. 1 < o o NDENT | FOR FIRST TIME OWLS THINK MICE LUXURY TO PRESENT TO GIRLS : ih Two owls which have be- come the pets of two sisters in near Birkenhead, i | their new owners. The owls enter the girls' bedrooms every day and perch on the head of their bedstead. Often they bring offerings of dead and "Jeave them on: the plilow. Licensee of Hotel at Diss i Ordered to Pay . * Costs oma RETLSE DIED WITH ad Paid Alimony to Wife £1 0.000 IN HOUSE on Behalf of Hus- Had Lived Alone and Did - band % For the a made respondent. Own Cooking But Be- lieved Poor woman was a ina FOUND IN CHAIR suit brought by a wife against "| Flew Into Rage When' Cal- culating Hourly Rate t application of the of Pay for_Boy since power Matrimonial Regarded as a poor man who lived a woman | as & recluse mainly because he could husband: | not afford to live otherwise on a small pension, James Forster Green Was was the licensoe - | found dead in.the house in Whitehall Diss, Norfolk, and had | road, Gateshead, where he bad lived estate of her own, She|for 24 years. ue in her own name as all-| go careful was he that he kept house himself, bought his own sup- plies, and did his o%n cooking. Having He would not have even the gas % or had neither entered an ap- { 114 on to his house. hot put in a' defence, 80 the | After finding his body the police, . in other room, found securities ng evidence, Mr Justice 3B ARDI0. 000; a decree nisi, with costs. | (Only a charwoman and a girl who h the respondents, UHe| 4, bad been permitted to order as against Mrs. Baker as a maf<| sneer the house at certain periods. risd woman to be limited to her sePa- | When a call was made at the week- Tate state. end thers was no response, and the @ SUBCIOVVAT COO SUVOOGBOOOT D0 o fi 8 y police were informed. Mr. Green, who was 83 years old, waa found huddied up In the kitchen, r a chair on which he had been | Nitting. | LINGUIST. SNAKE IS CAUGHT BY VICAR'S BIGYCLE Reptile "Puts on, the] "Brakes" and Was Be- | His home, though well furpiahed, was in an unkempt state, for ough his windows were kept clean he de- clined To have the Interior of the house touched. To cook his food Mr. Green would burn oil and papers. headed Apparently he had been dead many . hours before anything wrong was sus- Ah exciting experience with a snake | pected. There is no suspicion of foul As described by the Rev. E. W. Crane, | play, in a letter received at | Mr Green was sald to be u linguist, , Leicestershire, where his | fis had no in this country, father was formerly vicar. but from letters found in the house he Mr. Crane was on a long trek, rid- | had corresponded frequently with ing a bicycle where the road per-|friends in New Zealand. : i] He kept a suit case ready packed cycling a pathway,' | with linen in anticipation of his re. he writes, 'when I found the cycle |moval to a nursing home. as if the brake} Of his frugal habits, it is said he had been put on. I-thought I had |told a boy gnoe ta clean the front of picked up a stick or something and | his house. . The work took only a few dismounted. minutes, and when he calculated how "You can imagine my astonishment | much an hour the payment of 6d. when I found a snake coled round | represented he flew into a rage. ' Bm IS THE EARTHS CRUST SHRINKING? Cereful Tests are Now Being Made by Many "Scientists, + BWAY. "I dropped the bicycles and waited for ome of the marrieg, who Ww arméd with a spear. After several attempts, he beheaded the reptile and buried the head, which was full of ; "Fhe wheel of the cycle was then reversed until the body of the snake was uncolled. It. was over 3ft. Gin. in length, and was badly torn." A combined effort to detect measure possible shrinkage of earth's crust is being made by the chief observatories all over the world, in co-operation with the Royal Ob- servatory at Greenwich. Experiments began on Friday night, when wireless signals were sent out, from stations in America and on the Continent, at thé rate of 61 rhythmic signals per minute. The times of re. ception of these signals will be exact 1y registered at the observatories con. cerned in the experiment, which in- clude those at San Diego, Algiers, Shanghai, Paris Washington, Berlin, and in Australia : "Apy discrepancies in the time of Y sald Sir found : " the pills had been. taken. f the signals A hn, 'who bought the pills for oD vaon, the. Astronomer-Royal "will prove either that the longitude rned has been in. and the POISON PILLS WERE NOT TAKENBY PENN Frantic Warning Broadcast by Chemist Stopped Possible Tragedy ' The purchaser of the strychine pills ~~wrongly made up by a Birmingham chemist---has, it is believed, been - his wife, is said to be a London busi. ness man. Having seen thé warn! fa the Press he 'p ER must be the purchaser, 's address was not pub. was, of course, on thé pill ts of any discrepancy. tudes will lave to be ly 8 x future Sxpariman there being no ancy must be attributed to a change in 7 chemist has expressed his re. the purchaser had been he discovered hix supposed er- hat in each pill he of a grain of {in telegrams to every | cal observations. = Birmingham directory. 5 BEAD) THAT KEEPS 6 YEARS at visited by taxicab. cal Exhibition He informed the palice, who Bread that will keep for six years deterioration was among the i 1 7 i + ¥ for the of the crust. tea sna wil Jn carried Bp | of wireless signals will be ca conjunction with special ast YOUNG WOMAN TREKKED ALONE | FOR 2,000 MILES: | Lost in African Jungle and Spent Night in Tree ' 'CANNIBAL FEAST How Steamer Captain Dis- posed of Crew and Passengers After trekking 2,000 miles through | the wilds of Africa, from Cape Town | to the north of the Belgian Congo. { with no companions other than native carriers, Miss Doris Dinham, of Syd- ney, Australia, is now resting in Lon- don, but wishing earnestly, it is said, that she was back in the Congo. Miss Dinham is only 22, and but 4ft. ! Gin. in height. She Intended to trek | the whole way from Cape Town to Cairo, just for a "bit of adventure." | but finished her journey half-way be- cause of In the 8. Congo, through which lay the wildest part of her route, this | tiny, rather fragile-looking woman, | with soft grey eyes: i Passed through cannibal villages: | | dant, } | AUDIENCE HEARD SANE SYNPHONY FOURTEEN TIMES But Listened With Closest Attention at National Band Contest ALL MINERS Durham Colliery Band Won Championship for Fifth Time "One long encore,'"' sald an atten~ describing the championship contest fH the lst National Band Festival at the Cristal Palace re- cently. ; . An audience 5,000 strong listened to the same piece of music played 14 times over. And at the ~ end of each effort there Eighteen bands originally = entered for the championship contest. Fos sibly out of mercy to the audience, four of them dropped out. The re- pic Symphony," by Mr. Percy Filet. Jee ay 14 played the test plece--'"'An Canoed among = hippopotami and | crocodiles Across the Itambiri River; | Saw a man eaten by a crocodile; Jhst given their approval to Lost her way"In a jungle forest and | Mayor of London. Sir Rowland spent the night in a tree; ! Lord Mayor, Sir William Pryke, who hi Was chased out of a native village Lord Mayor is bareheaded, with by a woman armed with And wandered for a fortnight in & | Premiers will be guests of forest which, according to legend, 1no- | takes office on November body traverses alive. | Yet Miss Dinham would have you believe that novelists must revise their | conception of Darkest Africa as al aim of adventure for explorers. ANIMALS SCARED. Miss Dinham almost gave one the impression that the wilds of Africa are an Meal place for a quiet walking tour. Wild animals, she sald, are much too scared to "go for you," and as for the natives, some of them are so polite that they raise their hats to you. Others are too stupid to be wild, and still others too keen on education to be anything but tame. As for the cannibals, Miss Dinham admitted quite cheerfully that they '""would eat you if they dared.' "lv may be that they still eat members of their own tribe,' she said. "One does hear of tribesmen becoming miss. ing, and no one hearing anything more about them, but a white person is quite safe in a cannibal village unless the local Administrator is dead - or away. "Jn the Congo I met a most respect- able looking native In a gold buttoned uniform. He is captain of a river steamboat, yet years ago, I was told, he was responsible for a great canni.| may be the sequel to a robbéry many bal feast. The victims were the pas- | years ago at some Royal palace or sengers and crew of a steamer that | gallery. had run aground in the river, The picture is now in. the studio * 'Darkest Africa' is only dark in patches now. You find schools and hospitals and motor cars everywhere, and quite a number of good roads are being made in the Congo. Congo express is far superior to any train in South Africa. "Most of the natives are very eager to learn, and will travel miies to the nearest SCHOOL One of my native boys spoke French, and the native headinaster of the school at Wasan- gala had sraduated uta, univémity in Burope--1_ think Bru . who discovered that a piece of canvas "Kyen the wild animals are Deco Rad been stuck over a panel picture, ing scarce. 1 met a hunter who i | He removed the canvas And disclosed been looking for elephants for X | what Ova Ee a ne FIoh nd had falied to find one. «eo | Do1R panel. Very reluctantly nham SPOKe | ap Jun n thinks that possibl of the thrills. Tt was my own fault | someone py ineind the work by ni 1 got lost in the jungle, she said, | oon ous trom & Roval palace or -- 4 eT climbed tree and stayed about mbed a {ing it for sale, concealed it by pastin there until daybreak. ' Then I found | (30 AT Sale, Soria s ¥y pasting my way out of the jungle quite easily. | "pare of the paint upon the picture Be Mga Ry ho | came away with the canvas when Mr, ® . n % w Many natives believe the camera bs. |Junfman renfoved it. and he is no longs to thie Devil, . removing the paint from the canvas {and restoring it tothe panel. 9, after the £20,000 GENUINE HOLBEIN PANEL? | Picture of Queen Mary Hidden Behind Canvas of Angel Head THEFT SEQUEL Believe Robbery from Royal Palace or Gallery So Concealed unknown Folbein pane! worth possi. under the Copy of the Head of an Angel after Correggio. It is thought that the discovery of for his restoration work of old mas ters, at Edwardes-square Studios, Kansington. It was brought to him by a workgan, who some woolen ago purchased the picture in a market and { hung it in his heme, the picture was smashed into another picture at the back. QUEEN MARY AND A ROSE. This was taken to Mr. | NTO CONS FOUND Qutcroppers' Lucky Dis- covery of Tokens Dating Back to A.D. 37 The find of 179 Roman coins made men who were digging for out- crop coal on Mallerstang Fell, West. | morland, recently, Nas taken a start. ling . turn, through the Solicitor having asked the Chief Con- stable inquire about them. Se move coins have been | found covering a period from A.D. Nn to A.D. 160. They . comprise one Caligula: one Volutio, seven 'Vespasian, 15 Domi- tian, nine Nerva, 64 Trojan, 30 Had- rian and two Marcus Auralius. here they were discov- alles south of Kirkby is within sight of Pen. LORD INVERCLYOE 'Heir of Great Magnate Will Marry . i Trader's Daughter to sociely was recently announced. ry the heads of J. Sainshury, the mul. tiple shop provision merchants. Miss Sainsbury is at present stay- ing with her fignce his mother at the Inverclyde family seat, Wein- yss Castle, Wemyss Bey, Renlrew- shire. . Miss Sainsbury is & handsome girl of 18, and her future husband is ten years older. He succeeded to the ale father, the famous shipping magnate, a fortune of over £3,000,000. The wilt thus be an al- lance of two families that bave made fortunes in trade. - Lord Inverciyde owns considerable property in Dumbartogshire; and has extensive shipping interests. Ha fs a partner in the shipping firm of G. & J. Burns, and has other commer- Eton and Sandhurst The members of the House of Lords, with time honored cel the election of Sir Rowland is shown in the seen a knobkerry: | other end of the picture stands the official sword-bearer, the Lord M. A picture, believed to be a hitherto | Nico Jungman, an artist well known | Some time later the cord broke and | two | pleces, disclosing what appeared to be | Jungman; | y wild ani- | gallery. and, being nervous of offer. | onfronted with the difficit task of The work appears to be a picture of } i { Mary, 'and in her right hand can be |'® f {seen a 'red carnation. } erm---------- { Miss Marjory Wilson Duckett, who photographer, urt i ach of the League of Na-| dWving & motor ear in. High, road, | BEAUTIFUL CHURCH NOW ENGAGED 5 ner An ¢ngagement of great interest | Lord Inverclyde, one of the richest | young 'men ifi the country, is to mar- | Miss Olive Sainsbury, younger |. daughter of Arthur Sainsbury, one of | © 03 hy Dr. Seward, the retiring Blades. tllustration, wi made a baronet. the mace-bearer beside him. The Dominion Mayor at the annual banquet when he old time Lord Mayor's show. (CAMBRIDGE MAN IS KILLED IN CORSICA |Had Led Party in Success: | ful Search for Lost Friend FELL OVER PRECIPICE {Suffered from Heart Trou- bles for Great Many Years | While leading a rescue party search of a friend who was missing in } | chor----one after the other, t : in} amid a really remarkable silence. STUDYING THE SCORE. Not a cough, not the scrape of a remonies have | foot was to , M.P., as Lord | the end of the th the retiring | The audience, in The new | egiirely from the At the | an exampie in keen musical appraise- fact--drawn almost industrial North--set ment and good manners which might be taken to heart, ocoasionally, by those which gather in the West-end. Colliers and men. from the blast furnaces and factories of Yorkshire, Lancashire, Durham and the Midlands foliewed the playing studiously from a copy of the score held in their hands. Meanwhile, in a portion of the gal- lery curtained off with red plush, the two judges, Hubert Bath and James Brier--sat In seclusion and, without knowing the name of the band to which they listened, gave it marks ac- cording to its merit. Their decision was: Yas -- 1. 1,000 Guinea National Challenge Trophy and £100: St. Hilda Colliery, Durham. 2. Challenge Cup and £50: Carlisle St. Stephen's. 3. £30: Wingates Lancs. 4. £20: Sowerby Bridge, Yorks. 5. £10: Cresswell Colliery, Notts. The champions are all colliers. Temperance, They ave won the coveted trophy on | four previous occasions--in 1913, 10920, 1921, and 1924. They have also had the honor of being Invited to Buckingham Palace to play before the {a wild part of Corsica, Arthur Henry | yy, {the Cambridge local Examinations, a { well-known figure in the University j city, lost hig life. i | others went on all over the Palace | | According to news received in Paris | and ita grounds. bly £20,000, has 'beén found hidden |..." Sewell, assistant secretary of | a SMEN'S MEMORIAL In addition to the main contest, There was the and telephoned to London, Emanuel | Grand Shield, the Junior Cup CA) and Sublick, who is attached to | Crecho-Slovakian Embassy in French capital, was staying in Corsica | with Mr. Sewell, and had gone out the ains. As he did not return a party | friends set out from the hotel. headed {by Mr. Sewell, to searsh for him. HEART ATTACK. They sueo on the way hb Mr. Sewell. appar- | | i i : | in finding' him, but! the Junior Cup (B), the Junior Shield the | (A) and the. Junior Shield (B). The whoie concluded with a massed concert at which eight of the bands | for a solitary ramble over the moun- | Played together for a change. t Towards the end of the evening of | Esmond Harmsworth, M.P., unvelled | a memorial to the thousands of bands men who fell in the war. "e Altogether 123 bands took part In one contest and another, . Beside the bandsmen's own shining basses, trombones and euphoniums, { ently seized with a heart attack, fefl| hundreds more of the queer Instru- | qer a precipice and was killed. | tacks for many years. { On account of heart 'troubles Nir. | Sewell was unable to join the Army during the war, but he did useful work with the YM.C.A. in France {and Malta. He was afterwards for ia time at the Colonial Office. {Isle of and afterwards at | Queen's College, Cambridge, where he jearried off the Bell University | Scholarship, he was a distinguished classical and mathematical scholar, a| good linguist and a keen explorer of | the lesser-known parts of Europe. He had been subject to heart at. | transept by the makers. i i i i | i Educated at King William's College, i Man, He was for a tine a master at his | | old school, and returned to Cambridge | from holding a driving license n 1919 to take up his post as assis. | Hay nt-secretary for local examinations. | Court. he married | Eighteen months ago was for a t { bridge bra: tions Union. RICH GIFT MADE | £50,000 for Chair of Politi- cal Science and Museum Extension gifts, totalling £80,000, mbridge University, have been an- Two to '} vice-chancellor. They are | $150,000 ( £30,000) from the Laura | Spelman Rockefeller Memorial #6r the J establishment of a Chair of Peittical i Science. £20,000, anonymously, for ip Fitz- william Museum Extension. Bod- title in 1919, and inherited from his . the hope that some benefactor will be found, rich in money and jmagination, and fired with a determination to emu- inte the far-secing and wise son of Oxtord.™ Rev. G. A. Weekes, master of Sid- ney Sussex College, is the new vice- chancellor. END SPIRIT OF Popnlation Demands This ime sepretary of the Cam- | Gravesend, ments were exhibited in the central PARTLY PARALYSED BUT SOT LICENSE Motorist Now Disqualified 3 SNAKE BREAKS LOSE FRO CAE Paddington Station Crowd are Thrilled at Boa« Constrictor UNDIGNIFIED EXIT Explorer Threw Cloth Over Its Head and Fangs Just Missed Great excitement was caused af Paddington Swmtion by an angry boas constrictor whose first sight of Lon« don seemed to fill him with glogm and loathing. He was being brought by lady {| Richmond Brown and Mitchell Hed- {ges, the explorers, from Central | America, his destination being the | was generous and unstinted applause. | z., | He appears to have been a reluce {tant traveller, howaover, or posaibly {the sight of the ticket collectors { aroused. his appetite. |" Contrary to the rallway company's | regulations, he got out of his box on {the journey from Plymouth. This | offence in itself rendered him Hable {to a heavy fine, if only he knew it. { with this bressh uf e and finally diggraced himself by spitting at Mitchell Hedges when {that intrepid explorer went to got j him out. {FOURTEEN FEET OF FURY, | Fourteen feet long, and a fine spes {cimen of snakehood, the boa caused ia crowd to collect at the station But he caused it to scatter still more | quickly when it found that he was { loose, | Fortunately, the van was looked {and wired in. Otherwise passen- {gers might have suffered the ordeal {of seeing the huge serpent writhing his way along the corridors towards {them. In that case the communica - ition cord might have been pulled land the train delayed. | Or he might have gona the other {way and got on 'o the engine. Then | there is no knowing what might have {happened there. Engine-drivers are {brave men, but they do not bargain | for boa-constrictors on the footplate. Happily, none of these things oce curred. When the train arrived at Pad- {dington Mitchell Hedges went to the van to see how his snakes and other {beasts were getting on. Originally there had been three boa-constric- {tors together in the box. The box was still there, but one-third of its contents, so to speak, was outside, London, the Great Western Rallway, London, the Grfeat Western Rallway, and life in general THEN THE CROWD BACKED. | Realising what had happened, Mr, | Hedges asked the crowd to stand | back, which they did with admirable | promptitude. He then entered the {van and threw a heavy cloth over | the snake's head, while a volunteer {seized its tall, They were about to lift it together {when the boa spat venomously at Mr. Hedges. The explorer, how. lever, with the skill that comes of | years of practice, sprang clear of its | tangs---just in time! | Finally, twisting and struggling the {with all its ymmense strength, bon was dragged In undignified fashion through the van door and on to the platform. | Here Lady Richmond Brown was | standing beside the case which con- fining the two other snakes. As quick as thought the lid was {slipped off and the trbant boa siip- iped iu, in spite of his heavily-lashs jing tail. The lid was then replaced, and all three reptiles continued their | journey to the Zoo. {" "So this is London!" might {might not) thereafter have {or been for Life After Dan- {heard issuing, In infuriated hisses gerous Drive A motorist was disqualified for life by Mr. Halkett at Marylebons Police defendant, of Alvaro Herner, Darrock street, who was charged with Kilburn, In a dangerous manner, ad- mitted that he was partially para- | lywed inh his right hand and almost | completely paralysed in his left leg } f obtained and ha . | completely : "{TTLE ENGLAND" 3: Lands Crying Quy for oo | Viv memories It was stated that his car ran on to the pavement, knocking down a boy ! and throwing an old man through | a shop window. Harner told the magistrate that he his driving license last June, 4 been driving al t dally aver since, Mr. Barker (for the Commissioner of Police)! sed in the right han tn the left | did not know ef that sued you the lcense? Defendant: I don't suppose so. Mr. Hay Halkett asked If the LCC. would have sald anything, if they bad known. Tr. hen they is- . Barker replied that they fs. | sued licenses to anyone without ques- | tion, and had, he understood, fle sued one even to a biind man Mr. Halkett: Bo that any per. son, or stone deaf, could ob. tain one! It is & very Serious mat. ter. : In addition to disqualifying the de- fendant from driving the magistrate fined him 6s. 6d. and ordered him to pay £5 13s. 64. costs BRAINTREE'S OLDEST REAL MUSICIAN Poachers Were Locked in Cage by Church Rankin, the oldest inhabi. Braintree, Essex, whe, has has many the old market town > James tant of just celebrated his #lst year, and a cage near the church. meeting af Brainteee- 3 ended. The first policeman in the ,viliage on, the Bralgtree line, has played al- from a trom \ from the box TORQUAY LOSES | Does £30,000 Damage | in. An Hour Damage estimated at over 130,000 | was caused hy the worst fire for forty | years at Torquay. In leas then three. quarters of an hanr the whole of the | beautiful Union street Wesleyan | church, and outbuildings was gutted, {and at one time there was a posse bility of not only the adjeinin thress storey business premises in- | volved, but all the main street, | Traffic was heid up for peveral hours and the telephone services to { the centre of the town Was { owing to breaking of the telephones | wires ! The church was built in 1579, and contained a rare three.manual organ, worth £7000, and reputed to be the {best in Devonshire. None of the | property was saved, so sudden was the outhreak. A mesting in connection with the i Interfational Peace Movement was to have been held about the time the fire was discovered, and a special speaker fr London was among fe pacta. | tors, People wat ng i ou, ity yards away, wers aren | back by the heat i CONSUMPTION CURE 1S SURE BUT SECRET {Lack of Funds Prevents Dis- covery from Benefitting All Classes "1 think Henry Spablinger Is the { most extraordinary man alive re to England there | per laboratories in 3 "ily eure ls cul-and-dried_. Some {of my friends who suffered from the J diatans have hess Ghar th Gunses | have rety oy] TLURAL | this RS { from most people who are mest({in this own home tries are going there, and ali cud NLONDON TRAN» » 4 , » y ' » » ' # 3 ®