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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 7, 19 December 1911, Page 6

A full report of' the hitost play in the cricket 'lest Match appears on page 3 of tin’s issue. In reference to a cablegram appearing ,;: on page 1 '3 6f this issue regard to a 'cab-drivers’ strike in Sydney, a message, received late this afternoon stated that 'the intended meaning of the first message was that the drivers objected to cabs being lured for six or seven shilling's a, week. The message is further corrected by it being mentioned that “only” a ■hundred nlfefn are affected.

Loss of a leg is essential to a job with a Chicago firm. All but two of its 102 employees in the factory and in the branch offices wear one or two artificial legs. The institution manufactures artificial lower limbs, and the employees leave their work to show the newly-fitted patients how well they can walk, run and jump with the artificial article. Makers doubt if there ever was such a thing as a “cork leg”—in which cork entered to’any considerable extene into the making of the limb. Some of them claim that the name was derived from one Cork, who made artificial legs early in the last century in New York. In the present day they are manufactured from English willow, covered with a thin parchment or enamel, or of wood and leather.

The nows of several additions being made to the Sacred College will be welcomed at Burtscheid, a small town near Aix-la-Chapelle, says an English paper. The brilliant crimson cloth of which cardinals’ robes are made ■has bee*i supplied for generations past by a Burtscheid firm of mill-owners, the secret process by which the dye is distilled being jealously guarded, and handed down from father to son. Curiously .enough, the family is of Huguenot extraction, and the present head of the firm is a staunhc Protestant.

The ancient records of China reveal the fact that our aerial post was forestalled some thousands of years ago, aptly enough by a Celestial. It is true that the first postal airman was an aquatic fowl, and to this day the post in China is referred to as “the convenience of the wild goose,” and pictures of the bird still appear on certain stamps. The legend tells us that a Tartar chief was offensive to the Chinese Emperor, who sent a special envoy to warn him. But the chief took the Emperor’s servant prisoner, and made him shepherd to his flocks. In this condition of social degradation the unfortunate envoy languished for some years, until one day he captured a wild goose, and Ins mind was illuminated by the bright idea of using it to carry news of his whereabouts to his friends. With a letter secured to its leg, the Samaritan goose flew southward until, virtue meeting its customary reward, it was killed in the grounds of the palace by no less a personage than the Emperor himself. The letter was road, and a punitive expedition rescued the captive and punished the rebel chief.

Household furnishings are largely stocked by A. Spence, Broadway, Stratford. He is now showing a fine selection of Lace, Muslin and Guipure Curtains, Curtain Muslins, Brlso Hi so Muslins, with extensions rods, etc. Also, Art Muslins, Casement Cloth, Table Covers, Table Centres, Tray Cloths, Huchossc Sets, Damask Table Cloths, and Serviettes. The bix Xmas Bonus, which ho is now giving to all cash buyers, is greatly appreciated by his numerous patrons.*