THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 39, 21 June 1913, Page 6

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

The latest piece of schoolboy intelligence informs ns that “as William the Conqueror was riding over the ruins of Nantes, his horse stumbled over a cinder, threw him against the pommel of his saddle, and Wounded him in the feudal system, whereof he died.”

President Wilson recently pressed a lever at Washington, and Wool worth Building, New York, the highest in tho world, was officially opened. Nearly 100,000 lights shone from 3000, windows. Tho Woolworth Building tower is 780 feet above Broadway, and presses upon earth a weight of 20G,000,0001 b. Demands for rooms on the fifty-fifth, or top floor, have come from poets, inventors, and advertising agents, and to avoid all trouble it has been practically decided to devote the floor to a tea-room.

A Zeppelin airship, , with Count Zeppelin himself in charge, effected a great flight on tho 9th inst. it travelled from Berlin to Aspern, five miles from Vienna, a distance of about 440, miles in 8J hours. The journey was a non-stop one, and was carried out without a landing having to be made at,all en route. During tho trip the ship was in,constant contact with Telefunken wireless station at Aspern. When tho party landed the Austrian Emperor granted. Count Zeppelin an audience, and a Cpurt banquet was held in the evening, followed by a reception at the Town Hall.

A joke which will bring trouble upon tho perpetrator thereof should, he be discovered was played at Rheims in honor of April 1. Somebpdy sent to the local newspaper a despatch stating that a dirigible Zeppelin, after hovering over Verdun, had landed near the Rheims barracks in a disabled condition. From the moment this news was published an enormous and excited multitude wont to tho spot indicated by the papers, and' on f discovering the hoax became so unruly that the police, with the gendarmerie, were required to prevent serious disturbances. Steps are now being taken to discover tup author of the jqke, who will be prosecuted, as well as the papers publishing the false information, in virtue of the laws prohibiting the publication of false news calculated to interfere with public order.

Professor Danilevsky, a distinguished physiologist of the Imperial Academy in St. Petersburg, claims to have discovered a method of keeping fish fresh without the need of ice or a freezing-room. The professor, who immerses the fish in certain chemical liquids, has been giving a demonstration at Hull. The process is so simple that it can be carried out on board trawlers, on in warehouses, or during the transport of the fish from the fishing ground to the market. Of course everything depends on the outcome of the tost recently made. Should it prove successful it will revolutionise the fishing industry of England, as well as that of most other countries.

The women’s vote at Manly was heavy, and at 4 o’clock hundreds were gathered in the booth. A mother handed her baby to a leading Liberal committeeman while she went in to exercise her franchise. Five minutes passed, and Colonel Ryrie’s active lady worker became restive. Ton minutes were registered, when the lady began requisitioning amongst her friends for a bolder for the baby, as she wanted to get on with her campaign work. Just then Dr Arthur came along, and the infant was placed in his arms. He bravely nursed it for some minutes, but on Colonel Ry rie’s appearance the little Australian was handed over from State to Federal control before the colonel had time to protest. The Federal member for North Sydney put in some time nursing the child in good-tempered, fatherly fashion, when the mother returned from her voting, after 25 minutes’ absence, and closed the little comedy.