GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 2317, 18 August 1921, Page 1

GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

Constitutionality of the Ake law, prohibiting the leaching of German to students who have not completed the seventh grade, was upheld by the Ohio Supreme Court. The Court confirmed the convictions of Emil Pohl and H. 11. Bohning, teacher and member of the Board of Trustees of St. .John’s Evangelical Lutheran Congregational School at Garfield Heights, near Cleveland. Pohl and Bohning each were fined 25 dollars for violation of the Ake law.

A big gray squirrel, believed to have gone mad, frightened the residents of Rockville Centre, Long Island, before his life was ended with a bullet. The squirrel attacked a woman, who threw a milk bottle at the animal; but the squirrel came hack, and the woman took refuge behind a. screen door. The squirrel also entered a yard,’ and when a workman tried to feed him a nut the squirrel bit him in the hand. He also tried to attack some school children, lint was shot and killed when lie entered another yard.

Married men employed in industrial establishments are less dependable than single men. This was the statement of Dr. R. S. Quinby, of Newton, to the American Association of Industrial Physicians and Surgeons, supported by statistics. A study of records at one plant showed, he said, that unmarried employees were absent from work much less than those with families. The causes for absence of married^ persons ranged from sickness to helping out with the family wash, other speakers said.

A black dog at Brussels, which does not seem to belong to anyone in particular, has made a name for himself as an eccentric. He turns up regularly at one of the best boulevard hotels for meals, and then dozes on the front door mat until he sees a tramway car jammed lull of people going to the races at Boitsfort. This he boards by a Hying leap. He spends the afternoon wandering about-the course, returns with another tramway car load of racegoers, and eats a hearty supper at the hotel of his choice. Brus-

sels folk declare that he is the reincarnation of an erstwhile bookmaker.

Looking up as he hears a roar overhead, the driver of a big road motor coach may, before long, see a new rival in pleasure transport. It will be one of the “air-eopches” now being designed, carrying 30 flying excursionists in a two-deek, glasswindowed saloon, and .which it is proposed shall lie used for swift, wonderful “seeing England by air” tours. You soar up in the early morning from the London air station,'and speed toward Brighton. Then, following the coast* with magnificent panorama views, you find your winged coach has brought you as far as Cornwall by noon. Alight-

ing, you have luncheon and spend a couple of hours on earth. Then up again, over Devon and Somerset, you come at length to Shakespeare’s country. Another halt; then you wing your way in the cool of the evening across England as far as the east coast. By nine that same night you glide back by way of the mouth of the Thames to the London station, having had a bird’s-eye view of 17 English counties. With (lie growing interest in international sports, ticket speculation has become a profitable busi-

ness in England, and prices which would pull to shame Tex Rickard’s fondest dreams regarding his arena are being asked —and what is more to the point, are being paid—for seats for tennis matches and polo games. Wimbledon Park seats were sold at auction, months ago, and now the lucky possessors of these tickets are putting them on the market for a season or a daily rate. Seats which cost the holders £3 are being hawked for £2O, and in the front stand £3O, and even more. It was stated in club circles that two season scats this week brought as high as £OO. Prices for tickets for the international polo matches at Ilurlingham ranged from £2 to £.lO for a. single game, and as high as £25 for. the tournament, which meant the best two out of three

games. Speculators bought up many of the best seats, and advertised them extensively in the daily newspapers of London.