NEWS AND NOTES

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 56, 7 March 1914, Page 12

NEWS AND NOTES

[The following item* of intelligence h*va been selected from file« received by the latest mail.] , "The day should not be far distant when it will be as much a reproach to a man to gay that he cannot use a rifle as it is now to taunt him with not being able to use his fists. No man should have a, voice in the 'legislation of his country who is not prepared and equipped to take part in its defence. The man who cannot shoot is absolutely useless in the fighting line. A man who cannot shoot should be ashamed to possess the parliamentary vote." — Lord Roberts in the 1914 Miniature Rifle Club Handbook. The Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of King Victor Emmanuel, has been officially awarded £3 7s lid, being his share of the prize money gained by officers and sailors of the Italian navy on the capture of the Turkish vessel Sabah during the war in TripoliThe scheme of Ml* . I). A. Thomas, the Welsh coalowner, for the decoration of the Cardiff City Hall with statues of Welsh personalities, has been revised, arid the cost of the design is now estimated at £20,000. The original scheme was for ten statuea, but the new design is for eleven, one of these to be a central figure of St. David, by Sjr W. Goscombe John, R.A., with ten others grouped round it. The eleventh statue will probably be that of Queen Boadicea. Three men, Mr. William Cox, Mr. Robert Marlow, and Mr. William Croft, have been choristers at Kingsthorpe Church, Northampton, for an aggregate period of 148 years. Mr. Cox joined the choir when nine years of age, and is still a member at the age Of sixty-two. , Mr. Carnegie has informed the Library Committee of St. Paflcras Borough Council, London, that his offer of £40,000 made in 1905 for library purposes, in response to a request from the borough council (of which £36,000 has not been taken up) not having been taken advantage of after tho lapse of several years, must now be held as recalled. There was an application from the borough council before the Local Government Board for permission to sell land acquired for a public library. Services hitherto rendered by grand juries, said the Recorder of Northampton recently, would be adequately and even better carried out in tho future by the press. _ The greatest safeguard against injustice was the power of tho press. A schema for widening the celebrated Richmond Bridge, London, when considered by the county councils of Surrey and Middlesex produced strong protests against tampering with the famous old' bridge. More serious still, it was pointed out, is the .damage which will be done to the beautiful riverside view. " Thousands of Londoners come here, and foreigners as well, to admire our river. Artists have raved over the beautiful colours and proportions of Richmond Bridge, and it is impossible to widen it and preserve its symmetry." The bridge is A great favourite _ with New Zealand and Australian tourists. A' man of about 40, who had been in Swansea Workhouse for two months without uttering a single word, was identified a3 a plate-layer who, previously to going into the workhouse, was working on the railway ten miles away. The silent man smiled when he saw a farmer friend, but did not speak. He had lost both his power of speech and memory. " The French Courts decided in a recent case that an actress may be restrained from the use of an assumed name by its real owner. She may not esca-po a-n injunction even by changing the spelling of the name, so lgmg as the pronunciation is not altered by the change of spelling. Mile. Gina Recamier, whose real name is Ageorges, noted as the actress with the most beautiful iest in Paris, was sued by the descendants of the famous Mme. liecamior, who successfully obtained an injunction against Gina's use of the name "Recamier," or even " Recamie," on the ground that the leaving off of the final " r " did not in French alter fhe pronunciation of the name. After cashing a cheque for wages at a Nottingham bank a messenger from a lace warehouse was on her way back when she was overtaken by a hatlcss man wearing a pen behind his ear, who, posing as a clerk sent after her from tho bank, induced her to hand over the bag of gold on the ground, that a mistake had been made. A similar robbery was recently committed in Wolverhamptoni A telegram from Winnipeg, where Miss Marie Lloyd had been fulfilling an engagement, states that the poular music--hall artist had the misfortune to burn her hands and face with carbolic' acid, which, in some unaccountable manner, appears to have been mixed with some face cream she used in her make-up, and the message suggests that the artist was the victim of a fiendish plot. The cream was the ordinary brand with which she always travelled, and there was no clue to how the carbolic acid could have been introduced,, though it is probable that the artist did not keep her make-up box very carefully secured. According to the evening papers in New York, Miss Lloyd unsuspectingly used the mixture, which was so strong that it burngd away the _ skin where it was applied to the face, disfiguring her badly. While excavating at Whitstablo (England) for the new sewers, workmen discovered the skeleton of a mammoth some 12 feet below the surface. A clause in the agreement entered into with the contractor gave the Urban District Council the ownership of all "finds." Tho bones were, accordingly exhibited at the council offices, and steps will be taken to provide a permanent home for them there. Mr, George Donkin, engineer, of Forest Hall, Northumberland, who died on 18th September, aged 68, left estate of the gross value of £56,854, mainly to his wife, and to his daughter on his wife's death, with remainder to his daughter's issue ; and, failing issue, with remainder to such charitable institutions in Northumberland and Newcastle as his daughter may appoint, but not to any religious sect or any Roman Catholic institution ■of an,^ kind, "they having had more than their share from my people already." Ml. George Edwardes, the well-known theatrical manager, is putting into operation a plan for the better accommodation and comfort of the patrons of the London Adelphi pit. The usual pit price (2s 6d) will still apply, but seats will be booked, and there will be no extra charge for booking. If the innovation proves successful at the Adelphi, it is reasonable to assume that the example will be followed elsewhere. King Ludwig 111. of Bavaria, administered a snub recently to a society of aristocratic women who #sked him to becoihe patron of a movement to establish homes lor sick animals. He said : | "Do notjvorry about diseased cats, dogs, ! and, h6rses Sick animals ought to bo i killed, Bestow your money on the sick ' yoor, and thus do some Bood with it."

Mr. Caton Woodville in his "Random Recollections," refers to Bishop Brindle's opinion of water. Father Brindle in the Sudan was known and loved as the Roman Catholic chaplain who feared nothing — not even cholera. "When I asked him how it was he never caught it himself," writes llr. Woodville, "he replied he never ate anything that was not freshly cooked, and always put plenty of brandy in the water before he drank it." Elijah, who is now to be the patron saint of Russian aviators, has his chapel upon innumerable hilltops in Greece. Some Greeks, it is true, hold that their St. Elias is not the prophet of the OJd Testament, but a hermit of the fourth century. "For the reason, however, that has commended the prophet to the Orthodox Church in Russia now, it seems natural to identify the Greek saint with him. For this saint has his chariot, and thunder is attributed to the rolling of his wheels. Indeed, according to Mr. J. C. Lawson, it is probable that the Greek saint is really the pagan Helios, the Sun. Christianised.' Such transformations are common enough in Greece. Dionysius (Bacchus) is now St. Dionysius, patron of the vine, and the goddesses Demeter and Artemis have become male saints, Demetrius and Artemidos. \ The Bishop of Yukon, who recently arrived in England to raise funds for hie vast diocese, not long ago, bays the Church Family Newspaper, nearly lost his life when travelling in the extreme north-west of Canada. He and hit companion were, reduced to eating their moccaeins in order to sustain life. STukon. dioceee covers 200,000 square milee, and extends from British Columbia to the Arctic Ocean. On the ground that ho is a naturalised citizen of tho United States, Alderman H. O'Shea, Lord Mayor of Cork, was summoned to show cause why he should not be disqualified from sitting as a member of the Borough Council. Mr. M. Healy, M.P./foi' the prosecution, based Ins Case on alleged statements by Alderman O'Shea that he was naturalised in the United States. For the defence dence was given that the name "Honry O'Shea" did not appeal in the United States register. The summons was dismissed by a majority, and an application for a case to bo stated was granted. Peter Nigosh. an Indian trapper in the Lake of the Woods district of Ontario, was eaten by wolves after a desperate fight in which he killed nine of them, their half-eaten bodies being found near what little was left of the hunter'a body. I have just been told, wrote a correspondent to 'the Daily Chronicle, the story pf a lady of title who lately heard that a suffragette attack was meditated against her country house. Instead of going into hysterics, summoning t.he police, and^ setting a guard round the premises, she quietly forwarded a sub' stantial contribution to the headquarteis of the militants. And now she feels safe. Even the wildest of the wild wo men would scorn to damage ,the property of a supporter. Many men are out of work in Toronto owing to the trade depression, In the Labour Temple il is said that conditions were on tv par with the memorable winter of 1907-08, when hundreds besieged the factories in the vain hope of a day's work, while' largo crowds surged around the City ITall demanding immediate action by the city fathers. When organised labour fepls the pinch of depression and tho lack of employment it is generally conceded that Canadian unorganised labour has been feeling the shortage 'for a considerable period. "The evangelistic tour which the Rev. S. F. Collier, as President of the Ehglish Wesleyan Conference, has planned^ for the next six months will set many reflecting on the development cf Froc- Church methods" writes a correspondent in the Manchester Guardian. ''Even Methodism, the most conoevvotivo in some respects of all the Free Church communities, has travelled far since Wesley's day, yet the president desires his year of office to be signalised by_ a rolurn to the simple instrument of 'evangelism' with which Wesley stirred all England." Authorities, in Europe are up in arms against daring dances and dresses. Tho Archbishop of Paris has forbidden tat/go dancing as a sin which must be confessed, and for which penance must be done. An admonition is also given on the daring eccentricity of woman'a dress. In consequence of an order issued by Field Marshal Fakete, commander of tho Budapest garrison, that women would not bp allowed to appear in slit 3kirt3 at any functions of officers of the corps, all women who had been invited to the military ball at tho Casino refused to attend. The ball had to be postponed. The women declared that they willj not attend any military balls as long as tho order stands. One indignant woman said : "We obey the commands imposed by the Paris and Budapest modistes, but we will not obey the commander of A garrison. Besides, wo like slit skirts. Moreover, we have bought our goods and cannot afford fresh ones overy day likb the wives of Generals." Earl Cawdor died on Bth January, at a Nursing Home, after a long illness, aged for,tyeight years. He had held the title only since 1911, when his father died. He is now succeeded by his son, Viscount Emlin, a boy of thirteen. According to popular tradition Earl Gawdor was descended from the Thanes of Cawdor, dating back to before the time of Macbeth. According to Shakespeare, Macbeth coveted the title and secured it by causing the Thane of Cawdoi to be executed for treason. An encounter with a lion caused the death, at Nairobe, of Fritz Schindlpr, a member of an American moving picture 1 expedition engaged in taking pictures of wild animals in their natural surroundings in Africa. A Missouri young women's desire to see her "hero" — a fireman — rush by her ibome on a fire engine, developed, at Springfield, into repeated false alarmsSix alarms were turned in from one section in one week, and the chief of the Fire Department placed detectives on the case, with the result that the young woman admitted her guilt. She was prosecuted. o Stories of atrocities in the rubber districts of Miasiones are confirmed m a report of Inspector Nicklinson just arlivcd in Buonos Aires. He says all kinds of promises are made to the workers, but after they arrive in the plantations their complaints are met by revolver shots. The report says that some of the rubber planters and their foremon are guilty of thirty or forty murders. Il adds that the atrocities were committed mostly in the Brazilian pait of Missioned, but that they were planned on Argentine territory.