THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 87, 19 April 1913, Page 3

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

‘‘l kept my mother-in-law; in fact, 1 married the whole family,” said a claimant at the City of London Court last month. A goods train more than a mile long consisting of 132 trucks loaded with coal, and five engines, was recently tested on, the Lackawanna Railway, Pennsylvania. Philip M’Govern, who was said to possess a family secret for the cure of hydrophobia, has died in Co. Cavan. He cured so many cases that patients were sent to him from all parts of Ireland. . . r Statistics show that 1,011,000 bags of wheat have been received this season at Freomantle, as against 92,000 last year. The shipments to March 31 are 809;000 bags, as against 57,000 during the previous season. I ',•'' 1 1 •j ; 'a *'; fP • : i The police at Galilonz,.Baxony, has raided a counterfeit coin factory, wherice base coin to Hie value of about; £600,000 ha® been circulated in Brazil the export being made in casks declared to contain cement. ~ A naval order issued at Portsmouth last month forbids bootmakers and barbers to go in warships, and instructs commanding officers .to prevent contractors from carrying on private trading aboard vessels. Germany, according to the religions statistics of the Empire, has an increasing number of persons without any religions profession. The number has grown from 17,000 in 1907 to nearly 206,000. The numbers of motor vehicles registered by the London County Council to December 31 were: Motor cars 58,535, heavy motor-cars 5296, and motor-cycles 22,110.