SUN CABLES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 74, 1 August 1913, Page 5

SUN CABLES.

HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS

BUFFALO BILL,

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [Sydney Sun Special Cable.]

Loudon, July 31

Buffalo Bill, for forty-one years a showman, is retiring to Raney, Wyoming. His business is in the hands of a receiver.

THE VALUE OF ADVERTISEMENTS.

The Times, in an article commenting on the poster exhibition at the Dore Gallery, states that it expects to soo “cubism” covering the hoardings if advertisers have wit enough to discover its emphasis and carrying power. The fatal quality of an advertisement is “pretty, pretty,” which is always a platitude to the eye and sends it to sleep, as a platitude of thought sends the mind to sleep.

COMPULSORY TRAINING

Lord Islington, at a prize-giving gathering at Chippenham School, said ho did not think that in the present state of public opinion there was any hope of proving that compulsory military training would be as successfully done as in Australia and New Zealand. Universal service was only practicable if the country was prepared to take it up with a free will. If Cadets were established in England the Territorial would improve in quantity and quality.

PORTUGUESE SLAVE TRAFFIC

The Lord Mayor of London has received a threatening letter from Portugnest carbonados, as the result of calling attention in the House of Lords to the condition of slavery at Principe (Eastern Brazil), and also at Angola (South West Africa).

SPANISH REVOLUTIONARIES,

Madrid, July 31

General W.eylin has drafted 15,000 troops at Barcelona with a view to a revolutionary agitation.

HEAT WAVE IN NEW YORK

New York, July 31

The heat is intense and hundreds are prostrated. Thousands are sleeping in the streets and parks. The severest storm experienced in" a generation followed the heat/ wave in Washington. i.

(Received 11.0 a.m.) New York, July 31. The heat wave has been renewed across the middle and west States. ■Seven deaths .have.-occurred ;at , Chi>*, cage.

JOY-RIDING

London, July 31

Mr Plowden, in discharging a motorist, who was charged with fatally knocking down a woman commented on a lady sitting alongside the driver. Driving in London streets, he said, required undivided attention. In the distracting companionship of ladies who were nervous, inquisitive and garrulous, there were a thousand ways in which a driver might be caught off his guard.

THE DOMINION’S PRODUCE

Major Wigram, Equerry to the King, writing to the Agricultural Society on behalf of his Majesty, stated that it was a happy inspiration to include the products of Overseas Dominions, giving the public an opportunity of gaining knowledge of agricultural conditions in various parts of the Empire.

MOSLEM MIXED MARRIAGES

Calcutta, July 31. Moslem fanatics at Rampur, resenting mixed marriages, (destroyed a mausoleum erected to the child of a Mahommodan pnd an Englishwoman.

THE SPREAD OF MORMONISM

Ottawa, July 31

The first Mormon temple outside the United States lias boon dedicated at Cardsbon, Alberta.