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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1926.

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ODDS AND ENDS

FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE)

An early morning study of the statue in London of Florence Night- ingale, standing coldly sering, und dignified, makes it appear us if the lamp Hulk by the most famous of nurses was lighted.

Queen Mary's Gallery.

weighed something like one-hun- dred and fifty pounds, but when it reached the ground it struck upon a protruding rock, and was Bhattered into more than twenty pieces. Such was, the force of its impact that the largest` fragment, which weighed nearly twenty-three pounds, buried itself fys feet io | the stiff clay soil. Fortunately meteorites usually fall in the open country.. Imagine what would happen if such a mass atrauch,u speed should fall lato a crowded city street; yet that is clearly pos sible, remarks "The Youth's Com- . panion." At the same time an other smaller piece, perhaps bal the size of the other, fell into a cultivated field close by, without breaking: It buried itself at least two feat. The man who saw it foll and dug it from the ground de- clares that it waada cold that, frost formed upon when it was ex- posed to the airb

Ghost In Church.

The following strange atory, from a Glasgow correspondent, was published Inga London paper -Weird happenings which are said to have occurred at night in Falkirk church have given much concern to the church officer and organist. Bothy say they have seen the ghost of a churah officer, long ance dead. The present officer declared that when alone in the charch at night, he has frequently heard the shuffling of feet and the sound if a yawn, both of which were peculiar to his predecessor. The organist asserts that night, when alone in the church, he heard voice in a weary tone exclaim, "Och, age." He hurried

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the switchboard, shouting, "Who's there?" But after putting on all the lights he could detect no one. On another evening, the organist says, hd attention was:

JOHN R. PRENTICE

After refusing to pose for a picture, John Rockefeller Prentice, nephew of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., was snapped at Yale,, where he is working his way through college. He won n. 460 telephone operator. "A bright boy," acholarship and works at night as a and his uncle

the

Those who have often wonderedirected to the gallery, where he served to some extent, and what Queen Mary does with all the distinctly observed an old man sheets of the 1-inch map sul had pictures she buys will have been shuffling with weary guit. Despite an ethetly appeal. The engraved Interested to hear that her Majesty a minute senych, however, no trace script of the sixteenth century had sent flow piece to a Bournville of anyone could be found bazaar: Queen Mary has a sperin

Hot and Cold: Meteorites: *

Fat first retained the character of gallery at Buckingham Prince When the news of these happen- the reed-pen writing; but by the where the pictures and otherings leaked out, a member of the end of the eighteenth century that objects of art which she buys to congregation reported that during character was entirely changed. use as gifts are displayed says an the war, when soldiers were upcom-The early 1-in. sheets of about 1:00 "Evening Standard" writer.)modated in the church, he enter years ago were printed directly When a widi is required it can beed one night, to be confronted by from the engraved copper plates. nelected quickly from the gallery. scared looking Tommy holding The introduction of lithography re The Queen has a remarkably good grimly to his wife with bayonet volutionised everything: the de memory for her purchases and

#fixed." All the soldiers were mand for enloured maps became

dark insistent, T

Transfers were pulled rarely forgets having bought even searching feverishly a trivial object.

corners for someone whom they from the copper-plates, and laid declared they had heard moving down on stened or dine plates,, and about, but could not see.

the present in... map was pro- duced by a compromise between engraving and the newer procesa The advantage of the copper-plate that occasionally hum across the Captain J. G. Withycombe, who was that it constituted a permanent heavens, are continually. falling.fread a paper at the British Asso- record upon which alterations and somewhere on the surface of the clation meeting at Southampton additions could be made. Bat per- earth. We find in the reports on "Recent Productions of the fect register was difficult to obtain, issued by the National Museum Ordnance Survey," regretted that much of the pe' work was goår- ut Washington two interesting cartographers had neglected the sened

or failed! to appear on accounts of meteorites, the fall of artistic aspect of map making of the zine after transferring, and it which WON actually observed | the sixteenth and seventeenth cen-was. Anally decided to draw the by trustworthy witnesses. Teturies, says. "Engineering. In the map for direct reproduction by largest of them fell near Colby, Ordnance Survey, the tradition of "hello-sincography,!" which was Wisconsin," on July 4, 1917. It the old engravers had been pre- "simple, direct, and cheaper.

Meteorites,. those mysterious visitants From the sky, which areModern Map Making. the debris of the shooting star"

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