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George was reading the when his wife came into the room. "What do you think?" al said, with the air of one imparting im- portant information, "mother has just been telling me that she has made up her mind to be eremiated." George was on his feet in an Instant.
"Very well, dear." he said briskly, "tell her to put on her things!"
He got upon the tram ear and In quite a friendly air, Said, "My, the weather's fine."
The
Conductor answered.. "Fare?"
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That women are smoking less- than they did is one of the can clusions that have been drawa from the annual stack-taking of "London's Savoy Hotel's giant linen "ehrst" which has just been com- pleted. Two years ago over 500 linen tablecloths
and napkins!
used, on the average, to be dis- carded each month, most of them having heen rendered unfit for further use by cigarette burn, And it was natived at the time that most of these burns were made hy women who were smoking, not be cause they enjoyed it but for the sake of holding a cigarette.
It is a turjons, but gratifying fact that men hardly ever allow their cigarettes or cigars to in- jure the virgin damask.
When a woman juror failed to arrive in time in Mr. Justice Har ridge's court recently, Mr. Non- son, K.C., anggested that the court should wait for him.". "It's a woman," Mr. Justice torridge pointed out, and added, "We, haven't quite changed the gend- ers yet, though very nearly,"
When a bag was summoned at Willesden for letting off fireworks In the street, his mother pleaded "My son thought it was quite all right, because a policeman watching."
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A woman sharked at Willeader with shoplifting," was stated to have run away with three pairs of boots, and left her baby and per- ambalator in the "hands, of the shopkeeper.
The sleight-of-hand performance was not going very well.
"Can any lady or gentleman lend me an egg?" asked the con- juror, coming down to the foot- lights.
If we done," shouted a man in the audience, "you'd "ave got it long before this."
The possession of a motor car
is not evidence of means-Mr. Justice Bateson.
Life would be very simple if only it were logical-Mr. JA. R. Cairns.
Every woman knows the most difficult thing in a house is a mun. -Lady Astor,
Call not Dean Inge a pessimist, for he is a great prophet-Rev. C. L. Tudor.
Thirty yards of Thorogmorton avenue, one of the City's busiest thordughiares, were closed smokers one night recently.
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Crowds of City workers huiry- ing from their offices were astonish. ed to find themselves stopped half- way down the street by omnials, who asked them to put their pipes and cigarettes out.
The ban on smoking, was due tó un escape of gas from mains under the roadway, and so serious was the escape that two of the gas company's men, who were working in
the street, were temporarily
overcome.
Their comrades were, however, able to revive them without their being taken to hospital.
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The auctioneer hold up a batter- ed fiddle. "Lot 24" he announced to his audience, who were for the most part neighbouring farmers, "Now, what am I offered for this beautiful violin? Take a look at its case. See the blurred finger- To marks of remorseless time. the merry notes of this fine old instrument the brocaded dames of fair France may have danced the. stately minuet in the glittering ballrooms of Versailles. Now, gentlemen, what do you offer me for this unique instrument?" "Half a crown," said one. "It's yours," declared Buctioneer cheerfully. "Now for lot, 25!"
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Lyman Brown of Portland, Me., archeologist, told of unearthing musical instruments centuries old resembling the implements of modern jazz.
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"We found horns made animal tusks capable of producing weird moans like those of a saxo- phone," he said. "Other Instru- ments resembled the clarinet, We also uncovered an assortment of drums which would have been worthy of a modern trap drum- mer."
He said the instruments would be turned over to the American Museum of Natural History.
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THREE JAPANESE" ANARCHISTS.
TO BE DEPORTED FROM" SHANGHAI
PLOT ON CONSUĻATES.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
THE LIFE OF CHRIST.
A NOTABLE FILM FOR STAR THEATRE.
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1927.
OUR DAILY TALK ON HEALTH.
TEETH, TOBACCO PLAY PART IN CANCER.
CONSTANT IRRITATION.
AMERICAN. GIRL MURDERED.
DISMEMBERED BODY FOUND.
Los Angeles, Dec, 17. The murder of a 12-year-old girl whose body was dismember-
Among the pictures to be screen- ed in the local cinemas during Christmas is the big German pro- of duction,
(Jesus 1. N. R. 1. Nazareth, King of the Jews),
the Statistics on cancer have not yet ed by her slayer has precipitated which will be screened at usual performances in the Star been so fully and carefully record- the greatest manhunt in the his- Theatre on Sunday and Monday.ed that it is possible to say howtory of the local police. Thou- the tongue sands of private citizens are as 1.N.R.1." is the most ambitious Frequent cancer of
occurring in an increasing number search for the murderer. In addi- effort yet made to present the actually may be Apparently it is sisting the authorities in their of eases and possibly more oftention, every police, department, in Life of Christ on the screen. picture has been made with resonwhat younger in life than used the United States and Canada has been requested to be on the look averent care and the leading parts to be the case.
are all portrayed by actors of dis-
out for the slayer. tinction.
Three Japanese conspirators and anarchists, alleged to have been concernod in a plot to blow up several Japanese consulates in China, are at present in Shanghai awaiting transportation back to Japan, where they are being de ported, one of them to serve
of imprisonment in the Katabuchi Penitentiary, Nagasaki. The names of the three are Matsunaga, Sano and Kumagal, the last named to go to Nagasak!, states the Shanghai Mainichi.
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Three years in the making. 1. N. R. L is now being screened, all over the world asta beautiful sermon to Christians in every land,
GEN. DUMONT VISITS MANILA.
FRENCH MILITARY ATTACHE.
While it occurs more frequently in men, it appears also in wo men and some authorities are in- glined to assert that the inereas ing frequency of smoking by women may have something to do with the increasing incidence of cancer of the tongue.
These men have been in the hands of the Japanese authorities for some time, but publicity, upon their ease has been withheld pend- ing duality. They are believed. says the Japanese Press, to have been acting in collusion with notorious anarchists such Iwasa. Tanaka, Mizunuma, and Brigadier General G. A.. L. Da-irritating effect. Watakawa who are followers of font. French Military Attache at Osugi, another notorious anarch- Washington, who will be an official; 1st leader who was put to death guest in Manila for three weeks by a military officer during the beginning December 22, has had a distinguished career, according to great earthquake of 1323.
word received at Fort Santiago.
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The victim of the crime was Marian Parker, the daughter of an assistant bank cashier. She was kidnapped from school last Thursday by a man who said that her father had been injured and that he wanted her,
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The vast majority of victims of
Police attempted to trap the career of the tongue are excessive murderer yesterday when he came users of tobacco. The nicotine, to get a ransom of $1,500 in gold the heal and the mechanical irri-notes which he had. demanded tation seems to have a chronically from the child's father, but he cluded them, and in fleeing threw from his nutomobile a bundle which proved to be the mutilated torso of the girl. Today, the girl's arms and legs were found in a park, wrapped in newspapers.
Sharp Teeth Contribute... Imperfeet teeth and badly fitted false teeth also serve as sources of chronic irritation. A sharp tooth, which is constantly cutting
Police compare the case to that the tongue, as pointed out by Dr. W. H. Schmidt, will produce "can-¡ of Robert Franks whose murder car. By continued irritation the by Richard Loeb and Nathan L.co- ""uker may develop those properties old attracted nationwide atten-
of rapid and uncontrolled growth tion. that are associated with cancer.
General Dumont chlered the Ecole Speciale Militaire de Saint Eyre. October 31, 1889, in 1991 ha was commissioned second Reuten- aut of cavalry. He entered the Ecole Superierre de Guerre, in 1897 anil was made chief squadron major in 1911. In July 1915 he was appointed Commissiarre Mili- taire of the Northern Railways of France and promoted to lieutenant
In burning the colonel the following year.
1017 he rose to the grade of col
These men are suspected of having conspired to destroy the Japanese consulates in Shanghai, Tsingtag and elsewhere, and for this purpose they had secured hombs and other necessary imple- ments. All wore Chinese dress continually and were supposed to have left for Hankow on July 18
overland thenee travelling. Tsingtuo the Langhai Railway to avoid-detention.
became known to This Japanese authorities, however, and the men were arrested before they.onel. left Shanghai, all of them being residuals of the French Conces | sion..
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Because of his brilliant war Fe cord, he was detailed as French Military Attache at Washington in 1920, which position he has ocen pled to dace,
His promotion to bigadier, gon-
Kumagai, who is a member of the Anarchist Party, was one connected with the Ginza Incident which occurred in Tokyo in May eral was made three years ago. 1926. In April this year he was
He is an officer of the French charged with violation of the Legion of Honary and wears the public peace in Tokyo is French Crois de Guerre with Court and sentenced to eight
Afterts. The United States govern- months imprisonment. that he succeeded in eluding the ment has decorated him with the police and came to Shanghai in Distinguished Service Medal for! connexion with this other affair, his services, in which he was lo receive the aid of several other well-known Com- munists:
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Rewards totalling $50,000 have When a cancer of the tongue is seen early by a competent physi-been offered for the capture of the clan, it is possible to remove it by murderer, As the scope of the man- surgery, to treat it with radium, or hunt extends, police are reaching a to remove it by the use of modern conviction that the slayer was of electric the educated, master criminal methods--with
type. Two suspects are being held. Handwriting experts say knives or cautery.
that a woman also was involved in the crime,
Job for Specialist. Such work is done by specialistas in hospitals who have made a study of the various technics.
An investigation made in the
New York City Canser Instinte HOW MUCH DO YOU
vindicated that in most cases pa tients with cancer of the tongue game to the institute too late to permit the application of proper
surgery.
The driver of publie car No. 439 reported to the police that his car A large haul of 214 tins of pre-collided with a moving tramear on pared oplum was taken to the Water the Praya Bast yesterday. A pas- Police Station yesterday by Chinese senger of the car was injured in the The opium was dis-forehead by a piece of broken The three men are to be sent
detectives. back to Japan on the first avail-covered in a bag, which was tied glass, and had to he removed to the able steamer.
up by a rope on to the Tin Ching Government Civil Hospital... Wharf, Taikoktsui
RECENT SHOOTING
AFFAIR.
VICTIMS DOING WELL.
On enquiries this morning, it is learned that Sergeant McMahon, as well as the constables who were Injured in a street battle with armed robbers, are doing very well and are all expiccled to re-
cover.
In regard to Sergeant McMahon, that a further it is understood
operation may be necessary, but if nothing untoward happens, he should be out of hospital within the next month.
YAUMATI FIRE.
INJURED SOLDIER
PROGRESSING.
In connexion with the Yaumati fire, reported elsewhere, no less of life occurred and at the moment the extent of the damage is un-i known.
The soldier who was Injured was Private Ernest Kenial, of "D" Company, Queen's Regiment. Ilis injuries are mainly on the head and he is reported to be making good progress.
-HONGKONG CHAFF
By B. R. B.
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About a Chinese village.
There is, as well.
Plenty of smell.
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.
Answers, for those who need them, will be found on Page -16 of this issue.
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Where are these places: "Riga, Bukhurdat, Belgrade, Tanganyi- ka, Zarziber?
2 Which of the following are rent characters, and which are of fiction: Ivan the Terrible, Sir Roger de Coverley, Vasco da Gema, Mr. Polly Tintoretto, Pet- tronnie, Terence Mulvaney? Whose war "the face that launch- ed a thousand ships"? Complete the following pairs: ....and Sankey, ... and Ni- coletta: Hansel and....; Cab- 'and Adonis; ages and
rates and ...
5. Who wrote these books: "Lettora
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