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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. WEDNESDAY, MARCH
1937.
WOMAN EXPLORER'S 26,000 INSECTS
Her Treasures Include Fleas,
Ants and Beetles
By Louise Morgan
London, Feb. 21.
YESTERDAY I watched the activities of a young man
who considers that he has the "most fascinating job in London.".
In a room at the Natural History Museum, South Kensing ton, he is sorting, setting and mounting the 26,000 insects collected during the past twelve months in the New Guinea mountains by Miss L. M. Cheesman, the explorer.
The last packages arrived a
few days ago.
From one-a battered tin box -he took a three-cornered bit of folded paper, just as it had been packed in tropical heat several months ago, and opening it dis- closed a superbly coloured five- inch butterfly.
"Quite ordinary," was his com- ment.
VALUABLE FLEAS
The real treasures be considers the wasps, grasshoppers, ants, fleas and beetles.
Since the arrval at Miss Chees-
mun's first box last July he has
worked from 10 to 5 dally, and has mounted nearly 6,000 Inaccis,
"It will take ne 18 months to finish the other 20,000," he said.
Some of the Insects look as if they had crawled out of a night-
mare.
Others are like rare jewels,
Most beautiful of all are the in- edible beetles, Their hard shells
necklaces.
World
Silver
Gains In 1936
Washington, Feb. 28.
World silver production in 1935 gained in volume for the third successive year and had triple the dollar value of the pro- duct-in 1932, according to figures compiled by the Bureau
of
| Mines, released in the annual re- port of the director of the mint..
The statistical trends in- are the colour of rubles, emeralds, dicated the success of President sapphires, fridescent gold and fade. Roosevelt's 1932 campaign The native women thread them for pledge "to do something for silver," and showed that other One of the strangest I saw, is a producing countries have shared mud-coloured, knobbly 4-inch crea-with the United States the ad- ture called a "stick insect."
vantages of higher silver price that followed the fiscal and Rolled in palm leaves and baked, silver-purchasing policy of this these are said to make a delicious country. Roosevelt swept all As soon as they are mounted and the silver-mining states in the
under the 1936 election.
disit.
TASTY
drled the Insects
come microscope of one or other of the 20 insect experts at the muscum.
"It will take 100 years or more to classify and namie them all.” I was told by Captain 'N, D. Riley,
The "New Deal" government come into power here on March 4, 1933. Statistics show the world production trend as follows:
1032-104,002,802 fine ounces, of
eurator of the entomological see-commercial value (New York prices)
tion.
Miss Cheesman is already at work on some of the wasps.
She believes that the collection will go to show that North Guines was once separate from South Guinea.
Many of the insects are different in species from those she discovered in the South Guinea Mountains (wo. years ago.
3 Quads Die
After Car Crash
Montreal, Feb. 15.
through snow, during which the ambulance collided with a snowplough, three of four babies born to Mrs. Arcade Rondeau, wife of a farmer, died-here in St. Justino hospital to-day.
$40,506,383;
1833-1GD,159,034 ounces valued at $59,200,606;
On the lee-covered River in the fomats Garmisch-Partenkischen district, where the Olymples were held
last year speed skaters are in full swing, training for the coming international competitions.
Baconian Wants Tomb
Opened To Solve Shakespeare Mystery
He Intends to try to test the
£250,000 scheme to perpetuate Shakespeare's name is being sponsored by leading British and American Shakespearians. The Globe-Mermaid Association of the best informed Shakespearian has been formed with the objects of students in the country, rebuilding Shakespeare's old Globe Theatre, which was destroyed by fire in 1013, of rebuilding with it the old the poet was said to have frequented, Mermaid Tavern, in Cheapside, which
and of founding an Elizabethan library and museum.
ings on a site on the south side of It is proposed to put up these build-
the Thames.
*
*
** But two other moves are being considered by Mr. R. L. Eagle, one
France To Find Out What Happens
1034-190,300,158 ounces valued at $01,029,942; $139,463,016.
1935-215,048,585 ounces valued at WHEN PLANES TRAVEL
AT HIGH SPEEDS
Paris, Feb. 28. A committee of aerial bio-
World production in 1935 was the highest since 1030, but is not yet back to the record post-war produc- tion of
of 260,970,420 ounces valued at $130,900,836 (London price) in 1929.
validity of the house in Stratford- on-Avon, claimed to be the one where Shakespeare was born.
The other is to make another effort to get permission to open Spenser's tomb in Westminster Abbey, In the hope of recovering a document which might clear up the mystery of Shakespeare,
"NOT-BORN THERE"
RADIO BROADCAST
London: The Story Of The Gramophone
THE WAIKIKI TRIO
Radio Programme Broadcast by Z,1,W, on a wavelength of 355 metres (845 kc's.), 31.40 metres (0.52 nie's.),
H.K.T.
12.30 A Military Band Concert. 1 p.m. Time and Weather. 1.03 Vivian Ellis at the Piano.. 1.18 Paul Robeson (Buss). ́.. 1.30 Reuter and Rugby Press; Weather, Time and Announcements.
1,40 Orchestral Music.
2.15 p.m. Close Down.
4-7, p.. Chinese Programme. 7 p.m. The Music of Verdi, 1813-1901.
Vocal
Mr. Eagle said "I have heard of the proposal to rebuild the old Mermaid
Duct"Aida"-The fatal Tavern, hat I doubt whether Shake-stone....Rosa Ponsello (Soprano) speare ever frequented it.
and Glovanni Martinell (Tenori; Tenor Solos "Otello"-Heaven, had
"I am convinced Shåkespeare was not born in the house claimed to be it pleased thee to try me; Death of his birthplace. Actually it can be Solo-"Aida" skies cerulean..
Otello....Renuto Zanelli; Soprano proved that his father did not buy the Dusolina
house until eleven years after Shake- | "Aida""; Vocal
my father!. speare's birth.
Busolina Giannini
and Giovanni "My Idea is to force the authorities Traviata"-Drinking Song and
Inghiller!
(Baritone); Band-"La to prove the genuineness of the house Chorus; Frelude-Act III....Crea- Gypsy by suing them for the return of the entrance fee 1 paid to enter. But I
tore's Band.
7.30 Closing local Stock Quota- am afraid they would give me back the money without fighting,
tions
and Hongkong Exchange Mar- "My other idea, which I shall raise-ket-Report.
7.35 at the next meeting of the Bacon Society, is to ask authorities at Orchestra. Westminster Abbey for permission to
The 1935 production brought the logy working in direct con-open Spenser's tomb. estimated world total production of silver since Columbia discovered tact with the Ministry of Air America in 1492 to 15,013,880,716 ounces valued at $14,895,053,501 will be constituted im-
From 1492 to 1885 the figures were mediately according to based on a table of averages.com-
Rm., De Groot and His "Guyana" (Perez, Freire)—Ay, ay. oy: Standchen (Strauss); Other Days (Selection of popular melodies), (arr. Finck): Der Kaspec (De Groot);
of Song Easthope Martin); Descri
"CODE SIGNS" CLUES
"He WO A contemporary Shakespeare, and after the funeral Shakespeare, in common with other
WAS
SURVIVING a 10-miles dash piled by Dr. Adolph Soetbeer: for statement just issued by poets, threw into the grave poems and
the years since, the production is
clegies. French Air Minister Cot. the annual estimate of the Bureau
"If, as I expect, any document of Mines.
This committee will report on the
In Shakespeare's writing World producilon of silver in 1935 reactions and phenomena produced
found in the tomb, it would be of by continents was as follows: (on in the human body during high speed vital importance and value, busts of average New York prices). serial navigation and while the re-
The suggestion was made to the North America, outside
committee will un-Dean in 1927, and he agreed he might Central ports of this America-138,950,931 ounces valued doubtedly furnish material for the consider the matter if he was
by considera-known literary men."
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Waltz (Romberg).
8 p.m. Time Signal, Weather Re- port and Announcements.
8.03 p.m. Sam Brown (Barl- tone) in Four Light Songs.
1. Gypsy Violin; 2. A little bit Independent; 3. Alone; 4. Let's face the music and dance,
8.15 p.n. The story of the Gramo- phone. Produced by Pascoe Thorn- ton (Electrical Recording).
guidance of coming air lines, ils proached by a committee of well-pouricements,
The quadruplets were prematurely at $80,737,290; born yesterday at St. Thomas, near | Central America and West Indies creation was here, and were immediately christen- 3,500,000 valued at $2,200,378;
A nurse, a doctor, and the ambu-
ai
tions of a purely military character. It is hoped to form such a com- ed in the village church. Then they South America-24,680,030 ounces The committee will be composed mittee of scholars, writers, and were rushed to Montreal. The crash valued at $15,887,584;
of many
of France's most eminent Shakespearean actors to wait formally occurred 10 miles from the city.
a general physician and an inspector ounces valued at of "medico-physiological" services. will both be attached to the
professors of the
recognised
authorities
-NA 524 ounces valued
scientists at the head of which will be upon the Dean.
lance driver were seriously Injured.can11,013,034 ounces valued ministry of air directly. Other mem-
As soon as the crash was re- ported Constable Delorme dashed
to the scene and wrapped the quads in cotton wool. They were then taken on to Montreal. The survivor is not expected to live.
Mrs. Rondeau-the quads' mother, who is 40 has ten children, three boys and seven girls, ranging from one to 12 years,
GOURMETS TO COIN
WORDS TO STRESS
SAVOUR OF FOODS
London, Feb. 28.
at
$3.338,000.
ouners
They
bers will be
119 ounces valued at "College de France" an organisation
which groups
SUCH IS FAME ! Harry
Lauder Signs Contract In Kitchen
8.65 p.m. London News and An- 9.15 p.m. Concerto No. 4 in D Miner, Op. 31 (Vieuxtemps), Played by Heifetz (Violin) and the London Philharmonic Orches- tro, Conducted by John Barbirolli, 9.40 p.m. From the Studio. Hawaiian Melodies by the Waikiki Trio.
1. Waikiki Hala; 2. Underneath the palma; 3. Violeta; 4. Isics of (Continued on Page 5.)
Controversy is raging in Aus- The Ideal Aperient
For
Children
The chief sliver producing coun-in all branches of scientific investiga- iries in 1033 were as follows:
tion, as well as professors of
of the Mexico, first, with 75,589,109 medical faculty of the University of ounces valued at $48,017,010; Paris, The Minister of
of Air, ah- United States, second, with 45,-nouncing the formation of the com- tralia over a £500 fee said to 612,928 cunces valued at $20,457,730; mittco said: "The ever increasing
Peru, third, with 17,432,000 ounces perfection of material at the disposi have been paid to Sir Harry valued at $11,250,550;
won of our air
air army and the Lauder for a single broadcast
· Irregularity of the bowels is a Canada, fourth, with 18,624,426 adaptation of the human organism to there.
common complaint among young valued at $10,730,378,
conditions of
F aerial navigation
"There is no doubt," says one news children in the East Precautions The United States mint estimated time of war dally brings us more and paper, that in Sir Harry Lauder the should be promptly taken to correct the world's Industrial consumption more problems to deal with. These Australian Broadcasting Commission the trouble, but If it is neglected of sliver in 1935 at 95,070,408 ounces problems are of a medical physiolo-has one of the most popular artists it serious consequences may result. compared with 82,483,020 - in the gical nature. The ministry of alr has engaged for some time, but it previous year.
anxious for the safety as well as for would be very dimcult to justify such cleansed, for which purpose there is The stomach and bowols should be The world's stock of monetary the efficiency of flyers has called in an enormous fee for a comic song or nothing better than Baby's Own silver in banks and treasuries, at pur the ald of scientific authorities." It two no matter how famous or Tablets. The mild laxative action of A council of British wine experts, equivalent of stated value, at end of is these "scientiße authorities" who brilliant the comedian." teatasters, gourmets, medical men 1835 was estimated at $5,706,529,000, will constitute the nucleus of the Sir Harry has been visiting his and research chemists are preparing compared with total monetary gold commitico- for. aerial hloloty brother, Mr. Jock Lauder, of Now- a list of new words to describe stock of $21,682,313,000.
Arrangements are being made for the castle, New South Wales. smells.
Silver stocks represented: $3.05 immediate constitution of the body, He agreed to broadcast and negɔ- They are members of the Smell per capita in the countries reported, which while composed of civil tiations regarding the fee were con- Society, founded last year by with a total population of 1,871,045,- elements, will be working in closest ducted at Mr. Jocks Lauder's home handy for tie in cases of health
London lawyer, young
Ambrose 000, Gold stocks in the same coun- conjunction with the military
The contract, providing for the upset in little children, such as con- Appelbe.
fry represented $11.58 per capita.. thorities.
largest fee for a single radio perform-atpallon, wind indigestion, billous- "A vocabulary of 600 new words
ance ever paid in Australia, was signes, colds and croup. If the pre- may enter the language in this way."
ed in the kitchen of Mr. Jock Lauder'sence of worms is suspected a dose or ho declared. "There are hundreds of
home while Mrs. Lauder pecled the two of the tablets will expel them, whilst at teething time the tablets descriptive..... words. in English to
potatoes. identify colour through all its most
Commenting, on his broadcast, Sir settle the stomach, case the pains Harry said:
and induce sleep in a perfectly subtle shades. Many, such as beige,
"I'm broadcasting not for monoy natural way. I've got enough-but just to let the Safe - "and" effective, being
the Scots and those of Scottish descent prescription of a medical child in the outback of Australla hear, specialiat, children never make a fusa again the voice of Scotland in my when taking them as the tablets have
a pleasant taste. They are; obtain».""
Dragon's Blood as Potion
RAGON'S BLOOD; IS STILL USED FOR LOVE POTIONS
are of recent origin. But we do not DRAGONE SUPERSTITIOUS IN BRITAIN.
possess a single word which specifies a kind of small, like that of roast turkey
...). In a court case at Cannock, Staffordshire, the other day, the mimosa, wool, or tar, for cx-excise of spells with dragon's blood" was mentioned.
It is possible to buy dragon's blood from general paint and varnish: dealers and is normally used for dyes
Two of the newest members of the society are H. G. Wells and Bernard Shaw
Ks The council belleves small to be Lone of the richest unexplored fieldi
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the tablets removes any offunding substance, from the Intestines and almost surely it will be found that The child is made quickly well again. Keep this ideal children's medicine
· “Australia', '[s full of Scottish able from chemists everywhere and Bettlers.KA
are equally good, for the infant, în and varnishes. Ita colour la blood; administered just before mid- strange, doep vermilion
know, because of the hundreds farms as for older children.. night on a Friday is a certain way of letters have had asking me to potion which contains a Little dragon's l come cool
Love: a. Laszio","VISAN
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