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Mr. Balfour's Notes. Hunters of autographs will be justly envions of the good fortune of Glasgow University in obtain-{ ing the MS. notes of Arthur J. Balfour's Gifford Lectures. They are written on large, oream- coloured envelopes, and consist almost entirely of headings and "catchwords, The Glasgow Herald publishes this sample: "Paradox Poincare. But & of chance. priori. Pennies? Monte Carlo. No drift. Random. Sufficient Knot. Objective to гезвод. eubjective. Dice. Theism,"
Boors & the Empire. Lord Selborne, speaking at the Overseas Cinb, recalled that during the South African War many thousand prisoners of war 'were sent to camps overseasTM Indis, Ceylon, St. Helena and Bermada, That wholesale trans- portation was the only possible means of giving an education as to the conditions of the world outside South Africa to the adult Boer, and the results of their education were politically vary important. Boers who had been prisoners of war had told him that before the war they heard the British had no friends. When they were sent all over the world they found the British did not require so many friends, be- canes they had so many brothers.
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British Army in India. In 1912, TO LET from 1st May, 1914 Bye Truth, no less than 6,847 out No. 104a, The Peak, furnish- finds that he has to deliver machine to be constructed for of 71,000 men were admitted to ed. Apply to S. J. DAVID & Co. correctly seventeen letters, all use in this country is now being hospital suffering from maiorial Prince's Buildings. addressed confidently to Mr. put together in Trescher Road, fever; but the hospital cases do Jones, when there are nine dif. Kuala Lumpur, anys the Malay not represent the total sickness. To LET "LA HACIENDA ferent famili-s of that name Mail, which adds:-It has been so many men incipiently infected Road. Apply
E.", No. 74, Mount Kellett within a radius of five hundred brought here by Mr. T. K. Wong with fever do not go sick, but are MODY, No 5, Queen's Road yards in a district where the son of Mr. Wong Kan Mee of treated with quinine in barracks. Central. houses are erratically numbered Mesere. Chan Sow Lin and Co. The initial cost of providing a set and most of the streets are name of Ampang Road. While no of poles and nets for the whole of less, says the Daily Citizen. So very definite plans have yet been the British troops in India is scarcely contain himself whilat numerous are the Joneses in settled by the aviator, it may be estimated at £40,000, with an the carpenters were unscrewing this part of the Principality, and said that the machine is here for annual upkeep charge of £4,000, the packing case in which i so rapid is the growth of the business and not merely for but against this cost would be arrived"When at last it was places in the Valley that it is now pleasure, it being the aim to form placed the reduction of hospital raised to its place, he said, in a almost impossible for a postman a business for the designing and
probably a Jones bimself to construction of aaroplanes, for expenses and the gain in working voice that was half-broken by power of the men while serving, emotion, Well, well, not so give the right letters to the right Kuala Lumpar may act as the and afterwards when they go damned bad for a youngster, and Joneses every time..
base, for a large portion of the back to civil life, for, cace con- lighting his little wooden pipe Middle East. The aeroplane has tractod, the disease follows them harried out of the gallery." already created something of a to England, Dean Inge, who has been sensation, and the other evening, Just look at what the Govern- discussing Heaven in terms of when its engine was being tuned ment of the United States bas characteristic lugubriqueness, je on the lawn in front of the done in Panama to got rid of the an interesting contrast to Pope's bungalow where Mr. Wong malarial and yellow fevers which "soft Doan" (of the Moral Essays), lives, a number of people drove the. French out of the who nover mentioned hell to who were passing in rickshas isthmus with a loss of 50,000 This fastidious had their hats unceremoniously lives. Enormous sums of money are polite." diguilary (he is described in the removed by the current created were spent on sanitary construc THE QUEEN OF "Guardian" of 1713) told his by the propeller. The machine tion camps while the osnel was congregation in Whitehall that if is about the average size of an being made, with the result that they did not "vouchsafe to give aeroplane used a: bome to cany fever was practically exterminat their lives a new turn, they must a single passenger besides the ed. It je asserted, and possibly certainly go to a place which bedid pilot. It is 39 it, long, and 33 with truth, that there is no not think fit to name to that Court ft. across the wings. But in healthier locality in the world ly audience." Dean Inge referred other respects it is more powerful now than the Isthmus of Panama, to the various exercises in locating than its size would indicate, Two distinguished men of science Beaver, but it is a curious fact having a 110 h.p. ten cylinder-Sir Ronald Ross and Sir Patrick that far more ingenuity has been Anzani, engine, which under Manson-have spent their lives displayed by theologians over the fairly good conditions should in studying malarial diseases, but whereabouts of Hell. It has been give a speed of from 50 up to 90 their studies are no use if the placed by different authorities in miles an hour, together with a Government of India refuses to the sun, in various planets (Mare greater lifting power than is profit by them. for preference) and in the centre ordinarily possessed by a machine
for the F. M. 3, on account of
of the earth. There is a special of these dimensions, which ass and there is a possibility that it attraction in the theory of Jean rule has an engine of not more Hardouin, who, having acquired than about 80 h.p. The work of may one day prove a new export the rudiments of the Copernican construction is proceeding quick its extreme rigidity, which makes system, maintained that the ly, and it is probable a trial flight it suitable for the construpsion of rotation of the earth was due to will be made within a fortnight aircraft. the efforts of the damned to escape or so. This, however, will depend
The Forests Department has
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testing the wood with a view to The aviator who has brought using it in seroplane construction, ity (117 to 105) a Bill which this now industry to Kuala In weight it is slightly at a dis sought to secure by law one day's Lumpur is a toll Chinaman, advantage when compared with rest in seven to the worker, says strikingly English in speech, the timber at present in ase, but tho Daily News. It was exceeding style and build. He gives one the extra rigidity, it may come to ly clumsily and badly drawn, and the impression of speaking to o be considered, will more than Mr. Ellia Griffith, while accept middle-class Londoner, in which compensate for this. ing the principle on behalf of the city he has resided for a number Government, indicated that in its of yeare. Indeed for the past
V After Long Years. existing form it was impossible. fifteen years Mr. Wong has lived It must be something of an There can scarcely be any weight among Anglo-Saxons, having ordeal, says a Home paper, for an of serious opinion in England been for some years in Australia. artist to have his life's work to-day-or, indeed, in any really He has devoted many years to collected--w. Mr. John Lavery's civilised country-which believes motor-engineering, more especi-is to be at the Grosvenor Gallery that any class of workers ought ally in its relation to sviation, and shortly-and perhaps to view his to work more than six days a bas gained experience as a pilot pictures again for the first time week. To enshrine the principle on many of the beat types of since they left his studio. Mr. of the six days week in a rigid machine. His pilot's certificate Comyns Carr has writton of statute without injury to very was gained at Brooklands. His Millais agitation when bis wide and complicated interests is present machine embodies a picturea were collected for exhibi- difficult; but we have no doubt number of improvements which tion at the Grosvenor Gallery. ourselves that it ought to be done make it largely of his own design. One picture, the “Huguenot," he and that it could be done. One The usual anb framework has had not seen since he painted it M.P. pointed out that "the Bill been retained in this machine, 25 years before, and he could would allow you to buy the Fink which made some successful 'Un on Sunday, but not a Bible flights at Home. It was in _ro-
or a hymn book. You were allow-ferance to the framework that the you have lost your appetits one of the big variety of en to keep railways clear of snow aviator mentioned Penaga wood dainty dehob at the ALEXAN and ice, but not, your, org to our representative, during an DRA CAFE in eure to tempt doorstep.
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