1927-06-25 — Page 9

The Very Idea!

Lord. Strathclydo will always' bo remembered best по Mr. Aloxander Ure, K.C., who fought so valiantly for Liboralism and the famous Lloyd George Budget Since his retirement from the Pre- dency of the Scottish Court of Ses slon ho has devoted much time to golf, and an amusing story is told In connexion with his game.

One day he remarked to a caddie on a certain course that on his last visit he had played a very fing player, a Mr. McGregor, who had beaten him soundly.

Ayo," said the lad, "but ye could bate Mr. McGregor now, my lord.'

"Do you think so?" inquired Lord Strathclydo.

"Aye, sure," drawled the caddie, "Mr. McGregor's died!"

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Kind mother bought poor ded

And near brought him to

tears.

The bargain that she claimed

fell flat.

It reached down o'er his

enrs:

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HERCULANEUM'S

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

A GIRLS' DUEL."

SECRETS.

WHAT ONE MAY HOPE

LOVE, RIVALRY, AND THE SEQUEL.

TO FIND.

Reports from Poland tell of two

SATURDAY,

JUNE 25, 1927.

SHARE PRICES.

INDUSTRIAL CENSUS IN GERMANY.

PROGRESSIVE INDUS- TRIALIZATION.

It was in the year 1907 that the The new excavations at Hercu-girl friends, Lena Boniey and laneum promiss a harvest of the Elena Yavorska, who lived in a first effort was made to take stock richest treasure. This is inferred small town there. From early af Germany's entire economy, Le.. from the discoveries already made childhood they were inseparable, the population, of the various ia prepare an accuratè census of in the eighteenth and ninetcouth They both fell in love with the vocations and of the industrial conturlea, from the high state of

agricultural unterprises. culture which existed in the city, anme young man, became terribly and and from the swiftness with which jealous, and quarrelled continu-Owing to the rapid development of the country's industry, the returns everything was buried.

ously.

| for 1907 were, in a very few years, Notable discoveries of the nat include the beautiful bronze statue One day when they were walking out of date. Consequently, a fresh of Hermes in Report; the togother they met him in the census was to have taken place in restlers, of which we have a copy street, and he politely took off his 1914 It was postponed by the ontbreak of war; add it was not or the Embankment; the set of six hat to both. The rivals thanked until 1925 that a certain consolida- decorative bronzes, known as the him by a friendly smile, but im-ion of post-war economic circum- Dancing Maidens: the bust,mediately afterwards a fierce constances rendered it feasible to Seneca, and others; the wall-paint-troversy set in between them as to carry out the intention. ing of Cheiron teaching the young which he had meant to saluto.

Achilles; the monochrome paint-They resolved to fight a duel with The results so far available of ing on marble of the Knucklebone revolvers, and did so in a meadow, that industrial census (including Players; and fragments from the Lena Doniey was badly hit and fell fcommerce, traffic and the educa manuscripts of Metrodorus and, unconsciona. Elena Yavorska, tional and hygienic professions)

Philodemus,

"What may be expected," it was suggested recently by an authority, are fresco paintings, statuary, and all sorts of vessels and implc- ments illustrating the daily life of the city. Auch as have been found at Pampeli. In all probabi lity the treasures will be in very. good condition.

Disappointment?

Mr. Bailey, chuirman of the Stratford Bench: Do you wish to get to Wembley for the community singing? Solicitor: Yes, and I want to get there before that starts. Tearful Cheshire wife, complain- ing of her husband: He said that

"At this stage, of course, it is my brother-in-law chose the best

impossible to say what is going to wife in my family.

A motorist wrote to the Willes-be found. It may be something of den Court: I cannot attend. Please very surprising something let me know the fine, if any which we have no conception. On the other hand, there is the pass Magistrate: The "any" is £4.

Wife, suing her husband at Wil-sibility of disappointment. Cir- lesden for maintenance: I met him cumstances, of which we know in Hyde Park in a new sult and nothing, may have caused more looking us if all Hyde Park belong-complete destruction than has been imagined. So we have both pos-

after summoning assistance for innke it possible to obtain an inter-1 her, disappeared, and the polise testing insight into the structure are unable to trace her. Mean- and organization of industrial Gers. while the young man has consoled many. From them we learn thut, himself with a third girl.

in the middle of 1925, present-day Germany, as defined by the Treaty of Versailles and minus the Saar The subject of a second nation- [District, contained 3,500,000 manu- al picture to be produced under facturing plants giving employ- the same auspices as the navalent to 18.4 million persona. For ople of Coronel and the Falkland driving their machinery, these! Isles has, the F.B.I. stare, now plants had engines with a total of been fixed. It will be an historical 19.3 million IP, 12.9 million be drama of the British race and Bri-ing derived from electric-motors. tish character, to be specially On account of differences in the written by Mr. John Buchinn M.Peensus methods and changes in the well-known novelist, historian, economic structure, etc., it is and scholar, under the title of dimcult to draw a comparison exact between the situation in 1907 and "Conquest." While the treatment of the story has not yet that in 1925; nevertheless, one been decided, it is known that Mr. thing is clear, namely, that, in Buchau has chosen as his motif the 18 years interval, Germany had the British ideal of service as ex- become more and more a manu-" emplified in the Prince of Wales's facturing cuntry; for, whereas in "It is possible, too, that we may motto "Ich Dien" (I Herve), and these years the total population come upon some wonderful library that he intends to bring this put had increased by 13.5 per cent., with all sorts of acquisitions at by tracing the fortunes of two there was a 28.5 per cent, augmen The authorities have not yet set-present unknown to us. In this familics through different phases

manufacture, com- tled the matter of Sir Isaac New connexion it may be interesting of our history. The story will tation in the number of persons yo quote the conjecture which the probably start with the Norman ton's apple--whether it was not a

late Sir Charles Waldstein made. In Conquest and end with the Great pear of a cherry, or indeed, fruit at all, seeing that his own hat his well-known work on Herr War, and that it will be sufficiently Past, Present, and thrilling is guaranteed by the would have served equally well to laneum

choire of author, than whom there stimulate meditation on the sub- Future':

is no better writer of adventare jcet of gravitation. But the apple seems always ready to fill any gap

stories in the country, in legend. How did it come to be identified as the fruit of the For- bidden Tree? The word does not

ed to him.

Willesden magistrate: What re-sibilities. lation is this man to you?-Woman: He is the landlord of the father-in- law of my husband.

Any

appear in the story: Indeed, the only use of the word "apple" (as distinct from apple-tree) in the Old Testament is in the phrase "apple of the eye."

All the great Greek tragedians or writers of comedy (including Menander), he wrote. may be there waiting for us in their com pleteness. The works of the curly

Greek philosophers; Heracleitus, Parmenides, Empedocles, Demo- critus. Anaxagoras, and all the treasures of thought only known to us from fragmentary Times in Inter writers; the missing works A Clergyman, who advertised for of Plato and Artistotle; the whole a cook, received an application from of Romain literature, the lost books a woman who had formerly been in of Livy-one hardly dares to allow the employment of a lawyer. On one's imagination to roam in these being asked for a reference the cook dazzling fields of classical light, gave the name of the lawyer, who, Nor is it impossible that we may in reply to a note from th clergy-find contemporary records, letters referring to the rise and the early man, wrote:--

years of Christianity.""

Dear Sir,It was partly on my advice that Miss-applied for the situation you offer. I consider her admirable for the post of cook to a She is an adept at elergyman. giving up burnt offerings.

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More schoolboy howlers:-- The chief occupation of the in- habitants of Perth is dying.

Rhetoric is a form of arithmetic, An epitaph is a horse with the head of a man.

An epigram is a man who goes from one country in another.

In France the pheasants sleep on mattresses.

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AN IMPERSONATOR.

SENT TO GAOL.

For impersonating the police a Chinese who was arrested on the grounds of Isako's Circus was fined $200 or three months hard labour in default.

Ile was originally charged with obtaining free admittance by passing himself of as a member of Perhaps. it was the Easter lull in the police force but the charge was the publishing season that made amended this morning as Mr. one of the weekly journals start its Lindsell, the Magistrate, though: column of "Literary Notes"Wo that it would not be unreasonabla to assume that the unlawful pur have received the forty-third "an- nual report of the Home for Ine-pose which the defendant had in briates at Dalrymple House, Rickinind was to stay in the compound. He knew he had no right there and mansworth

so he pretended to be a constable. The defendant had a prevIOUS goaviction against him for a similar offence and was just out of prison last month. On the previous occasion he had passed himself off as an employee of the Telephone Company.

POET'S CORNER:

PRO AND CON.

When Death appears beside my

bed,

And with loan finger beckons me, And I arise and follow him Along the road I cannot see,

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Shall I be glad that I am done With all the weariness and pain; Or sorry that I shall not see The rose and daffod!! again? Shall I be glad that jealousy. And care and anger, have un'

end;

Or sorry that the shindows close For ever over wife and friend? - Shall I be glad to take my rest, And cast the blunted tools asido; Or sorry, going, I must leave So much unfinished and untried?

And, as the frescoed memories puss From sunny May to grim December. Shall I be glad that I forget, Or sorry I shall not remember?

Paris subways, some of them

built a quarter of a century ago, ow have inadequate systems of

According to a report issued by the Peking Municipal Bureau, the revenue of the Bureau from muni- eipal rates and other sources for 1925 totalled $788,517, and the ex- penses for the corresponding year the varlous $795,457. Among items of expenses, about $44,000 was spent for the maintenance of hospitals, $27,000 for the schools, and $24,430 for charity works, in- cluding the free distribution of winter clothing among, the poor, and subsidies to private charity workers. The opening of the Pai- Hai into a public park last year.. involved a tatal expense of $20,- 000, which was spent hi August, September, and October, Inst year. The other items. of expenditure consist of wages, salarics, pensions for the Bureau, and outlays "for various kinds of municipal im provements:

Yesterday's health return gives

ventilation. To purify the air, one case of smell-pox and one of

officials have installed spraying entorie fever, both Chinese,

apparatus on some of the trains

The weather forecast for the 241 hours ending naon to-morrow 13:

which release a cloud-of disinfec- tant as they go." In addition to its chemical properties, the spray is "S W. winds; moderate; fair to

showery." slightly perfumed..

HOW MUCH DO YOU

KNOW?

TO-DAY'S

engaged in merce and traffic.

Employment of Women.

A noticeable feature in the deve- lopment, not only of Germany but of every modern manufacturing country, is the increased employ- ment of women. A comparison of the figures for 1907 and 1926 re-

ers 'aggregating 39 per cent. in veals an increase of female work- manufacture, 42 per cent. in com-) merce and trafie, 29 per cert. in] the educational and theatrical bygienic callings (sick nursing etc.) QUESTIONS.essions and 96 per cent. in The installed driving plant ag gregated in the year 1925-

1) in the mining

The following general know- ledge paper has been taken from the Daily Express.

Answers, Tor" those who need them, will be found on Page 13 of this issue.

1. From what is the word Easter

derived?

Where are the Falkland Islands? 3.Where was Charles Dickens

• burn?

4-What is a Breeches Bible? 5.-In what year did "Punch" be-

gin publication?" 4--What country does Jutland be-

long to?

2)

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industry 3.8243.000 HP. "iron and

metal industry 3.823.000 HP. 3) In the machine

and electric in-

dustry 1.887.000 HP.

4) In the food-

stuff industry 1.707.000 HP. 5) In the textile

industry 1.279:000 HP. " wood in- 6). "

dastry 1.022.000 HP. From these figures it is apparent 7.What is a cowling. B-Who originated the saying that the most important German "A hair of the dog that bit industries are those directly, con- him"? -Where is the Giants Cause-nected with mining and metals,

Since the year 1907, there has way?

10. How high the figure on been an extraordinary increase in the use of engine power and, es- Nelson's Column? 11-When is King Alfred suppos-pecially, of electricity. Whereas,

TO-DAY'S QUOTATIONS.

The following la the list of loon? sharo quotations issued to-day:

Banks.

Hongkong Bank, $1,070 Chartered Bank, £20 a. Morcantile A. & B., £30) Mercantile C., £139 n.

b. F. and O., £9 East Asia, $68 n,"

Marine Ina.

5.

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Canton Ina, $620 B. China Underwriters, $.80 n, North China, Tls. 143 b. Union Ins., $280 n. Yangtszo Ins., $40 n.

Fire Ins. China Firos, $210 b. H. K. Fire Ins., 600 n."

Shipping.

Douglasés, $311, b. Steamboats, $221 B. Tuge, $1.10 n.

Indo-China, (Pref.) $30 T. Shell Trans, 98/n Star Forries, $521 Watorboats. $16 b..

Reûnerles.

China Sugars, $18 Malabons, $32 8.

Mining.

Bengupts, $1.70 "b. Kailans, 40. b.

8.

17.

Langkats, Tls. 20 n.

31.

1.

Shai Exploration, Tls. 37 n. Shanghai Loans, Tis. 7 n. Raubs, $4 Tronohs, 19/3 n. Ural Caspians, 8/-

Docks, etc. Kowloon Wharves, $108 b. Whampoa Docks, $38 n. Hongkows, Tls. 145 b. New Engineeringe, Tls. 5 . Shanghai Docks Tle, 100

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Länds, Hotels, etc.

H. and S. Hotels, $6.90 H. K. Lands, $55; s. Realtys, $6 5. Territorials, sib 1. Humphreys, $12) s.- Princes Bldgs, $89 n. Rural Lands, $1 n.

Cottons.

3.

Ewo Cottons, Tis. 735 s.

•Oriontals, Tä 2:10 n. S'hai Cottons, Tis 52 b.

Buses, Trame,

8.

China Buses, Tis. 7. b. Tramways, 820,80 s. Poak Trams, (old) $15 Singapore Trams, $10/0 b. Taxis, $1 n.

Miscellaneous.

B.

Amusements, $21 n. Canton Ices, $5 n. Cements-Comb. $7.20 8. China Lights, $14.20

b. China Prov, $44. Constructions, $2.30 n. Dairy Farms, $15 s. Der A. Wing, $5 n. H'kong Electrics, $521 s. Macao Electrics, Ropes Old) $10 Lane Crawfords, $7 Mackintosh, $193 n. Sincares, 8 n. United Asbestos, $20 n Watsons $11 sa. Powolle, $6 n. Telophone 3.70 n.

$35. b.

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8.

Б.

Hidden caves containing pre- ed to have burnt the eakes? in industry, de, leaving aside the historic relies of three distinct 12.--Who were called "The sons of question of water, gas and electric ages-have been found in the for-

thunder"?

Supplies, electric motors totalled

Prince of Wales existed?

13.-How long has the title of only 1.5 million HP. in the territests of Felsburg, in Switzerland. ory forming the present Reich, the Archaeologists have found pottery, aggregate in 1925 was 11.6 million artz Implements, bronze jewel- bone. A fireplace had been built 15-How many Round Towers are HP., which means an eightfold in- Ilery and weapons fashioned from

in one of the caves. crease in 18 years.

14.-Who was Volta?

there in Ireland?

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