NOTES AND COMMENTS

Timaru Herald, Volume XCVIII, Issue 18062, 7 March 1923, Page 8

NOTES AND COMMENTS

poor Mrs HohenzoHern: Me believe Mr HohenzoHern got, married again because he would' have somebody around who would have to listen to him road from his book.— New York Tribune. * * « A Cardboard Lighthouse: On the beach of Southern California, says Ship News (San Francisco), is a lighthouse made of cardboard. There is not a stone or a girder of steel in it. “To look at it from a distance, or even close up, one would never surmise it was made of paper-box material. It is the only structure of its kind known. It also performs a most important service—in making movies. The torn rock shore on which it stands has been made picturesque by it.” * * # Lyrichsngs: Fifty-seven persons were lynched in U.S. in 1922. The fact that this figure is slightly less than those reported for 1921 and 1920 appeals to most commentators as less important than the report that there were fift-y----1 eight instances in which officers of the law prevented lynching, and ten in- • stances in which convictions carrying penitentiary sentences were secured : against lynchers. “Congress may be cold to a proposition for Federal ; action to lessen lynching,” observes the Manchester Union, commenting on what the Safi Antonio Express calls “the most damnable record in all the statistics of human affairs—-the annual record of lynchings in the United States,” hut “there is manifest value in every example of lawful force prevailing over the forces of lawlessness.” The Boston Post, after naming tlie ten States that, headed by Texas, are on “The 1922.-Roll, of Shame,” concludes that “an Americanism which provides jails for those who assert their rights to lynch seems to be coming into its own.” • « • Disappearing Moat: The moat of Fulham Palace, which \i s said to havo been made by the Danes in the ninth century as a defence of their camp, is being gradually filled in, and before many months are passed this ancient waterway will have wholly disappeared. The iffoat was about a mile in circumference. Within its bounds stands the ancient manor house, which lias been for several centuries the summer residence of the Bishops of London. To many successive Bishops the moat has been an annoyance and expense, for it was liable to become stagnant and cost a lot of money to cleanse. Less than a quarter of a mile now remains open. This is the section by the side of the pathway through Bishop’s Park, running from Pulliam Parish Church towards the entrance to the. grounds of Fulham Palace. Here, oil tlie fiver side, is to he seen the old water-gate, arid as it is intended to allow it to stand, it will, in time, be all that remains to tell of the ancient moat, save that the elms and limes which grew upon its banks may for long mark its course.