Ma* Ella Wootton, et Kingswear. Devon, the) 18-year-old girl who was queen of the raitwaymen's centenary celebrations at Manchester, is to be presented with copies of the cinema films taken on that occasion. They are in a specially sealed box to .preserve them for 100 years, so that railwaymen in 2025 will be able to see- the celebrations a century before of the first railways of two centuries before.
The Maharajah of Patiala tells a good •tory illustrative of a man's presence of mind and a woman's inability to shoot straight. A Patiala money-lender was in the jungle one day when a mad jackal made' straight for him. His wife saw the beast, and immediately picked up a gun and took aim. "Don't shoot the jackal, shoot me," cried the alarmed hutband. His wife promptly obeyedl—and shot the jackal.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 13, 16 January 1926, Page 20
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