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STORIES FROM THE WORLD'S WAR FLEET OF 300 AEROPLANES.

PRESS.

TWO OF A TEADE

UNSUSPECTING WIFE'S REWARD. Banknotes and securities worth £12,000 wore found in an old coat Lelonging to a Greek beg- gar who died at Kals, Rounasin. His widow, who found thun, had believed throughout her married life that her husband was a poor man, She had never daged to search fer sband's pockets, as some wives are said to do,

RUSSIAN BUYERS AT‘OLYMPIA..

Az English representative of the Aeroplano The following neat lines appear in the Purchasing Committee of the Russian Govern World:

mont-which has decided to spend £900,000 Says Winston, with polysyllable loquacity,

without delay upon military airmanship-visited the Aero Exhibition at Citympia recently The Buffragatto Lengte is a fount of men-pouled by two of the Russian Government sirmen. Becom dacity"

has decided to buy a fleet of 300 wer Tan womos, in answer, will probably tell who noroplanos, all the machines to be delivered Is simply consumed by professional jealousy. before the end of the summer; and the Russian agent spbat the whole day discussing British

British-bill Bristol biplanes abroplates with the English makors. Already tho Asian Government has bought oight biplanes, and forty Bleriot monophies.

five Forman The somratt noto of the sxhibition is tho remarkable activity of Government in the formation of Roets of

maur aeroplanes. Ex peris from the British War Office lays Leon examining machines Lord Airodale, whose den death was opened; French Government experts are also closely sinon the show recently announced, used to tell a amusing poeting the Eaglish-built machines. story in connection with hie rith," Whon, it "We have now," explained M. Norbert arounced that he had decided to take the Chereat, munnger for M. Bleriot, no fewer title of Baron Aireale he recrivel a coumanies. thou eighty war. araplanna to apply to the tion from the Airedale Terriers Soristy saying crder of the French military anthorities. Thirty it was underator that he had deted his title of these machines, both single and double from their einb, and they fore hoped hereated nonoplanes, bare already been would say his way to present a good cup to the to the Government and are in 17.

supplied society.

Frenol. officere have

began to learn to fly so

rapidly that then no now not far short of 100 mili A propar of a conscience brieken borrower airmen in France. So great in the who recently sent to the London Library the Low Er war aeroplanes for various countries published price of some books which, he had that M. Bieriot eato dolivar any more two- taken out of the institution years ago al forted military maschines for tonnaitring: getion to retur, a contemporary relates the work for the next five months" following:-A visitor was being shown ryönd

SELECTION OF À TITLE.

HOW TO FORM & LIDARY,

An extensive order for Breguet biplanes, a library by the owner, and wired it very at the show has given by the much. He stod for advies about hook-collect Reenah Government.

These metines, con-

Ing. My advics" said the collectar, is simple stensted almost entirely of stool, take to Never lond banks." "Nevo lend books with pives in half

21LF for expeditions naili. the inquirer, rather mystifiest. Na, unrerary transpeel. A number of Furman mili lond books. Do you see the shelves audientary-type biplanes in which the two occupants ing with a sweep of his arma couple of thonsant of the machine sit in a neat enclosed body like books or so),

that of a raging motor-car-have also been borrowed."

Bought by the French, Italian, and Spanish Governments.

Well, every one of these was

AN ORIGINAL,

By way of competition n Chicage puper offer three dollars for the most originalnivertisment for its Sunday issue. The following, original eunuch, was sinong Bose received:

Waste-Young man in gasl waris to get ont sugestions solicita that apight result in imediata release, wants poot address Who wrote: "Stow walls do not à prisou take or iron bars i raze Addess John 1. Siller, County Gaol,

Roaders of the paper became so interested the man that his jarton was granted by the Governor of the State as the result of agitation:

BOY WITNERS' MISTAKE,

A droll incident is report d as having taken -place--or of the pravicial Appos! Contfajn Frauen, Aloy, shunt 14, was summoned - to give evidence, mud bisuppuranes was speli as to

----Y more the whole Court to laughter. The was smill even for his age. He were a long reitingote, online to the Basque cantry, and immense bouts. His traust, collar, au hat were un- questionably those of man. The Court wus Correaland, wnd the President, led the boy how ho dared to treat the Court in stea auskener. The boy semed as eurprised as the President, sad, taking out the citation from his ponket, read the formula iavitin him "comperaltre dans les affaires do yon père.”

WHERE CAMELS SMOKE.

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With the recent orders for Blériot and Farum aeroplanes, added to the number of unclánes of other ninkes already bought by the Frosh Government-such as Sommer, Maurico Parman. Antoineils, Goup Nieuport, and Hanriot machines--the French War Ofies will shortly possess an air foot of at Just 150 war neroplanes.

The fast-ying war monoplane, as designed by 31. Blerint, is the striking feature of the exhibition. Sitting side by sid, protocthal from with mast.compass fixed in frames before the wind by s dome-shapril metal soveen, and them, the driver of the machine and the obser.

will msk through the air at a spood of sixty miles an hour, ingesting a side patoratin of country over the sustaining wings, which have best farther back to faciliste conuoitring. The British War Office ny owns ten aero- planes.

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A defuchas from one of the French armies nuder Napoleon wax ones passing through a small town in a Roman Catholic part of tier. mony, when the troops heing in want of visións, tin genel sent to require a certain Ruount to be furnished by a monstery at a very distance from the town. The superior consulted with the whom kan

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WHEN CARLYLE WAS LECTURED. The dead per recently recalled his first meeting with Cariyle.. I was introduced to him as a young manufacturer from-Leeds, he nid.Carlyle turned suddenly upon me and sait. Pray, sir, is it true that there is a great roaring, smaking forge in the very coutre of Kirkstall Abbey No, sir, I rapliet, it is not true. The Kirkstall Forge in lutf a away from the Abbey, Oh, is it?' Carlyle "ile` grally retorted.

I heard it was in the vory centre of the Abbey, but at any rate Eels is a shoddy mufacturing town, is it 2104 I said him. Do you know, Mr. Carlyle, what shoddy is? You write a great der! about shaddy. Would you mind if I told

Ho suit No.' you!

sad I told him that heddy is rags which is torn np by machinery and was ical and not into wool, and mide info cheap elbing, enables clean and cleap garments to be manufacture for working people. Ob, enid Carlyle reflectively, I had not heard that aspect of the question.“

THE QUEEN AND LADY SMOK ERS, Queen Mary does not like ladies smoking in her presence. Some fow years ago (rocalls MAP.) her Majesty showed her dislike to the cigarette habit being indulged in by ladies in a manner that was not only effective, but was not without its humorous aspect.

When Princess of Wales she was the ghost of a well- known Americna hostess who, after dir, aght, and of course, obtained the Royal assent to somia of the Indies present smoking cigarettes, the Queous disike to this practice not then being generally known; bat daring the consumption of the rigaroites the Queen remained standing, and of course every other indy in the room had to do likewise. The hostess, however, had the shrewdness to why her Royal gaast did not sit down, and in a few minutes maniged to convey her wish to the ladies who were smoking that they should throw away their cigarettes, which they gladly did, for they also supeated why they were hopt standing. The Queen then sit down, and her Majesty has never since had reasor to express her dislike of ladies amoking in her presenos,

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6,232

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6,400

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13

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IST SALOON 47110 SINGLE. 2n

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Leave HONGKONG

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'Tonnage

about

about

6700 May

17

July

4000 May

31

July

6700 Jane

14

July

31

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