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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

THE HISTORY OF THE UNICORN.

HOW THE FABLE. ORIGINATED.

Everyone

*knows that the unicorn is a fabulous animals, but very few of us have taken the trouble to think out its evolution in literature and art. Indeed, it is a very confusing story, one of the

"A DANDY KING.”

ROUSING RECEPTION FOR BELGIAN RULER.

SATURDAY. JULY

RUSSO-ASIATIC CO.S PROPERTIES.

TO PROSECUTE CLAIM AGAINST SOVIET.

share capital.

American has no king, but (suya Daily News correspondent) 4,000: Mr. Leslie Urquhart, the chair- American Rotarians have adopted man, and his associates on the king, for recently when the King board of Russo-Asiatic Consolidat of the Belgians opened the Inter- cd, the company that has lodged national Rotary Conferences at a claim for £66,000,000 for the pro- stend, they crowned him their parties confiscated by the Soviot king with a. boisterous coronation. authorities, now propose to reor first snags that we encounter be-They wrung his hand, called him ganise the company's loan and ing the fact that the unicorn of the Rotarian Albert, and gave him Old Testament had two horns. cigars, and no one was happier For Ephraim and Manasseh are likened to the horns of a unicorn about it than Royal Rotarian A

two horns growing from a single bert himself, and no one prouder

than the Republican Yankees. head, namely Joseph's. Here is When the King arrived at the an initial dificulty, since unicorn Kursaal, all the corners, ateles, obviously means one-horned,

and corridors were packed, and claim. writes Professor J. Arthur Thom there must have nearly 8,000 Ro Spécial meetinge of. Russo- son in a London paper.

tarians, with many holiday-makers Asiatic debenture holders and from England, who were deeply shareholders are convened for interested in it all.

June 14 to consider the scheme drawn up by the directors: This

In ancient days before photo graphy and before drawing was taught in schools, the discoverer of a new animal which he could not

The audience rose and cheered

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The objects are the elimination of the debenture debt and the pro- vision of funds to support and develop the company's present in- torests, to acquire now Interests, and to prosecute the Russian

bring home, had to rely on the con-130 lustlly that the Kursaal's great provides for a reduction of the nominal capital from £12,000,000 vincingness of his description.organ, playing "La Brabaconne,!!

in 41 shares to £4,500,000 in 2s. But to win conviction the traveller was smothered.

"No Whistling Please,"

6d. shares, the reduction of the tended to italicize, and emphasis readily becomes exaggeration. The Americans were asked by issued 8,462,907 shares from £1 to The visualizer, hearing the des- one of their own officiala from the 29, 6d, and the redemption of cription, made a sketch of what he platform not to indulge in whist£614,117 outstanding debentures thought the creature must haveing in the King's presence, "as it by payment of £60 in cash and 440 in fully-paid 2s. 6d. shares for looked like; the sketch was copied was not done on this side." several times and often conven- Over in America, aald a Kansas each £100 of stock. tionalized in carving; other travel- delegate to me, we often welcome lers made decorative additions; people with loud whistling, but and so fabulous animals evolved, guess Europe is not so used to, it, such as centaurs, harpies, dragons, so wa cut it out. and basilisks.

Shareholders are to be invited to subscribe at par for 8,347,180 shares of 2s. 6d. each at the rate of three new shares for each four shares held.

At a Rotarian function each Thus there emerged the unicorn, member wears his pet name, des-

If these proposals are approved of which Pliny wrote: "It has the cription, and address, printed on a and the new issue, rights are fully head of a stag, the feet of an card in his lapel, and you are free exercised, the company will have elephant, the tail of a boar, while to hall him as "Bill" or "George" an issued capital of £2,096,907, 158. the rest of its body is. ilke that of if you like.

the horse; it makes a deep lowing A Rotarian lapel badge was pre-in 16,775,262 shares of 2s. 6d. each.

noise, and has a single black horn, pared for Rotarian Albert, for the

Againat this capital the com-

which projects from the middle King is a member of both the, San pany will have, the directors atate, of Its forehend, two cubits in Francisco and the Brussels Rotary the Russian claim for £56,000,000, length." There are other descrip- Clubs. His lapel card reads, "Al-net cash and Government securi- ties amounting to £860,000, shares tions in the Classics, which givebert, King of the Belgians." the unicorn a lion's tail and cloven' Introducing him to the cheering in the Villemagne lead-zinc-silver President Harry mines of a present market value of hoofe, and so forth, besides con- thousands, siderably reducing the length of Rogers, of Texas, said: "Gentle- £610,000, and a majority interest in the single horn. With some con men, His Majesty, Rotarian Albert, the Mines de Sebastien-d'Aigre- feuille, another lead-zinc-silver sistency, its home is nearly always King of the Belgians!"

proposition. said to have been in India and its powers are said to have been for midable.

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"The Only One."

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The directora consider that Only one representative of each under these proposals the intrinsic trade or profession is allowed in value of the shares will be en- Was li the Rhinoceros?

market The present each Rotary Club, and in his reply hanced. But even a heraldic animal must the King made a great hit when he value of the share is 28. 6d. The have a germ of objectivity, and referred to his membership, and last Stock Exchange marking of the probability is that the Indian said:" believe I am the only business in the debentures was at Rhinoceros was the origin of the one of my particular classification 71% on May 27, unicorn. One of the species has in Rotary." only one horn; and if there are two That tickled the Yankees to horns, one is behind the other, not death, and they howled their ap- side by side as in other horned proval. "Say," said one of them. VICAR GOES TO GAOL. mammals. Artistotle spoke of the King is just like a super- the oryx, one of the antelopes, as

Mayor, I guess." having a single horn, but, except in the Rhino, the number is two in

"Rotarian Albert, who spoke in English, and without referring to all normal horned mammals, notes, wore the uniform of a Only as a freak is the number o-General, with only a British and casionally one.

another foreign decoration.

There is no difficulty in the technical point that the horn of the rhinoceros is unique in being a wart-Hike skin growth, comh- posed of hair-like fibres axgultin- ated; but there some difficulty in believing that the clumsy rhino could give origin to the graceful unicorn which James I. the Union of the adopted at

ceros

Hence has

There

are

IN DEFAULT FOR NOT PAYING RATE.

The Rev. Gilbert Watling, vicar of St. John's Dysons-road, Edmon-

When he drove away there was

weeks as a rate defaulter. more vociferous cheering, and the ton, has gone to prison for 12 Americans voted "He was sure a

Mr. Watling has made several dandy King all right."

The Americans are delighted appearances at the Tottenham this is the first time he has allow with the distinction conferred Police Court as a defaulter, bat upon them by this Royal visit.

six millionaires ed himself to be committed to among the American delegates, prison.

On his way to surrender to the and one American estimated thati Crowns as the lefthand supporter among the delegates from the police he stated that he had no of the Royal Arms. arisen another theory that the U.S.A. the sum of something up-alternative. "I have no money to unicorn was a side-view of a two-proaching a quarter of a million meet the demand..

"I have written to the Bishop of horned mammal like an antelope, poands will be spent in Belgium

London," he added, "informing one horn hiding the other. But during the Convention.

The British Rotarians are par-him that I'am going to prison. It "this seems too nationalistic to bel true. On the other hand, the ticularly pleased with their stay at will be for the Bishop to find some- spiral twisting of the heraldic Ostend, and Mr. A. Chadwick, gov-one to take the services while I am Mr. Watling has been ten years unicorn's horn is suggestive of ernor of the district of Greater away." what is seen in many antelopes, London, had nothing but praise for though it la regarded by others the arrangements made. He said at St. John's, and his stipend now as a relatively modern addition that 3,000 delegates to the Con- is £350 a year. He attributed his based on

the great tusk of the vention had come from Great Bri-position to-day to a misfortune in male narwhal an Artic Cetacean. tain and Ireland, the total member-1918, when he lent £100, which

The real narwhal, Mendon ship of the 260 Rotary Clubs of was not returned,

Great Britain and Ireland being His wife has been an invalid for monoceros, which whalers some-

London had sent years and had arranged to go to a times call the unicorn or "unt" over 13,000.

nursing home, but this has been postponed.

is more interesting than the my more than 1,600 Rotarians to the

thical monster. It is a dark spot-

ted whale the Arctic Ocean that

turns white as it grows old. Ite

Convention.

body may be fifteen feet long, not probably the

one-horned rhino;

To make ends meet, said the vicar, he had had to sell a good deal, of his furniture, his watch

including the male's left upper- the heraldic unicorn was a mon-and chain, and nearly half his The last view a newspaper re- jaw tusk, which may attain to a strous mongrel, there remains only library, length of elgth feet-the longest the Biblical unicorn, and it was. tooth in the world! But anything misunderstanding. It seems presentative had of him was of a over five feet is considered a good perfectly clear that the so-called man, short of stature, dressed in "horn." In ordinary cases the unicorn," the Hebrew R'em, was his clerical clothes, and with lips corresponding tooth of the right the Wild Ox, Bos primenius, the set tight, stepping into the prison side remains buried in the upper uras of Caesar, the aurochs of the van to make the journey to Brix- jaw, not more than a foot in Germans, and one of the ancestors ton.

length; and the female has two of our domestic cattle. The ironi- Bitch teeth a remarkable instance cal passage in the Book of Job of sex-dimorphisra. Minute ves-evidently refers to a Berce ox: tiges of other teeth have been die-"Will the unicorn be willing to serve thee, or abide by the crib? covered in the unborn youríg.:

Canet thou bidd the unicorn with What Good Is The Horn? Although the narwhal has been his band in the furrow, or will much "fished" and is still of great he harrow the valleys after thee?" "Caesar described the Uni ex- Importance to the Greenlanders--- the skin for food, the blubber for aggeratedly as little inferior size oil, the muscles for the dogs, and to elephanta" and comments on the tusk for ivory-there are no their untamablo fierceness. "Great convincing observations in regard is their strongth and great their to the use of the horn. We may speed; they spare neither man nor exclude the wild suggestions that wild beast on whom they may cast Hector Boece it serves as an ice-breaker or as a their eyen." Of the Scottish re- apear for Impaling skate; a more presentatives

tho Caledonian #In plausible interpretation regards writes:

it as a weapon, especially in the Forest were sometime white bulls contests of rivala males. In all with crip curling manes like flerce probability it belongs to the series lions, and though they seemed of masculine excresences, like the meek in the remainder of their They were antlers of stages, and illustrates a bodies, they were more wild than momentum in evolution that has any other beasts. carried the structure à canine so wily that they were never taken tooth-beyond the limits of utility, but by sleight and crafty labour, yet without involving any great and so impatlout that after they were taken they died of insupport risk to its possessors.

able dolour." This was the He breg Bem, to which the tranala- The living unicorn is the martor mistakenly gave the name of whal; the mythical unicorn was "unicorn.""

The Bibical Unicorn.

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more.

16. 1927,

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