The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1912-02-08
Overseas Items.
Cleaned from the London Daily Mail.

Cleaned from the London Daily Mail.
We occasionally have opportunity t,
look over the Overseas edition of tn,
London Daily Mail and find in it much Of
interest. No doubt many of our reader,
will enjoy the following clippings:
TRAGEDY OF STOLEN BICYCLE.
1t was stated in evidence at West Ham
on Wednesday that when the police told
the purchaser of bicycle that the ma
chine had been stolen the man dropped
dead.
WHISTLED THE TUNES.
i When the Rev. William Senior Salman.
whose death has taken place at the age
of ninety-seven at Ebberston Vicarape
Yorks), was appointed vicar of Clinton
Derbyshire) in 1912, there was not a
church organ and the parish clerk whis-
tied the tunes facing the congregation.
DOG AS A SCHOOL MODEL.
The Chatham stipendiary magistrate
refused on Monday to order the destruc-
ton of an Irish terrier which had bitten
a man. 1t was stated that the dog was
a school model, and sat regularly to the
school children for their drawing lessons
from the life.
WOMAN LIFEBOAT COxswAIN.
In the absence of her husband, Mrs.
Burton acted as coxswain of the Penmon
(Anglesey) lifeboat on Tuesday when
the crew of fishing boat that went
ashore were rescued.
ANEW BERRY.
At the Royal Horticultural Hall, West
minister, on Tuesday, a new berry, the
Laxtonberry obtained by crossing the
leganberry with the raspberry was ex-
hibited. The plant is perpetual bearer,
fruiting from June to November. The
berry is sweet dessert fruit, resembling
a raspberry which has grown to the
proportions of full-sized strawberry.
KING RAMEsEs' WIFE FOUND.
An Egyptian mummy described as
that of Queen Ahmes Nefratri, wife of
King Rameses l., who reigned nearly
four thousand years ago, and mother of
the Pharaohs, has been found in Black
burn auction room.
MEDICINAL VALUE OF HONEY.
The publicity given in The Daily Mail
to the subject of the medicinal value of
honey has led to greatly increased sales.
Two bee-keepers at Tiverton Devon
have each sold 60 cwt. Doctors have
been their best customers, and the honey
has been sent as far away as Yorkshire
and Essex.
BOY SCOUTS 400-MILE WALK.
After tramping 400 miles Scout-Cor-
poral Merritt, aged seventeen, of the
Romford Essex troop of Boy Scouts,
delivered on Friday to the Lord Provost
of Edinburgh despatch with which he
had been entrusted by Scoutmaster
Brown of Romford. His longest walk in
one day was 46 miles.
ALLEGED SULKIEsT MAN.
When an ex.policeman named Fir
clough was charged with assault at
Blackburn on Saturday by his wife, the
latter said her husband was the sulkiest
man in the world. During the whole of
their seventeen years married life he
went for weeks without saying a word.
He was fined 5s., and maintenance
order was granted.
| VANISHING OMNIBUS HORSES.
Three weeks hence the London General
Omnibus Company will not have a single
horse on the road. every horsed omni-
bus will have been replaced by motor
omnibuses," the manager told report
er, 'by the middle of next month. At
present we only have thirty horse omni-
buses on the London streets, whereas at
one time we had no fewer than two
| thousand horses employed"
MONSTER APPLES.
An apple IS in. in circumference and
weighing lib. 8oz. has been gathered at
Aller (Somerset. An acorn in. in
girth and l in. high has been picked up
at Northwood (Middlesex.) MIR. James
Allen of Wakefield Common (Berks),
writes: II have gathered from a Blen-
helm Orange apple tree twenty six BUSH
els of apples, some of the specimens be-
ing l3 IL in. round and weighing 15oz.
TACT OR TALENT.
The value Of tact in business life was
emphasized in an address on Success in
Business at the Memorial Hall, London,
3. c., on Thursday, by Mr.. Christ pher
b. Town. assistant secretary of the Lon
don Chamber of Commerce. Talent
makes a man respectable, tact makes
him respected. Talent is wealth, tact is
ready money. For all the practical pur-
poses of life tact carries it against tai
ent, ten to one. !"
LESS PROFIT IN HoBBLE SKIRTS.
The vogue of the hobble skirt was
stated at the annual meeting of the
Leigh Mills Company, Ltd, at Coventry
on Wednesday to have accounted for a
considerable reduction in the returns of
the dress manufacturing trade. Mr..
Friedlander, director, said that the
contraction of women's dresses had done
as much to hinder proit-making as to
hinder women's movements. The Lon
don manager said that quite AZ per cent.
less material was used in making women's
dresses than formerly.