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Clock Goes For 94 Years
An English clock, which stands In the courthouse at Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, has just celebrated Its 4th birthday without stopping.
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A friend has left him the in- terest an £2,000 for life, the only condition attached being that he must take his benefactor's brothers
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Horse Sense
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A borie is the hero of the Novi Wies district of North Poland.
Carrying his owner to market, he came to a man lying beside the road. His master thought the man was asleep and was going on. But the horse refused.
TTY as he would, his master could not make him budge, and finally he got down and went up to the man).
To his astonishment he found that it was his own father, who was on his way to visit him, but had been knocked down by a car. The horse had originally belong-
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Lost His Shirt
By changing his shirt in the courtroom, a defendant in a law- sult at Pressburg. Bavaria, won his
case.
The man's hosier sued him for refusing to pay for a shirt he had ordered.
"Judge, this is rotten work." gald the defendant as he put on the, new shirt in court...
"You're right," replied His Eon- our, ordering the hoser to make. the man a good shirt and pay his
costs:
JAPANESE GOODWILL
MISSION
Youthful Visitors Meet Chinese Students
Chu
In a vialt to the Wan Primary School, one of the largest Chinese institutions of its kind in Nantao, the 12 members of the Japanese children's goodwill mis- sion from Nagasaki met their fust Chinese fellow students, states the "North China" Daily News." The group arrived here by the Nagasalt Maru and will visit Boochow and Nanking before sailing home on June 1.
Before attending the party in their, honour.
at the Wan Chu School the diminutive "envoys"- all aged 11 and 12-visited the Japanese Special Naval Landing Party- barracks. Chapel, Jessfeld Park and points of interest in the Settlement. At noon, they were the guests at a picnic given by Dr. Kosel Akita, head of the Shinozaki Hospital. Later they visited Tung- wen College and the Shanghai Science Institute, Route Ghisi..
**THE DESTINY OF KING GEORGE VI”
In the "Bunday Express" re cently, Britain's controversial elder statesman David Lloyd George wrote on "The Destiny of George VL
Whale With
Numberplate
GERMANY SENDS FRESH NOTE
Vatican Attitude Criticised
Rome, May 31,
LAMMERTS AUCTIONS
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Tinstructions
HE Undersigned have received
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The inhabitants of East Londoli Germany, calls the Vatican to South Africa, are Busled by a account in a new note which was whale which was washed up on handed in to the Holy See on Sa- the beach at Morgan Bay-with a | turday. ・・ huge, red lifebuoy, bearing the According to reliable information word "Iceland," attached to its the new note does not mince words tail.
and directly accuses the Vatican of WEDNESDAY, Crowds of people are coming to leopardising the relations between. inspect the whale, but so far no Germany and the Holy See as a one has been able to explain the result of the attitude adopted in mystery of its “numberplate." handling the case of Cardinal Mundelein, following the latter's Insulting remarks cast at the Ger- man"people and their leader.
A Comedian
"I have:-
Married 522 times; "Divorced 196 times;
"982 Children;
"Over 1,200 grarid-children; "Been sentenced to death times:
The note says, according to well- informed quesrters here, that the German Government had expected that the Vatican would have sought to handle the matter so that no damage might have result- 20ed to the relationship between Church and State. In other words that the Vatican would have disc- ciated itself from the utterances of Cardinal Mundelein, and following International usages, expressed its regrets.
"Been sentenced to 2,400 years' imprisonment;
* "Attempted suicide"843 times;
"Fought 280 duels without being wounded:
"Had my face smacked 3,600
times:
"Won first prize in a lottery 17
timea."
These statements are included
stage comedian 'to
Instead of doing so, the note goes on, the Vatican left the re-
by the German Ambassador un-
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presentations that had been made SIR T. BEECHAM answered, whilst remarking that REBUKES
In an Interview given by a well- the Cardinal had merely given "tit known Cologne newspaper.
Sunday's Child
Bad
just
Frau Erlede Klosse of Kreuznach, Germany, has given birth to her eighth child,
It was born on a Sunday--just Like all its seven predecessors.
Foreign-Born
Congressmen
for tat".
The German
Government 18.
therefore, obliged to come to the
conclusion that the Holy See not
AUDIENCE
only failed to reprimand the per- ¦ "SHUSH!” TO-
son guilty of these public attacks made on the German head of State,
PREMATURE but even condoned them. The Va- APPLAUSE tican, so the Note concludes, must realise that, so long as these things are not remedied,, its unexpected attitude will serve to eliminate all prerequisites for's normal develop- ment of relations between the Ge- 'man Government and the Vatican.
Transocean News Service.
Nineteen members of the pre- sent United States Congress were born abroad, according to statis-TO ties published in Washington.
Thise were born in Germany. two in Canada, Treland and Aus- tria and one in England, Scotland and Wales."
SHOW UNIVERSE PAST AND FUTURE
Planetarium For London
When children were entered at Plans to provide London with a highly elaborate a school in in Sprottau (Silesia) it planetariuma was discovered that an uncle and instrument which shows the move- his niece were in the same form.
ment of heavenly bodies-bave, it A woman had
her is understood, reached an entered youngest son and her grandchild, vanced stage. England is almost the daughter of her elest daughter. the only Important country with-
out such an instrument.
WHY SIR R. HORNE BECAME PEER
Farewell Letter To Constituents
Sir Robert Horne, on whom a viscountcy was conferred in the Coronation Honours, has written to Dr. Scott, chairman of Hilhead Unionist Association expressing the regret with which he parts from his long association with the con- stituency, writes a correspondent in the "Dally Telegraph.”.`
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The proposed planetarium will consist of an 8016. dome, on which the moving pageant of the skies will be made clear by 119 delicate- ly controlled projectors. It will be possible to show the sky not only as it appears now, but at any time either thousands of years in the past or thousands of years hence,
A site for the planetarium has been secured in Bloomsbury, and
A section of the audience: at Covent Garden recently was re- buked by Sir Thomas Beecham for premature applause.
The curtain had not quite com- pleted its fall at the end of the first act of "Otello" when applause broke out and the orchestra "had still a few more notes to play.
Sir Thomas ceased to give the | beat, and, swinging round towards the audience, gave vent to an in- dignant "shush!”
The orchestra thereupon coD- cluded in a reverential ailence,
When Str Thomas took the con- ductor's chair at the beginning of the next act he was given an unusually warm ovation, which he acknowledged good-humouredly.
it is planned to include a, cinema theatre in the same building. The The total cost is estimated at £250,000. The building should be ready for use, a representative of the "Morning Post" was Informed recently, by the summer of 1938.
Planetaria, of which Germany has more than ten, are also, used for" training air pilots in night naviga- tion.
Oxford D.C.L. For Two Princes
"This honour," he says, "neces- sarily involves a severance of the
There was a brilliant scene in parties walked in the procession to bonds which, for 20 years, have Convocation at Oxford when two the Divinity schools, where the united me to the constituency of Princes who were OBCE under-ceremony took place. On either Hillhead, and I need not say that graduates at Oxford returned to side of the Vice-Chancellor's seat this creates a wrench which I can- the University to receive the degree in the low gallery was a chair not contemplate without serious of Doctor of Civil Law at the covered in crimson plush, with unhappiness and despondency. hands of the Vice-Chancellor, Mr. gilded back and arms. Prince Chi- "After much reflection, however, A. D. Lindsay, Master of Balliol, chibu was seated on the Vice- I have come to the conclusion that writes a correspondent in the Chancellor's left and Prince Paul the right course for me to take is "Daily Telegraph.""
on his right. They were introduc-
of their respective colleges.
The diploma given to Prince Chi-.- chibu described him as a member of Magdalen College who, by his affection for England, had drawn the two countries together and had shown the same courage in rising
to accept the dignity which it is. They were Prince Chichibuof Ja-ed to the assembly by the heads proposed to conter upon me. I pan who entered Magdalen College cannot disguise from myself that, as under-graduate in 1926, and immersed as Lam in many import-Prince Faul, Frince Regent of Ju- ant Business concerns, it has been goslavia, who came up to Christ difficult for me to sive to the House Church la 1913 and is a Master of of Commons the time which might Arts properly he demanded of me, and The Crown Prince Olaf as I grow older these difficulties of Norway, who was at Balliol from to a lofty position in Japan, as he must necessarily increase,
1924 to 1926, received the diplome had once used in climbing moun confirming the degree of D.CL at tainsamen met
CLOSE OF A CHAPTER
a private ceremony held in the "Accordingly, although I am not Master's Lodgings, Balliol College.ed that he was a "lover of the arts Prince Paurs diplomu mention- conscious that up till now I have Prince Chichibu. with his Prin- who had recently given a proof of ever, neglected any matter of real cess, was met at Oxford Station his devotion to Oxford by present- Interest affecting my constituency by a little group of Japanese stuing a bronze to the Ashmolean or my constituents, I think it dents. He was welcomed on, be-Museum. He had shown his coun- advisable in at the circumstances half of the President and Fellows try an example of wisdom and de- Bald he. "Sixty years ago there that I should give way to some of Magdalen by Mr J, M. Thomp-votion... was a widespread and genuine person with more time at his dis son, Fellow of Magdalen, and senttraent among the masses of posal; and I am happy to think drove to tum college through Ox At the same ceremony the hon the people, especially in the that the occasion is one upon ford's gally decorated streets. populous centres of Britain, in which I may take my leave with Prince Pant came to Oxford by favour of republicanian. It no out any suggestion of desertion or longer exists as a perceptible disappointment.WOW movement, though there have been recent symptoms of its re-sDDGET- ance.MAKE
road, and was received at Christ Church by the Dean, Dr. T. P williams.
orary degree of Doctor of Lettér doux, member of the Academy of was conferred on M. Jacques Bar- Moral and Political Sciences, and Professor at the Bchool of Foiltical Bciences in Paris, M. Bardoux is TRIBUTES IN DIPLOMAS
to deliver the Bir Basil Zaharof Balliol with the Master the Royal
After having had luncheon at Lecture, Y
The Public Orator, Mr. Oyril Balley, Introduced M. Bardoux, as one who "described himself as a French Oxonian-a title well de- served, for no one had a deeper devotion to his own Country or a better acquaintance with this one."
"I recognise that I am closing a vary significant chapter of my life, In which the electors of Hillhead Lloyd George pointed out that have played the essential part abdication made an "ugly rent in Without them I could have the popularity of the Monarchy, achieved nothing Upon no ocea that if it was to regain its aton has there ever been the alight" fact that in the course of nature hypnotic influence, muc "would | est rustlesin our relationship and this happy conjunction could not depend on the personal efforts and | no member of Parliament has ever last for many more yeare nothing character of King George and received more loyal or more un-I could have tempted me to break Queen Elizabeth.
questionin support. But for the ) it now"