The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-06-14

from the modern hunter. They breed slowly and the stock is becoming dan gerously reduced. Herds have been wiped out because of their occasional raids on plantations a course which Selous. the great game hunter, declares unnecessary, for the killing of their leaders would eff fectively frighten away the rest of the herd. But the greatest destruction has been due to. ivory hunting in the case of the elephant, and horns. hide and meat in the case of the rhinoceros.
 Derby Gambling
 Gambling on the derby-recently won by an American horse--is believed to have attracted more money this year than ever The first prize of the Calcutta sweepstake lottery which is the most pop ular method of risking ones money, amounted this year to about S500.000. Ten years ago the investments in this lottery warranted a prize of only s100.000 The prize as it now stands is probably the largest offered by any reliable form of lottery in existence.
 The Calcutta Turf club started this lot tery as mere club affair many years ago, but when the sale of tickets was thrown open to all applicants the invest ments rapidly grew until this year saw them coming from all parts of Europe, all the British colonies and the Orient.
 The lOnuOn StOck eXcnanSe naQ sweepstake this year which offered first prize of s125oo. This also was originally a friendly affair among members, but it has become almost public business Members subscribe for patches of tickets and sell them to outsiders at d premium. At par value of s5 the tickets brought five-sixteenths premium this year.
 Nearly all the London clubs have their derby lotteries. One pound ($5 is the fav- 0rifo nrfca a n11t n wealthy clubs there are G5 as well. while in the less opulent club houses chances may be taken for s1. Many of the gam blers are men who know nothing about racing, and in some clubs practically every member has a small investment. Even the Kings name is put down at the clubs to which he belongs.
 The findings of the recent royal con- mission on divorce, SO far has both ma jority and minority reports agreed have been incorporated in a bill introduced into Parliament by Lord Gorell, former presi- dent of the divorce court. The most radi- cal departure is a provision that the sexes shall be on an equality before the divorce court.
 Under the existing law, a wife must prove both misconduct and cruelty on the part of her husband, while 4 husband need only to prove misconduct in order to get divorce. The new clause pro- vides that any married person may dis solve marriage upon proving that the other party thereto has committed adul- tery.
 The bill also provides that a judicial separation may be granted on the ground of habitual drunkenness, which includes intoxication by drugs.
 An anonymous jolSesmith recently spent several shillings to have his fling against the militant suffragettes by inserting the following advertisement in the personal or "agony" column of a morning news paper:
 Scion of noble family has island for sale.-Wild scenery and precipitious cliffs, single gun on adjacent mainland would dominate only possible place of disem- barkation. Ideal for colonization by suf- fragettes. Though advertiser Is conserv- ative he would gladly come to bargain terms with present government or high minded philanthropist with country's veal at heart"
 Judges of the criminal courts who have been criticized for playing golf on Sun days have found the excuse that noxious odors and gases of the New Bailey, as the court buildings are called. drive them to get all the fresh air possible in the time they have free from the courts A century ago the Old Bailey was notorious for it's odors. The New Bailey Is little improvement. The poor ventilations has caused many a judges headache and un- doubtedly many prisoners have suffered an extra heavy sentence because of judi cial irritation.
 Boy conductors will be placed on some of the municipal street cars as an ex- pertinent. Much opposition was expected from the union to which the street car men belong, but when it was explained that the boys would only assist the reg ular conductors and that as far as possf- ble they would be selected from the fam lies of street car employees, no protest was raised
 It Is almost impossible for the conduc- tor of double deck street car to collect fares and watch his stops without neg lecting one or the other and the boy as- sistants will be expected to relieve the regular conductor of part of his duties. me noys Will be tried out on the Tooley street line, which runs to Greenwich through one of the most thickiy populate ed districts of London
 The Tooth anniversary of the oreanixa- ton of the Marylebone Cricket club, the supreme legislative body of the English national game, IS to be celebrated this month at Lords the clubs headuuarters in London. The club was founded bv Thomas Lord. we'll known ericketer of those days who acquired the grounds af St Johns Wood. which now bear his name. The first recorded match on the grounds was held in June. 1874 and to eel ebrate this a cricket festival will open on June 22 The first match of the festi- val will be between the English cricket II which visited South Africa and the team representing the rest of England :: while the second match which 1t is an- ticipated will be attended by King Genrge. will be hetWeen the arna,z Q x.<s