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CHEMICAL GOLD.

FRENCH ALCHEMIST'S EXPERIMENT:

SULPHUR, SILVER, AND ANTIMONY,

[United Fresa.]

Douai, France, July 15.--Gold has again been brewed in a laboratory crucible, this time by an alchemist who challenges the chemiste, phy- sicists and the savants of the world to verify his discovery.

BROKEN ROMANCE

AT FIFTY...

IRISHMAN'S ALLEGED IS YEARS' COURTSHIP.

"SO LONG UNSCATHED."

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FILM "TALKIES."

BIG STARS IN DEMAND.

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London, July 13-With British business men convinced at last that the Talkies have come to stay, a new financial power with immense re- sources is expected to begin opera- tions in London very shortly. So Jar, an air of mystery and secrecy has been thrown about the plans of

the proposed organization, but it Care For Your Hair With Cuticura Soap

is known that the new trust bopes to secure the services of Charlie Chaplin, Rezald Colman, and other big stars and feature them in British Talkies.

"No, old dear. I passed my fiftieth year two days ago, and as I have gone so long unscathed I am going to take pot luck for the re

Dace mainder of the time. again, miss. No, never more.

This extract from a letter, stated to have been written by a man to his fancée, was read in the King's Bench Division, before Mr. Justice In this way the promoters of the Horridge and a common jury when trust hope to resuscitate the British damages for alleged brench of pro-im industry, and exploit the com- mise were claimed by Miss Joan mercial possibilities of British talk- (ould, of Canovee, Killinardrish, ing County Cork against Mr. John O'Sullivan, in employee of the Port of London Authority, of Voltaire road, Clapham.

Mr. O'Sullivan denied that a pro- rise of marriage was given.

Holiday Visits.

voices, and British talent generally. A number of financiers who have hitherto had no interest in the film business are preparing

launch a private..company with resources and inter- unlimited gational guarantees to make British talking films with famous artists.

M. Jolivet-Castelot, president of the Alchemists Sceiety of Fraper, insists that he has obtained ten milligrams of good red guld by a process of his own discovery, and, throws the gauntlet square at the Academy of Sciences. Not only doss this present day follower of Thomas

Negotiations in Hand, Quinas. Raymond Lull and Ruger

Mr. Willoughby Jardine, for Misa Bacon issue a challenge but fellows Gould, said that she was the daugh Negotiations are already in pro- it with publication of the formula.

ter of a farmer of Canovce, where gress with personalities of inter- "I mixed six grams of silver Mr. O'Sullivan formerly lived. She national fame to see if they are pres absolutely free of all trace of gold had known Mr. O'Sullivan by sightpared to come to England and as a boy at school. but she first be- work. The new company will act as nanciers only. It aims, how- with two grams of sulphur and came acquainted with him in 1003.

secure the pick of the Her father, died in 1905 and short ever to antimony, one gram of orpiment and one gram of chemically purely afterwards Mr. O'Sullivan pro- world's production managers, tech posed marriage to her. She spoke nicians, artists and studio workers tin." the Alchemist said. "I sub-to her mother about the matter and with a view of founding a jected the mixture to a heat of 1,100 her mother advised her that owing British industry modelled on the

proved so eminently successful." degrees centigrade, Lailing the pro-to her father's death the wedding idea of that in America which has

had better be postponed. duct is pitric acid and nyua regin.

Indisputable Result," The result was indisputable estimate the am unt of gold obtain.

Mr. O'Sullivan weat to Canovec for his holidays every year for a considerable period, and was always accepted as Miss Gould's fiancé

A voluminous and affectionate

for eighteen years.

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A DOCK SMILE.

SENTENCED MAN ANGERS

WOMEN IN COURT.

George Joseph Fletcher, aged eused at the Old Bailey of defraud- thirty-nine: a seamat, who was ac ing women in poor circumstances, pleaded guilty to obtaining money by false pretences, and he was also found guilty of being an habitual criminal.

- The Common Serjeant said that Although Fletcher had been found not sentence him to preventive de- to be an habitual criminal, he could

edat ten milligrams. The tin which correspondence passed between them alliance with an American concern tention unless he gave him penal

J include in the formula I did not use in my experiment but it is cer- tain that its use win increase the ameant of gold obtainable. I be lieve I have found the key to the regular and industrial manufacture of gold."

The brains behind the new syn diente believe that the time is ripe for the establishment of production on a large scale over here, and it is possible that it will work in Broadly the scheme is one of in- Mr. O'Sullivan was on holiday international co-operation rather than Ireland in the summer of 1019 when competition, but the films will be he told Miss Gould's brother that essentially British, and at the same he intended that the wedding should time have a world-wide appeal. take place later, and added that it would have been celebrated long be fore but for the difficulty of obtain ing accommodation.

The company may take over some existing studios, but it is probable that it will meet its own adjacent. to London. These will be equipped with the most up-to-date methods of sound reproduction. It is hoped handle talking and silent films that the new trust will be able to Chaplin, Ronald Colman, and other bir stars.

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servitude, and he did not think that Fletcher smiled broadly when sen- it was a case for that. tenced to two years' hard labour.

A woman in court: Oh you Another woman: I would like to beast smiling like that. give him something to smile ut He had my when he comes out.

A woman at the court door cried, last penny.

was taken below: as Fletcher

to speak for you, Geoage."

M. Jolivet-Castelot stated that he

Mr. O'Sullivan was affectionate had submitted bis formula to scien tats of many nations for verifica- towards Miss Gould in September, Ling and had in several instauces 1923, while on holiday, and talked received testimonials that conarmed about obtaining possession of starring such artistes as Charles! Call me

is belief that he had at last found house. However, he left Ireland without saying Good bye," and in the philosopher's stone.

Deuter Gaston Huysmans. Directhe following month he wrote thel er of the Public Health Lahora letter quoted above.

to the teries at Brussels, wrote alchemist that. I believe your ex- periences permit the realization of the dream of gold synthesis,"

D. M. Paul om. Lind, professor at Santiago. Cuba, wrote: I have not found it necessary to modify your fermata nor the process that you indicated, for the transmuta. lion took place exactly as you ex- plained. I am ready to vouch for ihe veracity of your experiments and the positive success, this not to Better you because I do not know you. but to add weight and strength To the truth."

Fascinating Experiments. Dr. J. Outen-Dumont, declared iha: I have redone your experi- ment in my laboratory and I was #azed."

The news reached Ireland later that Mr. O'Sullivan had married in England on February 24, 1924.

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Witness and "Squeezes." Miss Gould, giving evidence, said that she was now over fifty years of age.

sent Mr. Her family often O'Sullivan salmon and other deli. cacies during the war. He treated her most affectionately after the engagement, and always kissed her when they met.

Mr. Justice Horridge: Did he give you the squeezes "he speaks of in his letters ?

Miss Gould: Yes,

Miss Guald, in cross-examination by Sergent, Sullivan, said that she never authorised any one to say on her behalf that if she had been married she would have had a fortune of about a thousand pounds. She bad never beer present at an Irish match-making. Sergeant Sullivan; Your case i that you and Mr. O'Sullivan fell in love-Yes.

Mr. Justice Horridge: Your sug- gestion is that in other cases it is always business?

The Academy of Sciences of France has, however, refused to give trous attention to M. Jolivet Castelet's discovery despite his re- peated attempts to gain a serious bearing Sor, for that matter has any other body of what the alchemist describes agofficial savants" granted the discoverer, an audience. M. Jolivet-Castelot is only one of a series of men who have claim- ed they have discovered how to fransmute baser metals Anto

Sergeant Sullivan said later I gold. Alchemy, which lost it want you to point out any passage standing when in the sixteenth and in the whole correspondence in which seventeenth centuries it was put on M. O'Sullivan makes any allusion scientific basis,, becoming there-to-approaching marriage or to fixing with. Chemistry, has however con- dare for it.

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Sergeant Sullivan: In most cases the marriages are arranged by the parents, and not by the young people at all.

tiburd ΤΟ exist, fascinating Mr. Justice Horridge: If she has cranky and amateur chemists.

to go through all these letters we chemist societies exist in all civiliz shall be here till Christmas. ed euntries and have thousands of

The hearing was adjourned. incibers.

The last announcement of the laboratory manufacture of gold was rina Dr. Michle of the University of Berlin who claimed that he had transmuted mercury into the pre- cious metal. This sounded plausible because mercury contains but one

SOLE DIRECTORS DIE. PROSPEROUS COMPANY'S

DILEMMA.

The extraordinary position in ator more than gold and it would which a company has been placed be possible to knock off the excess by the deaths of two brothers on atom by chemical process. New successive dates was mentioned to York University professors in at Mr. Justice Maugham in the Chan- tempting to verify the experiment cery Division recently. failed to obtain any gold. It was therefore concluded that gold must have existed in the mercury as an impurity.

Discovery of a process for the swift manufacture of gold would revolutionise the financial and 10- dustrial world, the aret by destroy ing the gold basis of the world's money system, the second by supply- ing a substitute for steel. Scientists point out that a combination of gold, platinum and iridium" would not only be harder than steel but would have the additional advan tage of being rustproof.

What

Old-street magistrate: drink did you bring from the public house? Woman: A liquid Urink

Deserted wife, at Willesdes: My husband must be in work, be cause he is driving about in his

car.

They were sole directors and shareholders of a company called T. A. Firth, Ltd., and the effect of their deaths was that the 'com- pany was unable to pass resolu- tions, order cheques to be signed, or transact any of the ordinary business of a board of directors.

*Singular Case.

Mr. Hecksher, for the exécutora of the brothers, applied that their names should be added to the com. pany's register respecting the shares held by the brothers. said that he did not know of an- other ease like this

He

The alternative to making this application would be to wind up the company, which would be dis- astrous, as it was a prosperous

one.

Mr. Justice Maugham adjourned the motion and directed that in the meantime notice should be serv ed on the secretary, to the company requiring that the names of the executors should be placed on the register.

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