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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 20 March 1911, Page 6

An apparatus for wireless telephony, the "R-iilophone," which enables messages tn bo sent to or from travelling or stationary trains, ami establishes automatic communication between trains on tho same line of metals, lias been illvented by a Birmingham engineer. The adoption of this invention will, it is claimed, minimise, if not entirely remove, the danger of collision. Exlremo cold in Prance recently caused numerous herds of wild boars to eniergo from Ihe woods and invade villages in the neighbourhood of Rheims. 'Two of I hem were, killed with hay-forks in a farmyard. Mr. Edmund M'Lean, an American millionaire, has purchased the Hope diamond for .£60,030. The diamond has a curious hislory. all its owners for many years past )utvin>; met with misfortune in one form or another. At Victoria Station, London, a horso bolted, crossed the platform, and jumped between two carriages of a standing train. The front nf the van wns sniiisneel, but tho animal was only slightly in. iuied«