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TEN THINGS AT ONCE

AMERICAN'S GIDDY BRAIN

It takes all sorts of people to muko a world. True this familiar ndage is small comfort for the in- convenience caused by some people -from the Income-tax collector to Mr. Itler-but it does help to make certain people a little more tolerable.

have

One kind of person the world.

the apparently must phenomenally-brained mathematic- Jan who adds things up at lightning speed, subtracts the half divided by the number at the top and after taking away the number you first thought of, reveals your grand- mother'a age, and makes you feel 1 thoroughly nahamed you couldn't do it yourself.

Just what place they have in the world it is difficult to say-outside the music-hall-unless Nature felt

Prince Gourge and Princess Marina will be married in this graud ald Cathedral-Westminster.

at lest that it had to provide one or two people who can really speak back to the Income-tax imun.

Freddie Craig doen not full into the category of the intolerable queer person; he is more than toler- abc is a very charming young American with auburn hair going thin on tup (doubtless Thrangh' un- due brainwork).

Freddie ran read three news- papers upside down and backwards, write headlines upside down and backwards as he reads the news- papers three ways, call for two six figure numbers, add them, cumpile

list of six other figures the total aum of which, is the same us that of the two figures, keep up a stendy conversation, and give the name of principal streets of any city in the United States, Canada. England, Scotland, Ireland, or Wales,

SEVERAL BLACKBOARDS Freddle gave a demonstration. There was a small but distinguished audience. Freddie dances about between severni blackboards Alling

Wife Slayer Goes Free

ONLY LOST HIS TEMPER ONCE

NAGGED ALL HIS LIFE

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

Paris, Nov. 14.

Found guilty of murdering his

RUSSIA RAISES TROPIC CROP

GRAPEFRUIT OR PINEAPPLE

GROWS HER OWN

"TUNG TREES

Moscow, Nov. 10.

The Soviet Union is expending

wife because he was "fed-up" with much effort to enlarge the culture. being "hen-pecked," M. Eugene of traplent and semi-tropical planta Ringenbach, 66-year-old garbage- | and trees within its borders. collector, has just been given a suspended sentence of two years' Imprisonment by the Asaize Court of the Seine.

As he walked out of the court room a free man acorns of husbanda applauded him.

The first grapefruit were picked last year off young trees recently get out by American experts in the batmy climate of Pott on the Blac Sea coast of the Cauensus, and sent

non

The trial brought out that to grace the breakfast table of Ringenbach had been an ideal hus-M. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet "dicta- band during his entire married life, tor." In an effort to find varietie accepting in silence the constant that will grow in northern Bagging

of his young wife; Irrigated regions of the Ukraine Gabrielle. Neighbours testified that they often wondered why he the Soviet Jins Imported Norfall did not bent her on occasions be cotton from the United States cause of her tongue-Inshings. They Attempts have been made to intro- fnlded that they had never once sern duce pineapples and cocon and rub

him show his lemper except on the her trees.

of the killing. According

to `witnesses, M. Ringenback was quietly rending u newspaper one evening when his wife came into the room and shrieked at him. He continued rending as she went back Into the kitchen. She kept up a constant harangue as she prepared dinner, Still upbraiding her husband sho passed Into the yard.

day

Suddenly, M. Ringenbach threw down his paper, jumped to his feet and grabbed a loaded gun that reposed on two pegs stuck in the wall, le dashed out into the yard and fired. The bullet atruck his wife in the neck.

As the clung to the fence dying. she called to the neighbours with her last words, "Come

a terribic husband

and see what

In the meantime, M. Ringenbach came to her side and said to her that he was sorry he had lost his femper for the first time in his life, The neighbours put their arms around him and tolt him that they anderstood. Apparently so did the Jury. --United Press,

SEEKING TRADE IN BRITAIN

SOUTH AMERICA'S CAMPAIGN

FRUIT EXPORTS INCREASE

London, Nov. 12. International trade barriers, particularly quotas and restric-1 tions on the exports of meat, are gradually driving South American ment exporting nations into the Fresh and canned fruit, and egg market,

Chile is among the South Amer- ican exporting countries which are sucking to develop their foreign **** Foxports in directions enabling them to counteract in some measure the damage done to their foreign meat trade by tariffa and quotas almosti everywhere. Intensification of

Fo

Sir Austen Chamberlain, valoran Parliamentarian, sizna out on

7ist. birthday.

of

them with writing (upside down) and figures (some upside down and some generally scattered about), noming streets in towns and copy- ing out of a newspaper. Talking, course, all the time. Next to chair-o'-plane, it is hard to think of anything that makes you quite so giddy. He did ten things at once. But, whatever you may think about Freddle having a freakish montal streak docan't worry him. He denies it. When a schoolboy, he went to a fair and saw a man writ- ing upside down to advertise foun- tain pens. This tickled Freddie: ho practised the art at school when ho ought to have been paying at- tention. That started his crazo for od things of this nature.

-A professor of psychology In tho United States warned him that one of those days his brain would give way-or as Freddie himself says in

Chile's efforts in this direction can be seen in the decision of Senor Alberto Lavala, Chilean Agricul- -tural representative, to move his European headquarters from Paris to London.

Senor Lavala is said to have sold Rome three hundred thousand cases of Chilean apples on the Con- tinent last year. It is understood that this year, negotiations which are now under way in London be tween Lavala and various In- terests in the City, may result in still further increasing the sale in England of Chilean fresh fruit, canned fruit and eggs, in par

lcular. The transfer of Lavala's headquarters to London is expected to intensily Chilean efforts to capture new markets here,

Last year Argentina sont over experimental shipments of nspara- gus which sold well on the London market. It is believed that other shipments of fresh vegetables and fruit will come to London from Buenos Aires, probably early in the winter when England's, house- holds are mainly on a cabbage diet. -United ProS8+

hla "Amurrican" way "gald I'd go screwy." But he has disappointed the professor, and intenda keeping on disappointing him till he has made enough to retire. Then, no doubt, he'll go over all his British pald Income-tax receipts and insur ance policies 48 hobby

When ordinary people can't get to sleep at night, they count sheep (or used to when young.) What Freddie counts is hard to picture-- probably the number of raindrops falling within a given area sub tracted from the number of snow- drops falling in twice the arod-and. reads the Encyclopædia Britannica upaldo down and backwards in the dark.

One of the latest trces to attract attention here is the lung tree from the needs of which is muno inctured

a valuable oil, so-called China wood vil or tung oil, used in the electrical, chemical, paint and varnish Industries. The Arst tung tree appeared on the Black Sea const 30 years ago, but the Indus trial demand did not exist then where Lung treen The 1934 ares grow is 2,907 acres, which is almost double the 1933 acreage, and f 1935 it is planned to have 4.687

acres

under cultivation. - Uniten

THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1934.

Types of German Fighting Men

Men in uniform make up the picture of Germany today (1) Typlent Brown Shirt, and of the 400,000 "BA" storm troops of the Nazis, who helped lift Hitler to power.

.. (2) A Relcha wehr private, member of Germany's small but splendidly equipped (3) A Berlin demonstration of and trained regular army. Stuhlhelm (Steel Helmcis), war vetorane" "organization of some what older men, monarchistic and conservativo la tone, ...). (4) A member of the "S8," or Schutzstaffel irvops, a plcked Nazi ladyguard ní some 20,000 men, wearing black rather than brown, caretally selected on the cream of Naxi civilian soldiery..... aka Regular pollee, under federal control and armed when necrs- sary in military style to supplement troops.

A saber had just flashed down, the hilt plainly vicikle in the cavalry'officer's hand, and the manassin' of King Alexander 1 of Yugo Slavia was reeling to his death, arme upflung futilely to guard his head, when the cameraman snapped this picture. Inside the royal car, shown halted in Marseilles strast, the king had slumped back, dying, in the rear sent, beside Foreign Minster Louie Barthou of France, also mortally wounded.

The first achievement of the ricksha réform drive in Shanghal has taken place at East Kashing and Thorne Roads whare this building has been ta^en over by the Pullers' Mutual Aid Association to

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