NEWS JOTTINGS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LI, Issue 16671, 26 February 1925, Page 7

NEWS JOTTINGS.

LONDON, January 16. Canada’s population has increased nearly 500,000 since 1921. Fire destroyed the entire business quarter of the town of Corinth, Mississippi, causing £300,000 damage. Captain Darius, a lion-tamer, was mauled by a, twenty-months-old cub at a stage performance at Wavcrley Market Carnival, Edinburgh. Cross-word puzzles arid the radio liavo been given us the reason for a marked decline during recent months in the demand for books at the Ottawa Public Library. Fifty-five per cent, of the crimes committed in Paris arc the work of foreigners, according to staislics just’ issued by the police. Japan plans to spend about 9,000,000 dollars in electrifying a Government owned iron works to save 60 per cent, of tUc present fuel cost. Sir William Gars tin, known aw “the Wizard of the Nile,” on account of his work for the improvement of the irrigation of Egypt has died in London, aged 75. The Empire Cotton Growing Association will give £3OOO a year for live years in aid of experimental cotton stations in New South Wales and Queensland. Winter wheat sown in the United States this year amounted to 42,317,000 acres, an increase of 2,126,000 acres compared with the corresponding period in 1923. The Vinolirady Bank, of Prague, lias decided to build 10CO houses for the townspeople, advancing half the purchase money to the buyers. The bank will run its own brick kilns. No brass or permission instruments may be played in the dancing schools or public dance halls in Vienna, by special order of the mayor. This means the disappearance of the jazz band. Solely for ventilation purposes, a shaft twenty-two feet in diameter will ho sunk to a depth of 3500 feet in a South African gold mine and connected to a fan with a capacity of 1,000,C00 cubic feet of aij- a minute. Sarah Berry, aged 49, wife of a. miner of -Monk Bretton, near Barnsley, dislocated her jaw hv yawning, and while under an anaesthetic collapsed and died in a doctor’s surgery. The London General Omnibus Com puny has forwarded a cheque to the London County Council for £334,533, in payment of the license fees on the company’s lleet of omnibuses for this year. That the big British banks enjoyed prosperity during the last twelve months is shown by the annual reports now published. Compared with the two years immediately preceding 1924 the profits on an average were fully ten per cent, higher. Mr. S. C. J. Freeman-Matthews, senior purser in length of service of the White Star Line, lias retired after thirty-eight years at sea, during which lie travelled nearly 3,000,000 miles. lie made thirty-seven trips round the world in the Athenie. Surveys have been completed! for a new railway of 250 miles running through the northern belt of Quebec, connecting with the direct lines to Ottawa and Montreal, and opening up an undeveloped area, of 10,000,000 acres. The Bibby liner Leicestershire, which arrived at Rangoon after a very rough voyage, reported the disappearance in the Red Sea of Chief Engineer Parrish. ■Glass globes on graves arc referred to by tho vicar of Copt Oak, Lieceslershire (the Rev. .11. O. Gannell) as “the cheapest and ugliest form of post-mor-tem respect imaginable,’’ and lie up peals to the parishioners to do away with “this trumpery and lazy form of reverence.” A Belleville (Ontario) telegram states that a team of horses, frightened by a passing motor-car, bolted and crashed into a shop front. Miss Jessie Anderson, sister of Bishop Anderson, of Chicago, was struck by the sleigh and killed, while another woman -was injured. Income tax and excess profits duty claims which aro said to amount to nearly £1,500,000 aro being made on profits made on the reflotation of cotton mills during the 1920 “boom.” A tramear which jumped the lines on the Victoria Embankment injured two men, smashed two iron standards, and did considerable damage to a motorlorry. Eight of Chicago's leading ice companies have formed a 30,000,000 dollars merger. This is one industry that can easily convert frozen assets into liquid. Workmen repairing the Mosque of Omar at Jerusalem found an ancient staircase which is believed to have been one of the entrances to King Solomon’s temple. , Cancer, Sir Berkeley Moynihan, the well-known surgeon, declared at Leeds University, could, if treated in its early stages, be completely and permanently eradicated. The difficulty was to obtain access to the disease while it was still in the local stage. The airship R 36, which is being refitted' for a, trial flight to Egypt in the summer of 1925, is being equipped with a number of strain gauges, and a continuous record will he taken during the flight of the stresses experienced on the lmTl of the airship. Relatives of the late Colonel William Frederick Cody (Buffalo Bill) have organised themselves into an incorporated entity, ‘"‘The Cody Family,” for the purpose of ‘‘protecting and preserving” the name of the famous American scout.