A MEMBER OF THE BUILDING SOCIETY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 24 April 1907, Page 1

A MEMBER OF THE BUILDING SOCIETY.

A fire which broke out at the Birmingham "University recently, tt-as extin-uished by tbo heat moHinff a water pipe arid releasiiisr af laree How of water. Captain "S. It. Pike, 8.A., As-sistant-Inspector ,at Itha Royal Arsenal, Woolwich, was cyclinjs across Blackhcath, where he lived I .* when the bicycle broke beneath Mm. Being a heavy fcnan ho sustainbd some severe cuts and bruises, and one of his thumbs was so much injured Ihart. t>n removal to Blacifhtoath College Hospital <an amputation was found necessary. .After lyingi nine days in great agony. Captain, Pike died from lockjaw. An upholsterer named Karl Waprnor. livhur at Munich, has constructed a violin entirely out of wooden matches. The instrument h a s a fifood tone, and the back is ornamented by a picture of tho tower at the famous Frauen Kirc'ho Wagner first made a model of the parts in cardboard, •and then jrluod over them the matches, which aro perfectly joined. This cardboard was then removed, and the parts put together. Ten boxer of matches supplied the necessary wood, and Wajrner engaged for a year on tho How the German Emperor helped a young soldier to wad the girl of •his choioe is related in M.A.P. One da.v tho Kariser? wag •walking in civilian dress, when 'ho was recognised by a corporal. The Emporor, noticing that the man's faca wore a troubled expression. Questioned Win. For son*; t'irao tha corporal hesitated to reply; but at last confessed that he was in lova with the daughter of his sergeantmajor, but the marriage was impossible, since this girl's father wou'd have hone loss than a serjrcant as a. son-in-law. '■''Do you rcnlly lovo'the jrirl?" enquired tho Kaiser. v With all my ht?art," was the rpply. "Very well, then.co and t-cll your serßOant-major that tha Kaiser has made you a sergwant." Attempts aro now to 'be made to utilise the phonograph lin per-* potuatraiK two of the most distinct of the (dialects of fcho outer fringe of the Kingdom. Tho Manx Language Society is undertaking the collection 'of phonograph records on the. Isle pf Man, whjile it is intended to do the same in Jersey and Guernsey, for the peculiar. Nornian-Frcneh speech. Tho enterprise., the County Gentleman thinks -deserves to bo imitated in many other parts of Engjaaid before tha purity of the different anginal dialects entirely disappears. ■B'ut itJ is to feared that the phonograph's peculiar throatihesa' of tone will rather obscure the natural cha.actcr of the local intonation. .ii snake story, which has the merit of being true, comes from Orton Park, two or three miles from Bathurst, (wires tha Bathurst correspondent of the "Sydney Daily Telegraph"). A man, who is engaged hv local hotelkeeper to look after his farm, a few days ago purchased a gramaphone in order that ha might derive comfort from it in his hours of loneliness. He set the instrument going oil Friday night, and shorU ly afterwards, to his amazement, a jnake came in through the door and, rising on its tail, swayed to and fro as the gramaphone emitted its "concord of sweet sounds." The astonished man was looking round for a weapon wherewith to despatch the reptile when, to his horror, another snake appeared at the do^r. This was altogether too much for him, and in a fit of terror he rushed to a neighbour's house and took refuge for the remainder of the night. Trulv, music has charms.