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King Country Chronicle, Volume XX, Issue 2064, 8 January 1925, Page 3

Born in the Tower of London, Mr John Charles Pope, of Harefield, whose death was lately announced, was the son of a beefeater, and the youngest) of 17 children. He used to recall the difficulty his mother had in getting so many children to bed. At night she paraded them in single file and countiad them off as they passed her.

Ifwo farmers building a comstack at Cilmberauld, Dumbartonshire, noticed a seagull mounting in the air with a large rat struggling in its beak. The gull, after flying some distance, let its prey fall to the roadway, and made unsuccessful efforts to recover it.

Shakespeare in his tragedy of “Romeo and Juliet,” crammed more excitement into five days of Juliet’s life than most girls experience in five years. The time in the play is thus divided. The famous ball is on Sunday, Monday sees the marriage of Romeo and Juliet, Tuesday Juliet drinks the potion, and on Wednesday she ip placed in the tomb. On Thursday Romeo returns, and on Friday the unfortunate lovers commit! suicide—a rapid record, truly, otf love, courtship, marriage and death.