News From All Quarters.

Levin Daily Chronicle, 15 November 1917, Page 1

News From All Quarters.

FINE FOE SANDWICH WASTE. For throwing into tho road at Habrough, Lines a small packet of sandwiches which he said had gone stale through being two days in his pocket, a man was at Grimsby fined ss. The magistrates said their leniency was because it was the first prosecutiou in the district. POLICEWOMEN THIEVES. Two policewomen 011 night duty in the Berlin suburb of Weissensee have been arrested for burglary. Among the buildings which they guarded were the town offices in which food tickets arc stored. Obtaining admission with master keys, the policewomen helped I themselves to hundreds of ration cards, which they disposed of at 1/6 each. LARGEST PHOTO IN THE WORLD . There was a large attendance at the Graft-ion Galleries in London for the first public view of the new Canadian war photos. The chief attraction was tho monster picturc claimed as the world's largest photo, of tho Canadians advancing to tho capture of Vimy Ridge, tho figures being life-size. This historic picture can bo bought for £80. AN UNEXPECTED FIND. While pursuing an adder near Shrewsbury, some boys kicked open an old box, which they found to contain a large quantity of valuable jewellery and precious stones. The boys divided their unexpected find, which is estimated to be worth hundreds , of pounds, one share including ten bangles. The box must have been on the hill many years. WEAPONS OF PEACE. Germany is determined to do all it can to prevent a dearth of schoolmasters after the war, for with the school Germany fights its battles in times of peace. Among the German prisoners, invalided to Switzerland from the enemy countries, special courses are being organised for the benefit of aspirants for mastership in the secondary schools. The Universtiy of Bale has thrown open its lecture rooms to such students, and the schools of Bale have agreed to admit them for practical pedagogic purposes. GERMAN GIRLS LOOKING FOR HUSBANDS. Several Swiss newspapers, says a Lausanne telegram, protest against the avalanche of matrimonial circulars which are now arriving in Switzerland from German agencies. The German girls advertising for husbands usually declare that, owing to the absence of social life of eligible men "they arc compelled" to seek home-makers through the agency of publicity. Most ot' the would-be wives significantly express a willingness to leave the Fatherland and settle in Switzerland. A DISCONCERTING ANSWER. When you make a speech in public steer clear of tho interrogatory method, says a London paper. The other day a civic diguat'ory presided at a school prize-giving and took the opportunity of preaching a sort of Samuel Smiles sermon to the scholars with his worshipful self as text, "iiany years ago," he said, "I was only like one of yourselves—a poor, ignorant little boy. Now he paused for a reply. And it came, with disconcerting clearness, from the body of the hall: "A swankpot!" IN THE KING'S GARDEN. An officer friend of mine, who has been 011 special duty in Norfolk, tells me (a correspondent of the London "Daily News" writes) that he went over to Sandringham a few days ago and was much interested in rambling round the gardens. Potatoes have ousted rose and countless other flowers from pride of place, and beetroot, carrots, cabbages, and the like flourish where the gardeners of x'eace time designed wonderful schemes of "carpet bedding.' A large number of oak trees are growing in the grounds from acorns | gathered 011 the battlefield of Verdun. "Didn't the Ivaiser plant an oak tree at Sandringham when he came here?'' ! inquired my friend to one of the gardeners. "Yes, sir, he did," replied the man, "but it died soon after the war started.'' EXPLOSIVE SOAPS. Since the disappearance of soap, laundry work in Germany has been a heart-breaking business with the innumerable substitutes provided by German inventive genius. If one may judge by the many complaints published in the newspapers, the majority of these substitutes arc quite useless as cleansers. But now it has been discovered that in several of these waschmittcl lurks an element of danger to life and limb. So dangerous, indeed, arc some of these substitutes that the police president of Berlin has deemed it necessary to issue an official warning concerning them. It has been discovered that several varieties contain a sodium superoxide which, although it possesses good bleaching qualities, is nevertheless liable to explode when brought into contact with water or heat. People arc therefore warned against the use of such substitutes. LLOYD GEORGE'S PROPHECIES. Tho German newspapers are hard put to it to explain away tho words of confidence uttered by Mr Lloyd Georgo at Glasgow on the cardinal question of food and tonnage. The Brt'isli Prime Minister, in spite of what they call his "amazing ignorance of financial and economic matters," is, they admit, "a splendid pace-maker, and though not a man of business himself, has good men of business under him —men who will help to counteract the influence of the lawyers in his Government." Practical men like Sir Eric Geddes impress the German as men who are by 110 means to be sneezed at. But with all their talents they say, these Englishmen cannot by mere speeches conjure ships into existence. On this point the "Frankfort Gazette" says: "Even with tho system of standard ships we don't believe that England will be able .as Lloyd George states to build four times as many ships in 1017 as she did in 191G and six times as many in 10.1 S. When we remember the total English shipping losses for the first half of 1917 we can afford to possess our souls in patience in spite of all Lloyd George's prophecies." Bringing an action against the policc in Ireland, said Mr Ginnell recently, is like bringing 0110 against Satan in hell.