THE CHINA MAIL, NOVEMBER, 16, 1988
News Snack Bar
It looks like the tippler's dream of bliss. Actually they are her- ring barrels at Yarmouth, waiting for the fleet to come in with the fillings.
NO POTTED-THUNDER YET
During the last five years. the B.B.C. has accumulated nearly 4,000 discs of recorded noises-laughs, the roar of an express, murmurings of a dovecote, bells, farmyard cack- lings and so on.
Rain and thunder have never been recorded satisfactorily. The studio water-tank and "thunder- sheet" are still used for these "ef- fects." Best records are those of aeroplanes.
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CRADLE FOR A MAYOR
The Mayor and Mayoress of Pem- broke (Councillor and Mrs. Denis Roes), to whom a son was born re 'cently, are to be presented with a silver cradle.
It is forty years since a Mayoress of Pembroke, during her term of of fice, has given birth to a child, Councillor Rees is thirty-one-the youngest in Britain. His wife is a
Canadian.
** *** BISHOP'S SLOGAN—“DON'T””
The Bishop of London, Dr. Win- nington-Ingram, at a meeting in London gave his slogan as “Don't drink; Don't smoke; Don't eat too- mach; Take regular exercise.
The Bishop has been in training for eighty years. He says he is do ing the same things at eighty as when he was thirty-"but doing them rather better now.”
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WIFE-LAST!
A wife comes after husband and child in the scheme of things-ac- cording to Alfred Thomas Hard- ing, of Warwick-gardens, Ilford. He was sentenced to two months' imprisonment at Wimbledon, for failing to comply with a mainten- ance order. Arrears were £103 15s.
"My child comes first. I come Becond. I put my wife last,” he' said, "If I am any good to you in prison, you can put me there. All I want is God's air und peace. I suppose I can get that in prison as well as anywhere else," he add- ged.
“HILL 60” MAN A.R.P. CHIEF
BRITISH BRAINS LESS BRIGHT, TEST SHOWS
Britain is losing her brightness. The decline in the intelligence of the population is more rapid now than ever before. This is one of the findings in re- cent investigations carried out under the auspices of the Burden Mental Research Trust, described by Dr. J. A. Fraser Roberts, of Bristol, at a meeting of the Eugenics Society.
Dr. Roberts is the principal investigator of the Trust, and the investigations were carried out to establish the relationship between intelligence and the size of families..
3.400 CHILDREN TESTED
Three thousand four hundred
children, representing a complete PITY FOR PARSONS cross-section of the population, were chosen for the investigation.
Stipenda of some clergy in Gloucester diocese are so low that if hampers were not sent to them they would not have a Christmas dinter.
But for the half-crown going with the hamper their children would not have a Christmas box,
So Mr. Stanley Marling, chair- man of the Diocesan Board of Finance, told the Diocesan Con- ference.
ACTORS BUILD THEIR
THEATRE AS THEY
REHEARSE
own
Actors are building their theatre in the Peakland village of Great Hucklow, Derbyshire.
A loan of £500, free of interest from Alderman Graves, of Sheffield, enabled the Great Hucklow village players to buy a cupola, a barn-like structure erected eighty years ago as a furnace and store room for a lead mine,
Every night, the players are busy converting the cupola into a theatre to seat 265 people. As they work, they recite lines from four plays which they are rehear- sing.
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AIR "HONOURS EASY"
Air honours have been exchanged between Britain and Germany. Mr. A. H. R Fedden, pre- sident, of the Royal Aeronautical. Society, received the Lilienthal Ring (presented in the name of Field- Marshal Goering) for his services to aviation. Then the gold medal of the Royal Ae ɔnautical Society has been bestowed on Dr. Eckener, the German airship expert.
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“BIRD OF ILL OMEN" IS NOW TOWN'S MASCOT
A cormorant, driven by a Channel.
has gale to seek shelter on land, been adopted mascot of Bognor Regis.
When first he appeared there was uneasiness.
All lived at Bath, and they were born between September, 1921, and August, 1925.
"There was found to be а marked association between the intelligence of the child and the number of brothers and sisters it possessed," said Dr. Roberts.
"For example, the brightest children had about 1.6 brothers and sisters on the average, while the dullest had about 3.9.
"Of course very clever children may come from large families, and very dull children from small families; but the opposite finding is more usual:
"For example, 25 per cent. of the brightest children were only chil- dren, but only 7 per cent of the dullest were only children.
"Thirty-three per cent. of the dullest children had six or
Despite the progress of modern radio, the dog as a means of com- munication in war-time is still im- portant. In Switzerland the Mili- tary Dog is trained at a special in- struction camp near the forts of Savatan. The dog works swiftiy and almost unseen and can be used to augment the field telephone, or replace it when destroyed. Photo
· shows soldiers and dogs, ready for message carrying instruction.
Someone circulated a report that Major A. H. Edwards, "the man cormorants were birds of ill-omen brothers and sisters, while only 4 who blew up Hill 60,” has been ap- and that their presence foretold per cent. of the brightest had as pointed Air Raid Precautions or war.
many as this.'
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ganiser for the Eastern Valley of But the orphan of the storm is The tendency for the more in- Monmouthshire at £275 a year, plus liked by townsfolk. They refer to telligent, persons in the population £25 travelling expenses.
him as Charlig.
to have, fewer children was, if. Charlie has made his home half- anything, more marked in this way up the steeple of St. John's group than in most of the groups Church:..........
previously studied.
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Major Edwards, a Monmouthshire man, has recently been an instruc- tor in gas protection.
RUSSIA'S 23-TON MODEL IN JEWELS
A 23-ton model of Moscow's Pa- lace of the Soviets is being made at Moscow, according to Tass, the Soviet News Agency. The mater- ials being used are precious and semi-precious stones.
The model will be crowned by a statue of Lenin in pure silver, weighing half 'n ton.
The outside will be faced with Russian quartz of various colours;" while the auditorium will be of white quartz mosaic. A chandelier made of rubies and shaped like a five-pointed star will hang from the ceiling.
CLASS DOESN'T TELL
Dr. Roberts added:-
"One highly significant finding is that the small number "of brothers and sisters of the brighest children is quite inde- pendent of social class.
"The very bright children whose fathers belong to the lowest occupa- tional groups come from families just as small, or, possibly, even a little smaller, than do very bright children whose fathers belong to the highest occupational classes.
"The present trend is lamentable from the national point of view and there is the added danger in the near future that ill-conceived re- medies to meet the menace of a
declining population will make the position worse."
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U.S. POPULATION
UP A MILLION
Population of the United States continues to increase. According to the Washington Census Bureau, at the beginning of 1938 it was appro- ximately 129,818,000-an increase of 941,000 on the previous year's total.
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* NEW COMPLETE TOLSTOI
A jubilee edition of Tolstoi's works eighty-nine volumes.com- prising his entire literary output... is being prepared for publication in Leningrad in connection with the 110th anniversary of the author's birth. His diaries alone fill thirteen volumes.
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DUCE DOING "THE WALK”
Lambeth Walk is still news. Mussolini's learning. It/ "Paris "likes" it—but dart under- stand why English tourists laugh.
For Parlisions cannot pronounce the "O" They sa
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