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America's great practical joker. Mr. Brian G. Hughes, died recently at the age of seventy-five of apoplexy. In his lifetime he often caused a boar approach to apoplexy in the victims of his jokes.
His most famous and successful joke was at the expense of the National Cat Show, which some years ago was na annual, social affair at Madison-square Garden, New York. Mr. Hughes found a stray cat in the arrect, a short time be fore the show opened. He carefully cleaned and groomed the animal, and wrote a long pedigree of its descent from the royal cats of the Shah of Persia.
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A business man recently confessed in the course of a County Court action that he rented a room in one of the worst streets in Limehouse so that he could
live life in the raw-now and again." A curious hobby for a well-to-do married man!..
This desire to know two distinct worlds, however, is as common to-day na it was rare twenty years ago, writes a psycholo gist. Mayfair temporarily disguises it- self and enters eagerly into the seething. heart of Whitechapel, while Whitechapel whenever opportunity occars-entien- yours to experience the hauries of May- isir.
TONIC EFFECT.
or three days each month in the common- est lodging house and the most disreput- able club in the East End. They afirm that this periodical "holiday" has a touie effect on them.
He had an elaborate cat house con-
To-day there are two well-known barris- structed, covered with rosettes, prétend-ters who make a habit of spending two ing to represent prizes the cat bad won in Europe. He entered the eat in the name of a Persian Every day. during the show, a livaried äervant appeared at the show with cream and chicken to feed the cat The impression created was enormous, and when the judges made their awards Mr. Hughes' stray tom you a first prize.
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Their favourite anecdote concerns n
well-groomed, faultlessly dressed man whose acquaintance they made one night at a West End restaurant. They dis covered, after chatting for some time, that he knew even more of the underworld than. they themselves, but he would not disclose the source of his information. On their next visit to Limehouse they met him in a villainous." doss-house, his rightful element, as he laughingly
assured them.
STRANGE RESULTS.
Elated by this success, be attempted a similar hoax at the more fashionable New York Horse Show. He acquired an grdi nary working horse, fed it up, made a pedigree for it, and entered the animal as an English hackney of Arab descent.
This war one of Mr. Hughes' failures His entry passed several preliminary tests, the judges being much impressed
In some cases the longing to .cseppe by the pedigree, naming Arab steeds as ancestors, and also by the care shown the from one's own world leads to strange A doctor who had amassed a harse by its attendants. The animal had results. been named Puldeka Orphan," and one fortune was found a few years ago in the of the judges saw a resemblance in the Chinese quarter by the docks. The com came to Pulled the car often. Sus-bined persuasion of all his relatives could picions were aroused, and a quiet inves not induce him to leave his costly furnish tigation revealed the hoax before the ed tenement, and they afterwards dié-
covered that he was as popular a judges had reached the point of giving prince in his adopted district. He was treated by his neighbours as one of them- selves, and on occasions they even lent him money!
the horse a prize.
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When Tiffany's jewellery shop, the at L'nion- largest in New York, was square Mr. Hughes hired a large dignified negro to impersonate an Eastern poten; tate. A gorgeous uniform embroidered with paste jewels was made for the negro, who was driven up to the Tiffany shop. where he alighted, carrying a handbag.
Pausing a moment, the negra opened the handbag and then as if by accident it fell from his hands, and a Eundred of. more paste diamonds rolled about the street. The negro shouted for the police. pretending the diamonds were real. A enormous crowd collected, everybody searching for diamonds. The police.re- serves had to be summoned, as rumours spread that the diamonds had been lost from Tiffany's, and people were holding under the law of findings, keep ings,**
them,
Many people have this queer desire to live in two worlds at the same time, and it is believed by doctors and psycholo gists that the trait is a healthy one. To look at one's own file from the angle of someone at the other end of the social scale is the best mental tonie possible.
MEASURING THE STARS.
OF NOTED VARIABLE STAR, MIRA.
DIAMETER
The Carnegie Institution in the United States announces that Dr. Frances Pease, of the Mount Wilson Observatory, has successfully measured the diameter of the star Mira Ceti with the 201t. inter aferometer attached to the 100in telescope
of the Observatory.
One summer at Asbury Park, popular seaside resort near New York, Mr. Hughes buried a quantity of brass filings in the sands. Then he spread a report of a buried treasure, left beneath the sands by pirates centuries ago, hav- ing been unearthed.
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As measured by Dr. Pease, the angular diameter of Mira is about six-hundredths of a second of are, which is 25 per cent. Iarger than that of Betelgeuse. Mira's distance is not known with great accu racy, but it is estimated to be about 163 light-years, and, assuming this distance. its diameter is about 250 million miles, or more than 30,000 times that of our earth
Thousands of people dug in the sands, getting the brass filings, and thinking they wear gold. The police took notice tire is a variable star whose bright- of the disturbance that ensued and traced nose changes in a period of 1 months, the cause to Hughes. He was taken be-increasing and decreasing by as much as fore a magistrate and Ened for disorderly || two-houndred fold during that time. This of the star's diameter was measurement
enndnet.
Oy another occasion Mr. Hughes offer-made during its recent maximam bright- ed the city of New York a site for a park. ness If the calculations are correct, After formal communications had been lira may be considered as the equal exchanged, the city accepted and appoint- of Betelgeuse, whose diameter has been ed an official carmittee to receive the found by the same process to be about gift. It turned out to ben lat measur- 90,000,000 miles.. ing two by eight feet in an inaccessible outlying part of the city.
A favourite joke of Mr. Hughes was to go into a crowded restaurant on a rainy day with an umbrella. He would place the umbrella in a conspicuous place and then sit back and watch.
Almost invariably someone without an unbrella would steal the one he had brought. Then he would follow the per son to the street and watch him open the umbrella, for inside, in white paint was written in large letters, Stolen from B. G. "Hears. America."
BABY AS LOTTERY PRIZE
The Interferometer is az instrument brought into use a few years ago by which the angle that the diameter of a distant fixed star subtends at the earth, hitherto considered unmeasurable, can be deter- mined.
The essential feature of the instrument is a light girder, fixed in this case across the open end of the tube of the large refeeting telescope of the Californiau Observatory, which carries two mirrera. The distance between the two mirrors is adjustable, and the description "20-foot" shows the length of the girder, or the extent of the range of distance between the mirrors. With the mirrors at zame particular distance, the star's light re fected from them into the
telescope makes an image of a peculiar pattern in A Bower-seller in the market place at the eyepiece, and when the distance Bergamo, ou the Swiss-Italian frontier, between the mirrors is found which
gives was surprised recently to find a baby girl this image for a star, it is Bedace
By ace posible about.one year old lying on a cushion in optical principles to
ular diameter of the
the object. small box with the following message ngulur
There are
are only a few of the brightest on an envelope pinned to her clothing:
which this instrument has Fatura to "Good-bye, darling. We are too poor
keep you. May God and you a good applied, Betelgeuse, Arcturus, and been
tares being
them. These are first magnitude
Hira but
Ceti
was only between third and fourth at its maximum the at the beginning of the
showing above is not only interesting as promises to be a valuable contribution to the capabilities of the instrument, but our knowledge of this remarkable star, whose variation presents much that is pazzling.
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When the news of the disco adopt the so many persons wanted to child that the mayor of the town was na quandary. He finally decided on a novel method of disposing of the waif and at the same time providing to son extent for ber future. He Arranged lotery with the baby as prizą,
The
All the tickets were sold quickly. baby was won by an elderly couple who are childless and well off. The lottery money was placed 'in a local back by the mayor for her future dot. She will taku the name of her future parents with the Christian name Lotteria.
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