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LAMMERT BROS.

AUCTIONEERS, APPRAISERS. AND SURVEYORS,

- Public Auctions

THE Undersigned have preofved la strustinas celi by Public Auction

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THURSDAY, 30th October, 1094. commencing at 5.15 pm,

at their Salon Room, Daddell Street, A Valuable Collection et

Postage Stamps

Cataloguse will be issued.

On View from Wednesday, the 29th October, 1994.

Terms: Cash on delivery.

D. E. WARREN

CO LTD

SANITARY ENG BIBRES MONUMENTALISTS

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MAINLY BOISSORS LOOT.

* BEACH COMBING. TREASURE HUNTING WITH

ALID OFF..

(BY ONE WHO HAS DONE IT). To most people beach-combing is synonymous with losing. But combing the beach for a living is the most curiously fascinating. have known in 20 years of a roving way of scraping a livelihood I life spent in queer places the world over.

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lid off. I had a year of it on the It is treasure hunting with the Atlantic coast of New Jersey, but know men who have been at it for years and will be beach- of them have done pretty well at combers till they die. And a few

| Royal Fares-Bairar

Sir Frederick Ponadeby Tas 57 last month: Queen Victoria thoight" so much of her private secretary's |son that she appointed SirFrederick A Roman Fortress.

an equetry when he was a mere The North of England Excavallassant in the Guards. When 'tion-· Committee has made an Sir William Carrington, Sir Fro- Interesting discovery at Heddon-derick's predecessor, died he was on-the-Wall on the North Tyne, la recalled from active service to the form of fragments of an early take Sir William's place. In the fortress gate, which consists of course of his duties Sir William parts of the eastern and western pays away large sums to charity on gates of a Roman camp on the behalf of the King, Sir Frederick Roman wall. There has just been does not live in Buckingham excavated the central pillar of the Palace but at St. James's and when great cast gateway (standing 5ft.- in height) the remains of the foot the Court is at Windsor he resides of the western gate central pillar, in the Saxon Tower. Mr Arthur and a small part of

the Ponsonby, the Labour M.P., is his Granite.northern half of the great weat

brother. gateway. All the stonework is in a wonderful state of preservation, The Idle League. particularly the huge pillar of the great east gateway, which is a We have heard a considerable gigantic block of raasonry. In aniqunt of talk about the League regard to the eastern portion of the discoveries. It is assumed that of Nations, but it is a slægular fact all the existing portions of the sill that sa Hule is provided for it to have been found, as it is more or do. The major part of its expenses less obvious that the remainder are borne by the British taxpayer, has been used for the purpose ofwho is hinting that, if the Lozan be" so small. But to the beach-

remains justified its inauguration and had a

LAMMERT BROS., 'Auctioneers.

Italian Marble-Polished

and/or Fine Punched Hongkong

Artificial Wreaths in Stock.

STATISTICS.

STARTLING

RECORDS OF TYPISTS AND TALKERS.

At the recent Fur Exhibition in London was showd a coat in the making of which twenty miles of thread had been used.

This is of course, a record, but it brings to mind the fact that there is a great deal more work in the ordinary things that surround us-our clothes, houses, ornaments, pictures, and so on-than, is generally imagined.

rows

Take a pair of knitted socks such as most men wear for at least. a part of the year. There are 100 each 7in. of length and 102 stitches in each row at it widest part. Roughly speaking;

two such cylinders each in. long compose a sock, so that we are faced by the startling fact that there are something like 40,000 stitches in a pair of handknitted socks. The Court train of Irish point face which Queen Mary wore at the Coronation Durbar was inade by the Presentation Sisters of Youghal, and contained five and a quarter millions of stitches.

PAINTER'S 20,000 STROKES, Have you the least idea how many times, a painter touches the canyas with his brush in the painting of a picturs? A man who had his portrait painted by two different artists took the trouble to count the number of strokes made, and found that in each case the number was about 20,000.

A woman typist has worked at a speed which, by counting the letters, proves that she tapped the keys at the rate of 755 times in one minute; while well-known barrister once talked at the rate of over 9,000 words an hour for thirteen hours. The actual length of his speech was 124,800 words.

Ao engineer has discovered by the aid of a pedometer that a cook takes on an average 2,093 steps in preparing three plain meals daily: breakfast, 446 steps; lunch, 651 steps; dinner, 996 steps.

ATOMIC MOTION.

FOR SALE.

YATES PLANT FOOD Perfect Fertilizer,

in one pound tins, sufficient for 30 to so POT PLANTS,

according to size for one year.

building elsewhere. A remark- able feature of the

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of the west gate pillar is that good look into the Soudan affair, two pivot holes clearly Great Britain might be saved a lot visible by means of which the great double doors, wore.

of money later on. At any attached, Thus to this pillar moment now, the Soudanese may would be attached the innermost break out-and, needless to say, It halves of the award and outward would again be the British who doors, which were twofold. The great cast gate pillar, which is would have to bear the brunt and intact, is an 'excellent example of nay the piper. Roman masonry, showing splendid joints and rustic carving. Lying to the north of the present ex cavations should be, according to Hongkong knowledge of Roman fortresses, a guard room, but it is thought that The remains

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Hongkong, March 90, 1914,

WHY BUY FOREIGN MADE SUITCASES

When we sell Shanghai Manufactured Suitcases}

They are Cheaper and More Durable.

The Royal Dodger.

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It, too.

You go out at low tide in' trousers and a shirt, or merely a | bathing dress. The sole implement of your trade- is a 5-foot piece of timber with a flattened end. As you walk the wet stand you look for burled treasure. The clue? A ridge of sand

to the inexperienced eye. Indeed, That litteridge meads nothing the tenderfoot even may not be able to see the ridge at all, it can comber's lynx glance it spells a foreign object that the sea bas washed up. Each successive little wave has encountered its minute resistance on the strand. And so the little sand ridge that betrays its presence is formed.

The first day I trudged the sand seemed to me a game more hopeless than seeking the prover- bial needle in the haystack. The second day I was disheartened. The third day, depressed to the depths, I idly followed a ridge to its end, dug with my stick-and turned up a jewelled Spanish comb.

The Prince had his first subway ride in New York, but even there.

From what pretty woman's head, he could not evade recognition, on what ship, at what hour, in what of this, together Accompanied by Captain Lascelles circumstances, had the pretty trifle with the greater part of those and Major Sobert. His Royal High-fallen? It seemed to me the most of the western_sill, will have been removed. The

ness took a seat in a partly-filled romantic thing in the world. But car. Just when he thought his then I recollected that I hadn't had cavators are now to direct their identity was secure, a girl seated a square meal for a week. I went efforts to digging on the south at the end of the car pointed back to town and sold it for fifty side of the modern wall, between towards him and said to her dollars. the latter and the present roadway companion, "It's the Prince"

A few days, later I probed a in the hope that part of the great The companion apparently dislikely looking ridge and found a Roman wall and also the southers agreed, and the two began an portion of the great east gater argument.

set of false teeth. I got five dollars which is partly covered by the had been running fast, and before value of the gold in them.

Meanwhile the train for those, and that wasn't half the modem wall, may be found, the sceptic It is difficult to state the date of arrived at the Woolworth Building. convinced ir the building of what has been discovered, as the gateways out of the train. Later, the Prince now where the Prince and his party got appear to have been added later visited shops in Fifth Avenue, than the original design.

At several places he was agatty Long Lost City.

recognised, but skilfully managed to evade gathering crowds. Wife Kidnapped.

was

Nothing but a sailor's jack knife Then I had an empty ten days.

medal that I thought was silver but with a broken blade and a French it turned out to be only tin.

Spectacles, books, keys, scissors, watches, chains, rings, bottles by the score, a woman's belt with a silver buckle-these are some of the things the sea has thrown up half an inch deep, sometimes three and-buried in the sand, sometimes inches.

kept me from starving on a strange shore.

And these lost treasures

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Other beach-combers thought me lucky. I had a flair for sensing the full ridges. And then I was industrious. But there was an some miles

The Berlin correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle" states that deep. soa divers, north of the Island of

A beautiful Frenchwoman, Mr. Rueger, discovered the remains of a large Danish warship, which was Harold, has been kidnapped by wrecked to the Baltic in 1433. One Moroccans near Larache, in the diver, who brought up mediaeval Spanish zone, according to a telegram from Casabland. Her guns, says that he also saw the immense walls of a city. The husband, a railway engineer, en- theory is that this is the long lost aged on the Tangier-Fez railway, city of Vineta, which was swallow was killed trying to defend her. ed up 825 years ago, when the The French Government has sent | 80-years-old

a request to the Spanish Govern-further along the coast who had were formed. Heine has sung of the legend of ment to take immediate action to three finds to my one. But then secure her release. It is stated he had spent a lifetime on his that the Moroccans were presum beach and knew shore and sea, tide ably in the sphere of fofluence of and wind, as a mother knows the Raisulf, the former brigand chief, moods of a beloved child.. who is an ally of the Spaniards and that therefore it ought to be possible for the Spanish Govern-

Goodwin Sands

the sunken city of Vinela Countess on Triäl

The Paris correspondent of the "Daily Telegraph” says that most important discoveries have been

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MOST TERRIFIC VELOCITY KNOWN.

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Motion picture photographs of the tracks of the nucleus of the hellum'atom travelling at a rate 15,000 times greater than that of the fastest rifle builet were recently exhibited to the Advance- ment of Science by Prefessor W. D. Harkins, of the University of Chicago.

One of the 40,000 photographs taken in the course of Professor Harkin's investigations showed the collision of the nucleus of a helium atom moving at this speed with the nucleus of an argon atom which is much heavier. The force of this blow was the most terrific ever recorded by any direct ax- perimental means, since the energy of this helium projectile on ac- count of its immense velocity Is some two hundred and twenty- five million times that of a rife bullet in proportion to its mass. Nevertheless argon nucleus is not broken by the shock for its track- beyond the site of the collision is found to be, not double but single: The nucleus is the "central sun" around which the. planetary electrons revolve at high speed. Although the nucleus of an atom is so small that it would take a million times a million of them laid in a row to reach an inch their motion can be made visible and photographed by passing them brough damp air strongly lighted trom the side.

Comfort for the Aged

Old people are easily tired out and weakened by coughing. For them there is much comfort in a bokále of Uhamber». „Jain's Couch Hemady.lk, stopa, those. weakening coughs that keeps "them awsko alguts and wese out their strength. Every one knows it contains no párectios, More bottles of it are naed each than of any similar, cough medialnes: Föld everywhere.

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murderers

punished and the woman restored.

FATHERS AND MOTHERS HAVE RESTFUL NIGHTS Who Keep Baby's Own Tablets

In The House, ' with pain you are filled with alarm and When baby wakes in the night erring don't know what to do

mystery, surrounding the death of Count Roger le Roux de Keminon. who died at Lannion (Brittany) three weeks ago as the result of four revolver wounds in his body. The Countess, who was accused by the Count on his death- bed of having fired the shot which killed him, maintained that only one shot was fired, which was accidental. The magistrate's inquiry disclosed the fact that a second bullet was embedded in the door, and the Countess was

With a vial of Baby's Own Tablets in asked how a defective revolver the house you would soon set matters could explode twice accidentally right; just a Tablet or two administered when it required to be cocked by powder (children like them for they hand each time. It was also disare pleasant in taste) and baby, relieved covered that the door pansi had of his pains, quickly drops off into con been broken by vigorous kicking. tented, healthful sleep.

There is not The Countess explained that she hadal drug in Baby's Uwn Tablets, stam of opiate or other kicked the door in her anxiety and they are equally harmless and to secure assistance. The magist helpful to the infant in arms as to the raté pointed out that she was child of 6 or more. They reduce faver wearing only stockings at the enre solle and indigestion, check diare time, whereas the damage to the toes alley toothing pains, rolier door had been done by boots. them, or post free, i cents the vial, croup, and colds. Your chemist selle The Countess, however, refused to from Dr. Williams Medicine Co., 90. confess to the crime, stoutly main-Elangse Road, Shanghai. taining her innocence.

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