THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 32, 6 February 1913, Page 8

THROUGH Our EXCHANGES.

“.Remember, you have u man’s life depending on how you do your woik,” is tlie motto on the walls of an aeroplane factory at Clapham Junction. The Wolfe Monument Fund which is being raised n Canada to provide a Canadian memorial to the hero at Greenwich is making satisfactory progress. It was originally intended to spend £6OOO on the monument, but so generous has been the response that fully twice that amount will bo realised, and the committee will be able, therefore, to provide an adequate memorial which will testify to the recognition by Canadians of the man who practically secured that country foi the Empire.

Tenders are being invited in «om< of the French departments (says tin •‘Matin”) for ,tho supply of the foi lowing provisions for use in the pri sunßed wine, -potatoes, inuicobeans, sausages, apple jelly, salted hcu 'ngs, eggs, cheese. .n some tie partmonts black pudding is substi Luted for sausage, and in one 7001' tablets of scented soap are asked lor. Many an artisan family, adds this ‘‘Matin,” would be glad to include such trifles in their menus.

At Sussex Assizes on December 11. George Alfred Crawley, . aged 49 (Jexk, and Lawrence Brisco Graham aged 54, agent, were indicted fo. feloniously solemnising a marriage between Francis Sidney Maunering am Evangeline Healey at Seaford o. July 13. The evidence showed tha the parties were staying at Surre. Convalescent Homo, when a bogt.

ceremony was performed at Gr; ham’s house, Crawley acting as a mb ister and Graham posing as a solic tor. A brass ring was used, and th couple signed a paper purporting t be a marriage certificate which wa subsequently found to be a promissor note. Later, Graham demandemoney from Mannei'ing. Graham wa mi- fenced to ten months’ and Gran ley to six months’ hard labour.

Presiding at a lecture on the bis Lory and usefulness of regimenta bands, delivered by Second Lieuten aat J. Mackenzie Hogan, bandmaste. of the Coldstream Guards, at Londo the other day, Lord Roberts paid -

nigh tribute to the worth of this mid tary adjunct. Ho said he had see. men weary and worn out with fatigut not and covered with dust, bright'--up the moment the tap of the drm was heard indicating that the bam was going to play a lively quickstep It had the greatest effect upon thei both in camp and in quarters. *'

hould deeply regret,” said the. FieL rlarshal, “any arrangements beiu

made on the score of economy b, much bands should be taken awa, from the regiments. I feel cental it would be a very false step.”

Only once (writes the London cor respondent of the Sydney Daily TcK • ..•up. ; can I recall a ship arriving after Lloyds had written ner off a

•‘musing.” That was in 1899, t.* ship in qnc\stipn the Bntiai (sailer lied Hock, which was postev missing while on a passage froi. Townsville to New Caledonia ; n b;. last. After allowing her over 10( days to make the short run, the con mittee ox Lloyds pasted her "miss ing,” and then, only a few days hit ar, came the news that the ship tat arrived, all well, her skipped report ing strong head winfls and high seas During 1912 no fewer than 36 vessels of all types and sizes have beei posted as missing. Of these 1! 'were steamers and 18 sailers. The largest missing steamer was the Maroa, of 4451 net tons. British vessels numbered 23 10 steamers and 1,1 sailers). Of these disasters pro bably the most regrettable, from the point of view of loss of life, wa the disappearance of the Australiai coastal liner Koombana, of 2182 ne. tons, which failed to arrive at Broom from Fort Hedland, and was finall; written off as missing on May 8 By this disaster about 130 lives wen lest. Frank Hosier, of Houston, Texa; has informed the Panama-Pacific Exposition that he has raised a larg bunch of full-blooded bronze turkeys and trained them to do numerou tricks. He planned have a floe' of trained gobblers perform at th World’s Fair in Chicago, but owim to illness had to give up the phn Ke believes that ho can advertis* the Panama Pacific ■ Internationa Exposition on a big scale if he i allowed to bring 300 to 500 head n well-trained side-steppers and fane; strutting turkey gobblers. “I wi. drive one hundred head of fane gobblers with one or more lines i band,” be said, “hitched to a bear tiful band waggon carrying twelve musicians, twelve pieces of class; music, the best I can select. Thei I propose to bring another hundred head of fancy gobblers, dressed a? Turk soldiers, carrying their guns and paraphernalia, 1 will hav< classy trotting gobblers in racing harness and sulkies and will race turkeys under trotting rules before your grand stands. I will have turkey clowns of comic types. I will have another 100 head of fane; aide-stoppers and trotters that will march to signal, strut to signals and gobble to signals. I propose tr have these turkeys dressed in veryfancy regalia. The largest and finest specimens will bo selected beautiful fowls, weighing as near 501 bs each as I can get them. It will take several thousand turkeys to select these from, because it is not every turkey that will train. I uropose to put on an exhibition dnilv during your entire exposition, with! the exception of windy and rainy days, because turkeys will not perform in heavy wind or rain.” <

Percy Drummond invited a young I woman with whom he had been ' dancing at costume bail at Shanghai ;to supper. When she unmasked he found his partner was . his own wife. ■ hi running away from her he fell head first into a quantity of lime, and was blinded.

Battle Creek, Michigan, boasts a giant horse. It is 6ft. 4in high. It is seven years old, and a good traveller but no attempt will be made to mate it for double harness, lor it would bo a fruitless task.

Sporting dog-s are being used to help detectives in stopping the smuggling of quail across the OklahomaKansas line. The dogs are taken through the trains and allowed to sniff at luggage. If a dug points,the owner of the luggage must show what it contains.

The weird cries used by American students under the title of “college yells” are well known. The influence of the school football yells is reflected even in the churches (says the Philadelphia Record), as evidenced by the following yell introduced in the Christian Endeavour Union of Grace United Evangelical Church; — Say, my friends, have you seen Second Timothy 2.15? First Thessalonians 5.22 Tells you exactly what to do.

By a report issued by the Labour Department of the British Board of Trade it is shown that 299 profitsharing schemes have seen the light since 1870, and of these 133 survive. Of those still in existence, 81 started after 1900, and 62 after 1905. The number of workers under existing schemes entitled to share in profits' at the end of 1911 (or in 1912 in the case of schemes started since 1911) was 57.3 per cent, of the total number of workers in the firms where those schemes were in force. The average “bonus” or share in profit in 1911 represented in addition to the wages of the participants of 5.5 per cent, in the case of those firms who furnished particulars to the department. This was also the average of the period 1901-1911. There is a great diversity in the schemes as regards the bonus to workers. In about three-fifths of the schemes it is paid in cash. The views of employers vary as to the results of the system, but most of those quoted in the report declare that it renders relations with their work-peo-ple more harmonious and tends to prevent labour troubles.

The German Emperor appears in a new role in the latest issue of Herr Rudolf Martin’s year book, “The Fortunes and Incomes of the Millionaires of Berlin.” His Majesty is shown as the richest man in the city. He is also given as the persoh of the greatest income—though not the largest fortune—in the Kingdom! of Prussia. Frau Bertha Krupp, Prince Henckel of Honnersmarck, and Prince Christian of Hohenlohe-Oehringen are regarded ae holding property of greater value, hut they have smaller incomes. With a civil list of £885,900, the Kaiser is also able to draw large mms from his landed and''house properties. Of forest lands he possesses 181.000 acres, and of agricultural land 118.000 acres. Both bring in approximately equal incomes—about £Bo,ooo‘. As for castles and country houses, the Emperor owns three castles in Berlin, no fewer than thirteen in Potsdam and the neighbourhood, and some forty odd castles and country seats elsewhere. In Berlin he also owns considerable house property, including houses in the Wilhelmetrasse and several blocks in the immediate neighbourhood of the Royal residence in Berlin.

Mr Arthur King, of Karr an go (New South Wales), has experienced more than a fair share of hard luck ot late (states the Sydney Daily Telegraph). Recently he lost nine head of dairy cows as the result of their getting bogged in the bed of the river, and estimated his loss at £Bl. On Tuesday morning he was driving a threehorse van to town, loaded with several cases of cream on top of which was stacked llcwt of hay. About four miles from town he discovered the hay to be on fire, the conflagration being caused through a spark from his pipe. Fortunately others came to his assistance. The horses, with difficulty, were released. Then the work of cutting thei ropes holding the hay commenced. In the excitement, Mr King gashed his left arm with a knife. He jumped on one of the horse’s bare back, and reached T)r. Hansard’s in an exhausted state. Nine stitches were inserted in the wound. The van was considerably burnt, all the cream and cans were destroyed, and a waistcoat, containing a £5 note, was also burnt. Mr King estimates the damage at £35.

The Australiml, which. arrived at Fremantle towards the end of last month, brought 492 new settlers for Western Australia. Included in this number was a party of 13 youths, under the charge of a matron, Mrs Wickham. These lads, whoso ages range between eight and thirteen, are mostly orphans who have been specially selected throughout England by an organisation recently formed in Oxford, and the outcome of a conference of Khodes scholars from the colonies, j which was held at Oxford University j in 1910. The objects of the society | are to procure lads whose future holds j little promise on account of their environment and place them in different i parts of the Empire. Through the: energy of Mr H. Fairbridge, a 111 i odes scholar from South Africa, who was early associated with the movement, the experiment of founding the first j colony in Western Australia has resulted. Mr Fairbridge is the holder . of an Oxford diploma of forestry, and has established a farm at I’injarrali, where the young emigrants who arrived last week will be taken. It is , proposed to found a Government |

school in the vicinity of the farm, and here the young emigrants will gain their education along with their Australian neighbours.