1926-01-22 — Page 11

FRIDAY, JANUARY 22, 1926.

ALBERT

FOR

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A DIALOGUE BETWEEN CONNOISSEURS

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HONGKONG HEIGHTS.

For the information of visitors She following list of some of the highest points on the Island and Mainland is published:—

Ialand.

||

Feet.

Victoria Peak

1828

Signal Station

1774

Mt. Parker

1784

Mountain Lodge.

1725

The Eyrie

1726

Peak Hotel

1805.

Taikoo Sanatorium

1000

Mt. Davis.

.877

Mainland.

Taimoshan

Kowloon Peak

Bowen Rd. (Alterbeds) 297

8124 1971

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AND ENDS

ODDS

A Kiff by Car..

A fox met its death in curtous fashion between Cheltenham and Gloucester recently. The Cotswold Hounds were out tubbing' and ran Just an a fox on to the main road

the fox dropped into the roadway a motor car came along, and before the driver could avoid it the fox

under the wheels and Ma wan

killed.

The drivor of the car pick- ed up the fox and drove away with

A Dickens Prophecy.

I was re-reading "A Tale of Two Cities" the other day. Famil could not help thinking that the following extract from Chaptor 1 was almost prophetic of the pre- Hent day:

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"It was the best of times. it was the worst of times, it was the Tage of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief. it was the epoch of in- teredulity. it was the season of Light, it was the season of Dark- ness, it was the spring of hope

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A Royal Bootlegger.

Alyce McCormick, named the angel of merey" because of har, ohurelt work, is now branded a "temptres" by Ms. C. A. Miller, who is seeking cewe from her wealthy eighty- three-yearold husband, who Bible school, touchers,

Umbrella: Ared Sixty.

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Eriest R. Ackerman, of New Jersey (E.S. AJ, who for a wager has kept our umbrella i use for 48 years, must not boast of it, for Bahere are many Englishwomen who the proud possessors of Czar Alexander D. Gather of the re last of the Czars, was the original umbrellas which they have used bootlegger. His Cussons guard or half a century estates the "San I were his wife, the Czarina, and his Fritacisco Examiner.") There is one wont who has created whab physician. The captain of his rum fleet was his adjutant. Tebecewin. Appears to be a record by braving the rain with the anme umbrella for This is revealed by this far's year. My umbrella was a wed moirs at publisheit. Though a riant by stature, the Czar kad ruin-ding parent in 1864, and I have never used any other! It has been ed his constitution through drink

po-covered twice..and my initials by the time he was forty. Wis

For the handle are almost obliter- Physician forbade bim to teach any alcohol at all, anch the zarina potted but it has never sustained a

bpaķen riptor any other injury." A This Floored.

Phantom Estates,

"A ense passing credulity, was the comment of Str Frápels: Gore, whew, charging the grand jury ati the Hants Quarter Session In re- ferring to the charges against John Kay Harding and Olga Jeanette; Harding at obtaining 23,098 from Henry William Samson, a grocer, of Southampton, 4857 from Rosina Eliza Fonaca, of Limehouse. London, and other similar charges. The woman prisoner had represented that site WOH the illegitimate daughter of the late Tsar of Russia, and had large estates in Engand... A true bill was returned, and the prisoners later aded guilty, and were sentenced to 18 months" hard labour.

Rum Chaser Saves Yacht.

Stranded for sik hours in a calm about ten miles out frem the Golden Gate, San Francisco, recently, the yacht "Carinthian H." with three young high school students abroad, was almost run down in the dark- ness by a Const Guard rum chaser, (which later towed the yacht to its moorings in Sausalito. The boys had only a Nttle' coffee oboard for food, and no rockets. However, a small fire on deck. they built which attracted the attention of a Coast Guard run chaser, and the freighter "Hollywood," which radived to San Francisco for help. The Const Gaard boat, which was I radioed to San Francisco for help. into the launch in the night. The officers of the chaser came aboard. and searched the yacht for liquor, but found none.

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A Rasian Princess working as a chambermaid in a Strand hotel is the latest discovery of Miss Phyllis Holman D.B.E. & kind of fairy god-mother who runs a League of Goodwill to help deserving people. Like many other Russians who || #RHOUDS◆SIT escaped to England she brought with her a few jewels, several rings hoping to treasures and ther sell them when she arrived.

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him ander strici control, and per- exonally sarded him. But Tehere

win entered a special pair of books An unintentional knockout, but twenty, then-she entrusted them

une as lean and effective as any to the made for himself and for the Czar

care of These brits had exceptionally high scored in the prize ring, saved said he had a friend in the jewel shafts, or which two bottles of William Murphy from a lone, mask-ery business and could get a good cognac could be hid very enu-ed and armed highwayman recently, veniently The high boot became Murphy was accosted by the bandit price for them, and she has never part of the uniform by the Czar's (us Alameda (USA). This assailant intimates. It worked perfectly, grufly "batered his hands up. Öften during a card game in which his eneckie hante to obey the the Czar and his intimates were order, Murphy, burled both hand's engaged, the Czarina vame her toward the heavens. One of his monally into the room to see that unsciously clenched. fists found her august husband didn't indulge the exact point of the bandit's jaw in his favourite vice. When she and the man dropped like log. had left, without noticing anything, Murphy waited not to count 10 the Czar counted, "One, two, three," over his fallen adversary, but and this was the signal for every hearted for home and notified the body to reach into his bootshaft police. The neighbourhood was and pull out a bottle. for a good wearched, but Murphy's victim had "wwig."

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