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THE NOISE OF LONDON.
By Frederick Niven, in the what seems a final crescendo-- Daily Newsp
It never stops.
That, in the near suburbs and residential districts; and in the dity the din is rushing up to
but it is not. It will go on so for hours. At the doors of the open-fronted shops in Camden Carts going to Covent Garden. Town. Kentish Town. Isling the horses hoofs plod-plooding: th. Whitechapel. Deptford motor-waggons going to Covent Battersea. Hammersmith. Shep- Garden with rattling of the ex- herd's Bush all round, haust; these take up the task in everywhere the butchers and the early hours. before the late
grocers and fruiterers call their taxicabs, and drags returningares: "Buy-bur Buy-boy!" to their stables. haveThe fish-stall man pipes: "Eresh light renounced. By the time Covent fish! Buy fish!" and the wag at Garden
going the provision stores near by tunes home comes the clatter of Jup with: Fresh eggs! Buy eggs! tall milk-cans at the stations What did the great Dr. Johnson and throughout the city and
say? Engs is more nourishin
carts
are
LA
suburbs. The dust-carts are also than fish!" Passing by we add our then rumbling at their work up laughter to the net of uproar. and down the streets Refuse tins the shopping districts where the are trynied. the long-handled wares are not shouted the liff shoreis knock on the edge of the sains up and down with cries of cart after the shovel fils are flung First flaw! Second flax! Going up: the milkmer and boys come up! Going dovana!" down the streets with their jangl Typewriters clatter; telephone ing little hand-pushed floats, and bel's ring; people yell into re- the cry of He-ho!" (nominalisceivers in the hope of being heard
Milk-o") is everywhere.
at the other end of the wire, and
The newspaper boys begin their are only heard at their own end deliveries, running up and down over a wide radius. The Bor stairs and whistling shrilly in the Scouts' band goes past. Motor street. They emulate the milk-bicycles volley along. Pekinese boys, cryingPar-ah" as they pups yelp. The children in the thrust the daily sheet in the letter gutters shriek: "A aeroplane! A boxes and clash the knocker. aeroplade!" London's life is in full Postmen are hurrying to the sort swing. In the afternoons in the ing offices: the newsboys and the streets where "markets ara boys with the first milk-cans permitted the hucksters' cries ris:) hout, to each other from corner shrill and more shrill: 'Ere's a to corner, the length of a block; bloomin' fine bit o' turbot." By factory.sirens shriek, the tramcars the time the lamps are lit the fish buzz and clang and joggle at cross-occasionally, bleed instead of ing the daily queue is on bloom from Goldhawk-road to the bridges, tramping and pa'ter-Deptford High-street. and ing to offices and shops; the there is a note of distress motor-omnibuses зге rattling in the hucksters' their mud-guards and destination-; The evening papers are out, and boards and tin advertisements the boys charge down the street everywhere. The silvery sound shouting the news of the placard of harness chains that used to that flutters against them as they accompany the rolling drumming run. The conductors and
voice.
Con-
of hoofs on the wood-blocks, once ductresses of the buses are ringing | the main motif, is now scarcely their bells thrice and announcing: heard. It is to-day only like at Full up! 'Op off! The whirr of single triangle sounded in the rivers of taxis that swirl round rassed band of demons. Mr. he music-halls and theatres, the Dooley said: "One man's music changing of gear, the honking: continues with the is another mac's noise." The it all music of London is for most of us heuling down of iron saut- gone to-day there is now only ters, slamming of pillar-box discord.
doors by the collecting postmen. Sparking plugs pop: there are crash of dishes in the tea-shops. altercations, as of o'd, betweer banging of reardoors on delivery
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£T FINE FOR CRUELTY TO CAT. An exemplary sentence was passed at the Willesden Police Court upon a man living at Willesden Green, who was alleged Ito bave dashed a cat to the ground and so injured it that it had to be destroyed. He was fined £5 and £2 2s. costs.
BRITAIN LOBING BRASILIAN TRADF.
London Brazilian buyers in London are going back without placing orders, declaring the United States will get the trade of Brazil. Prices quoted them have been higher than in America and there has been less assurance of deliveries.
BOY'S LEAP TO DEATH.
A boy of 11. living in Plymouth, threw himself out of a window 30 feet high into the courtyard, in order, it is alleged to escape a threatened thrashing by his father, because it was reported he had stolen a shilling. The father stated to the police that he had thrashed the boy only once before, and on that occasion with a penny cane. The boy's skull was smashed and he died almost immediately.
POST OFFICE HOLD-UP.
A daring attempt to hold-up a Sub-Post Office at Charles-street, Bath, was made by two men recently. After fastening the front door, they pointed revolvers at the postmistress, according to her account, and ordered her to be quiet. When one of the men said, Shoot her." the postmistress screamed, and made a dash for the back room. Her screams evidently alarmed the men, who promptly made of without taking anything.
A GENEROUS FAMILY, Mr. William Julian. Courtauld, with the assistance of his brothers and sisters, is to provide any sum needed up to £5,000 for the ex- tension of the Braintree and Bocking (Essex) Literary and Mechanics Institute. Recently W: J. Courtauld
the gave Governors of Braintree High School £2,000 to provide a leaving scholarship. He also guaranteed sufficient money to build and
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· HOLD-ALL MESS TINS.--- Mr. E. A. Dennis is endeavour. ing to interest the Army authorities in a new infantry mess tin, which he claims will save waste and burger. His in- vention provides small cylindrical tins for jam, butter, milk, end condiments, which are placed inside the mess tin proper, thus enabling each soldier to carry his own allowance of these. The old way, of one man carrying the jam pot, etc., often led to some men going without, as at the end of the march it was not always possible to find him.
SUBSTITUTE FOR COAL
To discover an effective and cheap substitute for coal is to be the first big task of the James Watt School of Research at Bir- mingham. The committee of en- gineers developing the proposal; have reached the following con- clusions:-We must get at some- thing new. There is latent power in nearly everything: the problem
is to convert it to commercial There is a wonderful needs. future for any nation or man who can evolve cheap power from some other source than coal or any source of power not yet tapped.
- A HUMAN APPLE. An apple strongly resembling a human face is reported by a local correspondent to be growing. in the garden of Wilderness Cot- tage, Hillesden, Buckingham. "It is," he says, “growing on an outspreading branch of a tree which is loaded with fruit, but is
The rosy apple bears the exact resemblance of a merry buman face eyes, round blushing
cheeks, mouth and chín being all startlingly natural. Everyone. who looks at the good-humoured, laughing face is irresistibly im- pelled to laugh too!"
drivers, or cheery shorts: the vans by irate men aware of much LADIES AND GENTS TAILORING easily observed from the roadway calls of street hawkers begin work still ahead of them. The melancholy plaints: "A rag 'r a buzz of electric trains is ceaseless bone! Any old bottles!" And over the Thames bridges from there is the pensive cry of: Victoria; the buzz is ceaseless Water-cree-ses!" The mothers underground. Turder's sunset gossip at their doors and crumbles over Chelsea. Reach, laugh (bending double, mat in gold and pearl and grey, and the one hand, the other making blue baze of evening is peaceful gestures in air thumb over among the arc lamps over the shoulder-models for Mr. Belcher hot streets; but the orchestration by the thousand), laugh again on goes on. higher key and hide their mouths. As in response to the flick of The namea
of children are an unseen conductor's baton shouted, fortissimo, double fortis-break forth the gramophones and simo; ting: "Peggy!... Peggy. pianos from a million parlours; do you hear me call? get dogs bark welcome home to their out of that puddle, Peggy!-I'll mastera; children cry refusal to shake the life out of you if Ihed; hobbledehove sing and giggle come!" And in the parks is the and shout; "Goo'-night, Alf langbter of nursemaids with other Goo-night, Erb. Goo-night. children that the parents are Sis." At laat the basic din wealthy enough to get quit of for slackens a little, and more pierc a spell
ing seem the basso hoots or The second delivery of milk soprano screams of locomotive starts, and the baker'a boy is whistles. Then the street-sweep- shouting in between the whist-lers come; and
the
Covent ling of mixed-bare of noise, Garden-carte roll on again.
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20 DAYS UNCONSCIOUS, London, September 1.—A wo- man named Catherine Daley, who was attacked in a Walworth house on August 11 and very severly wounded, has been unconscious ever since in the Southwark In- firmary. A remarkable fature of the case is that when Daley was discovered by friends soma 36 hours after the attack on her sha was assisted to walk nearly quarter of a mile, though two pieces of her skull were pressing on her brain. The medical super- intendent at the infirmary con- faiders that she may recover, but believes she will never be able to
hrow tight on the strange affair."
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