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FORTUNE MOTHER OF INVENTION

NECESSITY IS MERELY THE FATHER

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WHERE LUCK COMES IN

(By Fenn Sherie)

London electric current through it. Jt ECESSITY is not the mother glowed! He sat and watched it

- of invention.

glowing for forty-five hours. And

Rontgen's Luck

A similar measure pagged the House of Lords 14 years ago. The present Bill has been talked out

If you examine the evidence you so the electric lamp came into be three times. It has been held off will find that, in many cases, For-ing. by talk on other Billa on severál

tune is the mother and Necessity occasions,

is merely the father. In other Rontgen, the German scientist, Every permitted Parliamentary words, while a number of Impor-was making experiments with a device has been utilised against it.

tant inventions have been produc-vacuum tube to discover how elec-. The promoters wert a free vote ed by painstaking research, many tricity was conducted through on the second reading and facill- tles for the Committee stage.

"INTELLECTUALS”

of the world's greatest brain-waves gases. By chance there happened have been the result of pure acci-to be close at hand a screen coated [dent.

(with barium platino-cyanide, and

The wheel, no doubt, was invent-he was surprised to notice that this The International Conference of ed. by a primitive gavage who dis-was shining with a peculiar blue Professional Workers which open-covered that he could move a heavy radiance.

ed in London recently provided an object more easily by rolling It He covered the vacuum tube with example of he difficulties which upon a log; and it was probably thick paper, but the screen contin- language sometimes presents in another savage who, by discovering ued to glow, and it was only when international relations.

that he could propel himself across he placed a heavy object between

The English title of the body a river by sitting astride a similar the tube and the screen that the holding the conference was the In-log, actually invented navigation. Aluorescence disappeared. Obvious- ternational Confederation of Non-The crafts of Ironsmelting, pottery fly there was some Bort of ray manual and Professional Workufa. and cookery doubtless owe. their emanating from the tube which Ha The official French name includes origin to similar chance discoveries. could penetrate thick paper. the words Travailleure Intellectuals. Even in the workshop and, the did not know what it was, so le One of the reasons why the laboratory many Important dis called it the X-ray. That was in word was dropped was because of coveries have been made by acci-1895.

the leg-pulling tendencies of trade dent; though, of course, credit is Four days after his discovery union leaders of other organiga-due to the inventors who have was known in America, X-rays the were successfully used to locate a mass suggestion immensely more tions. They were so insistent on perceived the significance of effective. Under the League of calling the professional workers phenomena and applied them to bullet which had penetrated five Inches beyond the entrance wound Nations the first plebiscite was the Intellectuals that it got past a practical purposes.

Take, for instance, the case of in a man's leg, taken in Silesia;, and instead of joke.

"black-coated Hans Lippershey, the Dutch spec- Women do not figure prominent

Hong Kong, Saturday, Nov. 3, 1934. producing an agreed settlement To be called

ΟΙ "white-collared tacle maker. One day, while busy ly in the annals of invention. There

Plebiscites

It led to a crop of recriminations workers" about intimidation and faked workers" was apparently tolerable, in his shop in the little market is at least one authentic case, how- registration that is not yet ex-but "intellectuals" was more than town of Middleburg, he was about ever, in which a woman presented hausted. In the Sear the acthey could stand. So the title was to insert some lanses into a specta her husband with an idea which cle frame when he held them up he was able to exploit to advant- to the light to see which was which.jage.

Your Daily Smile!

of receiving his passbook, and seeing a

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to

From time to time we find cusations of false registration of altered. public interest shifting to places voters vary only in numbers,

By chance he happened to place Finding that her hairpins were have that we previously knew only on some alleging that that. forty been

them one in front of the other and. constantly falling out she made a the map, or not at all; and the thousand voters

Humorist: The writer of an article looking through them, he was amaz-slight bend in each of them reason usually is. that some illegally registered, others put- experiment is being tried may ting the number at a hundred on thrift point out that the man with ed to discover that the weather-keep them in position. Her hus- possibly be useful to the World thousand. 'It is generally admit-out a hank account never, has the thrill cock on the distant church steeple band noticed this and promptly pro- at large, or to ourselves. The ted that the "Supreme Plebiscite substantial sum mounting up on the appeared much nearer and more duced a hairpin with a ready-made latest example is the Sear Tribunal which has to complete credit adde. Neither does the average distinct. So he inserted the lenses kink in it. It made his fortune.

the register, by 17th December, man with a bank account.

at either end of a tube and this. "A mechanical flaw in a weaving Region, where in January next a

produced what he described as an machine led to the invention of the plebiscite is to be taken which will not have time to examine all the disputed applications. Only

"Instrument for seeing at a dis-bath towel. The threads became will decide its future history those can vote who were resident this one."

"You're good at conundrums,

tance."

rucked up and tangled, and the. The point of interest is only in the territory on 28th June, "Sure, go ahead.'":

That was in 1608. A year later manufacturer put the faulty mater partly in the result; it is to

Later, when great extent in the working of 1919; and it is a quaint result Take away my first letter, take the Italian scientist, Galileo adopt-ial aside as waste,

that neither of the leaders of the away my second letter, take away all ed the idea and received the credit drying his hands upon it, he notic this latest device for consulting two parties, the one in favour of my letters and I am still the same for producing the first telescope. ed that it was pleasantly soft and the people in order to secure re-union with Germany, the what President Wilson put for other of retaining the status quo,

Sewing Machine Dream ward as a substitute for war, under the control of, the League,

The modern sewing machine la

Stainless Steel Discovery self-determination. If we can will be able to vote.

said to have been inspired by a Perhaps the most important not find out what people want

dream which came to Elias Howe, chance invention of the present by means of a general vote, one

the son of an American farmer. century was the discovery of stain- more hopeful means of avoiding

Several crude machines for sewing less steel. the drift to war will have to be abandoned as a failure.

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REASON

"Tom's letter is very short, dear." "So is Tom," said his father, he wouldn't have written at all.

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absorbent, That gave him an idea which made him rich.

Howe puzzled his brains to find one containing a larger proportion an improvement. One night he of chromium than had ever been dreamed that he had been set to

tried before It falled, however, make a sewing machine for a say and was discarded. lage king and that he was surround-

unhappy place. Six months ago Garage Proprietor: Police station "had been invented, but none of Daring the war Mr. Harry Brear- it was taken for granted that the Valce on the: Phone: "Yes; whit's them would work properly owing to ley, the metallurgist, was investi- The plebiscite has a history as vote would be practically unani-rone ***

the difficulty of making the needle gating the erosion of rifle barrels.. Garage Proprietor: "I've gat long as the Christian Era, though mous for re-union with Germany, suspicious character here. He wants draw the thread through the mater-He experimented with various for many centuries it lay in for the whole population in Ger-to pay cash for a second-hand car."

ial in one brief action.

Any kinds of steel, and among them was oblivion. In the early days of many, and the present arrange-Y Rome as a City State the people ments were not intended to be. have voted en masse, as a small anything but temporary: The community could very well do."executions” of 30th Juno last As business increased, and the have introduced a doubt, and population became ever more although it is still expected that The s8. Tanda will leave for ed by a body of native warriors unwieldy, the actual work of there will be a majority, it is not Shanghat on Monday at noon. Government, without any change thought likely to be more than in the constitution, passed more sixty percent.

The R.M.S. Empress of Japan When he awoke he realised that and more into the hands of the

arrived at Yokohama yesterday, his dream, had provided a solution Senate, until the 'popular party The Socialists of the second and is due here next Friday.to the problem that had baffled him had the brilliant idea of reviving International have fraternised

the old appeal to a general vote with the Communists of the One case of typhoid fever was in order to defeat the Senatorial Third in a common_antagonism reported in the Colony during the Party. The result was to to the Fascists who threaten 24 hours ended November 1. destroy the method of adminia-their opponents with condign

armed with spears which were pierced through the heads.

for so long: He made a needle

with the eye near the point, Ins-

lock-stitch sewing machine was born

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MIDNIGHT CLOSING HOUR IN H.K.

tead of at the opposite end and the Extension To 1 a.m. Now

Under Consideration tration by debate and to sub-punishment Suspicions of - A qualifying examination for ap-| stitute the Dictatorship of Julius espionage are polsoning social pointments of probationer clerks was accidentor, rather, the prevention of one that led

LIQUOR PRIVILEGES: ALSO Caesar, who was the popular life, and the head of the German (male) in Government Service will leader. The plebiscite is not Fascists has written a letter to be held at the Ellis Kadoorie School Edision into the field of electrical discovery. He happened to see the really a democratic device at all; the local leader, Pirro, telling him Hall on Monday, January 7, 1985,

A proposal to extend the present infant daughter of a railway off-midnight closing restrictions to 1 it is an appeal to men acting as that "forty eight hours after the at 9 a.m.

cial crawling along the track in a.m. in Hong Kong is now receiving

a crowd; and a crowd is con- plebiscite Hitler will have put an

trolled by whatever party has end to plenty of illusions." It is notified that the Nanking front of a shunted box-car and hur the consideration by the Govern the best organisation and makes Meanwhile we have France Knitting Co Ltd, and the New ried to pick her up. Her father, out ment.

Personal Pars

frudiments of telegraphy, and thus C.M.G., Acting Colonial Secretary,

ed.

the cleverest use of masa sugges- stationing troops on the frontier. Taxi Co., Ltd., have been struck off of gratitude, taught Edison the The Hon. Mr. D. W. Tratman, tion:

to make sure that there is a fair the Register of Companies. The modern history of plebis-resenting the threat of repetition vote; and Germany naturally eltes more often called the re of the Ruhr invasion. War is ferendum, shows that this de fa serious nowadays for any fect is not a matter of ancient one to give it entrance to his history, but is inherent in the method Itself. For recent his less there has been a long Chinese philanthropist, was among when his fingers strayed

period atress such as leads the passengers on board the Ea a little pile of lamp-black and tar yond" that hour naturally, being tory it was revived by Louis gradually to the conclusion that President Coolidge which left for and, picking up a piece, he began granted, as at present with the mid- Napoleon who had written anything would be better than a Shanghai this morning...

to roll it between his finger and night closing restrictions. life of Julius Caesarto upset

thumb until it became a thin continuation of the same anxiety: the Parliamentary system and and the Saar-landers must have substitute himself as Emperor, pretty nearly reached that stage. Hal-yeung as an Assistant Regis Carbon wire," he said

The appointment of Mr. Un thread. Barrel bulges tag

"himse When it has been invoked by It le fortunate that the area is trar of Deaths for Kowloon, has party it has always been for the so small, for the same excitement been gazetted.

his interest in electricity was arous in an interview with the Fress said, "No, anality regarding the Every schoolboy knows how, proposed extension has been reach- some years later, Edison was sitting ed yet. It is contemplated extend- Mr. Aw Boon-haw, the well-known in his laboratory late

ing the closing hour from midnight. to. 1 a.m., extension privileges be

purpose of avoiding personal in a large country would be fatal responsibility for something that to the hopes of peace.

fa contrary to popular con

The recent do called Election

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