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Eston Half as School of Aviation.

Eton Hall, offered by the Daks

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of Westminister to the nation, is VICTOR DANCE RECORDS

to be used, sa an aviation school. Costing at least £1,000,000, it took five years to build, complet- ed in 1881. It is one of the largest ducal homes in the coup- try, and posséeses i fins clock tower. To the main building is "the famous "Grand Hall," with pillars of marble. There are 30,000 book in the library. The art gallery includes pictures by Rabene, Hoppaer, and Gains borough.

"Mayor's Donkey and Cart.

Tiverton, with as population of only a little over 10,000, being too emall a place to receive a visit from's tsok, the Mayor (Mr. A. T.Gregory) bit upon the idea of of jolog a ebop in the maid to roughfare for the sale of War Pfade. The first day's takinge smounted to £1.007. In opening the shop the Mayor sanounced that he had sold his motor car bought a donkev and cart, and invested the difference in wSI stock. He added that he was SOTA be would be as happy with the donkey and cart as with a motor.

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No More Germán Pianos. Sir Fredk. Bridge, presiding at the Royal Society of Arts st_s lecture by Dr. Frederick 8. Clay, en "The British Pianoforte Industry," said:

"I for one, won't play on a German piano." British manufacturers, be added, had made splendid instrumenta in the past, and a piano which was bought by his father for him when he wae a choirboy at Rochester he still used every day. Major Mackenzie Rogan, band. master of the Coldstream Guards, mentioned that when he joined. the British Army two-thirds of ite bandmasters were foreigners;. now there none.

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• The Jewish Cervantes: Apexiznordmery gathering fill- ed the Mile End Empiri recently. to mourn the loss of the "Grand- father of Yiddish: Literature," Solomon Jacob Abramovitsob, known slao sa Meadele, the Bookseller," and "dubbed the Jewish Cervantes, who died re cently in Odesèn at the age 82. A remarkable man, who wandered for a time avar R 188ia with an tinerent beggar, and who was subsequently a teacher, he wrote: in botu Hebrew and Yiddish, and Asid the foundation of the modern | Capitalisation of Huge Profits. ¡s protesting against Govern- Mitchells and Butlers, the Birmont's proposal to billet German

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iterature in the latter language, interpreting the heart and soul mingham brewers, bave decided prisoners of war engaged on work of the poor people as none others to make a further distribution of on the land in the homes of have been able to do. Speeches nearly £500,000 undivided profite Boglish labourers. They ask for were delivered yesterday in in the form of additional share English discharged soldier's Ziddish, Hebrew, and English, capital to existing boldera. About instead of Germans.

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