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GENERAL NEWS.

Wormwood.

"Miss Marie Corelli and other enthusiasts will be delighted with the following Moorish de scription of absinthe:" Absin the is of the 'Evil One. On its roots he pears the blood of a peacock, on the leaves the blood of a monkey, the stalk he dips into the blood of a bear. Then

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with the juice of the plant ha RECEIVED BY THE mingles the blood of a pig. man takes his first

"Thus: a -glass of absinthe, and bis appetite swakes, and he arises, prodd as: as peacock. At the second glass he becomes excited, and geati- calates like a monkey; at the third he grows spiteful like a bear; at the fourth he becomes besotted, falls, and rolls like a hog in the mire," After that, un 'Pernod et l'eau frappe; s'il vous plait-Daily Express.)

Woman Lecturer's Bequests.

Miss Ida Freund, of 7, Cran- mer-road, Cambridge, formerly leatarer in chemistry at Newn- ham College, who left £17,494,. bequeathed £2,000 each to Ad- denbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge; the Charity Organisation Society, and "such musical institution or institutions in England whose objects are charitable as the executors determine"; and the residue of her estate, about

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presence. While apparatus is available for determining" ap- proximately the direction from which a message is received, it would not commonly be available,

£8,000, to the Women's Univer-The Danger of Serious Trouble, or be used if available in such a

sity Settlement at Southwark, *S. E.

ment

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case, and it, gives no indication of the distance of the sender. At sea, of course, it, would be an British Record Shooting. Despite stringent regulation easy matter for a malevolent Corporal Hurst, of the lat

of wireless apparatus-national Wessex Engineers, a winner of and international-the mischiev

operator-if such a person exist- ed-to Queen Mary's Prize at Bisley: ous or malicious, sender of fulee messages without fear of detection. dispatch. misleading orested & new shooting record at messages still occasionally con. Thus the authors of mesanges Bath by making 95 points out of tinues to make a nuisance of him which are not bona fide can a possible 07 while firing in a self and sometimes comos very remain anonymous at pleasure, ...standard teat. The EQOTE' 18 near to causing serious trouble.with little risk of discovery.

olaimed to be a record for theft is essentially the act of a British Isles. The shooting was coward to perpetrate a practical wronght by false messagee is

"The evil which made over three ranges, 100,200, joke at a distance of fifty or incalculable. Their employment and 500 yards. Corporal Hurst, hundred miles, with practically for the purpose of causing fluctua- who has won many prizes at risk of detection. That tione in the value of securities in Bisley and elsewhere, has been presented with a gold medal in skill to operate wireless apparatus obviously possible form of abuse

persons of sufficient education and the money market is recognition of bis latest achieve will stoor to such things is almost of wireless telegraphy, and it is

unbelievable, but the logic of not difficult to conceive of condi facts compels one to admit it. tions ander which false messages The writer of a leading editorial supposed to be transmitted, for in the Electrical Reviete has this example, from a British war-ship to say on some recent instances to the Admiralty, or vice versa, "It will be remembered that at in a time of international tension, Cardiff Mental Hospital at. Whit- the time of the disaster to the might excite a people to frenzy The man, who is forty years of Titanic, and on several other oc- and precipitate an appeal to

casions, much annoyance was age, was among those who man caused to individuals and to the can not be effectually severed or arme, Wireless communication ed the last boat which left the public by the dissemination of interrupted, and messages can- sinking liner.

false messages by wireless tele-not be prevented from arriving graphy; ย recurrence of this]

at their goal; but neither can. tank place recently their propagation be prevented, Shamrock IV., the yacht bailtrouble for. Sir Thomas Lipton, with when messages were received in and the greatest caution should which he hopes this year to win Japan purporting to emanate be exercised in accepting them the America Cup, started at from the American liner Siberia, as genuine if the circumstances a thirty-mile trial ainting that she was aground afford the alightest reason for Torquay on with Shamrock III. There was and sinking off the coast of For- doubt. Very heavy penalties a nice breeze, and on the beat to mosa. The next day the vessel should be prescribed for the the Channel mark the challenger arrived at Manila, and denied miense of this otherwise invalu gained a lend of her rival. The issuing the call for help; more able system of communication.** Shamrock challenger eventually over, she could not have been with-

Tragedy of Titanic Survivor. A seaman whose experiences in the Titanic disaster was believed to be the cause of his mental de- rangement is missing from the

church.

Shamrock IV.'s Triumph.

secured a long lead from the in 100 miles of Formosa, which lien far out of her course from

other boat.

Shamrock IV. won by over R San Francisco.

"The Siberia was insured for British and

mile, or 9miu. 20sec., having conceded 4min. 238eo. to her about £400,000.

Fire at Christie's, Considerable excitement was

rival. Actually she won by 4min. Japanese cruisers were dispatched caused recently by the fasing of 57aco. The finishing times were: to her aid. Much mental satan electric motor in a building Shamrock IV, 3hr. 23min. 30sec.;fering must have been undergone belonging to Messrs. Christie, Shamrock III, 3hr. 32min. 50eec. by the relatives and friends of next to their famous sale-rooms in King-street, St. James's, Lon- The latter boat carried away her those on board her, and it is ob spinnaker boom rounding the rious that very beavy financial

don, S. W. loss might result, perhaps has

There is at present a store of

soon after the alarm was given'

home mark. The trial was very resulted, from the erroneous an-art treasures at Christie's, and Batisfactory.

Sir Thomas, who was on board, nouncement. was prosented with a large earth- enware teapot engraved with

four-leaved shamrocks. In &

trial on Monday the new Sham rock gained 22min. in 18 miles

on the older boat.

- Trawler and Whales.

Whether the signals were Lieutenant Bladen, chief of the transmitted in good faith by some London Fire Brigade, and Colonel other vessel in trouble, or whether Fox, chief of the Calvage Corps, they were the work of a practical arrived in motor-cars. The fire joker-save the mark fia zo was soon put out the only damage yet definitely Betded. The in

being to the motor. cident, however, draws attention to certain attributes and possibili- The Grimsby trawler Lord ties of wireless telegraphy which Wolmer has reached home, and render it capable of being em- reports that when coming from ployed very greatly to the dis Iceland she encountered a robool advantage of the community. of big wholes in the North At- "In the first place, it is lantic. Several of the fish collid-practically impossible to identify ed with the vessel, which, more the sonder of false news, except than, once was in danger of under special circumstances easily Capsizing. One of the whalen was avoided. Inquiries could be made

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