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ARMED MAN IN A CABIN.

Chinese Attacks European Lady.

HELPFUL ANIMALS.

How Man Can Benefit.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHĮ MONDAY, FEBRUARY 12: 1923.

BRITISH COINAGE.

The Good Old "Bob,”

Rather a curious echo from the Many animals are nowadays past was Busgested in the debates utilized by men in curious and in the Commons recently when a anthought-of ways, and, indeed, Labour member sang the praises A Chinese named Shun Tam was

some creatures which formerly of the old British shilling as some reported to have made a savage were regarded as useless pasts thing which received in all parts attack on Mra. Steward Moore, have been found to be of great the lady in charge of the help to us. curio-stall on board the Empress Some years ago a clever analy of Australis on Friday, and he tical chemist was engaged on a was charged at the Magistracy on series of experiments with a view Saturday the case being eventually

to discovering a means by which adjourned until to-day.

the adulteration of butter could be discovered.

He was annoyed by mice in his laboratory, and one morning

of the world its just and dus value." We might have to go bark some way to restore the British shilling to its old proud position, but it is the fact that one of the dercest of coinage con- troversies

fought in the House of Commons and outside on the subject of the value of the British shilling two centuries and

WAS

The complainant stated that abo wake up about 5 o'clock on Friday morning at the noise of someone entering her cabin, but found that during the night thes|a quarter ägo. thought it was the cabin boy had destroyed the result of his Nowadays wa think officially coming in earlier than usual. As previous day's work by eating in terms of gold. It was the no further movements followed the carefully weighed samples of British sho switched on the light, and butter. Ho

sovereign which, up War, passed every- where,

Was The British sovereign which money-changers all over the world received not only with willingness but in mang Some time later he issued a countries, with a certain reveren.

DAIRY FARM NEWS.

JUST RECEIVED

CANADIAN

SALMON

75 cents per Ib.

the noticed, however, to BAW A man crouching by her that the adulterated butter had book. The man jumped up and been untouched, and thereupon slashed At her with proceeded to experiment with knife. cutting ber on the mice. bead and Arm. In her grappling with the man her paper in which he proposed to tial eagerness. The pound ster!- bands also got cut. Herscreams utilize these creatures [T] thising was the pride of John Bull; woka her cabin companion, the connection. And other experts it was in a discourse on the virtues THE DAIRY FARM, ICE & COLD STORAGE ('0., LTD. lady attendant of the bookstall whom he consulted agreed that of the pound sterling that Peel on the ship, who seized the man the method, which has frequently once held the House of Commons from bebind, holding his right been tried since, was successful spellbound for an hour. But the arm. The assailant barred their and saved a lot of expensive | British shilling was once some ascape from the cabin. Hearing analyses. the screams, the fourth officer came along and took the man into custody. No motive for the crime could be suggested, unless the man took complainant for someone else.

HELP FROM TOADS.

thing to be proud of also, and a

| tremendous struggle waged round the suggestion to abandon the The toad is such a tiny creature honoured standard of the shilling. that he seems of litle use to us. In 1696, when our coinsge was Hut toads also have become in-fat its worst through clipping and straments of research. Numerous other crimes, & Secretary of the Corroborative evidence was species of insects fly or creep or Treasury put forth the famous given by the cabin companion, come to the surface only at night. doctrine of the little shilling, be and the testimony of the fourth and consequently are dificult to which the shilling should be officer, the ship's doctor and collect. Toads are night-feeders, worth only ninepence and the stewardess stated that she had and eat all kinds of insects. ounce of silver should makel

had the man dismissed for un- A number of them are, there-seven shillings instead of ive. satisfactory work. On Friday fore, turned loose at sunset in Curious as it may seem, this view night she moved into * new the neighbourhood frequented by was widely taken up, and pâm- cabis, the oas opposite that of the desired moths or beetles. Apblets were written celebrating the complainant,

toad Inssces ila prey with its the confusion and dismay with flexible tongue, and which King Louis XIV, and his og bolts it whole. when Ministers would view England's pressure is applied, they disgorge settlement of her liabilities on the insects, which sometimes this basis. Had the plan been are not only uninjured but even adopted the results might have alive!

The case was adjourned until to-day for the attendance of the police interpreter.

On the case being resumed this morning, evidence of a written statement made by the defendant was given and he was committed for trial at the Sessions.

OFFICE BOY FINED.

For Theft of Brown Paper.

HOW THEY SAVED SUGAR But perhaps the most remark able instance of the toad's Lility

manifested in Jamaica.

where at one time the sugar crop was endangered by the ravages of a large kind of rat, called the cane or sugar-esting rat, & crea. ture ten inches long.

been more ruinous than any war, but the wisdom of Lecke and Montague prevailed, and the standard shilling was secured in the teeth of all opposition.

IF SUMMER DON'T."

They multiplied to an alarming Parody On" If Winter Comes.' extest. As many as. 200,000 were Mr. Barry Pain has written s killed in single States in one delightful parody on "If Winter A quantity of brown wrapping paper valued at 50 cents today to diminish their numbers, and T. Werner Laurie. Ltd. London, year. But slaughter did not seem Comes II Summer Don't," formed the subjec: of a charge they actually overpowered and s. 6.). It is not the first parody against a Chinese formerly in Government service as heade the cats, ferrete, and mon

to be written on Mr. Hutchinson's

boy at the Imports and Exports 500ses brought over to fight them book-there was an excellent one

Things west from bad to worse. short time ago in the d Office.

The Cuban bulldog an!, a terribly, Chansen-but Barrs Pain's! The defendant, who was revenomous creature, was imported version is the longest. The parody presented by Mr. H. B. Dennys, from the neighbouring island, and follows'

the original Fairly made the allegation that this while it harassed the rats to some closely, giving, however, at each charge was preferred as a grudge extent there was little change in point a sufficient twist to make! which the bead-clerk, Mr. Silva. the state of affair.

the whole burlesque. Thus Sanre bore him when he was employed At last a few giant toads from becomes, in Barry Pain's band. in the Department. What this South Americs were introduced. ludicrous enough to be thoroughly grudge was, the defendant ex They spread over Jamaica, eating amusing and not, as in the plained as having its origin in an up the young rats, at the same original, thoroughly provoking. incident last year, when one of time being immune from attacks in If Summer Don't" Sabre! the coalies tellinto trouble with thelby the full grown rodents. Inj Head Clerk. Not being able to this way the pests were destroyed bear the sight of Mr. Siva ill-and the canes saved. treating the coalie. I took this man, Chan Ying, to Mr. Smith (the Superintendent) who took no

USEFUL COCKROACHES.

Cockroaches have been used to action in the matter on receiving rid vessels of bugs, while in Brazil beetles are preserved and used to

& report from Mr. Silva."

is enzaced in a hirm of pickle and jam anufacturers. Hig work is on the the literary side. He produced "The Romance of the Raspberry "and other elegant little brochures, а vet of which, bound in lilac morocco, he

Continuing, defendant said he make jewellery, such as scarf-kept in his room at the office.

Sura

gent

He likewise wrote all advertise- ments, which were "scholarly":

tions.

WAS afterwards threatened by pins.

A London an some years and gemmed with classical quota- Mr. Silva, and, fearing that his

would

be purchased a Scottish island. but come next, his 10

resignation. found the place overrun by adders. He did not take away his belong. Six pairs of pea-fowls were sent ings when he left, but returned there, and they soon demonstrated on the 8th. instant to do so. He their partiality for snakes as a diet utilised some brown paper to by completely ridding the island of Pigs, too, are great wrap up Eis quilt, and now, hav. the pests. ing no more use for it, be rolled devourers of serpents.

Oxen Bro used in many it up and stood by the door of the sampan men's quarters countries as beasts of burden, but to give it back to new at one time, on the Cornish coast, bead boy, bis successor, when it was a recognized thing for the he was seen by Mr. Silva and fishermen to tie a lamp to a cow's

the

Like his prototype he also cycled to work every morning. but practised Coueisn en route! Further from Mabel Further, further from Mabel. Every day in every way I am getting further and further", and driving in those celebrated wooden pegs to mark the spot wherever he tumbled off. "High Jinks" end "Low Jinks' become Ellen and Kate Morge. alias "Dot" and "Dash," whils

arrested after being assaulted and horns and turn the animal adrift Mr. Doom Dagshaw, proprietor

'injured in the chest.

Mr. Dennys submitted that the actions of the defendant were above board, and did not appear! to be those of a man who was carrying out a theft. There was ΣΤΟ doubt that ill-feeling bad existed between the Head Clerk and the defendant. The charge of trespassing that hadĮ been added to the first charge was used to bolster up what" was

■ very weak casé,

on the cliffs as a guide to vessels in distress.--Ex.

His Worship said ho did not "

A PUZZLE A DAY.

E

R

E

takes the place of the most im- of Dilborough's Mammoth Circus,

possible of all Mr. Hutchinson's characters. And so on through- out the story.

The book is prefaced by some shrewd remarks on chapter divi- sion, the three dot trick, which is, an equivalent to the cinema fade- out, and some interesting experi- ments in the staccato art, some of which are carried out in the text. The only drawback is that it is necessary to read the original in order properly to appreciate it

consider theevidence would justify The squaring of a circle is all. It is even almost worth

a conviction for trespassing. He problem belonging to mathe-while doing that.-Ex

ECHO OF FITZROY CASE.

was, however, satisfied that de raatics. It is quite possible, fendant knew be bad, no right to however, to square the word the paper. A fine of $10 would "circle," in the above werd square. London, Jan. 12: Mr. Turner, be imposed.

The remarkable formation of the a witness in the case against Sir] letter E is an additional help to Almeric Fitzroy, who was charg- ward finding the missing words.ed with annoying women in Fall in the stars with the correct Hyde Park and was acquitted on letters, and you will find six words appeal, was indicted for perjury

She reading the same from left to right and found guilty.

recommended to as from top to bottom.

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