The Very Idea!
The Long Arm-of Coincidence. Yet anotirer ring story. It de From a Malvern resident who writes as follows: "Some years ago my father, going to ten with cousins, got out of an Innor Cir- cle train at South Kensington Station. As he did so his signet ring fell, off his, Anger.
"Boing in a hurry he naked a porter to look for the ring; hút when he returned later the, porter said that he had searched the line but had seen no sign of the missing
property.
"Just then an Inner Circle train came in, and my father said: got out of a carriage just here. And there, on the footboard of the earringe, was his signet ring."
JJ
"One is naturally on carly riser or a heavy sleeper," saya a writer,
Day in, day out, "I toil and slog. As someone else's under dog. For payment which is just the
same.
As when to his employ I canie. And thus, with prospects dull
and dead.
He dong in my cosy bed Without a spur to ginger me Out of my morning lethargy.
в
In point of fact, I'm in a rut; My thoughts and wils are
stagnant, but
An early rise would make me
wiser,
"And then I'd be an early riser!
The burglar had entered the house as quietly as possible," but hia shoes were heavy, and they mude a noise. He had just reach- ed the top of the stairs when he heard a woman's voice.
*If you can't remember," it said, "to take off" your boots when you come Into the house, There's going to bo trouble. How muny times Jave I told you? Here it's been rain- ing for three hours and you dare. come upstairs with muddy boots. Go straight downstairs and change them."
The burglar went downstairs; and out into the night. "I can't rob this house," he told himself.
"It reminds me of home.”
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Lieutenant-Commander G. H. Drunmond, V.C., "Headache Drum mond of Ostend," le still searching for work says the Daily Mirror. He spent a busy week-end recently, for on Saturday he went down io. Gloucester for an Interview regarding a possible engagement,
and he went to Chestor.
Scores of letters arrived at his parents' home in Winchester and were sent on to him. "We don't know whether he has had any offer of work," his sister said..
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GREEN BOTTLE IN THE
PACE MYSTERY,
NINE-YEAR-OLD BON'S EVIDENCE FOR PROSECUTION
A whispered conversation about
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, JUNE 30, 1928.
HIGHLANDER'S LOVE | ROBOT MAN MADE TO RESULT OF COTTON
OF HOME.
REFUSAL TO LEAVE HIS OWN
BARREN PATCH. -
The dimeulty which faces land:
a green bottle figured in the evi- settlement. in the Highlands is dis-
?
TALK
CONVERSATIONS OVER THE
TELEPHONE.
donce at Coleford Police Court cussed in the report of the Com- Televoux, as his inventer named (Gloucestershiro) on June 1st mittee on Land Settlement in Scot. when Mrs. Pace reappeared on a charge of murdering her husband, who is alleged to have died from arsenical poisoning.
There was a pathetic moment when Mrs. Paco's 9-year-old son Ldalio was called to give evidenco for the prosecution.
He described how-while Mrs, Pace was out of the house he father took a package from a box in which some shoop dip had been placed.
As nine-year-old Lealio Pace Passed his mother in the dock ho gave her a bright smile. Mrs. Pace's eyes filled with tears as she whispered to the wardress, "That is my little boy."
Leslie said he remembered his father dipping some lambs.
Some of the dip was left, and this was screwed up in a piece of paper and put in the sheep box, which was kept in the kitchen cupboard on-the-top 'shelf,
BALLOT
BIG MAJORITY BUT STILL INSUFFICIENT.
ANOTHER REQUEST.
Washington, Juno 4... When the mechanical man, him, was born he was merely an in- land.
articulato. bundle of vacuum tubes "The Highlander,” states the_ro- and wires that enabled him to do
London, June 29, The ballot of the Federation ef port, "would rather have a hopeless his assigned taska at the command patch of his own native heath than of his invisible master many fest Master Colton Spinners failed to a.fair holding in a strange glon.of miles away, but how he has been yield the required ninoty per cent. of votes in favour of the American the Islands and on the West Coast,
"The result is that there are, in further educated to talk. M
The man" of copper veins and Section congested communities on
authorising organised the porcelain bones has been fitted with half-time in the mills. fringes of sheep farme living under a mechanical larynx and a celluloid men sailing from the great ports, vocal chord which allow him to recent, voted in favour of the re
It was announced that 76 por conditions of extreme penury, but peat prearranged sentences, solution and 12 per cont voted refusing to leave their homes, At the present time bis against.
In view of the strong support it has been decided to refer the matter back to the State of Trade
"The men may go away as sen- vocabulary is limited to two, sen- men sailing from the great ports, tences, but there is no reason, ac or as seasonal workers in different cording to his inventor, why it can occupations, returning at intervals not be considerably enlarged. The to their homes. The young people miracle has been accomplished by Committee of the Federation of may go out in to the world, but, as the Installation of a talking "movie" | Master Spinners, which has now a rule, they send home money to apparatus and a small strip of film keep the family homested in being, on which is recorded a message in- and many of them live in hope of troduced into the man's Internal economy and working automatically. returning home again.
resolved to appeal to those firms who voted against short-time “to reconsider their décision, while all firms who refrained from casting their vote will be asked to vote for the scheme.
demand that the land should be "But all of them maintain the
This is Televoux,”-** opened up to them, so that they may build a home, keep a cow and in operation at the same time he When Televoux"puts a machine
The object of the scheme was to a few sheep, and grow the food they telephones: "This is
Televoux authorise the reduction by fifty per require." Mr. Paling, (prosecuting): "After
speaking from number so and so,"cent. of production, but in order your father came back from hos of small holdings on privately-Televaux the order will know it has absolutely clear, It was decided That the creation by the State so that the human who has given that the altuation should be made pital, did you touch
the sheep owned estates should be discon- been received and executed. Or, that a 90 per cent, majority was box?Yen, sir.
tinued in the Lowlands or similar if something has gone wrong with dealrable Instead of the usual 80 What did you do with it?-I districts, and that took it upstairs, and Dud put it
the machinery and Televoux needs per cent-Reuter.. Future smallholders should be human assistance, the engineer's on the bed...
settled by the State in Lowland dis-telephone rings, and he receives this.
something out which was wrapped up in paper.
What did he do?—He took tricts as tenants of the Board of message: "This is Televoux call- HOW MUCH DO YOU
Agriculure for Scotland on cond-ing for number blank." tions applicable to ordinary agricul What happened to the box?-tural holdings, with the right to can be made to repeat any routine Televoux, states his Inventor, Dad told me to put it in a chest of aply to the Land Court regarding report that can be selected on the drawars in the bedroom,
rent and compensation.
A box was then produced in court, and the boy said that was the box.
Dr. Earengay (cross-examin- Ing)-Who was at home when your father naked you to get the box for him?-Only Terry and me.
How old is Terry?-Six, Did your father know your m ther had gone out 7----Yes,
Never Told Mother.
circuits.
KNOW?
TO-DAY'S QUESTIONS.
ledge paper has been taken from The following general, know- the Daily Express.
The secret of the mechanical REALISTIC AIR FIGHTS.tube, Sound waves directed into man's performance lies in a vacuum
the mechanism are changed into action of supersensitive tubes, them, will be found on Page 13 of electric waves, which, through the
Answers; for those who need made to actuate circuits controlling the apparatus supervised by the this issue. automaton.
CINEMA CAMERAS REPLACE
MACHINE GUNS.
A device which enables a pilot to "ahoot down" his opponent during practice aerial combat without in-
Leslie anid that his mother hadjuring him has been adopted by the PARIS MURDER TRIAL:
gone to Coleford. When he took the box to his father, his father pulled some books off the top of the box: then when he found package, he did not appear to look for anything more. Dr. Earengay:
Who was the
French Air Services.
this device the akill in both shoot- It is claimed that by means of ing and dying shown by pilots cur be determined as accurately as when real ammunition is being used.
MESTORINO GOES BACK ON
1 Name the people holding the fol
lowing positions; "Minister" of Transport, High Commisioner for Australia; Archbishop of Paris; German Minister for Foreign Afairs.
s Where is Tranbjordania? * What, in architecture, is a tran.
4. Who founded Methodism?
What is (a) a martingale, (b) a farthingalof..
Who wrote the following: (d) Tell England, (b) Elizabeth and Her German Garden; (0) Pippa Passer!
Which king was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lewis!
3. For what kind of work is Corot
noled!
Explain the legal term "ultra viros,"
10
Where are the Southern Alps!
Name: the highest peak in this
range, and the only east pass through it.
11
What is a yow!!
Give the authorship of the follow- ing lines:=(8) That inward eye, Which is the bliss of solitude; (b)
HIS CONFESSION.
The pilots act exactly as in real
Paris, June 4 warfare. When they pull their
The trial of Mestorlho,: the Arst person you mentioned this gun triggers they act cinema jeweller, on a charge of murdering to?
cameras, in motion. In place of another jeweller, named Trupheme, "The policemen over there," re-bullets. ure photographs showing which began this afternoon in the plied Leslie, pointing to Chief the exact position of the target Soine Assizes, will certainly be the Inspector Cornish and Sergeant machine in the sights of the at- "cause celebre of the year in Paris, Campion.
tacker and also the exact time of Truphemo was found dead in a "You did not tell your mother?" the "shot."
ditch 20 miles cast of Faris on No, sir.
Hitherto camera "guns" have February 28, and was last seen The green bottle was mentioned not recorded the time of each pie-alive the previous day at the office during the evidence of Mr.ture. Consequently, when two of Mestoring, when he was known on him jewels valued at Reginald Joseph Martin, a baker, direct hits were obtained it was to have who lives near the Pace's home at impossible to judge who was the 150,000 francs (£1,200)... Fetterbili.
winner. The new cinema' "gun"
On March 14 Mestorino confessed He said that one day as he was by recording the time, to a fraction under examination to having killed leaving the Pace's house the of a second, as well as photograph Trupheme at his office in the heat daughter Dorothy whispered some-ing the target machine, enables the of a violent discussion. He further thing to him. .
judges to determine which pilot admitted having appropriated the first obtained an effective burst of jewels. Dr. Earengay: What did it con- cerá?-A green bottle.
fire,
Mestorino's sister-in-law, Suzanne Did Mr. Pace and Mrs. Face ties are so impressed with this in-his mistress, and had witnessed the The French Air Service author Charnaux, declared that she was hear that?-Mrs. Pace was show-vention that they have instituted beginning
оп of the dispute charged by summons with alleged ing me out, and she heard it, but a competition between fighting February 27. She asserted that
Two first and a second prize for Pace did not.
Mestorino was
young shorthorn bulls were award- jealous because Martin said that Dorothy Rak-
Traphome paid her too much at-ed to the Prince of Wales at
Northants agricultural show. Counsel at Stratford (raforringed him if her mother had told him
tention. She has since retracted to cross-eyed witness) He is about a little green bottle they
her story, fortunate in being able to see had found in the fender.
Mestorino's wife and sister-in- round a corner before coming to Dr. Farengay: Did she say who packet is. It is probably burnt law were to-day in court when the Under the patronage of the accused man gave a version of the King, the 17th annual Interna- crime diametrically confileting with tional Horse Show is being held his statements to the examining at Olympia. magistrate.
A man who won the Victoria Cross during the War for a gallant single-handed exploit in which captured enemy machine guns ap poured in the Town Bridge Pollec Court, London, He was Arthur Henry Cross, of the Borough, South-East London, who
stealing and was bound over,
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WRA
it. The witness: Are you per-found it?-Dorothy found It. sonal? Counsel: Not in the least. I am assured that such is the case.
A man in the public gallery at Tottenham who chouted. "It's a -lie!" was ejected.
The sum of £320 was stated at Lincoln to have been found in the pockets of a Grimsby man fined 208, for drunkenness. He said he had been to Southwell races,
pilots,
"She anid, 'Yes, I think so, but I don't know where the empty
"I told Mrs. Pace that she must Did she say anything else?--stop the funeral arrangements She asked me if I thought he had that were being made." taken something
Mr. Paling: Were you told what the bottle contained? Yes, foot- rot.
Mr. Paling: Foot-rot Is a com- plaint, she meant medicine for foot-rot? Yes, but that was the expression she used.
A páliceman at a Westminster..
A Life" Policy.
inquest aald he identified a man Edward Aston, a retired insur- who had been run over and killed by a motor-omnibus by his finger prints, which were in the records at Scotland-yard,
Judge Cluer, at Shoreditch: I wonder what we should find if we came back in one hundred years' time, Would the English language be mutilated any more?
Husband at Willesden: My wife has sight men lodgers. Wife: Liar! I never did for eight men in my life.
ance, agent of Coleford, said that on December, 1, 1924, he called on Mra. Pace, and delivered a policy on the life of Harry Paco in his wife's favour.
Mra. Pace was the proposer, and the amount of the premium was, one shilling a week. Mrs. Pace always paid the premiums. The amount of the policy was £69 128. He could not say if Pace knew
of the policy as he had not spoken to him about it. He dealt en- tirely with Mrs. Pace. "It is the The late Sheriff-Substituts J. useful thing for me to deal with the wives in euch cases," ho
C. Guy liked a joke both on and
off the Bench. Once in Edinbürgh agreed.
Inspector Alan Bent said that on
Sheriff Count he was trying a caso January 11 he commenced in- quiries into Pace's death, and on
which hinged on the identification
pany with Sorgt. Humblin.
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of hand-writing, and a witness was January 12 saw Mrs. Pace in com asked to write some words to dictation for comparison with the handwriting of a document. An agent maintained that there was dissimilarity..
A report was made on the in- torview but it was never shown to Mrs. Pace or read over to her,
Mrs. Pace, ho said, gave a gen- Sheriff Guy offered the opinion eral statement on her husband's that agitation and other reasons filneas and said she had assisted caused people to write differently him in the dipping of about eighty from their ordinary style.
"I remember,” said he, "when
lamba on July 28,
-
"I asked her," went on the ins-
a student, I was at a celebration pector, "to account for the empty dinner. Before we began tho dia- ner we all signed our names on packet which had contained the sach other's menus and sent them sheep dip they used to dip the Around Then, after the dinner we sheep on July 23. I also asked All eigned again, and every signa- her if they had used the whole of ture was different."
the packet.
The hearing was adjourned.
Snapshot of popular song, writer whose Intest hit is entitled gmis Through the Hain Drops"
A little fire is quickly trodden out; (c) One science only will one genius fit; So vast is art, sa nar- row human wit,
WHAT
DO YOU THINK OF THE "NEW WOMAN”
Doss the diffär in fundamentale,
or Is It merely in "auparficial things, from her · peacursora ↑
LET
PATRICIA LEIGH
"kalp you to a better understand.
ing through her.
PULSING ROMANCE OF MODERN LIFE.
SHADOWS
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Son
MONDAY.
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