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Evening Post, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 74, 28 March 1914, Page 10

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Lord Aberdeen, speaking at DubMn, said: "We have been passing through troubled times and we are not free from such, and just now our hearts aTe sore because of a horrible deed which will constitute a dark spot in the history of Dublin [the recent killing of a free labourer]. It is difficult to abstain from expressing feelings which we all share about such an occurrence, but perhaps it is desirable to refrain from such utterance until a certain something be overpassed." For the development of the German Navy a German artist named Vakl Dick lias bequeathed 525,000 to the Kaiser. Bitten by a pet monkey, which itself had been bitten by a mad dog six months ago, Corporal Gardiner, of the 44th Battery of the Royal Field Artillery, has died of hydrophobia at Bangalore, Southern India. Seventeen comrades, who were also bitten, are to undergo Pasteur treatment. Meeting in secret, the Municipal Council of Paris has voted £16,000 towards the provision by the military authorities of a permanent stock of about 10,000 tons of flour for use in the city in time of war. Recognising that the majority of the members who drop out of the order do so through falling into arrears with their monthly or quarterly contributions, the council of the Ancient Order of Foresters of England has announced an anangement with the PostmasterGeneral by which members can pay their voluntary contributions by means of ordinary postage stamps, weekly or fortnightly, as their wages fall due. An enterprising French dentist who practises in Montmartfe has just published an original tariff for the extraction of teeth: — s. d. Ordinary extractions .... 2 6 Painless" ditto 4 2 With music 16 0 The patient may choose the selections he wishes to hear, Wagner, Beethoven, or, as the tariff adds, Fragson. Locksley Hall, near Grimsby, a favourite visiting place of Lord Tennyson, has been sold by auction for £1040 to a solicitor, of Louth, acting for an unknown client. Speaking of the hall's associations, the auctioneer said the purchaser would be able to resell it at a handsome profit to come American. It is stated that the British Minister in Buenos Aires has asked for the isuppTesskm of a trade mark bearing a poTtrait of King George V. Orders were given by the Kaiser re- ! cently to his head gamekeeper to wait day and night for a fine stag which had escaped the Imperial gun for a week, and to let him know, whatever the hour, if it appeared. At 6 o'clock in the morning news ,va6 brought to the Imperial bedroom that the stag had been seen, "Tell him to t^ait," said the Kaiser, going to sleep again. A Danish and a Swedish engineer, Mr. Quibtgaard and Mt. Ohrt, have started negotiations with the Danish and Swedish Governments for the construction of a railway tunnel .under the Sound from Mahno-, in Sw«d''dh,'"to' Copenhagen. Th,e distance is about twenty-two miles, and the cost is estimated at £5,000,000. The Rome newspapers announced a strike of lawyers in several towns in Apulia as a protest against the shortage in the number of judges in that region. A semi-official statement gives a forecast of the financial measures to be submitted to the Italian Chamber by the Government. They will include the levying of a. stamp tax on kinematograph theatre tickets, except in the case of establishments frequented by the poorer classes, and a tax on bottled mineral waters. A plebiscite was taken by the Trades and Labour Council of householders in three wards of Blackburn on the question whether the demands of the municipal workers who were on strike should be granted or not. Of 5000 papers distributed 4630 were returned. Of these 0009 were in favour of the demands being gianted. Great difficulty is experienced in England in getting young men to join the Territorials. "Young v/omen can do a great deal to assist the Territorial movement by encouraging men to join and absolutely ignoring those who will not take their proper share in the movement," said Colonel Harrison, in the Isle of Wight, at a recruiting meeting. An alderman urged young women not to go out with any of those men "who stroll about the streets as if they have nothing to do," but with "well-set-up Territorials." Mr. E. N. Lewis, a Conservative member of the Canadian Parliament, recently gave notice of the introduction of a Bill granting suffrage to women with the restriction that only mothers should be allowed to vote. The Bill is based on Hie principle of ''no babies, no ballots." The men of Toronto have voted ffy a majority of more than two to one to give married women the municipal franchise on the same terms as widows and unmarried women. Unusual cruelty was recited in the Chicago Divorce Courts by a lady tightrope walker. She said her husband was in the habit of kicking her off the wire during rehearsals and in view of audiences. She said she had to crawl between her husband's feet as he balanced himself, and that he would then kick her into the net beneath the wire. Two convicts who were serving life sentences in a Kansas penitentiary for murder and robbery have been liberated for distinguished service during a prison fire. One of them, a medical man, performed no fewer than 500 operations on convict patients during lfis term of punishment. Boslon hotels have been ordered by the police to discontinue Tango teas. Many of the dancers went to lengths that the police could not tolerate. German actors last month announced that they would give a play, "How the World is Deceived," at a small town in Halle. They filled the house, hauled up the curtain, and turned on the lights, then disappeared with the takings, without giving a performance to the crowded and expectant house. Unionist ballet dancers at the National Theatre, Mannheim, struck because they were required to dance bare-legged and baie-footed. Tne management being firm, the dancers "downed heels." The union black-listed the theatre. The first Labour Leader to enter official life, Mr. John Burnett, who was the Labour correspondent of the Board of Trade for many years, has died in London. He wa-s one of the first to fight for a nine-hour day. In the fight for the engineers' he conducted a five months strike in Newcastle and Gateskead with great euccasa in i&IU