HERE AND THERE.

Shannon News, 20 July 1928, Page 3

HERE AND THERE.

Fortune for Caruso's Daughter,

Her fathers gramophone records are to bring jittle Gloria Caruso, the eight-year-old daughter of the late Signor Caruso, the famous tenor, an annual income of £2500. The New York Courts have made; an orfter to this effeclt. Gloria is being carefully trained by thebest instructors, who predict a great |future for her. The Seven Sisters' Elms. Seven Sisters Eoad, linlloway, London, obtains its name from seven old elm trees which grew on Page Green, Tottenham. The original trees have •ong since disappeared, and forty-two years ago seven sisteis named Hibbert planted seven young elm trees to continue the association. Three of the trees died, but recently five of the sisters revisited Page Green and made good the deficiency. - The Inevitable Odd Penny. At the county court at Edmonton, Middlesex, recently, a witness stated that her husband's Army pension was 17s lid a week. Judge Crawford ramarkedj: # "I cannot understand why the Government fix on such odd amounts. Why should it not be 17s 6d or 18s? I suppose it gives employ mert to another 200 clerks at the War Office to make the calculations." Plimsoll Monument in London. There is at last to be a London monument to Samuel Plimsoll, whose "line" every child learns to recognise on its early visits to any port. Application has been made to tho Office of Works for permissim to place the memorial, which is already being executed in bronze by Mr Ferdinand Blundstone, Gil the Victoria Embankment. A more fitting place than Thames-side, frear the House of Parliament, could not be found for the msn who stopped the profits from overloaded "coffin ships'* and who only got his Bill through the House after he had made scene which, while it scandalised, impressed members with the importance of tho subject. Illuminated Messenger Boys.

The movement for a brighter London has received unexpected assistance from one of the great wireless telegraph companies. ltd messenger boys sre now illuminated. The boys wpar caps into which have been set devices (mploying the new reflecting sign-*. These signs reflect light against a mirror on which is printed the company's name, and the result is extremely effective. World's Smartest Clock. A clock that tells the time in twentyfour towns in different pan® of th'3 world has been invented try a'San; Francisco jeweller. It is claimed to Ho the world's niOEt intelligent clock. In addition to telling the time, the clock gives the moon phase, date, and day It is only a little bigger than a large dining room clock, measuring :18in. square. It contains 500-parts, and took the inventor seven months to build.

"Fingers Only" Club. At Bloxwieh, Walsall, there is a club the members of which are not allowed to .-use knives and forks. They mus; eat with, their fingers. This club, for' men only, U known as "The Fingc, Club," and the use of a knife entail;, a penalty of drinks all round. A sup per is held every month and the mem usually consists pf such things as sau sages, jellies, pickled onions, and v brea;. and cheese. Many local professions men and tradesmen are members. A levy for some local eharity is laid upoi members at each supper. Jellies an. : . pickled onions are , said to constitute the chief difficulty for new members. Relic 75,000 Years Old.

An ancient stone implement foun.. at Easton Nab, near Middlesborough Yorkshire, by Mr F..Elgee, curator o: the Dorman Museum, is believed to b the oldest relic of the early ages ye; found in the county. It has been in spectei by well-known archaeologists and is thought to be about 75,000 year old. It is thought that the discovers establishes for the first lime the existence of a race of sub-human being i.i. Northern Britain, a race unmistakably human in tendency though not at that time in the true line of man. The Rise of Chicago. In 1350 Chicago had '.'ewer K th»n 30,'joo inhabitants. Galena was the sec ond city of Illinois, and was regarded as a city with a great future. It wa* believed by many at that time tha: Cairo, because of its location at th-.-confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, was to become the great con-, mercial metropolis of the State. Bu> .note what had occurred. Galena is ex cecded in population by ninety-one cities in Illinois. Cairo —the "Eden" pictured by Dickens in "Martin Chuzzlewit" —has a population of 15,000, while Chicago is the seeond largest city on the North American Continent. Yorkshire in the Forefront. Out of some 60,000 adult students attached to various recognised educational bodies in Britain over 10,000 are to be found in Yorkshire. The West Riding, in particular is singled out for compliment for its efforts in fostering adult education. While Yorkshire's population is only a ninth of that of England and Wales, it contributes a fifth of the country's adult students. A Yorkshire paper says: "No finer tribute to the inherent sturdiness and grit of the Yorkshire character could well be imagined. Outsiders may regard Yorkshire folk as rough and uncouth ; but that is a totally false picture of the Yorkshire character."

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7 SHANNON SALE. MONDAY, 23rd JULY, 1928. 3 - . ■ . J; _ ;'.. '^ 30 Fat Wethers. ; : § 25 Fat Hoggets. • .',' •/.• '}Mi 6 Forward Cows. 8 Store Cows. 6 Jersey Weaner Heifers. 4 Springing Dairy Cows July j Calvers. s 12 Store Pigs. 7