Hinton St. George, near Windsor, in 1215, and several him. two hamlets, two public houses, an unsigned copies of the same date. old monastery and in all seventeen Two of the sealed copies are in the
made in Denmarkshire.
WHALE 'WRECKED'
A whale, weighing six tons, measuring 16ft., WES washed ashore at Flamborough, near Brid- lington, and officially classed as a "ship-wreck." The animal was still alive. A local teacher took his pupils down for nature lesson.
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But a few days later he had pleasant surprise. His money-bag with contents intact was handed to
rat
Busily feeding mangolds into a British Museum, another in Salis- pulper at Grange Farm, Bosbury bury Cathedral. That from Lin- (Herefordshire), Mrs. Baggus had coln, however, is regarded as the seen something resembling a best preserved and most clearly and promptly stabbed it with her pitchfork. Then she had seen it was written,
not a rat but a dirty cloth bag, had opened it and to her amazement found it contained forty-eight £1 notes and a £5 note-and an ac- count which gave her a clue that led to her tracing the owner,
I used to breed chickens, and it makes my mouth water-38, a dozen JAPAN'S EMPEROR BUYS for eggs in July," said Mr. Justice CHARCOAL CAR.... Charles at Sussex (Lewes) Assizes,
When the question of the price of The Emperor of Japan has milk was raised, the Judge could bought a "Buck Ryan" car which not say anything, as he "had never burns charcoal-part of Japan's bred cows."
campaign to save petrol.
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FAMILY OF 124
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A large white sow owned by Mr. Herbert G., Betts, the Nurseries, Yelverton (Norfolk), has produced seven litters-14, 15, 16, 19, 19, 22 and (a few days ago) 19, a total of 124.
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SILVER FOX 5-YEAR PLAN
Scientists are being put to work by the U.S. Government to provide more silver fox and mink furs. The Biological Survey Department has announced the inauguration of a five-year plan to study food re- quirements of silver foxes. It was explained that fur farms suffer heavy losses in animals because of insufficient knowledge of feeding requirements.
America's forms alone now pro- duce about 800,000 silver fox and 200,000 mink pelts a year,
FLEW
100 MILES TO JOB
Ten thousand miles by aeroplane to be a housemaid is the record of Fraulein Helga Maertz, nineteen, a refugee from Germany. She arriv-. ed In Sydney (New South Wales; by Dutch air liner, having flown from Amsterdam at a cost of about £2002-
London Universit ing instructions from thei
the girls to
work in the tank at Chiswick recoly Miss Mary Lunnen. The mirrors en-.
in rythm etc.
Digging in her garden, Cylmra Chapple, aged ten, of 1, Dale View- avenue, Chingford, E., found 'George II farthing.
More than 500 years ago Alexan- der Narracott was appointed sexton of Stoke Gabriel Church, Devon- shire, and a Narracott has been sexton there ever since.
A white-tailed eagle has beerr seen recently on the moors above the Derwent Valley, Derbyshire. Just before the Great War a golde eagle, now in Derby Museum, « shot in the same locality.