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A METEOR
A meteor plunged into Lake Michigan during the night of November 26, causing earth tremors that were felt in a dozen cities in Southern Michigan. It sent a pillar of fame into the air that was visible for over 50 miles.
GOING HOME.
Demobilisation is now remov- ing from France the Senegalese and Annamite drivers of motor lorries. The Senegalese burly negroes from French African colonies, proved at first some. what unsatisfactory as chauffeurs, owing to their incorrigible habit of eating as a delicacy the grease with which they were provided for their axles and bub caps.
SOME" ENGLISH.
The following advertisement for ginseng comes from Japan: Any- one who knows the effect of this Ginseng. As it are, refined ac. cording chemical action with Korean Ginseng and no lose its Ingredient of which digest stimul- ant and enhanced of energy Fatigued of spirit and gave an activity all Gentlemen or Lady are applaud no stay on keeping along days.
BELIEVES IN MASCOTS. Probably no monarch is a more firm believer in the power of the mascot than the young Shah of Persia. Altogether he has nearly 200 mascots, most of them heir. looms which have played some part in the history of his predecess ors. Chief among these is a cube of amber which, according to East-
THURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1920.
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ern lore, fell from heaven in THE VANISHED SOVEREIGN. Mahomet's time. It is supposed
to ward off danger, and the Shah usually wears it round his neck.
INFLUENZA TENORTH. The Scout Prow says that in- fluzza is still proving destruc- ive despite all efforts put forth to arrest its progress. Accord- ing to an official report, 85 deaths took place on December 22. The Provincial authorities summoned police doctors to meet them and discussed mest.res to be taken for the prevention and suppres sion of the epidemic. Nearly all the hospitals town are over crowded with patients suffering from influenza and further ac- commodation is unavailable.
WHEN IT COMES BACK.
H. G." recently wrote to a Home journal
SARTORIAL REFORM.
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CHINESE BAN EXTRA- ORDINARY" CLOTHES.
Wachang. Dec. 17. The Chinese authorities have issued
Before very long-the sooner the following interesting official the better, most people think we notice, which, they say, is intend. shall have to revert to a golded for the uplifting of the morals currency, such as we had before of the female sex of the Chinese
generation the war. Currency notes may or rising
in Hupeh may not disappear: bit those at province:
In recent days, women of any rate in circulation will have to be convertible. You must be questionable character have been able to get a gold sovereign for seen talking and laughing in the your scrap of paper when you streets and public houses of the present it at the Bank, Gold coins Wu-Han cities (Wuchang. Has. will then be circulating almost as kow and Hanyang) clad in extra- freely as before. But not, let us ordinary clothes and trousers which are neither foreign nor hope, exactly as before. POLECATS OVERRUN A TOWN.
There was something wrong Chinese. Further, in their dress, Newton, N. --The town of about that pre-war sovereign. The there is no difference between the Newton is overrun with polecals same coin that in 1900 bought women and girls of respectable So bad is the situation that the (say) 120 eggs in 1910 only enabl-and good families and the demi- inhabitants have appealed or you to ge; 100. The same sort monde. As this sort of thing has Game Warden J. D. Roe fer of thing happened at the butchers a great bearing on the morality assistance, and he has lifted theor the toy-hop, the ironmonger's and modesty of the Chinese han against the killing of animals.or the tailor's. It was an identical female sex as a whole, especially It is now a common sight to see coin, yet & totally different one in view of the fact the women are residents sitting in their yards for all the use that could be made playing as important part in with a gun to kill them. Many of it. What would we think of a modern polities in western coun- other residents are setting treps foot-rule that "did not go as far"tries and there is sufficient reason for the animals. One merchant in 1910-as ir did in 1900? We believe that this awakening of in the town published an adver would very soon, scrap a thing of risement yesterday reading that sort. **Wanted, skunk skins. Highest cash prices paid. Bring them in any time. The wet weather and the damp files, it is said. are responsible for driving the skunks
into town. One thousand of the animals have already been killed in Newton.
ECCENTRIC FASHIONS.
the gentler sex will soon be ex- tended to the Far East, the police In days gone by men measured Commissioners of the Wu-Han lengths and distances by all sorts cities are hereby ordered to en- of rough and ready measure force the following strictly:- ments. The "foot" was a real) human foot once. Nowadays it an exact measure, and so it is with all measures. Common needs and a common will et in motion a vast process-standard-
A writer on Paris fashons tells isation. A similar process must us that eccentricity is the order take place in the case of the
1. Women of questionable character are not to be permitted to talk or walk hand in hand with their acquaintances in the streets and public houses.
2.-Women and girls are not permitted to wear extraordinary clothes.
3.-The female dresses, which were generally adopted by the, Chinese gentler sex previous to
of the day and night. and some-suvereign. The sovereign must; thing more peculiar than barehe standardised. backs and arms is wanted. Some. We already possess an ex- therefore, are inclined to follow a cellent method for measuring the the first revolution in 1911 and sensational lead and wear Japan-rate in the rise of the cost of are
better suited for young.
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es dress. Recently at a tea at a living. The Government knows women because they are not too JARDINE, MATHESON & CO., LTD.
popular hotel, a pretty Parisienne fall well how much prices have short or narrow, should be used was remarked by her complete risen in any given period. During again,
Japanese array. To European the railway strike constant re- The police have been instruct- eyes she
was charming." and ference was made to the Indexed by the military governor to en- many would like the necessary Number of the Board of Trade, force the above-mentioned regula. courage to imitage her; but This Index Number it is to which tions, both through peaceful and Japanese who was present at the we have to look in any discussion forceful means, and it is antici- receptio smiled an enigmatical about the cost of living.
pated that there will be trouble smile. The enterprising novelty-. The sovereign can be standard-between the police and the young seeker was wearing a man's sed in relation to this index female generation in this pro- ha-ori instead of a woman's. How number. The weight of the vince, as the girl students of cer- should she kanw that only men sovereign-1, the number of tàin schools and colleges regard wear black ? It made the same grains of gold willion, which can these as an infringement on their effect on the Japanese "as the be alzited in exchange for a personal rights and liberties.- putting on of a frock coat by a sovereign - must be adjusted from Asiatic News Agency. woman would have had with us time to time to correspond with
sent
worse.
vit
was,
A FUNNY PAPER'S "JOKË” the fuetuntions of the index num- for minting in very much the Sometime ago the "Owl Pabber. Of course, it is not intended same way. The device is a per- lishing Company. Berlin," that the Mint should issue new [fectly simple one, as neat as it is Out .709.00.0 Mills sovereigns of the adjusted weight scientific, and will do more for soliciting subscribers for a every time he readjustment the steadying of prices than env new funny raper Hijaure or was made. This would pro-other measure, raken "by itself "Cour Jester which was to makej duce chaos, and
It could be expected to do. the Republinun Government is intended that the ordinary The war has rendered the uni- ridiculous. As many as 20,000 overoph should circulate as versal adoption of a standardised reactionary persons sent in the usual, but that the authorities gold currency mora, feasible yearly subscription fee of nine should every quarter, or half- than ever
More marks in advance but waited year, declare the sovereign to be than half the world's gold supply vainly for the first number. Later worth the same as the adjusted is indirectly under the control of the Owl Publishing Company was sovereign. If prices have risen 5 four Governments. Four States raided by the police. Rosa Salo-per cent. the weight of the alone can regulate the currency
was found to be the pro- sovereign
be 5 per of the world. In the days of a prietor of the printing establish- cent. heavier; if prices fall again Coal Commission, a Bugar Com- ment. She had paid herself a to 2 percent, above normal the mission, e Reparation Commis- salary of 20.000 narks as mana- sovereign should be decreased in sion and 'a Supreme Economic geress, her husband 18,000 marks weight accordingly. The Gov. Council is it too much to ask for as editor and similar yearly ornment would buy gold for a Gold Commission to adopt a salaries to other relatives. There minting and redeem ordinary device that would prove of were but a few hundred marks of sovereigns according to this rate. incalculable value to the business If the index registers a 5 per world, and do more than any the collected money left. Among
mon
should
the subscribers fooled by of cent, rise, the sovereign will be other economic expedient to narr was the notorious Revent-redeemed for its own weight in maintain, a mimirano standard low who caused the Salomons gold plus 5 per tent of that of well-being for the democracies
weight; and gold will be bought of the world ?
arrest,
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