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NITRIC ACID.
LONDON'S CHINATOWN,
ODDS AND ENDS.
MAINLY SCISSORS LOOT,
Vent Pocket Movie Camera.
THE CHINA MAIL.
FARM ROMANCE.
HERITAGE THAT BECAME
WORLD FAMOUS,.
GENERAL ITEMS.
Vegetable raarrows were hawked in the streets of Camberwell, S.E., at jd. each.
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Five men and two bortos peristed
the explosion of a cartload of shells on a road near Maubeuge.
What is probably the first vest.
Reminiscences,stories and anecdotea pocket motionpicture camera seon
Lord Plymouth has presented to in England
make up the very readable book just | Cardiff a 50 acre wood at St. Fagan's was brought over from Paris by 4 globe-trotter, written and published by Mr. Kdwin as a recreation gr: and. commenta A Daily Chronicle Groy concerning his 50 years' cervica writer. The littlu "top" has a at Rothamsted Experimental Station, capacity of 25 feet of ordinary the world-known agricultural laborain clocfilm and in place of the orank handle there is a spring which, whon tosies near Harpendon, Hertfordshire, pressed, clicks off the film. Sir John Bennet Lawes and Sir Berlin Town Council has decided to Simple in construction and absurdly Henry Gilbert founded Rothamsted abandon the echoms to impose ad- osay in Danipalatics, one is led to the in 1843. It sprang from à farm in-ditional taxes on foreignora, conclusion that this Dew camera will herited by the former as a boy, who enjoy much popularity omong scoured the co-operation of Gilbert, a
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Weighing 111b, a lobster landed at head to tail, and the girth of the head
certain set of Society folk-and it only young chemist who had worked under Brixham, Devon, measured 19in, from
costs about £20.
Your Own Pillar Box
The Post Office undertakes to
HIDEOUS OUTRAGE ON SING LAMENTING THE PROSPERITY deliver your lettera at your front door;
SONG GIRL.
The story of a wicked uncle who is alleged to have employed loafers to diefigure with nitric acid the face
sttractive of hir
OF OTHER DAYS.
Liebig. The partnership between the two men was only severed by death.
In the early days there were DO young scientific workers to help. Boys from the village estool ware taught to do the ancillary work. Ms Grey, a Harpenden, boy himself, begen bis connection in this way with the Experimental Farra as "grasspicker boy."
They sat at tables, and sorted out the samples from the Experimental Grass Plots. Some of the bays could never learn to separate properly. Quite oblivious of the laws of b stany they used to put all the hairy ep.cies together in one beap and the long. leaved grasses in another.
do you know that it will also under take for a small yearly fee to collect London's Chinatown is disap- your lette e at your front door asks Everyday Science. For from £2 to £3 peating, remarke the Daily News.
At the present rate of depopulation 108. a year, according to your district 18-year old it will not be long before Limehouse you can have a neat li tie box fitted niece, a sing-song girl, was heard causeway and Pennyfields lose all in the door in which you post your lettere, and from which the postman at the Mixed Court, Shangbai, their Chinese residents.
Four years ago quito 2,000 Chinese will collect them at the usual hours by three men were charged on when with causing grievous bodily seamen were living within a stone's opening a small panel frare the out. harm to the young woman. Magis- throw of the West India Dock gatas. side, thus saving you the journey to bar kunn and Mr. Blackburn order. Now it is doubtful whether there are the pillar box. There are 11,000 of these private pillar boxes in London. ed a further remand in custody, to
During the war London's China. Most of them are in clubs, hotels, and give the police an opportunity to ap.
aud another tow bad its most prosperous days, big business offices, but there are Lady Lawes (then Mrs. Lawrs) used prehend the uncle Chinos believed to have bribed the for quite a number of English ships a number in private houses, too. But to come to the laboratory occasion. were almost entirely manned by they are not common outside London ally, and on one occasion she came to Chinese crews, while others, with probably because the unbusinesslike see us at the grass picking, bringing English deck handa, had Oriental sea Post Office docen't trouble to advertise one or two lady visitors at Rotham-
the facility which it offers to the sted with her. men below drek.
general public. Novelty in Boats.
three accused to commit the deed.
700.
A dels five-sergeant stated that on the night of August 17 the sing-song girl was returning bome from Wing
WHEN THE WAN ENDED. On's, where her uncle bud recently
But when the war ended the been employed. As he was passing the month of an alloyway in Hankow edict went forth, "British crews what for British ships," and as the was China were paid off they either An instant went back to their own country, or to later she feit the burning effect of the America, where their labour was in acid and ran tertified into a Chinese demand. restaurant.
throw,
Rold, come she at first thought water,
over
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A glass-bottomed boat which will reveal to tourais some of the bistoric wrecks at the bottom of Lake Cham- plain as similar bosis reveal to jourcers there the coral wonders of the Bermuda waters will soon be put Hero she fainted. The result was that Chinece traders in service. Halke of old batteaux Eventually she was sent to hospital, in Limehouse and Pennyfields began resting on the lake bottom in Arnold's
Pirking out a piece of grass, she, asked vae of the boys at the next table the name of it. "That's 'Ard-' Airy, ma'm," said he,
And this?" said Mrs. Lawes, picking up another grara.
That'e 'Boft Airy, m'am." "How do you tell the difference asked Mrs. Lawei,
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The Prime Minister exhibited four
gosts at a show at Farnham, Surrey, and secured a "highly commended" in cu: open clase.
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Court the other day was not sure A wife at Tottenham, N., Police
or fourth husband. whether she was summoning her third
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By 5,580 votes to 4,404 the Dutch
National Trade Union Congress has a (Bul-hevist) Internations).
not to join the Moxow
As Blackburn, Lancashire, has
adopted Peronae, on the Somme, the French town is to call its reconstruct- ed bridge "Pont do Blackborn."
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The Prince of the Asturias King Alfonso's heir, who is 15 has joined a Spanish dreadnought as a midskip man for a course of naval training.
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An unidentified man threw a bomb
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at the room in Marseilles of Signor Capel, the Italian Consul-General, without injuring anyone and escaped.
At a cost of three-quarters of a million the Great Western Railway
one of the best equipped stations is the country.
From statements taken from prisoners to aufer, and one after another had Bay, near the mouth of Otter Creek, other's airy and soft, and one's got a Camp ny is to provide Swanse with
after their arrest, the motive for to put up their abuttere.
crime bricame apparent. Then, suddenly, there camo
death
on the Vermont side of the lake, and ajonly four miles from Westport are visible ou clear days to the eyes, and it is thought that the use of a glass- bottomed boat will reveal their out line in much greater detail. These
"One's 'airy and 'ard, and the sharp point and the other's got a round point," answered the boy.
BOY'S LECTURE COMMENT. Sir Henry Gilbert need to do the While walking in the garden of his bonours on visiting daya, speaking on, villa at fordoa, Gabriele d'Annunzio, some special subject chosen for the the Italian patriot, poet, airman and
the Since the
of the boom, due to a eingular cause. Ritl'e father sho bad lived The death of Billie Carleton, the with her uncle, a confirmed opiumi beautiful young West End actress, entoker, who worked on the roof and the highly-coloured stories of garden. He obtained her a position opium and other partics, focussed old vessels are said to have been occasion. When the lecture was dictator of Fiume, fell and injured
on the sinister burned by the Colonial naval forces Gaished and Sir Henry bad had bie cup bin hend ecvercly. there as a sing-aong girl and had beca public attention
in the habit of taking her wages as well streets and alleys of Chinatown.. to prevent their falling into the hands of beef-tea ho would lead the little
as his own Some time before the acid; throwing incident, tha man bad lost his position. As his niece had also left Wing On's and went to live with her mother, he was naturally deprived of his opium. In revenge he had planned through a middleman to blind the complainant. The prisoners, who had oace before shadowed the girl, donied baving thrown the acid.
The complainant corroborated the etory told for the police, adding that it was only at frat that the received no wages. Her uncle had said on one Occasion: "How dare you continue to sing while I am not still at Wing On's 1"
The Bench said there was no direct evidence that either of the prisoners threw the acid. They, however, on their own a mission were ad charac tere and the Tench were quite prepar- ed to grant a remand in custody fore reasonable length of time. The acc118 ed were accordingly remanded for a fortnigh',
[$250,000 BREACH CLAIM.
ZIEGFELD DANCER AND SON OF ME. H. P. WHITNEY.
derbilt.
CAFES FOR TOURISTS.
Cafes and restaurants in which Chinese diebes could be obtained, opened one after the other, and American, as well as European visitors, filled them at night to overflowing.
fewer, and now there are but one or two cheap, shabby restaurants left.
of the pursuing British fleet. Other band of pilgrims out to the fields. A bistoric hulke rest at the bottom of faithful henchman carried Sir Henry's the lake, notably nest Bluff Point, notes, and at the various fields banded Hotel Champlain, and off old. Fort up wh ohever note was asked for. Tie nderega.
Lighthouses for Night Flyin't.
By the end of the winter the Loo- doa-Paris air ronte between Croydon
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Hedgerows around Beaconsfield, Gerrards Cross, and Amersham, Backinghamshire, are bearing a record crop of nuts, banches of 9 and 10 on one stalk being plentiful.
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A boy named Luck one of the grass pickers, one-day was sent to Commercially minded Orientals in
The 100 motre (1091 yards) interna- catch up the party, taking t› Sir vested their money in the exploitation
Henry a paper bo bapp.ned to have tional swimming Tace at Paris was of the curiosity of the tourists, and and the coast will be illunicated with left behind. When Luck returned we won by van Schelle, of Brussels, prospered exceedingly for a time. ariel lighthoares the whole way, so asked him how the party was getting abampion of Belgium, in 17 1-Gecc.
But gradually the glamour died that an airman flying at night will alon. He said, "I caught 'em up in Haskins (London) was third. down, visitors became fewer and ways base at least one light in sight | Agdell Field, and Sir Heary got up on to guide him. There are already two the seat there, and then "o got 'em all "cone" lights, one marking the Croy round it, and 'e didn't 'arf let 'em tion aerodrome and the other at the hev it!" coast aerodrome at Lympne. A flasli ing light has just ben erected at Titary Hill, near Woldingham, and another is to be placed on top of a 0 foot stret tower at Cranbrook, Kent. These lights are of 65,000 candlepower, visible 32 miles away. When they are erreted, the airway to the coat will be the first in the world
The proprietors of the larger and more picturesque establishments were compelled to cut their losses several lost $500 or 1600-and closed down.
Ard Chinatown now is but shadow of its former self.
LTE T FRAUD.
SEASIDE LANDLADIES
DUPED.
TRAIN B ON.
JOLTING ELIMINATED BY
ROLLER BEARINGS.
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The Grand Cross of the Irgion of Honour bestowed by the French Government on the President of the Portuguese Republic was handed to bim by the French Minister at Lisbon.
With a view to the reappearance in nxt season's racing of his yacht “Britannia", the King has given orders for extensive work upon her, includ. | ing recoppering and recaulking the
hull. Experts who have seen the tests to be scientifically illuminated. Ita plied to the newly discovered roller-
At the quaint annuaf ceremony of will then be quite simple to fly to bearing for railway coaches by the the sale of the wild ponies which roam
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922.
DAIRY FARM NEWS.
Ex. "Empress of Canada"
CANADIAN POTATOES
Fine, Choice, Mealy.
PRICES RIGHT.
WHITEAWAY, LAIDLAW & CO., LTD.
ARE OFERING EXCEPTIONAL VALUE IN BRITISH MADE UNBREAKABLE IRON KITCHEN WARE TIN LINED.
Sizo Prico
2 pitt 81.75 enchi
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6"
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Sabco PanS
Siz Price
Sino Price
8 pint 8 1.93 each
10 11 3.60
12 n
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3 90
144
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Eaton PaNE
SHALLOW STEW PANS 2 pint
4 pint
6 pint & pint $1.50 each $2.25 each $3.50 e ch $3.95 each
IRON KITTLES ENAMEL LIKED
Size 3 pints at $2.75 cach
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OVAL BOILERS
Fize Price
3 gadi n $7.50 each
4 gallon $995 encli
6 gallon $13.50 each
A LARGE SELECTION OF ALUMINIUM AND ENGLI MADE EVAMEL WARE ALWAYS
IN STOCK
AK FOR HARDWARE DEPARTMENT · FIRST FLOOR
WHITEAWAY'S
DES VOEUX ROAD
ARTHUR GRIFFITH.
DEATH OF SINN FEIN
FOUNDER.
Mr. Arthur Gr ffith, President of Dail Fireann, the Irish Parliamen; and fourder of Sina Fein, who died Of Welsh extraction he was bo: in Dabi and was the son of printer.
Paris after tea, dine and do a th atre Great Eastern Railway Compacto New Forest, at Lyndhurst, gipsies suddenly at Dublin was 55,
The Royal Mil Steam Packet Com-
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-LUNATIC FOR TRIAL.
QUARTER SESSIONS CHAIR- MAN'S CRITICISM.
Addiersi. g the Grand Jury at Salford Tube'red Quatter Bessions, Mr. F Brocklehurst, the el airman, referred to the case George Banks, sa inmate of a lunatic asylum, whó had been committed for trial by the Manchester county beach on a charge
of common asasult.
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"I have never leard of a man”
Brocklehurst, "being
there and by back to London to bid agree that the general adoption of and harkera with caravan and carts the same evening. A new form of conâd‹nen trick is
the principle will revolati-nise
to gave a pictureque louch traveling.. being practised on seaside, landladies, I lagnosing by Wireless
Nearly 30 years ago a young man says a "Reynolds's" correspondent.
Not only will it ensure much proceedings. Another interesting instance bas The advertiser, received a letter just come to light of what an import. smoother running of trains than is Finding a detonator in a drawer, walked into the reading room of aeaid Mr. fron & Continental town saying that ant part wireless is proving in saving now experienced oa by line, but the Frand Dolow, Shardaloes-road, New Dublin newspaper ofice and was brought out of a loustic asylum It is reported that Miss Evan her apartments have been reem-lives as sea by the diagnosing of great economy of its working will Cross, SE.. began experimenting on shown to the desk where he was to already certified insane and charged Burrowce Fontaine, the Oriental dan mended by Mr. So-and-So, and the various complaints received by big also, it is catimated, lessen fares it with a hammer and screw driver, read printers' prools from 8 at night with an offence while in that condi cer, is euing Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt writer deeirs rooms for himself and Trans-atlantic liners by wireless from appreciably..
and an explosion resulting, his left until 4.30 in the morning. He was tion." It would be a traverty of The new roller bearing is the patent hand was blown to pitces.
Mr. Arthur Griffith, the man who be British justice to charge a man with Whitney, son of Mr. Harry Payne family. The luggage, moon-while, is cargo t amere carrying no physicians of the Chain Roller Bearing Company,
cacas one of the leading signatories of
a crime when he was obviously unabla Whitney, the millionaire sportsman, being sent on in advance.
the treaty which gave the Irish Free to defend himself or instruct anybody, for breach of promise, claiming
A day or so later comes another pany's "Oropesa," whilst outward Ltd., of Birmingham, and is made, ot Instead of receiving pass out State its existence. In the cramp-d letter from a firm in the same Cou-bound from Southampton to New each extraordinarily bard strel that obecks, vicitors who desired read-ading-room he pursued his calling
on bis tehalf, £250,000 damages.
The Grand Jury returned a Mr. Cornelius Whitney, who is intinental town, which says that they York, was called upon by a Danish it will bear the strain of 21 tons.
"It is impossible, so far, to tell ittance to the Beaumaris, Anglesey; until he decided to migrate to Southbll" the early twenties, was a Yale under. bold several tronks addressed to the freighter-alro bound for Now York how great will be the benefi: of the Agricultural Show, says the Liverpool +
Banks was alleged to have quar graduate three years ago when he met landlady and left with them to be for from Malta-to prescribe for tev-ral
"During his smrloyment," writes relled with another inmate of Freat- the dancer at a charity ball in New warded. The sender, however, having sailors on boards who were suffering invention to railway travellers," said Post, had their harde stamped
to show to the doorkcopers, York organised by Mrs. W. E. Van-left his hotel en roule for England, fram a mysterious malady. The a railway expert to a reporter
a present-day London journalist, with Asylum and to have attempted they are unable to collect the tracs doctor of the "Oropesa," who had beca It will practically eliminate jolt-
Mr. T. A. Edison, in an interview was his copy holder, and with toyish to stab bira with a kile. The proceed- Miss Fontaice alleges that he is the port fees, which must be paid before stationed during the war with the ing and what is known as bard father of her son born on December the baggage can be forwarded. Will British squadron at Malte, recognised funding. Its introduction will be on Paris, declared that London's mil. cageracas I devoured the first letter be inge, it was stated at the police court,
into the paper, and its publicatiin mittal to a criminal lunatic asylum. -14, 1921. Her case as outlined by the landlady, therefore, forward the the "nireless" symptoms to be those a par with the substitution of lions could be asphyxiated in three sent home. It finally found its way were taken with a view to his com- her ounsel is that Mr Whitney began Amount-between £2 and £3-in Lotes of Malta fever, a species of malaria. pneumatic tyres forthe old solids. hours with the aid of the latest poison showed bis former comrades that the ga, Lawi ite, by a fleet of from little opociated man who was shy of to court ber in May 1910. The alleg. The litera baving the appearance medicine and giving the couras of He sent a message prescribing
twenty five to fifty aeroplanes.
speech possessed literary.billty above ed promin of marriaga was made in
enmity with the establishid law. One October 1921 after Bliss Fontaine halal anthrolic ty, the awary are treatment, and as no further call for Artillery Ground, Londati, 1744.
caught, the money issent, but neither aid was reoived apparently the James Love, in Cricket: Aa Heroic Hamburg grapes, many of the
Five handred bunches of black the average.
"In those days Dublin was medly pay night, in als quiet way, to draw informed him of her condition.
During the courts lip, the dancer guests nor luggage materialise.
advie had bad the desired effect. Poem, pablished 1774, says: Kips weighing between 2lb. and Sib., are Parellite. Redmond had stepped from his pocket one of his two Bank this case it would have beeu is remarkable for handing the Ball growing this prar on the vine which into the shoes of his dead leader of Ireland notes, wrote "Avonymous' od a sheet of payer, and neko i mo to easy to mistake the nature of the at the Wicket and knocking up the supplies the King's table at Cumber. With other leaders of Iris opinion, deliver the latter at the committee's
Redmond's advent into the compce office. allment, as the symptoms described Stumps instantly if the Batsman island Lodge, Windeor Great Park. might have arisen from some other not extremely cautions"
ing-room was o'ten the occasion of a
"He returned to Dublin as cause. Dr. Brown's experience in Joseph Wells, the novelist's father In acntending a
woman to four temporary stoppage of work whits the Malta, however, enabled him to make was also a Kent county player (be months' imprisonment for having I can remember that the general saminer. lie bad enough to start, a man cheered and demanded a spee hunobtrusively as he left. Some people.
asil he made money in the gold correct diagnosis.
once took four sac;essive wickets for obtained £33 by frand from the
thusiasm never affected Griffith. Even Walls's "Kips."
his county with four successivo balls.) Ministry of Pensions, Ster'fi Thomson It seems possilne (writes a corse He lived at Bromley, quite close to at Gissgow seld the number of then he was not an admirer of Par- workly paper, the United Irishman, which attracted attention. The pa- Mr. Lloyd George's book of memoirs spondent to the Manchester Guardian) Eltham, the birthplace of Kips, and frauds upon the M'nistry is in-
per was ébaraeterited by contiquons. has been purchased for £90,000.
that I have discovered, purely by was for many years professional coach, calculab'n,”
atticks on the methods of the Irish This price included both the Ameri- chance, where Mr. H. G. Wells to the West Kent Club, whose head-
Parliamentary Party.
"It was net öntil the abortiva
alleges, there was a quarrd.' She hurried to Newhaven, where Yale College is situated, tb make it up. She missed the last train to New York, and she and Mr. Whitney spent the night at an ho'l as Mr. and Mrs. Orane.
Miss Fontaine, who is reputed to be one of the most beautiful girls on the American stage, was for some time a member of the fam.us Ziegfeld Foliles.
at once?
MR LLOYD GEORGE'S MEMOIRS.
£90,000 PAID FOR BRITISH AND AMERICAN COPYRIGHT.
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liamentary methods. The scena always left him unmoved,
CIA-WEEK.
"At that time he was carning £2.
Rebellion of 1016 that fiiffith gained encouragement. Beciults flocked to
Mr. Whitney's defence is that the unn and British serini and book sights, obtained the name given to the but quarters at Chislehunt are also close Coal shipments from Scottish ports action is the result of an unsuccesful The aontract was made between known of his cations. Looking to Eltham Thus the name of Kire in small week to Germany and wickly. Ons sation of his I always attempt at: blackmail,He further Mr. Curtle Brown, and Sir William through the list of byzono-players ap-was almost certainly ktowa to Wella Scandinaria were the heaviest sinou remember. There was then a bods in alleges that at the time of thealing dand the volume will bu pubpended to Lord Harris's History of pers-and-may-have-crapped-up-oo- the outbreak of the car whilatha Leland koorn as the Irish National Sinn Fein int macy between himself and Miss Used in England by Casselis, in which, Kent County Cricket," I noticed the Oasionally in his roubversion and total for the 74 months,8,000,001 tons, Monuments Committee. Its object Trm bin pen bad aprong the Sinn Fontaite the latter was already firm Bir Wills has a controlling fellowing enley: Kips of Bitham imprinted itself on the brain of is 6.000.000 tons more than for the was to stent statues throughout ile Feia movement. He lived to become married.
country to men who had died in in sation one of its moderating forces, 1layed for Kept va, Hogland in the Wells fiz.
complete year 1931.'
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