LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 1, 4 December 1915, Page 6

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

A final reminder is given to horseowners that nominations for events at the Stratford Races at New Tear close on Monday at 9 p.m., with the Secretary, Mr APrcd Coleman. Ihe Stratford Telegraph Office closes at 8 o’clock, 'i Last mouth rain was recorded on IS days iu Stratford, the maximum bill being on the L3th, when 1.54 in, was registered. Rain fell on other days as follows:— 4th, .03; sth, .94; Gth, .25: 7th, ,20, 101 h, .49; 11th, .Ho; 12th, .03; 14th, .11 ; 15th, .46; IBth, 1.34 ; 17th, .03; 24th, .51; 2oth, .21; 28th, .11; 29th, .74; 30th, .03. The total rainfall was 8.58 inches.

The oldest of European newspapers are mere babies compared with those of China. According to a French authority, the “Peking News” has now been appearing regularly for a matter of 1800'years, having been : ssued first in the sixth century. This might be difficult to proye, but there is no doubt that the “Peking Gazette,” containing Imperial rescripts and official news dates hack ate least to the month century, and is still going st.*oi g-

The oldest profession on earth is the insurance business, asserted Mr E. O. M'Cormick, Vice-president of the Southern Pacific Company recently in an address to the World’s Insurance Congress. “The Bible is full > 1 insi-r----ance facts,” said Mr M'Cormick. “The first life policy was issued to Adam. Adam would be here yet if lie had stuck to the conditions of the contract, and curbed Ids appetite jor nipples. Noah took nut the first marine insurance. He built the ark and found it a good policy. The original accident insurance was issued to the children of Israel when the Lord parted the Red Sea for them to cross > ver.”

An Australian writer of theatrical notes states; —The introduction of the nude in “Hypocrites,” the morality film pi ay at the Palace Theatre, is a rather startling departure, and Miss Margaret Edwards, who symbolises the 'Naked Truth, states that when she agreed to adopt the role she was quite prepared for much hostile criticism. The controversy which sprang up largely influenced the censors of Chicago' and Pennsylvania in banning the but the public protest against; what was termed . “official short-sightedness,” resulted in a, peremptory demand from the 'National Censor Board J'nr a removal of the prohibited, 'The qualities of the picthre have caused much comment, and iin several cases entailed twelve exposures of the one piece of film, which thus had to pass , through the camera 24 times.