WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VIII, Issue 677, 13 June 1914, Page 3

WORLD-WIDE NOTES.

An angler, fishing at Aldeburgh the other day, landed a cod which had stowed away sufficient to stock a small fish-shop. Among o'.htr things found in its stomach! were six sprats, a teacupful of clams, a sea-ane-mone, several small crabs, and a score of shrimps. An amusing experience occurred a weak or two ago during the voyage of the Olympic from New York. While the Rev. R. J. Campbell was giving an address the rolling of the ship caused the whole cf the congregation to be. thrown to the deck. "It was the most rocky pulpit I have ever occupied," said the preacher to an interviewer, '"but no congragation, was ever more quickly moved." The latent novelty iu At Homes is a "horror tea." "Please bring your pet horror" is the invitation sent out to friends. If you have been in/itcd to a "horror tea," here are some ideas as to what you might take with you. A man would eaiise great amusement by wearing an arrangement of unpaid bills stitched on his coat. Ladies could bring toy insects, imitation mice, or any rnimal which they particularly dislike-

King Peter of Servia, following the example set by Dionysius of Syracuse, has joined the ranks of larbers. He does not actually shave and shampoo his subjects, but, nevertheless, makes more out of the trade than Dionysius, for he runs one of the biggest hairdressers' shops in Belgrade, and takes a keen personal interest in its management. Peter also runs a chemist's shop, and acts as agait for a big French firm of moLor-car builders. Hangmen's autographs are not a valued marketable property. A few days ago a collection of letters bearing th? rdgnatures of Calcraft, Berry, and Billington, with, the autograph of the notorious Crippen thrown in, only realised 17s. at a London sale. Berry's autograph appeared en a letter to an editor, protesting that an impostor had been attracting to himself a certain amount of attention by declaring in the pubMc-houses of the district that his himself was Berry. It is a well-known fact that during the course of a year all sorts and conditions find their way to the casual wards of the ' workhouses, but surely something of a record in this respect has been established by* the Sudbury (Suffolk) Board of Guardians. At tli3 last meeting of that body the master reported that a dog had been admitted into the workhouse. It came with one of the vagrants, and was "discharged " the following morning without any taskwork being allotted to it ! The quaint ceremony known as the "Glan\ille Charity" was carried out in the old churchyard of Wooden Hatch, near Dorking. The late Mr. George Glanvdlle left a sum of money to be devoted year by year to providing prizes for seven boys who could recite correctly the Creed, the Lord's Prayer, and the Ten The candidates must pass the examination with their hands resting on the testator's tombThe prize consists of forty shillings and a pair of rabbits for each successful competitor. Planned to throw a projectile weighing 2,0001b. with armour-pier-cing velocity a distance of fifteen miles, a new record-breaking lGin. gun has been designed by the United States Navy Department. The gun will be 67ft. long, and a new type of super-Dreadnought will be necessary lor its use. No battleship now in commission in any of the world's navies could withstand without injury the firing of the new weapon. At present the largest rifle on any warship is a 14in. gun, firing a projectile of 1,4001b. eleven miles.