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A French mono-rail car is report- ed to have travelled at a speed of 106. miles an hour in a text at Le Mans, thereby exceeding the previous best speed attained by a similar German invention of 99 miles an hour. The test was carried out on the line from Le Mans to Brest.
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-A Gown, Problem
Mr. Arnold Lunn is already known as, a” champion akler, a novelist, and the inventor of a new card game, Auction Plequet. He bas now added to these sidelines the role of preacher, and récently addressed the Anglo-Catholics of Oxford:"
On his last visit be preached in the University Church of St. Mary.
SATURDAY, JUNE 24, 1999. THE ARITHMETICAL CALCULATION
BRITAIN'S SYSTEM "A SUBLIME MUDDLE".
PRESSING NEED FOR CHANGE
(By The Late Arnold Bennett.).
The third volume of: Arnold { Even considered alone, avoir- Bennett's Journals" has just dupois weight is well contrived to been published. Critics are once fl lunatic asylums. Sixteen more exclaiming at the pro-drama of it make an ounce and 16 digious breadth of his interests. ounces a pound, But 14 pounds One of those interests - was make a stone (except at Smithfield the metric system of currency, Market, where eight pounds make ́weights and measures, which Ja stone-yes, this is a fact!) - One Bennett thought Britain should. {hundred and twelve pounds are adopt. Before his death he ́. [needed to make a hundredweight, prepared an article on the sub- and then we jump to 20′ hundred-' jeet-an article brimming over weights to make a ton. with the vitality which mode his style unique.
As for troy weight, I will only remark that though generally.. speaking the ounce is divided into
Mr. Lunn, who is not, a clergy-
If you want to make any sort of 20 pennyweights or 480 grains, for man, asked what he should wear arithmetical calculation in money, gold and silver the ounce is divid- "Any foreign doctor's robes you weights, or measures-the French ed only into tenths, and not into like," he was told..
"But I haven't any foreign doe-decimal (or metric) system is the pennyweights or grains.
În measures of Jength the inch
[torate,"
seme of simplicity.
"Oh, then your ordinary M.A. It is so simple that a philosopher is multiplied by 12 to make a foot,
[gown."
"But I'm not an M.A.”
That is awkward.
"I never won a scholarship." So Mr. Lunn preached from Cranmer's pulpit attired in one of
.
Jor.even
a Cabinet Minister-could' comprehend it in five minutes and but the foot by only three to make a yard, while to make a rod the completely learn it in an hour. It
yard is multiplied by 5%. I might is almost too simple to be believed continue. ad infinitum. la fact, I The franc is the chief unit of
have so far, touched merely the money, the metre the chief unit of fringe of the astounding curiosi
ities of British weights and
measures.
"Well a BA. gown will do:” "I'm afraid I was ploughed and never took a degree.”
1 Виррова you'll have to wear your ordinary length, the square metre the chief unit of area, the kilogram the chief scholar's gown."
unit of weight, and the litre the chief unit of capacity or volume,
The objections to all this rich are divided confusion, sublime muddle and All these measures
total lack of rational system are as a foundation a great scheme the gowns worn by undergraduates or multiplied by tens or hundreds threefold.
Or thousands. Arithmetic is of Eastern penetration was to Hall.
scarcely necessary.
The first objection is moral. If you have follow, Dalny being developed
The British methods of calculat- to multiply a number, by 10 you Hong Kong, Saturday, June 24, 1935., (as a commercial port for the pur
A Colonel's Books.
stick a nought at the end of it. K ing, weighing and measuring are pose. This plan was rudely up famous library gathered by an you have to divide a number by 10 silly and utterly behind the times set, however, by the defeat of interesting man was being dispersed you stick a decimal point in front century, or -50 behind the Russia during the Russo-Japan at a New York sale room recently, of the final numeral. And there
times. Everybody knows this to be ese War. But a new factor in- Life has always been a great ad-you are.
true, and nobody can deny the truded itself after the Chinese venture for the seller Colonel Isham.
same. It must be morally harmful Revolution in 1911. As long as After leaving Cornell and Yale, he
for a nation to go on obstinately A French schoolboy: does not clinging to such methods in the the Manchu Emperors ruled scrambled all over the world in par- Repeated Chinese protests China, Manchuria remained a suit of big game till the war came have to undergo a long course of face of all reason. a man who is against the proposed sale of the closed country to Chinese, who to give him the greatest adventure study in this great dally indis- conscious of continually acting like
pensable field of knowledge. The a fool cannot respect himself. Chinese Eastern Railway have for long regarded it as a promis- of all. at last produced a reply fromed land. The republic removed. He did not wait for: President system is shown to him, or per- The second objection is a nation- up his mind, but aps he seizes it for himself. Heal objection. British methods in- Moscow, but it is unlikely that these barriers, and a great horde Wilson to make the reply will prove satisfactory country and settle there.
of peasants began to flock to the joined the British Army and served comprehends it without headache volves a serious loss of time in the This for three years, becoming a lieuten- tears. He begins at once to education of the young, and We to the Nanking Government unforeseen
employ it. He cannot conceivably have no time to lose in the educa- economic develop ant-colonel. He is also a C.B.E. Reports of Soviet troop concen-ment soon began to convert much Colonel Iaham's book-collecting forget it.
tion of the young.. Already the trations near the Manchurian of Manchuria from a land scarce became Intensive.after the war.
The principle of the French pressure of school subjects is ex- frontier have been received more ly touched and sparsely inhabited Dr. Johnson's Club Project system is employed in every coun-tremely severe, and in the curri
Johnson, Boswell, Mrs. Plozzi and try in Europe save two. These two culum many subjects are perforce
The Chinese Eastern
Railway.
into an agricultural country.
..
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The French System.
frequently of late but the sign-whose products gave the Chinese others of the famous circle were well are Russia and Great Britain. As ignored because the day is too, ficance, if any, of these move-Eastern Railway a new economic represented among the books that to Russia, I will say nothing, be- short. ments cannot be estimated at this importance. As a result of this came under the hammer. They in-caust, like most people, I know The third objection is interna- juncture. The report that Rus-change in he character of the clude the copy of the "Life of John-nothing. As to Great Britain Itional. British methods Involve an sia has offered to sell to Japan Importance of the railway, after son which Boswell inscribed to will say something. But before unnecessary friction in the great its interests in the Chinese East-the Russian Revolution of 1917 Wilkes and in which Wilkes made proceeding I ought to the affair of international trade. ern Railway would seem at first China attempted to assert her scores of notes and corrections.
timid, the irascible, and those Foreigners cannot comprehend
Warn
hend them.
the guinea, frequire around number of Hilo-
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glance to indicate a complete re rights, and by the Sino-Soviet There is Mrs. Piozzi's copy of afflicted with & weak heart on no them, and, quite rightly, refuse to versal of Russian policy in Man-Agreement and the Mukden Johnson's "Rasselas," breathing in account to read what follows: the try to comprehend them, and even churia. Its sale, however, would Soviet Agreement, both of 1924, all her comments the devotion she consequences might be calamitous if they tried would fail to compre- not represent such a sacrifice on it was declared that the railway felt for its author. After the and perhaps fatal..... the part of Russia as might sp was purely a commercial, enter "of a Book unrivaled in Excellency in the French system there is the words. "The End" she has written Let me start with LS.D. Now
Suppose, for instance, that a Bri- pear, since events have served to prise in which, China and Russia: reduce greatly its military and possessed equal rights In the of Intention, in Elegance of Diction, franc and the centime (100 ton wants to sell 1001b, of a com
modity to a French-man. The political importance, although in-management. The Soviet, how in minute knowledge of human Life, centimes to the franc), and that's Frenchman inquires: “How much creasing enormously its commer-ever, refused to permit China to and sublime expression of Oriental all. In Great Britala there are cial value. Indeed, "the Soviet's have anything to do with its con- ¡Imagery.".
two farthings to the halfpenny and is 100lb." The Briton looks up offer .implies Moscow's mill-trol in spite of Chinese protests,
A letter tinged with the melan-two half-pennies to the penny. So the figures in a book and replies: tary helplessness in the Far East. which culminated in 1929 in ancholy and loneliness of Johnson's far the system is regular. But "One hundred pounds is exactly [45,359,243/1,000,000 - · Idlögrams.” This is known by Japan, which attempt by China to take it by last days is that addressed to Mrs. there are 12 pence to the shilling is unlikely to pay a big price, nor force on the pretext that Russia Piozzi, in which he deplores the And then, by way of further The Frenchman performs his na- fural gesture of shrugging his will Moscow's gesture of concilia was taking advantage of its past wearisome solitude of the long chauge, there are 20 shillings to shoulders and says: "But I re tion necessarily deter Japan from tion to propagate Communist the convenience of a club in my! There is also
evenings," which suggests to him the pound. eventually claiming and occupy-/doctrines in Manchuria. The neighbourhood, but I have been quently used. If a Briton owes grams" "Ah!" retorts the Briton." ing, on Manchukuo's behalf,tempt failed, but this state hindered from attending it by want his doctor or his lawyer 184′′ don't know anything about that. Siberia's eastern maritime pro-friction was allowed to continue of breath. If I can complete the guineas," "hoto one. Britonin: 100 I quote a price for a round number vinces," states the Diplomatic until the whole complexion of the scheme you shall have the names could count out the money or
of pounds." Correspondent of the London matter was altered by Japan's and regulations.""
write a cheque for the sum with- "Daily Telegraph." The Man-invasion of Manchuria.It will
out; first making" a calculation--fon churian railways were originally be clear, therefore, that ever constructed as the result of an since 1905 Russia has been
BTE of paper,king the ANA Think of it To. cope with our agreement, made in 1898, be steadily losing ground, and the
monetary system we are forced to THE BREADWINNER tween China and the Russo-sole value of its rights In the
employ a device known as com
1933. Chinese Bank, an institution pro-railway prior to 1981 was com- The Italian state railways have pound division, subtraction, addi- moted the previous year special-mercial; at least as long as Japan, estimated that motor trucks have tion, etc., which all of us learn ly for the purpose of developing by maintaining its authority, taken about one tenth of their with acute pain at school, and very Russian interests in the Far checkmated Russia from the freight business, causing a loss of many of us forget after leaving East The Chinese Eastern Ball-south. With the extension of $20,000,000,
{school—especially compound divi- way Co. was formed as a rub-Japanese power, and the present
sion. Hundreds of thousands of sidiary to construct and run the state of turmoil in Manchuris, To protect country homes from sane persons living in Britain at A strange story of modern line, the surveys were immediate-leven, this value has been redaced buglars a searchlight has been in this moment, if they were asked to family life was related in a court ly proceeded with, and Harbin to a minimum, unless Russia invented that is switched on from calculate the tenth part of 29 188. at Olomous recently when a wife was established as the centre of prepared for a trial of strength inside a house and moved around 6d,, simply could not do it. They sued her husband for throwing her operations. The company's with Japan, since its ability to the eaves on tracks.
would have to get somebody else to out of the house, operations, in addition, had to exercise, its commercial advan-
do it for them, cofact
The husband, it was related, had do with very much more than tage effectively and profitably has Chemically prepared cards, paper Weights and Measures. lost his job, and the wife bad railways; for it also possessed now disappeared. In these cir and lak have been invented with But, LS.D, is as easy as A.B.C. found one. - 3o the husband took the right to carry on mining, to cumstances, that Russia should which signs can be printed with compared to our weights - and lover, the housework, looked after. rum mills, to control posts and be eager to sell is scarcely sur-rubber stamps in white lettering on measures. As every schoolboy has the children and did the cooking: telegraphs, together with other prising, except that control of the dark backgrounds.wprost. forgotten, we have three different while the wife paid for the house important privileges as well as railway would bring Japan with
measures of weight: apothecaries', and home. But she insisted that
Facts You Did Not Know.
TAL
Husband Keeps House While Wife Works.
Prague.
general administrative power in effective striking distance of "According to a "German, scientist used by chemists, troy, used by this, fact gave her all the rights over the zone under its control, the Siberian border. That Japan recent arthquakes in Holland have dealers in precious metals and appertaining to the Head of the all of which increased greatly its is fully alive to the small value due to the dam thất hại bỏen avoirdupole, used by plain persons House * Including that - of- -going strategic value. The Manchurian of the rallway to Russia, is bullt to cut the Zuyder Zee from the for such matters" as soap, - dýna- ont to entertainmenta in the even- system thus built up was essen- enced by its refusal
any North Se
- mita,” and human beings are lag. tial to Russia's policy in the Far large sum: Fet Bast which, being primarily poll probable that any tical and strategic, aimed at ac- would represent a clear quiring an Ice-free port for a Bussta
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Istrong naval base. Port Arthur of a was the port chosen, and with it, small
The apothecaries ounce is divid, She complained to the court that ventilator that can ed into, 480 grains. But the avoir, her husband beat her if she came any window?' fitara dupöla ounes is divided into 287, home late. And his defence was,
I dare not give still more that he was only exercising that rate of 6000 cubic Korrible detalis. - Let it sunce that rights of a house-husband",
the tragic fun runs on.
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