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TO-DAY'S MISCELLANY.

Theatre managers can tell some strange stories. It was a strange one we listened to the other day of an invoterate theatre-goer who nover went to a performance, remurke a writer in a Home journ al. Whenever a new play was produced he would go to the theatre and boy a programme and, where possible, a book of the words. Formerly he was to bo found in the gallery of nearly every theatre on a first-night show. His fund of theatrical knowledge and anecdote 18 astonishing. He was a walking encyclopedia of the stage during the last 30 years. But now he could not go to the theatre in the ordinary way, so be kept in touch with the drama in the strange

He had the manner related. misfortune to be epileptic.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

NEW MOTOR COACHES.

Expected in the Autumn.

By September or October next Hongkong will have motor rail- way coaches to assist in hand- ling the faat growing pus- of the British senger traffic section of tho Kowloon-Canton Railway. It has been decided by the the Government that, in interests of economy, it is pre- ferable to augment the present Jocomotive power of the railway by the addition of motor coaches suited to fast local traffic than; the it would be to increase number of coal burning engines. The conditions of railway traffic here are very similar to the conditions that prevail in the United States, differing con siderably from the conditions. in the Old Country. In England, where the country is thickly populated and where everybody is accustomed to travelling, the railway traffic is heavy enough to make heavy trains necessary, wherese in the United States and also bere in our Now Territories the railroad linge run through sparsely populated districts and railway authorities; have been compelled to look out for the cheapest method of carry- ing passengers. For the purposes of local traffic on the Kowloon- Canton railway, motor coaches have been deemed most suitable. [

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TUESDAY, MAY 10, 1921.

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REFUGEE CAMPS IN SALONIKA.

Dreadful Conditions. Telegrams received in Paris by

FAMOUS CARTOONIST AT WORK.

Well; if there is one thing that Tom Webster really dislikes it is

Tho Hall-Scott Motor Car Company, of San Francisco, rave met with considerable.

Tom Webster's Methods. success in the manufacture of railway motor coaches and the

To soo Tom Webster, the famous local Government has placed an the American Red Cross from sporting cartoonist of the Daily order for two motor coaches and Saloniks and Athens show that Mail, at work is to marvel, Time one trailer. These are expected the difficult situation in the Near, and again writes "Berkeley," I am East created by the flood of re-asked, mostly by women; Where arrive in September or October. Both motor cars and fugees from Russia and the does he get all his funny ideas trailer are 62 feet long, the motor Caucasus shows no improvement. from? How long does it take him Does he coaches being driven by six-cylin-

Refugees, mainly Greek settlers to do a big cartoon? der internal combustion engines,

from the Caucasus, continue to always draw only the thing that The con-he sees, or does he work from generating 150 b.p. They are arrive by shiploads. adapted for use with kerosene ditions in the refugee camps in memory? as fuel. They are capable of a and about Salonika, it is stated. spood of 45 miles per hour, and are increasingly serious.

In 35 days there have been 1000 to do a sketch from memory. Of in seating accommodation the coaches bave

for 60 deaths, many of which would not course he has many celebrities room passengers

have occurred had proper caro stored in his mind's eye, but, even and the Trailer 80 passengers. The coaches will been possible. Half of the dead then, when asked to do a carica- be divided into firet and third were children under three years ture of a man he prefers to turn Deaths aro now up the last direct impression he class sections, and the trailer into of age.

occurring at the rate second and third class section.

of had of him. For that reason he The care will bo of steel about 50

a day, dau mainly never destroys his rough sketch to typhus, dysentery, and influ-books. construction throughout with a

There are 700 cases of Webster has a wonderful "shot- double roof for ventilation. They enza. will be electrically lighted typhus in the camps at the pre-hand" drawing system of his own. Say he is doing a big fight at and equipped with fans. The sent time. windows are extremely large and The total population of the the Albert Hall. He will draw war, and it will be interesting to allow of ample ventillation. In refugee camps within a week will each of the principals in half a watch his careor in politics. finish they present an extremely be 60,000. There is accommoda-dozen aspects, attitudes, or poses,

smart and comfortable appear-

tion for one-fifth of that number, and he will amplify and complete Emergency medical units and only one of each man-the rest from his country, which had, We are informed that Mr. C.D. shipload of medical supplies go into his store-house of im- indeed, ceased to exist as a Lambert, the Locomotive Super. have been sent by the American pressions.

He has an almost uncanny gift separate State. The number of intendent, will be leaving the Red Cross from Constantinople. homeless royalties is probably Colony by the e.s. Empress of

As the result of investigations which only those who have studi- greater to-day than at any time Asia towards the end of this by the American Red Crossed hini as closely as I have done since Napoleon swept the board month to be present in San Queen Sophia on Saturday last can have noticed.

He can make a drawing of a of Europe.

There is the ex- Francisco while the cars are summoned members of the Greek Kaiser, there is Karl, thero is under construction, so as 1g ensure Cabinet, and appropriated funds person or an object without once Ferdinand; there is Mangel of the work being carried out to to provide adequate relief for the looking at his sketch-book.

W. bater says that he does not Portugal; there is the ex-Khedive specification and to be made fully Greek refugees. The Government of Egypt: there is the ex-Emperor acquainted with the character-at once dispatched a Creek De-know exactly how he does this: of China. Constantine alone has istics of the engines. This type puty to Salonika with 1,000,000 what he dose know is that he has crept back. In oue respect King of motor coach is in quite ex-drachmas for immediate relief often done quite a big series of rough sketches of a glove fight) Nicholas must have broken all tensive

use throughout the operations.

without once taking his eyes off ftoyal records. His wife survives States and has been tried out for

the ring. him, and they had celebrated the the past ten years. sixtieth

anniversary of their! The Hongkong Government has wedding in October last, Queen placed its order through the local Victoria could just have equalled office of the Northwest Trading

King Nicholas died an exile ance,

PROTEST AGAINST OFFICIAL'S PAY.

Southwark Guardians have

George II, whose wife survived are it if the Prince Consort had lived. Company, whose head offices protested against the increase of in Seattle. Mr. E. C. salary to Sir W. A. Robinson, him died, in 1820, after fifty-nine Dingman is the district manager Health,

Secretary of the Ministry of

years of married life.

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and he reports that his Company has also dono considerable business in railway materials for There is something appropriate the Peking-Mukden Railway and Roading almost every day about in the fact that one of the build-other railways of China, the controversy on female unemings suggested as the home for

In our pictorial page of May. ployment and domestic service, the North of Ireland Parliament and the dire straits to which some belonged until recently to the 21 we hope to reproduce photo- households are reduced for the descendant of an Irishman who graphs, showing an exterior and want of it, it is interesting (but sat in the last Irish Parliament interior view of the new coaches. hardly spotting) to go back to the and in the first Parliament of the 17th century and read Popys's ac- United Kingdom. The place in PROPERTY RUMOURS. count of a dinner which he gave question is Gosford Castle, nearį to seven or eight guests at his own Markethill, a small market town home. "We had a' fricase of

mutton boiled, three carps in a

For some weeks there has been

Limited,

HAD A HARD TIME GETTING HER TEETH

UNTIL THE DOCTOR RECUM- MENDED BABY'S OWN TABLETS,

Parliament and the first united business area of the Colony have her breath offensive, and she Company's properties in the feverish, her tongue was coated,

It will astonish many people to know that he never had a draw- ing lesson in his life. But he the does not even remember time when he could not draw. He is almost as quick in getting

a8 results

photographic apparatus-in fact, in some ways ho is quicker. Let me give one instance.

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Front the moment he left the ringside when Wildo and Moore fought at Olympia over a year Bgo until his three-column cartoon of the contest was being! turned out in hundreds of thousands of copies of The Daily Mail, little more than an hour! elapsed.

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Many mothers endure agonies

In that time the following a fow miles from Armagh and

a persistent report that the King of mind when seeing their babies important operations had to be rabbits and chickens, a leg of within fairly easy acce s of Bo-Edward Hotel Building and that suffer the tortures of teething performed:-Webster had to get

fast. Not long

Carmelite ago this fine dish, a great dish of a side of cestio was sold by the veteran and Co have been sold for two need go through such misery, as House (15 minutes consumed):

housing Messrs. Lane Crawford Yet neither mother nor child from Olympia lamb, à dish of roasted pigeons, Earl of Gosford, Queen Alex-raillion dollars by the Hongkong/many parents have proved, among he had to invent, the idea of his a dish of four lobsters, throe tarts, andra's Vice-Chamberlain, Hie Land a lamprey pio (a moat raro pie), a grandfather, before succeeding to

Investment Company.

them Mrs. David Lee, of Lindsay, cartoon as well as transfer all the a dish of anohovios, good wine of the peerage (and before going to

necessary characters from his Ontario, who writes: several sorta, and all things Canada as Governor) sat for the

This rumour and the fact that My little girl had a hard time short-hand sketch book to one mighty noble and to my great county in both the last Irish some of the Land Investment getting her teeth. She was quite sheet of Bristol board, elaborate pencil and 'fix" content." He then states that

them in them in Indian ink (this the whole dinner was most neatly House of Commons until his fetche 1 very high prices during vomited curdled milk,

was done in the record time of 27 dressed by our owne only mayde. succession, when he was chosen the past month gave the shares

as one of the Irish representative of the Corppany a fillip.

On the advice of our doctor. I minutes); the drawing was then gave her Baby's Own Tablete handed to the "process block" peora in the House of Lords, the Imporial title now existing not Edward Hotel und Mesars, Lane She had not slept weil at nights cess of transferring to, and etch- It was stated that both the King and she began improving at once. makers, who by an intricate pro- being conferred until he went to Crawford a building had been sold for about three months, and I ing on, sine, produced a plate in office, and it would be difficult to

at $130 per square foot. After a was almost worn out caring for 15 minutes; this, mounted at a make anything but the briefest

few days this gave place to a

Now her food digests height corresponding to that of list of cases in which fathers and

rumour that the Chinese buyers properly, her breath is sweet, her the newspaper type, and to be 'sona have been eminent in the

had only bought the King Edward tongue clean and she is quiet and fitted into the page "forme" from public service. It is the more

Hotel building for a million good. I can strongly recommened which, in its turn, a stereo (metal) interesting, therefore, to note

List of passenger per 6.8. dollare.

Both the reports now the Tablets to other mothers as plate had to be made (10 minutes that President Roosevelt's son DILWARA which sailed on 10th

appear to be untrue.

as they did my baby good when these two operations); fitting the and namesake holds office in Mr. May. Mr. F. H. Butler, Com

nothing else did,

plates on the printing machines Harding's Administration as an . L. Hodgson, Mr. Naismith,

Baby's Own Tablets, the and setting them in motion (say, Assistant Secretary, and it would Miss D. Rooke, Mr. & Mrs. PENNY RATE YIELDS £200,000. Canadian children's remedy, are 5 minutes)-in all 72 minutes from make a new precedent if there Andradio & Child, Mr. & Mra. At a meeting of the L.C.C. it obtainable from chemiste, or post ringside to public. were two Theodore Roosevelts in 10. G. Smith, Mr. W. G. Smith, was said that the yield of a penny free, 60 cents the vial from The Not even the cleverest photo- the list of Presidents of the Mr. K. Smith, Mr. Sopher, Mr. rate throughout London was now Dr. Villiams Medicino Co., 96 graphic "ensp-shooter" could beat United States. Theodore Roose K. G. Laiwala, Mr. Saundersjover £200,000.

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that performance. velt II did good service in the and Mr. J. B. Wasson,

It happens very rarely in American politics that there is any hereditary succession in

Canada.

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