The St. Johns herald., 1922-02-09
FOREIGN


 been sold by public auction for only 466, 900 francs
 Gen. Bramwell Booth has just an nounced that the Salvation Army in- tends almost immediately to put into operation a scheme for the early trans fer of 10000 British women to the dominions Every one of them will be going to assured employment. While the War Department of Mexi- co Is struggling for budget of 125,- 100000 pesos and the Department of Public Education for 50,000,000, the Department of the Interior has to de fend its budget of only 100000, the most modest that any of the cabinet officers has, as yet, presented to the consideration of Congress.
 The expenditure of the United King dom must be reduced by f2OO,000,O00, Austen Chamberlain, government lead CT in the House of Commons, told the conference of Scottish Unionists in Glasgow This reduction is necessary to make both ends meet" and will not take into account any proposed reduc- tion in taxation.
 A nurse in the employ of the Amer ican Red Cross at Goldingen, Latvia, lost ten sons in the war, her husband was shot by the BOlSheviki and her three daughters died last year. Still she goes about her work with smile. 'Nitchevo," is her consolation, which means, among a million other things, Tt can't be helped"
 Elsa Anderson, the only Swedish woman to hold an aviators certificate, was killed at Askersund. Four thou sand spectators were watching her make flight, and were mortified when Miss Anderson, in attempting a para chute descent from the machine, fell like a plummet to the earth. The parachute failed to open and she plunged 1000 feet to death.
 The French people have not lost their habit of thrift and taken to spending their cents rather than put ting them away in the prOverbial ''woOlen stocking" as reported abroad. The French National Savings Bank had in 1913, 15,O66O0O depositOrs with D. | S29, 100000 francs savings. Its latest report shows 15,73S,OO0 depositOrs with | 6, ,149, 100000 francs to their credit.
 An ounce of gold purchases 17.22 hours of labor in the United States; 50.16 hours in Britain; 95.50 hours in Japan; 11731 hours in France and 201.66 hours in Germany, said c. J. Hannon, member of Parliament for the Moseley division of Birmingham, quot | ing statistics in the course of an ad- dress to the members of the National Union of Manufacturers at Birming- ham, England.
 GENERAL
 Col. Henry s. Graves, former chief forester of the United States, is to re- turn as dean of the Yale forest school, it has been announced. Dean James William Tourney is to resume his more purely scientific work.
 Railroad rates are being slowly but steadily forced downward by economic laws, Daniel Willard, president of the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, argued be- fore the Interstate Commerce Commis sion when that body resumed its in- Quiry into the general level of trans portation charges.
 Of the 4O,191 cases tried by the Traffic Court in New York city dur ing 1921, 1920 chauffeurs were sent | A. s,; o;or4ok on6 1 QQ0 drivers went to jail in default of pay ment of fines. Since the court was opened in June, 1916, the fines col lected have totaled $1, ,389, ,1S0.
 Three persons were killed and four injured at Newark, Ohio, when their bob sled was struck by an automobile. They had almost reached the foot of mile-long hill when they crashed head-on into an automobile coming up the hill. The sled was said to have been on the wrong side of the road. Only one member of the cOasting par | ty was uninjured.
 Part of his shinbone transferred to his jaw to correct an 1mperrection in HIS CAln, 1elIIy II. hdIlJ, OI'' OA OAOVA lyn recently fell on the ice, cracking the shin from which the fragment had been removed. His death from shock was announced after he had been made ready for a second operation needed to mend his leg and perfect his chin.
 Archibald Birse, a Chicago tailor, is $50,OOO richer for having taken a few stitches in a pair of torn trousers thirty-four years ago. Ernest De St Giles, insurance expert and author, left this amount to Birse, who befriended him when De St. Giles came to Chi cago thirty-four years ago, penniless. | pirca SoUod tha insurance mans