HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 17570, 22 June 1925, Page 6

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. FINDS AT SAXON CHURCHDuring the restoration of Swithlaml Church. Leicestershire, which dates hack to Saxon times, three of th« original eleventh century windows were uncovered. Beneath tho floor were found two coffins of children ot the Danvers Butlers family, ancestors of the present Earl of Lanesborough. whose county seat is at Swithland Hall. The most interesting thing in connection with Syithland, however, is the tombstone of Sir Joseph Danvers, who died nearly 200 years ago. It is probably the only instance in England where half the tomb ij in the churchyard and half in unconsecrated ground. It is said that Sir Joseph-told his son to bury him in this lash ion, so that when the last trumpet was sounded lie should be able to arise on tho Judgment Dav upon his own land. FAMILY’S GOOD NAME. A desire to preserve the good name of a firm founded by her grandfather many years ago led Miss Eastwood to make an offer at a mooting of creditors of Eastwood, Swingler and Co.. Ltd , at Derby, England, to see that all the creditors arc paid in full. In April the firm went into voluntary liquidation, having suffered considerably from the slump in engineering. Miss Fastwood s offer will involve her in i liability ol tens of thousands of pounds. Her holding in the firm was very small. In her letter Mis? Eastwood said her desire was to maintain the good name of the firm, which for generations had been held in high respect. Miss Eastwood desired that her action should not lie made public, and last night said that the affair was a private one. •• There is nothing very nobh* about it.” she said. “ T was "brought up to believe that if you did not act decently you had better be dead: and "hat I am doing is the only thing I could do.” M UAT CRIME COSTS Statistics have boon compiled by financial houses, assurance companies, and chambers of commerce which giro the immense total of twentv million pounds as the annual toll exacted by all kinds of criminal procedure. Long-firm frauds ’ and fraudulent bankruptcies, by which manufacturers and agents are swindled by men who open businesses never meaning to pay for the goods thev secure, account for £10,000,000 of the total. Forgeries, embezzlements, and fraudulent dealings in shares amount to another £2.500.000. Burglary, housebreaking, and pocket-picking account for more than £2.000.000. Half a million pounds’ worth of property was stolen last year in London alone; and tho proceeds of robberies in the next ten largest cities of tho country reached £750.000. Vast sums are lost by railway pilfering and the stealing of goods in transit, although this class ot crime is steadily decreasing owing to the efficiency of the railway police and detective services. LIGHTED lIY THE WIND. A small windmill that turns a generator provides sufficient electricity to give adequate light in every room in Mr G. Robinson's house at Sandwich, sufficient to revolve the two small vanes and charge the storage batteries. The vanes are so delicately balanced on the top of a ten-foot support that the merest breath of wind will turn them round. As much mere current is made than is necessary to light the eight lamps in the house. Mr Robinson charges his wireless accumulator with tho surplus. The whole apparatus cost only £IOO to install, and nothing lias been spent since it was put up twelve mouths ago- So long ns there is wind, electricity can be made. MINER’S 500* FOOT ROPE DESCENT. To rescue a man named Brown trapped in a mine shaft at Lingdale, Cumberland, Thomas Holliday was lowe.e 1 500 feet by means of a rope. Clinging with one hand to the rope, ha liberated Brown with the other, and placed him in the cage in which be was brought to the surface. Brow i had been leaning over a truck in a cage to remove a piece of stone which was causing an obstruction in the shaft, when the cage began to rise. Jammed tightly between the shaft va 1 ! and the truck, he was hauled uo 100 feet, receiving terrible injuries before the men on the top heard his scream?. Holliday at once volunteered to g> to the rescue. CONSTABLE’S WIFE AS DECOY. A constable’s wife pluckily acted as a decoy when a police ambush was laid at Ely, England, in an effort to capture a man who has been attacking women and girls alter dark. So frequent have the attacks been in the West End of the town that women have been afraid to venture out alone (says a London paper). One night the volunteer decoy walked alone in the West End district, round which a police cordon had been drawn. About I'd p.m. a man pounced on her front •». doonvav. and a fierce struggle ensued. She managed to blow a whistle, an 1 her assailant bolted. She followed through several streets, sounding blasts on the whistle, which were answered by the officers, who closed in from all sides. After a long chase Sergeant Newell look a man into custody. Tbcr > was a sequel before the local Magistrates when Frederick Cole, a painter, ot Earith Bridge, was remanded on a charge of assault. Other charges are to be preferred against him. RARE BOOK GOES TO AMERICA. Dr Rosenbach, of Philadelphia, paid £OBOO at Sotheby's. London, for the first edition and only copy knonn * f Baxter’s “Call to the Unconverted.” which was translated into the Massachusetts Indian language by John Elioc in 1664. Altogether £14.749 was realised for the collection of books sol l at the instance of the Royal Society 'The second folio of Shakespeare sold did not realise more than £205. A vellum Cicero. “ De Offic-iis.” print© I by Schocffcr in 1466, brought £1(300. and the “ Canterbury Tales.” printed by Pynson in 1490. went to Air Quaritch for £560. GIRLS ATTACKED BY RATS Rats have attacked sleeping children at Aylesbury, Bucks. England. A railway cleaner, who lives in au old cottage in Buckingham Road, was alarmed by the cries of his two little girls, aged about, five, who were sleeping in the same bed. On reaching them lie found that one had been bitten on the forehead and the other on tho finger. One of the girls was awakened hi* what she thought was her sister pulling her hair. Instead it was rats scampering over the hod. The bites were not serous, hut the forehead wound was tressed by Dr Parrott, medical officer of health for the town.