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TWO-MINUTE TALKS A Daily Tonie

By ROBERT POWER

BIRDS OF PREY.

HONGKONG

METAL INSPECTION.

The X-Ray in Industry.

In connection with delay caused in the world aeroplans flight owing to a faulty casting, is not generally known, says tho

Who has not shuddered at the stock-in-trade to full suspicion Scotsman, that at the Govern| ploture of the wounded traveller by a guilelose mien or an attrao-ment Research Department at who waits for death while the tivo exterior. But look closer Woolwich important research unclean vultures hover afar, and you will mark the shifting, work is proceeding in the roady to swoop down and dovour restless eye; the furtive glanco; examination of the still warm flesh1 The bird of the false smilo; the offusive ex means of radiography. If the

metals. by} proy foods upon the weak, and prossions. rarely attacks those well able to These birds of proy generally examined in this way before it faulty aoroplano casting had boon defend themselves.

"issue forth when it is night. "For was incorporated in the machine Natura red in tooth and claw" mon love darkness rather than the delay would probably not is an expression well justified by light, because their doods are have occurred. The application facts. The owl silently Dito evil." The pleasure-sockor on- of radiography to metals was through the dusk, and again counters them in the labyrinthine started at Woolwich during tho and again roturns to hor ways of the Underworld. The war, and many difficultion had to balls of fluff in the bolfry or barn, unwary, who treads the easy road bo facod, one being that the best Bling their tiny beaks with mico, that loads downward to loose commercial apparatus obtainablo Leotios, and little living croatures, living, Snds them ready to pook allowed a penotrability of ouly The Hawk pounces down upon the him to his moral doath when it half-an-inch in iron in which a birds which have no powerful suits their purpose. Thoy have hole of about one-oight of an inch olaws and talon beak. The no moro mercy upon the man or could be located,

thrush picks up and cracks the woman who has fallon by the

Ball. The lordly eaglo sails wayside than hovering vulturo Through development of the -through the air and with a rush has for the strickon travollor. apparatus by the Woolwich staff;

desconds upon its prey.

Callousness to suffering is a it is now possible to see through, But wo must not supposo birds characterisation of the bird of nearly four inchos of stool,. of proy are confined to the pray,

and holas 1-100th of an foathurod bipeds Thoro uro Some of those human birds of inch--in-diamotor can be plenty among human beings. proy food upon foulness. Who located. The advantages of this They food upon the weak, and has not met the unclean creature method of oxamining instals are striko at the unwary: Like the who loves to corrupt those ho that the inside of a place of oaglo, hawk, kito, owl, and comes in contact with? Othors, material can be examined with- kostrál, they may be finely batton upon reputations, pooking out destruction of the specimen, plumagod and attractive in out out the eyes of men and women and that in the case of a casting) ward gaise: Thoro is this come of atsinfons reputation, animated or similar articlo fidday work- mon abaracteristic: the attack by the strange batred ovil fools maneliip may be examined in in swift as lightning and always for, good. Birds of proy-de-detail without dismantling or in a moment when it is un- atroyers of the good name and breaking up. expected.

the record of the virtuous. Our groat cities, towns and When the vulture swoops, the smaller communition, have thoir strong drive him away. So when birds of proy who lie in walt to these human birds of prey appear, wound and plunder. Plausible Jet them bo shunned or Beaton

"POSSIBLE NEW VICEROY. men and fascinating women, who off with a bold front. They aro livo liko parasites upon the un- usually cowardly, and that is

Commenting on the visit of suspicious. At the first sight why thoir, victins are weaker Prince Arthur to India, the you may not be able to see any than themselves. Only the utterly London Star says that there is thing sinister in their outward foolish will encourage the bird of every reason to believe that appearance, for it is part of thoir proy.

MATERIAL MATTERS.

Divorce of the Architect.

An international congress on arohitectural education at the

NOT CONFLICTING.

Bishop and Scientist Both.

The new Bishop of Birmingham) boadquarters of the R.I.B.A. was is Canon Barnes of Westminster. attended by representatives from who is a Doctor of Science and the Britieli Isica, Canada, Austra-Fellow of the Royal Society, Dr. lia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Barnes was educated at the Austria, Spain, Belgium, Holland, famous Birmingham school, King Denmark, Swodon, Norway,

Edward's, before he went up to Russia, the United States the Cambridge; and not only this Argentino, and Czechoslovakia, local association but the quality If the discussions often strayed of his mind makes the appoint- from education to the errors of ment peculiarly suitable. Whon the modern architect, who sball Dr. Barnes was appointed Master blame these modern architects of the Temple in September, 1915, They showed a healthy recogni- it was recognized that tradition tion of their own shortcomings, had boon broken in deference to together with an agreeable frank intellectual attainments which ness on the periods they despised. Placed him among the loading Occasionally there was a com- men of pure science of the day. forting note, as in a romark by Mr. Curtis Green on the "lively stato of student work to-day Lord Crawford, who presided at cno session, expressed his belief that architecture would never do complete Justice to itself if the Bichitect were divorced from the actual handling of the material on which the result of the con- ception must be imposed.

COMING COLD.

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Prince Arthur will bo ultimatoly! appointed Vicaroy. It is pointed out that some time ago the Aga Khan strongly urged the Imperial authorities always to appoint a mombor of the Royal Family as. Viceroy of India,

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Ho bad thon bad parochial experience, and, apart from that of examining chaplain the Bishop of Llandaff, had held na olerical { office. But the confidence of his Cambridge friends, who predict ed that he would soon count as one of the greater' forces in thohdy the were for about a minute. spiritual life of London, was speedily moro than fulfilled. From the pulpita of the Temple un how weile the character that and of the Abboy, of which ho was made a Canon in 1918, be;

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influence as a preacher and as a studant of current affaire. At Trinity his caroor was one of That a new glacial period may exceptional distinction. He was bo on the way la the unchsorful bracketed as Second Wranglor prodiotion of the Swedish scientist in 1606, and in 1897-the year in Rotger Sornandur. His research which he was President of the es in the last years have con- Union-was placed in the First YESTERDAY'S TEASER. vinced him that climatic condi-Division of the First Class in the tions are stordily growing wore Mathematical Tripos, Part 11.

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Prizeman, Was aleoted to a eighty-four or ninety, quod; vighly or the transition from the iron to the Fellowship of Trinity, and was lusty-fire, average; less than seventy- bronze period in Scandinavia, that appointed instructor at the Royal ure or more than 100, poor. is, about 500 1.C. The conturion Military Academy, Woolwich. that followed the glacial porlod brought for Northern Europe a much warmer climate than the prosont. It was, indood, almost tropical. But with the coming of the Iron period thoro camo also the Lorrible nordio "fimbul winter."

He was ordained in 1902, and is dush thy by subtle ležat now in his 50th year.

HOW TO CLEAR A CROWD. -

A record exodus of 500 patron from a local theatro at Fort

This is thus desoribed in the William, Ontario, was establish TO-DAY & TO-MORROW"ONLY Joolandlo "Eddas.": "Thon came the fimbul winter; anowed, when the eutiro sudience loft

drives from all directions, there the building two minutes after a

D. C. GOODMAN'S:

is much cold and sharp wind, the young skunk which had been Most wonderful Super-production sun svalls nothing, three winters captured by a Chinese boy and

come together and there is no barred in slooping in his pocket" What's Wrong

summer between." This, thinks had awakoned

Professor: Barnander, is very possibly whither Scandinavia at loast is again heading.

and became alarmed, with the rosult that thei

boy_and_tbo-skunk-were-iimmo with the Women??"

diately loft alone in the theatre.

SAFETY LADDERS. “A suggestion-- that -- window Among a variety of literary cleaners' ladders abould be rubber rolics sold the other day at Bo-shod to prevent them from slip theby's were a pair of pistols and ping was made by a Home Office

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pistols tre long-barrelled Oriental borwell on a window, ofsaner who

flatlooks, covered, with, ohnued fell to the ground, and received belonged

filter and plated with gold, the fatal injuries through his laddor 12745 (0316 Ontussa kina hipping on the was pavements,

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