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Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 484, 17 April 1909, Page 9

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INTERESTING ITEMS BY MAIL. ',- > ; London, March 5. March camo in "Jiko a lion "—whether goes out "like a lamb" remains to bo seer Snow, snow, snow, has been tho order of th day and night throughout these islands, an London in particular has been a grievon iufferer (says tho "Standard of Empire"' A snowstorm of such intensity and duratio at this time of tho year is quite abnorma especially as it has beon accompanied by sue terribly cold atmospheric conditions. In eac ot the London boioughs tho clearanco of th streets has .provided work for many hundred of the unemployed. Tiaffic in the suburb and in tho .open, country has been possibl only .under conditions of tho greatest in convenience, and tho services of railways, a well .as electric trams, have in many place been dislocated. London itself has not lookc< bo miserable for years. Unfortunately, ou weather experts aro anything, but reassurin; m their predictions "as to the immediate fu ture. A huge practical joko has beon pTayed 01 . tho Cambridge undergraduates. It was an flounced that Mrs. Carrio Nation would oper an inter-college debate at Caius College, anc tho lecture-room set apart for the meeting , Ivas packed with undergraduates. Thqy wen '.requested not to smoke, as'it was objectionable to the lady j but they puffed away al , tho more, and amused themselves by singing popular - songs. In due course a person attired as a'lady .appeared, accompanied bj the committee in evening' dress. Sh< waa attired in black, but, her features wer« somewhat hidden by' a, thick veil. "Mrs Nation" spoko upon tho subject of "Drink,'' amidst;, a tremendous'uproar from tho audi- - ence, some of 'whom realised' that they had beon hoaxed. - She concluded her address with tho stirring remark: "I would have you re- ■ member; that you have,' at any rate, one friend, your homo defender, Carrio Na- ■ 'tion.' " A vote of thanks was passed to,the "lady," who shortly afterwards interviewed the deari. ' . ! , Durmtr January 20,919 people left the United Kingdom, according to the Board of Trade returns, 9624 travelling to places 'within tho British' Empire and '11,293 to foreign countries. Of theso travollers 13,386 were of British origin.- year the emigrants from the United Kingdom totalled 16,466,' and 11,359 were.Britishers. The inward- movement during January last nras 11:262, in comparison with. 20,457 in Jannary, 1908. 6281 'coming from foreign countries, and 6388 being of British origin. The' bill for education in , England and Wales for tho year 1907-8 is contained in a Blue Book which has been recently issued. From it we learn tho cost, as follows:— -*' £ ' Parliamentary vote ... • , ... 13,272,017 Administration 184,426 inspection, etc. ' ' ... 238,796 .Grants for elementary education 13,234,483 Pensions for teachers ... t • ...' 101,520 Training of teachers ..'. ' ... 383,851 Secondary school "grant ... ... 342,584 Grants for pupil teachers' centres- 294,809 Royal College of Science ... / ... 23,843 .Museums, etc. - 1... ... , ... 6-0,069 Solar Physics, Observatory ' ... 22,484 Geological Museum ■" ... .... ' ,21,255 Tho bill .is gradually increasing. In 1906-7 "rt was £13,166,788', and in the previous year £12,604,018. ,< . Dr. Lazarus-Barlow, the director ol the Dancer Research Laboratories iat tho Middlesex Hospital, stated at a meeting of the governors of the hospital that there is a definite increase in-the amount of cancer in this country, and that the 30,030 deaths from the disease in England and Wales reported by the Registrar-General would go on increasing. He' declared that the reports of the 8000 cases treated at tho Middlesex Hospital furnished no evidence that the disease was hereditary, and ho predicted-that some day the cause and tho cure of cancer would be discovered. A tenible corroboration cf i Dr. Lazarus-Barlow's first statement 'is afforded bv the 'roporfc of Dr. Tanner, " the medical ..officer of health of. tho Farnham - Rural 7fl% tr ' ot 'CojUlpUii that one of * every nine deaths in the council's district last year was caused by the terrible disease. ■ Mr. John Burns* made an important' announcement in tho 'course 'of a reply' to a deputation which waited on tho Prime Minister at the House of Commons on tho,question of infantile mortality!. He said that the Local Government Board,, under his direction", has set up a separate.food subdepartment to give special attention to the quality and character, of -food. At present this department has not embarked upon babies' foods,- but ho has specially relegated to tho two skilled doctors at the head of the sub-department the question of the character, quality, and constituent elements ,of babies'' foods. '', A singular scene was witnessed at Cardiff when an armed bank official kept back the crowd which had Cocked to see a largo quantity of specie lying in the street. As two tons of cash were beinf; the Cardiff* City branch of the' National Provincial Bank to tho Docks branch, in an omnibus, the vehicle broke down: The chief cashier of the bank commandeered a' passing trolley, and enlisted the sendees of several men standing near to convey the bags of specie 'from one vehicle 'to the other. An extraordinary scone of socialist disloyalty took placa at a meeting held at Battorsea Town Hall, on behalf of the Territorial Force. As the 'local Territorial battalion marched up with..'their band to the Town Hall, a band of civilians played the "Dead March." The.speeches were punctuated with shouts of derision and catcalls, , and Lord Lucas, Under-Secretary for "War, was loudly Kissed by the disloyal element, and co'ild hardly obtain a hearing. "The number of-'peoplo who have been buried before-life was extinct is enormous,'.-' said Dr. Hadwenj ,in moving a' resolution calling upon tho, Government seriously to consider the necessity of remedying tho pre- . sent unsatisfactory state of tho burial laws, at a meeting of tlio Society for the Prevention of Premature Burial, at Anderton's - Hotel, Fleat 'Street. Ho stated .that 150 cases of person's being buried alive had been discovered,, and no fewer than 10,000 death Dcrtificates were handed In to tho RegistraiUcneral yearly without tho cause ot death being certified definitely. ■ Dr. Hadwen added . that in'-'tlio proper waiting mortuary the bodies,V^re'connected by electricity, so'that on tho'slightest movement a hell would ring. No person' should bo biiriod until the first sign of/ decomposition has set in. That, is tho only .'absolutely certain, emphatic sign that a person is dead. The late Earl of Leicester, K.G., who i ' left property valued at over a million, expressed in his will a desiie "that my "body bo buried-in the churchyard at Holkham, enclosed in a single deal coffin only, without any brasses or ornament" whatever, and I request my executors not to provide any gloves or hatbands or to allow any othei Foolish eypendituro at my funeral." With -the victory of Mr. Scott-Dickson (Unionist) over Mr. Gibson Bo ivies (Radical) by 2113 votes in the Central Division of Glasgow, the number of Unionist gains since tho last general election is brought up to ten, The seats which have been captured from the Liberals by tho Unionists aro as follow:—Cumberland (Cockermouth), Lincolnshire (Brigg), Devon , (Mid), Herefordshire (Ross), Camberwcll (Pcckham), Manchester (N.W.), Yorkshire (Pudscy), Shoieditch «(Haggerston), NowcasUc-upon-Tyne, and now Glasgow (Central). The property of the London and India Docks Company having been acquired by tho aew port authority, 'the last half-yearly ordinary meeting of tho companv has been hold. Tho chairman, Mr. C. J. Cater Scott, in moving the adoption of tho report, said that it was satisfactory that whilst in London in their own docks they had had an increased, shipping tonnago o'f, 616,000 tonr last year, Hamburg had a decrease of 364,000 tons, Antwerp 127.000, and Rotterdam no fewer than 1,200,000 tons, so 'that they could chim that the Port of London had maintained its position well during tho trying times through which they had been parsing. / / Sir Oliver Lodge the eminent scientist, sketched a smokeless millennium when he spoke at tho opening of a smoke abatement exhibition at Sheffield. Cities would bo smokeless because coalless, ho said, in the time to which he looked forward. AH cooking and heating would bo' done by electricity In those happy days. Gas would'bo made at mo mouth of tho coal-pit and convoyed to I ionsutners through pu:cs at a cheap rate, 1

and the importation of crude -coalinto towns would be forbidden. "The present atmosphere," Sir Oliver Lodge concluded, "is not one in which history, has been made. Our history soenis to have grown smoky and f°gS3i like our atmosphere." . A problem of far-reaching importance in relation to local government arrangements has: been dealt with 'by tho Nottingham Town Council. There is much undesirable , slum property in oertain parts of the city, 'and, recognising that the putting into force bfi compulsory powers of closing might entail heavy loss upon small owners dependent upon cpttago rents, tho corporation have decided upon a', scheme whereby, at a minimum of expense, to. ratepayers, assistance may bo afforded to proprietors in improving the con-ditions,-which are discreditable to Nottingham. The scheme is, of course, much in the nature of an experiment. . There has ;been a splendid response to the appeal made for Territorials in tho London district. - Lord Esher, chairman of the Territorial Force Association ■ for London,. has addressed a memorandum to the London regiments/thanking them'forthe efforts they and their officers have recently made to bring up their units to full strength. A few 'days' ago'their percentage of the fixed establishment was the, lowest among all British' counties, and now it is among the highest. No fewer than 11,000. men wore .wanted, .and they, have, been obtained. OLord Esher justifies;, the new. methods of recruiting which have; been employed,- and thanks the press for its. share, inthe..matter... ;Professor Arthur- Keith, at a meeting in connection with the Royal College of Surgeons, described - some peculiar methods :of restoring the ,' apparently, drowned. :\ The methods of resuscitation recommended by tho Dutch -were warmth, mouth-to-mouth respiration, -blowing tobacco- smoke in the mouth, rubbing the body; applying stimulants to the .nose, -and bleeding the arm. 'In 1775 there svas ; record of the .barrel method. This consisted; of: laying the,patient on his stomach across -a: barrel, catching 'him; by -the feet, androlling him backwards and forwards. Occasionally this was varied .by putting him. inside j the cask, arid sometimes he. was put under; it and the , barrel rolled (over him. This method arid'that of standing a'person on'-/his head were condemned.by the Royal Humane, Society..as "murderous,": but;: recent reports showed thaithey. were; still prac-( tised, in-this-country.*; >':-;■ .-. - : item-of.news toipoor clergymen: is contained -in', the sixty-first annual report of the. Ecclesiastical -Commissioners. - in view,of the improvement in theirincome; particularly from minerals and investments, the, commissioners . are. again enabled to appropriate tho capital sum of £400,000 to I the augmentation; arid: endowment of benefices.. -The, arrangement made 'last.-', year -to devote £50,000 a year towards : augmenting •; poorjoneficea.has proved; more than enough tor^the-; purpose, and they therefore. propose S^ ln s:a'llin n S3;With' populations between SUO, and '1000 up., to a minimum "of'£2oo "a year,,instead of £150 -a year,-'as. was' first - proposed: :;'.;. ..-.:■:•, ',-".-. ...' ■ '•■ y'Tl^-oUest'postboy in. England;:(by name Joseph Austen, has -died,at,.Thornton,Heath -' at ; tfhe ripe age of 08., He followed the calling ■! of post-boy,for,4o y€ars,.beginning:his career '■ (capacity, in. 1829, w-hen-he was 18 ' : and when-fte,coach and.tho post-chaise were ' still the .chief vmeans. of locomotion. - He was - quite-a.local-character, and boasted-that he - jmissed seeing tho Derby or the Oaks ' for over.3o years. > •■ i : . :■ ■■ > ■ +b!S II^^ ea o ; 7 itll *° unsparing' hand:with : tte,kte;Mr. Solomon Andrews, the Cardiff i S^^^T 6 * 0 /- lif e as an -: ft 1 " 6 ™*, vendorof pies, made by himself; and 'i ms mllhas now been proved at- £184,874. ( JhH % P rofl t ß made as a pedlar he gradu- ' and .confectioner,/ afterwards; becoming a restaurant, proprietor,, : ' cab^ropr.etor.;colfiery. (owner,•-aniommbu \ «2 lui «3 ; running air over : Jb*if - st /u 9fc ' ' aad: in L radon,: Man- ■ cPortsitiouth:' ;•'(" ' n<vMiii i -i 1 P , ag ? ard ' the -well-known planted the first a number of U h * Letohworth- GardenvGrty, "n I official celebratwn r of.:< Arbor: Day. ftth£ 1 KffEW ■ "matter -had ■* |^ n d;that.af^res^,on;m this■countryiwas- s Sg 1 * and desirable, 'They 4nd ( I also,- that, -if it: .was property managed arid' C fatate..v It would, moreover, provide emplov- o ment .for, 18,000, men annually. - T Py ? pJw' tJ n ty J boa yß«ard of the Honourable o C6rp 3 of,Gentlemen-aMrms,-"who will wle- t, brate. the four-hundredth-anniversary ' S h by a banquet at St. 'Jameses EfeS"* 17,, nSy U for -ttS fiff My h t !o , T their tl tor their.fifteen colone a, twelve lieutemnf -r coloneh, . a nd;eight^ > ,lS l S a t wSm. m Ai# fvhe^ n£lnt ' Lionel Sir Henry h Hugh Oldham, .and -their . o Colone Sir-Aubone 'Pife.. (They wS t together by £ bm at-his Pronation.. 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