HERE AND THERE.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18578, 28 September 1928, Page 8

HERE AND THERE.

AN EYE FOR EVERYTHING. New Use for Old “Fords.” Joe Arnold, of Sugarland. Virginia. United States, having no rifle and iear ing the shot he had would not do the work at hand, removed the lead pellets from a loaded shell and inserted bail bearings from his old Ford car. Tbut. equipped, he went forth to give battle to a bear which had been killing hn sheep almost under his nose. Arnold wounded the bear at the first shot, then, pursuing the animal into the woods, where it had been treed by dog.', brought it down with a ball bearing through the heart. x x Child Adopted by 280 Veterans. Rachel Eaton, aged seven yeat s. whose mother is dead, and whose father, a former soldier, who embarked on the steamer in France to die in hr native land, is dying of tuberculos; - was adopted by 280 Pennsylvania World War veterans when the United liner George Washington docked at New York recently. The child and her father were passengers on the ship. So were the veterans, former members of the 28th Division, who had been in France dedicating three memorials to men of their State who died oversea

Lord Nelson’s Old Ship. Nelson’s famous ship Victory is Britain’s latest refitted 6hip. Great pair,: have been taken to ensure that the Victory shall appear just as she did in Nelson's day, and the renovation l*«v cost nearly £IOO,OOO. The famous and historically correct picture of Nelson's death is now placed as near as it is possible to tell to th spot where he fell. The Victory v. i;' of course, never float again; she stand in Portsmouth Dockyard in a d’ berth. Twenty seamen and twenty marines live aboard. Nelson's own quarters have been completed just they were 123 years ago. An Old London Fort. Near the great London Hospital, in London, is Mount-place, which was :•<> named from a huge artificial mound which, according to tradition, was an ancient British tumulus. In 1642. «>n the outbreak of the Civil War between King and Parliament, a fort was built upon it, one of a series erected round London. Twent>'-three years later it was utilised as a burial place for victims of the Plague, and it is said to hav had its size further increased b}' rul bish deposited after the fife. The mound is shown in Strype’s map of 1720. ar.d at the close of the eighteenth centur>. just before it was demolished, it wa a favourite place for prize fights. XXX Jewel Wearing. The annual conference of jewellers in Sydney has been deploring the slump sn the jewellery trade (says the Melbourne “Herald”). The plaint is not a new one. Ever since the war began, th practice of buying and wearing jewellery has declined. Twenty years ag<* women of means often loaded themselves with jewels. The fashions permitted them to do so. Long skirts, a more or less inactive existence, an; l elaborate hairdressing styles favoured the practice. Rings were fashionable then, and some women wore as man; as half a dozen. Diamond tiaras wer affected by those who could afford them. Jewelled head-dresses were common. But nobody wears tiara* nowada\*s. The shingled head finisher! them. There was, however, some revival of tiara wearing when the Duchess of York was here, but not as a tiara The Duchess is fond of jewellery, and many tiaras were taken out of the safe deposit and turned into wide bracelets. The Duchess was also known to wear three strings of pearls in the daytime, and jewellers, at the time of the Royal visit, sold many strings of valuabl pearls. The revolt of woman against long skirts, long hair, and long sleeve gave the jewellery business its setback. Her invasion of industry and the lack of domestic help have kept it more or less in a condition of slump. The modern girl, in adopting simplicity of dress, carried the idea to the extreme. And then girls and women, who work for their living, and have more domestic duties than they had, are not in a favourable position to wear jewels. The increased activity of women in sport has also helped to keep jewellery in the shop. g g X Finding the Depth of the Sea, An echo-sounding apparatus is now used to ascertain ocean depths. In the last few j’ears navigators have been extremely interested to see on revised Admiralty charts which are used bv seamen of all nations, the plotting oi unfamiliar sea depths, and the new method is adding greatly to our know ledge of the sea. A few years ago. when the wire lead apparatus was stiil being used, the greatest depth which had been plumbed was five miles, and this, according to the geography book;-, is the greatest known sea depth. It was clear that in many places the sea was deeper than could lx: penetrated b>* the wire, but how much could not be discovered. By the new method there is no limit to the depths which can be ascertained, and German, American, and Japanese ships are constantly reporting colossal depths. These are marked on the Admiralty charts. There was a time when no plottings were made which had not I»een !>aoked by a specimen of the bottom of the sea, but. with the new method there is no need to doubt the accuracy of the depths reported. The greatest have l>een report ed by a German survey ship in the Eastern Archipelago. They vary between seven and eight miles. Another German ship has done some extraordin-gu-y work in the South Atlantic, re charting the whole of the area and totally revising ideas as to the depths ot the ocean and the configuration of the land under it