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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1927.

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Cashier Wins £10,000.

Mr. W. M. Granstoun, cashier at Lloyd's Bank, Leicas tar, has won the prize of $10,000 In the character ballot promoted on behalf of the Variety Ar tists' and Cinema Trade Bena volent Fund. S

What was believed to have been the oldest horse in the world died recently at Rushville, Illinois, at the age, of 40.

The cassowary lays from six to eight eggs and these are incubated solely by the male. The eggs are so large that one will furnish a meal for several persons.

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Grains of wheat taken from an Egyptian tomb that had been clos ed for 4,000 years were planted by a New South Wales farmer and grew to exceptional height.

Spiritualist Monument.")

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has given 500 dollars for the aree tion of a boulder to stand as a monument to Spiritualism on the grounds of the Plymouth Spiritualist Church at Roches- ter, New York

Alloway's Auld Kirk

Known and cherland out the world, Robert Burris, at Alloway, I tallsed by the Shanter, has Bea

üled as

an ancient monument by the An- elent Monumenta Board.

Britain's debt to the United States, said all at once in gold,!: This year the United States will. allow 164,667 immigrants to enter would well 6,700 tons.

the country

Malayan imports of dutiable drinks and tobacco during the first quarter of the current year had a total value of £1,842,858, as against $1,290,221 in the cor- responding period of 1926.

At the annual meeting of the Herefordshire Coursing Club only one meeting was arranged for the present, because, it was stated, the county was being stripped of greyhounds as the re sult of electrical greyhound rac-

A missionary in the Interior of Alaska, the Rev. Andrew Knox, hasing. written to friends that dogs have

Opce plentiful in Chesapeake Bay, the diamond-back terrapin now is almost extinct. Although valueless then, a speciman now sells for eight dollars.

The Lord Mayor of London accompanied by the Lady Mayoress and the Sheriffs, open- ed the Oak Hill Home for Jour- nalista at Ipswich on September 6..

"Vegetarian" Marriages.

"Vegetarian" weddings are being encouraged. by the French Society of. Vegetarians. They have organ-

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caten part of his church. When Shark In Canal. recently called into the interior, heA shark measuring over seven left a supply of dried fish for his feet has been found dead in thefsed a series of functions where dogs. Returning, he found the dogs had exhausted their food and had chewed up the walrus and reindeer hides that formed the walls of the church.

Girls Marry Earlier.

Manchester Ship Canal close to the Eastham Locks. It was into the alive when it came canal, and was apparently kill ed by the propeller of a passing ship.

After many years, the assets of the "Selected Gold Mines of Australia," a company promot

young lovers of vegetables can start their courtships. Opposites may be attracted to each other, say some of the leaders of this movement, but the dinner table is likely to become a battle-ground if there, be too great a difference in tastes.

With not a penny in his poc

Robe M'Whyte, Canadian of 83, has started to walk round the world simply for the love of adventure. M Whyte arrived in Deal a few weeks

British girls are marrying young- er than before the war, but men at a later age, according to statistics by the Registrar General. After ed by Horatio Bottomley, is beket, Andre the war many women married being distributed to the sharehold tween the ages of 25 and 30. Thou- ers. The sum of about: £24,000 sands of marriageable girls lost has been divided into 187,660 their sweethearts during the war. parta, and will represent about Figures show that the majority of 88. 6d, in the £1. brides are now between 20 and 25.- They were children during the war. Many of the men now marrying were youths during the war.

After their messenger dog had been seriously burned in carrying orders from one sector of a forest Are to another, California forest tangers made an asbestos coat for

him.

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The first year medical students

and the seniors in the college of pharmacy, University of the Philip pines, are helping Dr. Isabelo Con- cepcion, head of the physiology de- partment and professor of bloche- mistry, College of Medicine, in his researches on the diet of student

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Many a traffic cop in Chicago the other night cleared his crossing. for a clanging fire-truck that went changing about the strests in a business-like manner. But there was no fire and rext morning the $15,000 truck was found in an alley, undamaged and deserted.. A watchman at a new fire station was found bound and gagged. He anid two youths tied him up at the point of a gun and stole the truck "to play firemen.".

Women's Road Race.

Penarth streets were crowded with thousands of spectators when a women's road · race of

ago.

"I am hot walking round the world for any wager, but simply for the love of the thing and to see all I can see, he said.

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The largest continuous stretch | two miles was won by Mrs. of concrete roadway in the world Robbins, of Grangetown, Car- has just been completed In diff, the mother of three chil- America. This road is 187 miles dren, who accomplished the two long, and passes through 27 miles' walk in twenty minutes towna and villages. It is estim-

three seconds.

A Marseilles tramway conduc- tor found a wallet containing 600,000 francs (about £5,000) which an Englishman had left in his vehicle. The conductor at once sought out the Englishman and returned the wallet to him. The owner offered the conductor a reward of 200 francs (about 358.) which he refused.

POLAR CAKE

ITS QUALITY THAT COUNTS

ated that the new road will save thousands of pounds annually, since prior to its being recon- structed it was costing as much as $750 a mile to maintain as a gravel surfaced road.

Speed Exhibition.

An engine weighing 135 tons whirled was in three seconds fifty feet into the air by the strongest crane in Cardiff, and dropped gently on to the deck of the "Chicago City" for a trip to America. The engine, the new G.W.R. King George V. is claimed to be the strongest com- bination, for speed and power in the world. It is going and in- cidentally, as one of the en- gineers said, to show the land of hustle what speed really to America for the Railway Cen- tenary Exhibition, means.

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