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Evening Star, Issue 18259, 26 April 1923, Page 1

B’> Ben's clock may hold the record for «»(>ii/“a! dimension),' bwb Ben himself ■:s far From belli" the bisect bell in tho world Moscow's 220-ton bell hardly counts, since it is broken, and useless; but tho same city boosts one of 110 tons, and others of a/, 20, and 17 tone. Russia's heaviest uncracked hei] that at Trotr.koi, weighs 171 tons, oquat to thirteen Bi? Bens. Great Paul holds tho Eii'dish record of 10 tons, but this in heated by'bells in China, Japan, Austria. Germany, France, Spain, and Portugal. fit. Paul s hour bell is a midget of little over 5 tons, and, curiously enough, fit. Peters in Homo la content with a 7-ton boll. Mr Catholina Lambert, founder of tba silk industry at Paterson, New Jersey, the “ Lyons of America," dic-d at his homo last month at the ago of eighty-seven. He was born in poverty in Yorkshire, and began work in a mill of Messrs Walter Evans urn! Co. when ton years old at a wage of 184 seven ty-two-hour week. At seventeen ho came to the United States with one £3 note. Four years later ho founded tho firm of Dexter, Lambert, find Co., which grew to bo tho loading company in the industry/ Ho died a multi-millionaire. Observe the homeward toilets hieing Urging on to tram or train, With their gale-tossed garments flying. Plodding through the drenching: rateBorne look peevish, sad ami weary; Others cough or cold endure; Those who urge on bright and cheery Carry Woods' Great Peppermint Cur*,,£Adft»j