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CRIMES OF PASSION.

SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1981.

GIFT TO VATICAN. Scorched Manuscripts You must leave the quiet peace

of Clement. IX. of the English castle for the Sitting as Coroner without a jury next illustration and come with yesterday afternoon, Mr. H. H.

Williams returned

UNIQUE COLLECTION. verdict me to the howling wilderness of accidental death after The archives of Pope Clement IX, You will need a pith helmet and hearing evidence in 2n in have returned an extra handkerchief us it is quiry into the death of a Chinese Library-after a lapse of more than to the Vatican woman named Lau Wong-sh!. It was two and a half centuries. Though hot, very hot!

suggested that a flower pot on the he reigned only from 1667 1669, King Billy and his dusky war- verandah parapet of the second he left a valuable collection of docu- riors have but recently returned floor of 284, Dea Vaux Road Contral ments dating from the time when from the wholesale slaughter of was dislodged by a sun-blind awing-ho was Secretary of State to Alex- ing in the wind and fell on theander VII, whom he succeeded. their neighbouring tribe, and woman's head. celebrations and feasting are ät their height. Billy, an obese. monster, "squats at the royal dog "inble," his favourite crouched in the dust at his feet, his eyes never leaving his mas- ter's face, and his ready jawa snapping at the choice morsels which come his way. Farther away other less favoured mon-

Love is responsible for only one grels snarl and snap over per cent. of crimes of passion: the

towards scraps thrown

them rest are caused by injured pride

and egotiam. while directly behind him and at

That is the conclusion of French a discreet distance sits his fond alienists, who at the request of the spouse receiving also her portion Government, have been investigat of the feast. When the atten-ng the contributors causes of

crimes of passion. tions of her lord and master flag Dr. Etienne Martin the famous she caresses with fond fingers allenist of Lyons, brlogs forward the necklet encircling her dusky the novel suggestion of a love of drawing up a general catalogue cure," which, he affirma, has in his, has now been undertaken, but the throat. A gift from King Billy, own city prevented dozens of per- present generation of 'studenta will received with the last bone and sons from committing murder or probably not see its completion. composed of fine white teeth with a shining knuckle-bone pendant.

*

Let us pass on quickly to the less offensive demonstrations of the modern wanderer.

"Tea, my dear, pints of tea is what I need. Jove! It's good to be home! No, it's only dust. All right, I'll brush it off later. Haven't had a decent meal since I left. A week of heat and dusty. roads, punctures, flies and cold tea! Jove! It is good to be home!"!

Specialist Gives the "Love Cure.”

SUCCESSFUL TRIAL.

suicide. ·

The "love cure" is effected by re- moving people from hospitals, where. they have been taken after trying to commit suicide, and transferring them to a special infirmary.

Would-be Suicides.

ed and her ample bosom leaving with suppressed emotion. Olaf the Mighty approaches, unconscious of the brewing storm. He rides a steed gay with rich trappings and mounted behind him, looking Overland China nil. about with timid eyes, is a dark and beautiful girl! The cloud deepens! Looking at the gener ous proportions and stern eye of

Later, refreshed with a sleep the fair one we are apt to feel aand lacking the dust of the jour-in crimes of pasalon, the allenists twinge of sympathy for Olaf,

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After his death they passed into the hands of the Rospigliosi family, and were atorod in their Roman palace. A few years ago they narrowly escaped destruction in a fire which broke out there. Fortunately the robust vellum binding saved them; until the household rescued them; but the scorched edges of the manu- scripts bear witness to the danger they had been in.

Mr. Luis Mendelssohn, an Amer iran citizen, recently acquired the collection and presented it to Pope Pius XI. He also received a por tion of one of the Colonna libraries. five red berets worn by, Clement IX, and apme ancient globes.

The collection of "incunabile" in

the Vatican library is said to be unique. But its real glory ie it's treasure of manuscripts, said to in- clude 50,000 items. The vast task

CHINESE DO LOOK ALIKE.

It has long been a commonplace comment

on the Chinese, among foreigners brought into contcot with

The would-be suicides are first of them, that, with very few excep all asked if they will try again to reservations have been made, how- tions, they all look alike. Many kill themselves, and if they reply ever, as to this, being probably at indefinitely under abservation and holding a professional post at in the affirmative then they are held Occidental Illusion. But a doctor prevented from thinking or talking Pelping (Peking) Union Medical or writing about the subject of College has told the Galton Societ, their passions.

Dr. Martin affirms that there is There does exist among the Chinese that the nation is no delusion. no single case on record of a persona much greater similarity of hair making a second attempt on his life colour, eye colour, complexion, head after being treated with the "love form, and shape of nose and eyelid, cure" and discharged as cured.

than is found among Europesus. the condition of a uniform race. Concerning the guilt of murderers

Physically the Chinese approach ney, he suddenly remembers say that often men and women European populations contain much but no ebb of colour blanches his that he has not yet kissed his brood for months over an imagined cheek! With a cheery "Hola!"

A vengeance, until it is the merest teater percentages of individuals wife. He does so. of greeting he springs from the

step from the obsession to the deed whom anthropologista call "dia- "Oh, and by the way, my dear, itself...

harmonic," meaning that the size suddle, lifting the girl down after thought you might like these." The alienists, while supporting in of the head, for instance, does not

Producing

of Blank Principle the death penalty for subody, or that the width of the face a tin cigarettes: "D'you mind if murdera, recommend that the back-

ground of each individual case is too great to suit the height of the 'take one?"

should be examined to find the.

skull. These disharmonic persons often. aro ageribed to recent mixture All joyful in their own way,origin of the crime, of passion.

of different racial strains. Their and. having one essential feature HOW HE ESCAPED.

relative scarcity in China suggests that the melting pot process there has been functioning much longer than in most parts of Europe.- Manchester Guardfan.

him.

"A slave for thee, woman" nd with a mighty shove sends her hurtling against the bosom of his wife.

Brave men, these Vikings! Brave is the man who would come home on his next return from a holiday bringing an at tractive young parlourmaid with Hong Kong. Saturday, July 11, 1931. timid eyes as gift for the wife!

The cloud vanishes and is re-

in common. A gift for the. wife!

News in Brief.

And He Has Not Come Back Yet.

OFFICIALS DUPED.47 The next Assizes will be held on A prisoner serving a sentence at Monday, July 20.

Cottbus, Prussia, escaped mysteri

•Y.W.CA.”

the

When the men filed back into the

match harmoniously that of the

Ten Years Ago.

From. the "Chins Mall".

July 11, 1921.1°

To-day's dollar is worth 2/8.1/8.

watere waa8-

A search of the grounds threw reported by the 'master of the trad

Adversaria.

placed by broad and affectionate Revised regulations under theously when taken out with other There is a sense of well being smiles! Conjugal happiness is Liquors Consolidation Ordinance Prisoners for exercise, and content in the homecoming like to be restored! With a win- are published in the Government prison he was not among the file. Piracy in Chinese after the worries and annoyances ning gesture the fair one places Gazette. of the day but it is for the wan- both hands on her Olaf's massive The lowest open air temperature no light on the mystery, and aling launch Takhing on arrival here derer that the real joy is re shoulders, and gives him a play-yesterday was 79 degrees. The "comb-out of the district round at 7.30 last night. Leaving Autau served.

ful push which sends him stag humidity at 82 at 10 am and 80 the gaol, was equally unavailing in Chinese territory at 10 am with A few days later the man whe cargo and 47 passengers for Hong We may illustrate our state gering back several yards. He at 4 p.m.

seen in Berlin and recaptured. Ho Kong, the vessel had been steaming ment with the mighty wanderer returns to chuck her under the At the Rotary Club meeting on was taken back to Cottbus and in for twenty minutes and was still in of old, the Viking who wiped his chin in an excess of affectionato Tuesday Misa T. H. Shin will apea terviewed by the Governor, who Autat Bay when he heard a com battle axe and turned his face to-regard that well nigh jerks on "The History and Work of Preased him to explain how he had motion on the steerage deck. A made his escape, moment later a man entered' the ward Norway with a warm stir-her_ample" head; from her

So Simple.wheelhouse and at the point of the ring round his heart, even as shoulders and in apprecia During the months of May to The man said that in civil life he revolver forced him to steer straight the wanderer of to-day, the com- tion of the attention⠀⠀⠀ she October, Inclusive, no, launch or was a circus acrobat and nothing ahead. When near Sanlul the man mercial traveller, sets down his repeats the push with a shy coy or anchor in bu Tiang Wan (Talanded to demonstrate how it was done. Two sampars came alongside and motor boat will be permitted to lie could have been simplor. He offer ordered him to stop the launch. mug, the modern weapon, wipes ness wholly charming. Several Bay).

He was taken out into the yard took eight men ashore After the his mouth and cranks up for yards away Olaf picks himself

where he persuaded the Governor pirates had gone, he discovered that home The revers of the sea in up slowly, wipes the dust from The name of Lim E. F. Que and two or three warders to form a $540 had been stolen from the com- the reign of Queen Bess sang his shining, mail, and together John's Hall, University, has been yard.

M.B., B.S., (Hong Kong) of sale with hint and march round the pradores room. Two riffes and SAAL260 rounds of ammunition were never so blithely as when the they go to the banqueting hall added to the Register of Medical When they cams near the wall he taken from the guards' quarters. made á prodigious leap, caught the The two guards were taken by Bur sail, bellying to a stiff breeze to drink to the homecoming in a Practitioners.

top, hauled himself over and was prise and relieved of their revolvers. sent them scudding over the horn of good ale.. waves to the white cliffs of Dover

During the quarter ended June, gone.

and ammunition pouches. The 80 59 samples of bread, biscuits. The astonished officials waited passengers were robbed of clothing and the dusky native, lord of the

The transports of the polished fresh milk, condensed milk, and tos for the man to return the way he feathers, cuts a caper from sheer the enthusiastic abandon of his une and 14, samples of fresh Analyst. Of these 45 were found exuberance as the scents of the ancester Olaf, his every nction milk found adulterated. distant camp come to him on the

being stamped with the courtly] Ben wind."

The Hon Treasurer of St. John' grace that murks the men of his Ambulance - Brigade - acknowledges time. Nevertheless, the foy of receipt of the following donations the homecoming. In his heart toward and after paying homage at the pillaged court of his queen and patroness.

arriors he takes horse and

wilderness in his war paint and cavalier of the 16th century lack were examined by the Government had gone. They are still waiting Jewellery, and money valued at over.

Olaf the Mighty first killer and plunderer of the land, re turns from his war unknown seas, rich wit gold and

into

Brigada Fund?? Me $200, Mr. Fung

Club $500, ang. $100, MA Mr. P K Kwok

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