The Glasgow courier. [volume] (Glasgow, Mont.) 1913-current, 1922-12-01
HERE AND THERE
distressing Bits of News Gathered
from All Over the World.

IL you think that football is a rough
ex game now than in the past, read
this paragraph written in 1882: GAS
concerning football playing, it may be
called rather a friendly fight than a
play or recreation; a bloody, murder
ing practice than a fellowly sport or
pastime. For doth not everyone lie in
wait for his adversary, seeking to ov-
erthrow him and to pitch him on his
nose, though it be upon hard stones
+ + = or what place soever it be he
careth not, so he can have him down.
And he that can serve the most in this
fashion, he is counted the only fellow,
and who but he"
A dead donkey held up traffic in
Birmingham, England, for over an
hour. The animal fell dead in a
tAoroughfare and caused a motor car
to swerve into the sidewalk. The car
knocked down an electric light stan
dard which fell across the roadway and
an omnibus piled up on the standard
and crashed. Traffic had to be d.
verified.
A whistling baby in Washington, D.
O., daily exhibits his precocious talent
at the Children's hospital. Roy Bruce,
the wee whistling wizard, is only Is
months old and has been entertaining
visitors for the last two months by
pickering up his lips and thrilling weird
little tunes. Roy's mother works at
the hospital and she thinks her boy
learned to whistle from the doctors
and internes who are always playing
with him.
Several steps ahead of the old time
tandem is the ingenious wheel devised
by a German wishing to take his
whole family cycling with him. He has
combined the wheels of two bicycles,
two driving gears, several basket
seats and a wooden frame to make a
strange apparatus to carry an entire
family of six.
Moving out of No. 10 Downing street
by the Lloyd George government had
its lighter moments when it developed
that about all Winston Spencer
Churchill had to remove was hats. A
limousine drove up to take away his
belongings and attaches started piling
in hats. Cooked hats, two-quart lids,
fedoras, derbies, panamas, plain
straws, war helmets and polo hats fill
led the entire interior of the car and
overlooked onto the roof. All fol-
lowed fad of being a half size too small
but their numbers made the car seem
unequal to the job.
Refusal to pay rent for the last four
months led to the eviction of an Ital-
ian woman from a New York tene-
nent. The woman contended she had
paid enough rent in the last 10 years
TO buy the place.
Official DEGREES have been passed in
France, designating November II as
a national holiday, commemorating
victory. Henceforth it will be cele-
brated as the most memorable oc-
sasion in French history.
Lucien Courtois, aged Frenchman,
condemned to 10 years. Imprisonment
an cha re of being a spy, refused
three days Of liberty offered by the
court. 1t was proved that he had been
N the service of Germany since 1888.
Georges Carpenter is on his way to
Moscow to tackle the ~bolshevist bust
ness ring. He is carrying a large as
sortment of aluminium kitchen ware
from his French factory, hoping to find
a favorable market in Russia.
An inmate Of the Missouri state
p~enitentiary paints landscapes anc
through the sale of his works supports
his mother and sister in Fregue
Czceho-Slovakia. He is V"ciaz Krejci
an artist of no NEAR promise, who
was graduated from the Academy OF
Fine Arts and Prague university. He
came to the United States two years
ago, and in St. Louis while intoxicated
he entered a church and took a motion
picture machine. He was sentenced
to 10 years.
The largest rug in the world is t.
be found in Cleveland. 1t measure.
40x65 feet and was made by Czecho
Hovakian weavers for use in the new
B. F. Keith vaudeville theatre.
A memorial shaft marking the grav'
Of Rev. Jesse Head, a Methodist cir
cult rider, who married the parent
Of Abraham Lincoln, has been dedicat
cd at H%arrodsburg, Ky.
A London research chemist claim
" have invented a method of destroy
ing hostile aircraft in flight at an,
a%ltitute up to five miles by project
ing a huge flame into the air.
"The Book of job" a dramatizatio.
by Stuart Walker, is being given a
the Cort theatre, New York, for tn
benefit of the Near East relief. TIL
whole book is spoken amid biblica
ssenes.
American firms and persons doin
business in China are increasing. I
HA1A $500 A0o n