The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-04

also the longest cruiser in the world, has tied in the speed record for armored ships with the German battle cruiser Moltke, maintaining 297 knots in her eight hour trial in the channel The contract horse power of 70,0Oo units was maintained throughout by her turbine engines. owing to thick mist it was impossible to test her speed on the measured mile off the coast of Cornwall, as the marks could not be seen. The log, however, gave her a mean speed of 29.7 knots for the run. The maximum reached was 31.7 knots. The following is a comparison of the main features of the Lion and Moltke:
 Lion-Tonnage 26,500, power rocco broad- side 10120 pounds, speed 29.7.
 Moltke-Tonnage 23O00, power S0,000, broadside s40o pounds, speed 29-7.
 On the measured mile the MoltSe att tained 90 knots in a number of runs.
 Canada is anticipating an emigraticn de luxe this year, the opportunities of freedom and natural life which the coun- try affords being an attraction that quite a number of titled English people find themselves unable to resist. Several mem bers of the peerage are going to take up farming there in the spring, and large number of peers will make their annual tours of inspection of their Canadian estates. The Duke and Duchess of Suth- erland will take up their residence for the coming autumn in their bungalow at Brooks, Alberta. It is a cozy little resi- dence in the middle of the dukes prairie holdings, and the first overseas ducal mansion ever built. Earl Grey keeps on his hunting lodge in the Columbia Valley, Is ~ p1 Ahprdapp " of the finest and most profitable fruit farms on the Pacific slope.
 Lord Clanwilliam and Lord Hindlip are both land owners on d colossal scale. anu Lord Desborough is interested in the lurf- Der trade Lord Sholto Douglas is, or was until quite recently, fruit farming in British Columbia. Lord Somers recent ly left the life guards to go farming near Toronto and he is coming home to take on Lord and Lady Hyde, his sister and brother-in-law, to join them there. Sew eral other members of the peerage are Ill., terested in the Dominion for hunting or it's commercial opportunities. Said one of the leading railway authorities: We have enough titled people living in Can ada or interested in the country to open a house of peers of our own, and with a prince of the royal blood-the Duke of Connaught-as governor general, we have all the nlaleildl lo So dliedu anu Sldil colonial kingdom"
 A horrible tale is being told at the pres sent time in the north of England whicn confirms previous disclosures of the dan- ger to which ladies are exposed in wear ing pads of human haN. Not long ago a young woman purchased a cheap pad Of coarse hair. Shortly afterward q small brown patch was noticed on her fore head. She was examined by two skin specialists, who pronounced her to be suf fering from leprosy. Now comes the story of little child suffering from the same disease as the result of doll being re- capped with 8 new head of hair. Seeing the enormous increase in the importation of human hair into this country within the last few years and a possible further increase from the far east through the Chnamen discarding his pigtail. it is to be hoped that health authorities will give this subject careful attention.
 An anchor over Ii feet long brought into Lowestoft by trawler has been pre- pounced by a local authority to date from times. It is thickly enerusted with oyster shells and barnacles, and is to be purchased for the town.