NEWS AND NOTES

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLV, Issue 3191, 7 February 1928, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES

A seasheil held to the ear makes a noise like the waves, because the shelll acts as a sounding board and magnifies the pulsing of the blood in the arteries of the head.

Cricketers seem to enjoy long life, according to statistics. Out of 1000 of the players mentioned in "Wisden, " only 40 died before reaching their 35th year. The normal rate for men collectively is 89 per 1000.

Much laughter was caused when the observant bishop added: "The most significant change outwardly is the very large number of light pink stockings we see. It is due. to- artificial silk, which, I believe, originated in the Bishop of Chelmsford's diocese."

After a flight of 2000 miles a homing pigeon was picked up wet and exhausted in a New York street. On one of its legs was a message telling that Dr. Edmund Heller, a famous naturalist, was lost in the Hoodoo Mountains of Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming.

A special Norwegian Ibsen stamp will be issued on the occasion of the Ibsen centenary, bearing his portrait and his signature. The first idea was to issue the stamps on January 1, but [owing to certain difficulties they will not now be seen until the end of February, i The Essex Standing Joint Committee has voted a pension of £78 4s 3d a year to the widow of Police Constable Gutteridge, who was murdered near Ongar, on September 27, and an allowance of £15 12s lOd a year to each of his two children until they reach the age of 16.

Candidates for the London Police Force had to face an examination, from a recent paper set, in which the following questions were taken: "Whether a glass of wine at 15/- a gallon is dearer or cheaper than a pint of stout costing £10 per 36-gallon barrel," and "What are the dangers and difficulties to be faced in an Atlantic aeroplane flight?"

People in Korea seek to rid themselves of all their distresses by painting images on paper, writing against them their troubles of body and mind, and aferwards giving the papers to a boy to burn. Another method of achieving the same object is to make, rude dolls of straw, stuff them with a few copper coins, and throw them into the street. Whoever picks up such an effigy gets all the troubles and thereby relieves the original sufferer.