QUIKR LUCK OF BETTORS.

Alexandra Herald and Central Otago Gazette, Issue 447, 10 November 1904, Page 3

QUIKR LUCK OF BETTORS.

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-....Mssv who go racing striker Jrem quaint hallucinations, and at times with beneficial results, says the London Sketch. At Goodwood this yean a well-known writer came across a man who professed to have backed the winner in the Steward's cup. When asked why, he calmly referred his questioner to the good race O'Donovan Rosea had won at Newmarket a week or two previously. .' A "book" wa* produoed and the race hunted up, but the winner was O'Donoghue, and the Stewards' eup winner did npt run in that race. Last Cambridgeshire day, after the race so beautifully won by Sloan on Eneombe, I asked an acquaintance what sort of a race he had had. It turned out to be a satisfactory one He proceeded to inform me that he had received a wire from somebody "in the know" at Stanton, advising him to back the good thing and that Wadlow had just got the horse to his liking. Added to which he gave me many other details concerning tbe animal, and Its owner. me." i ventured to say, "you have mixed things up a little." I took his race ear'd .and showed him that he had backed: Echelon. But he had not. Through some mistake he had backed Eneombe for Echelon, and, what is mar% he backed a winner. i

JAPAN'S INTEGRITY. > Bow P»»»8« Arm Pvoae t» ta-yfe Vaelr Ct»v«ram*B< toff a ££«_ teae*. jf" - the modern Japan winch Marquis Ito's poßoy boa brought forth Was taade possible by the religions devotion of noble* and eooiies to V~-t> emperor, which made the imperial wishes law; by. the intense patriotism and the official integrity of the retainers of the Diamyos, who havo become the officers of the army and navy and members of the civil serv'lce'; writes Frederick Palmer, in SeriHner's. As an occidental, I should place integrity as the first cause. When you have official servant* eo proud that even the postman will not accept a Christmas present, a stateshv::,.i knows that, whatever his error* of construction may be, the timbers are sound. As long as men become policf.ir.en on less than a coolie's pay for the honor of serving the government, it will never lack for ftrst-elass ability to fill its offices. Japan may well reverence her old military aristocracy, with its false punctilios. _J The Heavies* of On**, America's cup is apparently the heaviest bit of silverware in the world. Sir Thomas Upton, that prince of sportsmen and genial gen« tlemsn, has not been able to raise that cup or tilt it the least bit in his direction,' says tba New York Herald. / • >/£ It is estimated that be has spent about f 1,300,000 to lift it and yet it firmly maintains its level of the last half century. He has spent enough to lift Westminster abbey an entire story sod still is unable to move that cup the smallest fraction of an inch nearer the British island*. If he had put that money into coal, and by its combustion converted a small portion of the water he has sailed over Into teteam, he would have power enough to lift the great pyramid. Yet all this power directed against that little cup has not been' able to even shake it on. its foundation. Surely this is a -wonderful exhibition of gravity. A H*bt* BsUoon assettafoa. MM. Siering and Berson ol the meteorological institute of Berlin have lately ascended in a balloon of B,ooft cubic meters capacity to the great height of 10,300 meters (33,800 feet). Success was possible only because the aeronauts -began*\o breathe pure oxygen at an elevation of about 8,000 meters. The scientific results of this ascension are now in process of calculation and will shortly he published,.