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Evening star., 1927-12-25
Santa Remembers
Horses, Cats and
Dogs in New York

By The Associated Press.
NEW YORK, December "a
Santa Claus went out OF his way
today to bring Christmas cheer TO
the dogs, horses and cats under
the care OF the Humane Society Of
New York. 1t was the sixth an
gnual Christmas party of the society.
Food. comfort and ornament
were provided for 100 dogs of all
breeds, score Of horses and more
than a hundred cats. Buckets and
blankets and apples for the horses;
collars. sweaters and dog biscuit
for the dogs: milk and catnip for
the cats were distributed amid n
chorus of barks, neighs and yowls.
Evening star., 1927-12-25

hot months. when the midday sun
makes the court a furnace
Then hack 10 drill from y so unti "a
auarter to 3, when recall Ia sounded.
supper VAS at 3 ami then one was
free to go into town until appel (reli,
cain at D o'olock, lnat h. of course,
it u was not your tnrn on quart,
Thua NO gradually adjusted our
hvea to the surroundings and settled
dawn to tho monotonN uf the drltl
schedule, SUNDAY Mas ouv Que aay sc
rest hut on SUNDAY We had Wurk pf
our own. such as Washing elethes AMI
aaWing on buttons,
irnpyriSht tAsf, Ia all countries hy tAa
Na,h Amatasa New spapef Alllan>Sl
Evening star., 1927-12-25
THOUSANDS SLAIN
IN CHINESE R|OT|NG
Russian Women Among Dead
as Disorders Level Busi-
ness Area of Canton.

HONGKONG, December 24.-Be-
tween 1000 and 5000 persons. includ.
ing at least II Russians. are esti-
mated TO have been killed in the ruth-
less slaughter which marked the
crushing Of the Communist revolt in
Canton during the past two weeks.
From the beehive Of Chinese in.
dustry which 1t once was the bus
ness district OF Canton has been re-
duced to a mass OF ruins. with con-
ditions made worse by inadequate
facilities for burying the dead and
caring for those wounded.
Outrages Photographed.
OF the Russians killed. the most
prominent was NJ. Hassis. the Soviet
vice consul in Canton. Two Russian
women were among the victims.
Photographs from the city reveal that
the bodies Of the women were treated
outrageously. SO revolving were the
photographs that the police OF Hong
king stopped the sale OF them here
and arrested the vendors.
II was learned that some Chinese
women purchased these photographs
and mailed them 10 the wives or Com
munist leaders all over China with II
warning that similar dreadful rate
awaited Communist women.
The means OF the Canton govern
ment for disposal OF the dead have
proved inadequate and charitable in
stitutions carried out wholesale
burials. removing carloads OF corpses
from tba
The value Of the property burned
and destroyed Is conservatively esu'
mated at $50.0oo.o00.
Refugees I'm Hongkong.
Chinese refugees still are rushing
10 Hongkong by the thousands. and
millions OF dollars are being RENTED
10 the foreign banks. resulting In
n giut Of cash here. IT IL thought
that IL VIII bc IA long time before con
ditions In Canton will be back 10
normal.
Throughout the orgy Of killing.
burning and iooting in Canton, the
lives and property OF all foreigners.
other than Russians, were not great.
" imperiiled At the first Aigns OF
the outbreak by the Communists on
December IL, two men. one an Ameri'
can and the other British. volunteered
to cross the city and report 10 their
consuis the plight OF the Tungshan
settlement where many Americans
live Travelling afoDt, at great per
sonhl risk, through the crossfires from
the combating factions. the two men
frequently were challenged by Chinese
soldiers and searched for arms. bu'
finally reached the foreign district Of
shameen and reported 10 the consuls,
resulting in the evacuation Of foreign
ers from the danger zone.
Evening star., 1927-12-25

Eieut Condr Fdtc1rd El'sber1 ia in
charge % fhe diring operations at the
scene o. the ,creck Of fhe So. He has
,rrtffen u series - three articles on the
mort there. ,rhich tcW appear in The
Star. Bei0io is the second.
Evening star., 1927-12-25

tterent studies ~ little rhidren'a
YDrabularies ahow that instead uf tis,
ms chiefly nouns they nse more verbs
ana hIoHoun.. especially II"
Evening star., 1927-12-25
CITY NEWS IN RHIEY
NNtNAN

The Red TVian9ss Nutpts >fss VIII
meet. sAa eescck. AZ Ep1rte<@lA ana
IN}>sFada avenue Icr A4NSs nike
;hrnash wV>eis ami alNaS eTsd's PAfsS>
NsSsr hanhS tNAser Mtl lSSAJ,
Evening star., 1927-12-25
Hard Setting Up Exercises.

First came an hour or double quick
time aud setting mp exercises. srlmly
referred 10 ms the t.egtons break.
fast" After this we had the different
faeings aud tha commencement ot
squad drii At ea0 We re entered the
barracks and had the company assem-,
bly, at which the report of the day is
lead,
Than at 10 o'olock came ia coupe Sc
cnnetst,ng uf houp. a piece If meat and
a vegetable WIN this wo received
half "a loaf or bread and a "car" thalg
pinto or vine for the day, Next eame
sweet veposa until : 40 pm. This. the
aieata, ~ absolutely necessary ia the
Evening star., 1927-12-25
WILBUR TELLS S-4
WORKERS TO PUSH
SAL WAGE EFFORTS

Continued from First Page)
Evening star., 1927-12-25

The sigma AAMe>sa ScgHr'SS Nsa
stNS \ dNnre tataNrgNWs NAN. At
the NufltnStAn hStSi
Evening star., 1927-12-25

The ked 1StAngte NNttus >,l@N viii
meet tatuareNw. $50 a tss, q, NezSsNn.
Va. HuN Fuund tetp ttrAe& ~ 0F~At
tSAleA Twelve, FAtssA hike taSeugn a
wsssds and ever tgAiis asFsHS MneA
and eur tgg eVNaNe
Evening star., 1927-12-25
COLORFUL CUSTOMS
INACCURATE CAPITAL
CHRISTMAS FESTIVAL

Continued from First Page.)
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SKELETON INDUSTRY.

comes the preliminary preparation OF
the skeleton in the carbOlic acid tank,
and finally the fitting of the bones and
joints together with wires.
The preparation of the skeleton
takes many months from first to last,
and is a very expensive process in the
bulk. There must be a thorough
chemical treatment of the bones in
the first place to insure their hanging
together and remaining in an un-
altered state 1t is hardly ever the
case that a skeleton seen on exhibition
is made up entirely of its own original
parts The formula employed in bring
ing the process of the skeletons com
pletion to a state of relative perfection
iS still an industrial secret. 1t must
be, when sold, as white as marble. >"
In the warehouse of this factory are
rows of shelves where skeletons of
all forms and representative of all
races may be seen: some by accident
or in virtue of dissection processes,
have been broken or dismounted and
very carefully refitted with fine wire.
Underneath are multitudes of boxes
full of assorted bones, with big bones
such as ribs marked off with letters
and numbers. In showcases may be
seen for sale, or "to let" for whatever
purposes may be desired. skeletons of
giants, dwarfs. negroes or of strange
races discovered by explorers In far
off countries. Criminals heads with
their names and the dates of their
execution (some of them very remote),
are seen here and pamphlets descrip-
tive of their crimes are held for sale,
with cards in small type containing
the same matter to be attached, II
desired, to the skull or skeleton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Radium in the Sea.
p ADIoACT1vE substances .ba

RADIOACTIVE substances have
been found by Prof. Jolly
physicist Of the University of Cam
bridge, to be far more abundant in
the deposits on the floor of the deeper
parts Of the ocean than in any ter.
restrial rocks or earths. This has
been learned from an examination of
samples Of the bottom mud brought
home by recent deep-sea dredging ex.
petitions, especially that conducted
by the party on the Michael Mars.
These radioactive substances are
mainly inherent In the red clay which
constitutes the floor Of the abysses.
the various other muds and oozes.
which are more or less calcareous in
their nature, forming at medium
depths, because the carbonate of lime
constituting the shells OF molluscs
and or many kinds of animalcules are
wholly dissolved before they reach the
greater depths. Hence oozes com
posed OF limy materials can be laid
down only in comparatively shallow
waters. This red clay, characteristic
Of the bottom wherever It is more
than about 212 miles beneath the sur
face, Is clay deposit derived princi.
pally from wind-carried volcanic dust
and pumice decomposed by long ex-
posture to the chemical action Of sea.
water. 1t contains nodules of man.
ganese iron, certain crystals, round
particles of silicious animaIcuIe ira.
and had embedded in It n
profusion Of flinty sharks teeth and
the dense ear bones of whales. always
coated with a mineral crust. Many of
The sharks teeth are of extinct species
known otherwise by fossil remains,
which is one evidence of the extremely
ow rate of the deposition Of this clay
where almost no material from the
iar-away land can be added TO Ii. 1t
seems impossible to get any data as
20 what the rate OF deposit may be,
,ut 1t must be intellectually slow, and
20 this fact Is probably due It's rich.
less i'm radium r
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
Nebular Distances.

HIGHT hundred and forty million
million million miles 1S4o, 900 .0oO,-
000O00,00 900 miles, is the distance
of the farthest object that astrono-
mers can see with the great 100-inch
rejecting telescope of the Mount
Wilson Observatory, the largest in
the world. DIR. Edwin Hubble said
recently in a lecture at the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, of which
the observatory is part.
The faintest nebulae that can he
detected with the largest telescope"
says DIR. Hubble. "the 100-inch re-
flector at Mount Wilson. are at
an average distance OF 100000, 900
light-years. a light-year being the
distance which light will travel in
one year. going at a speed of 1885,
900 miles per second. One light
year Is about 100000 900, 900 miles.
A sphere Of 140 million light-years
radius comprises the observable
region of space. Within this sphere
are some 100000 nebulae. dis
tributed in a fairly uniform manner.
Great clusters of nebulae do exist,
but their effect on the distribution
is averaged out when large volumes
of space are considered.
1.-The nebulae are so distant that
in observing them we are witnessing
scenes and events which actually
occurred in past geological ages. The
nearest of them all. the Magellanic
clouds, present the appearance they
had back in the great Ice Age. The
spiral in Andiromeda Ia a Pilocene
object. The border of the observa-
BILE region takes us back to the late
PaleoZoicn
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
When Doing Things According to Books,
You May Get Some Surprising Results

Mrs. Geaton-Something she's max
ing from a recipe, I think. I'm not
just sure what 1t was going to be.
soup, or souffie. something with
an ST. told her we'd eat anything
with an S tonight. because I'm work
ing on S at present. 1t does rather
smell, doesn't It? Now let me sec
where I am-sago, sandwich. souffie-
You won't mind dinner being a little
late, my love,
Mr.. Geaton CmildlyHBut It's halt
an hour late already.
Mrs. Geaton-Is II possible! You
poor lamb. You must be famished.
can't think what Jane is doing.
(She rings a bell and Jane. verV
slcyHrly and much smeared. appear
fnS@the doorway.l-Oh, Jane, don't
bother with the soup. Perhaps yor
can give 1t to the cat. Mr.. 0eator
is in hurry, so you might serve thu
roast at once.
Jane--Why. ma'am. there isn't an,
roast!
Mrs. Geaton-No roast!
Jane-No, ma am. You didn't order
any.
Mrs. Geaton (pleasantlyl-Ah. no o
course not. the letter Rive finished
it yesterday, didn't we, darling? How
silly VI IIl0. <AHu iOWE
that thing with the S that fell into
the fire. was the spaghetti. of course.
the spaghetti
Mr.. Geaton Observation-Disclosures
you think then perhaps
Mrs. Geaton-That you'd better GO
and dine at the club? I'm afraid so
my pet. It's too bad. I'm afraid
you've dined there every night for
months, haven't you? And had 81
counted on giving you a nice little
home dinner as a surprise. And. oh
darling, one minute before you go-is
cuisine spelt with a Dor
Mr.. Geaton-With a Gu. / think.
Mrs. Geaton-With a Gu. Aren't
you a love. Don't be late, darling.
Good bye.
Copyright. 1927
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

Say lissen---~-Oops wait dere's de
phone--Hu1lo Red---Shure, muffin
to i'll told emil sez---"Lisseu buddies,
I'm a pal OF Alderman Tim CrowIey's.
l am. Me an him.? "Corned beef an
cabba ge..'---Roy. oh boy!,--I had
'em steppin. Dey was chasin' me
aroun' like bunch O. Long Island
mommas after de Prince. Cant we
fix dis up, Mister Feitlebaum," he seq.
Mix" l pipe. You done your stuff
when va run me in--Dis is a free
country :" Boy-you shoulda Sc
Hullo, wait a minnit--Just got
q wire from Snoot. Oh, Spike dere
too? Yeah :. Tell him tanks
Wot? Sure bring dem all up--Shure
we'll have a
BANG CRASH
Mr.. F'eitlebaum-I1l geeve heem dot
dope. I'll make heem for a creeplel!
Witt buns witt gengsters you making
in de hotIZe reonionS--
Looy-'At's all---'at's de feelin'
deygot fer a feller-Im troo-
Isidore- Bahia will you write a let
ter for he to Marvid Godsberg Id the
Truadt SCHOOL,?
Il SMACK!!!!I
II MILF GROSS.
u (Copyright. 1920
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

SKELETONS Of a man and beast
- are much more useful and salable
ohtects than one would be inclined to
sunnose Proof of this is the frequency
with which we find these objects
mounted in museums, schools of
Medicine, anatomical cabinets and
even in the classrooms for child
,l,ysiology and in the studios of artists
md sclllptors. Much labor is employed
IA separating the skeletons from the
tiss,Ias and. bones that cover them.
,yhitening them and mounting them.
come of them. ii is true, are prepared
ard sold by the medical profession,
aarsons occasionally lin the interests
~ science) leaving their bodies to the
ARE of this or that medical fraternity.
Sar whatever use they may tend to
ssrve. This, however. explains very
tnadeouately the supply available, in
rasnonse to the ever-growing demand.
Asa matter of fact, the greater part
=. the skeleton industry is carried on
a.. France, nearly all of il originating
there. Paris has a very well equipped
sactorv for the furnishing Of skeletons
- ,oen and animals, for what purpose
s.eo,Iired, and this factory has branches
,ondon and Berlin. Most of the
t',roan bones employed in the French
.,arIIfacture belonged, in life, to
,,sy,inaIs or to unknown persons
S.hose bodies were unclaimed after
Saath In hospitals or almshouses.
Hsfsr being utilized in the dissection
1noro the remains were removed TO
.nis factory. The proprietor Of this
eactorv is very rich man, for he
ILracticaly monopolizes this trade. The
Factory has many departments. First
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
THE OTHER DAY :!

! sighted. And | still have a bit of a
| cold I had when left Los Angeles"
Il meant about the fish said the
waiter. You complained about the
! fish"
NO I didn't" I replied. Il liked
tho fish very much.
He turned to my wife.
Il liked it. too" she said.
You aren't saying that" asked the
waiter, Just to be nice to me?'
We replied in the negative. He be
gan slowly to tear up the piece Of
paper.
IF YOU don't mind" | suggested,
1--WE would like to get our next course
as soon as possible. We want TO go
tn the theater.
cor the Aquarium" put in my
wife
The waiter shook his head, sadly.
THE Aquarium isn't what it used
to be-" he said.
What do you mean?" asked my
The waiter had started to go, but
he turned.
THE fish of today" he said, aren't
fish. I'm old-and you're young,
There's been a great war Every
thing has been changed-or so they
say You're the new generation.
Everything is new. I'm old. Out Of
date. All right. But still I say to
you--the fish of today aren't what
the~ were in my time"
He was becoming fairly excited.
why, l can remember" he be-
gan.
You see,' I Interrupted, turning
to my wife. there's no point in go
ing to the Aquarium at ALL"
She was stubborn.
Fish don't change" she said And
all this talk about the great war is
just an excuse for a lot of elf-indulg.
ence."
tried once more to keep calm.
ooh, it is. is it?' I said quietly
We'll. how about the 10000 American
boys dead in France?"
That's got nothing to do with you,"
she replied
That's not my fault" 7 said. IT
was in the Navy"
She laughed.
"In Chicago" she said. 1.-THE Chi.
cago navy"
II told you was near sighted" I
insisted, land besides. Chicago can be
just as dangerous as France Do you
read the papers?"
I'm talking about 1917" she replied.
BY this time another and younger
waiter had come busting up to our
table.
They're on. their honeymoon" ex-
planned the first waiter.
"Oh," said the other, "I thought
that maybe something was wrong
with the service"
NO" replied the first, a little irri-
tated. Its an argument about the
Aquarium"
Il was in a debate about the Aquar.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09
. By Donald Ogden Stewart

oh he said. Gle does. does he?"
~" cleared his throat. and leaned
with one hand impressively on the
table
And can this gentleman tell me-"
he said, In slow. even. debating voice,
can this gentleman tell ne -
He was interrupted by the arrival
Of tho head waiter
us anything wrong" ne asked He
was very polite and very suave At
the sound of his voice both of the
walters stood up very straight. N at
tention. lie turned to them. frowned,
and said something that did not
understand. They bowed. and left.
Those boys" he said. with a sad
shake of his head
1T wasn't their fault 7 suggested.
Ile did not reply. stepping away
two or three PAGES, he snapped HIS
fingers, and another waiter appeared.
We were served with the rest ~ our
lunch. and i'm thrce-quarters of an
hour we were on our way to tho
Aquarium.
Copyright 1877
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

forming Officer Popolopolis that this
Is a free country
Looy-Yer Homer, 7
Clerk--Two dollars! Next case.
Looy-But /
Attendant-C'mon mug, dis amt no
hotel; finish yer song walkin. Raus!
Looy-Well, officer, no hard feelins
y'know-I'm a good
Cop--C'mon-Take the air-Beat
tt
Looy-I'll have 'em all-ouch-Ouch
--Awright, I'm goin.
SCENE III.
Third ffoor-Und fordermore mine
dear dope wot I .soppose wot is grad
ully waste from two hours witt
paper witt hink wot I writing you you
Looy-Hullo Pop!!--Hullo MomM
-----Hullo Stoopid.!-Well. well, well
-Ainchas glad I'm out?? Wot??
You was In de middle of writin' me a
letter.? IA HA!!--De pardon dat
came too soon!!-HA HA-Wait I'll go
out an sock a cop SOS va, kin finish
it Well, well--two long days
de oil home amt changed---same oil
towel----Wot How'd l git out? Dey
didn't gimme muffin to eat 80 walked
troo de bars.!! HA HA.!--Well-
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

BESIDES the Brooches Bible
= there are other issues renowned
for curious misprints. There is the
place Makers Bible" so called from
Blessed are the place-makers" Matt,
y.9. This extra ordinary misprint oc-
Cured in the second edition OF the
Geneva Bible. published at Geneva In
folio in 1561-62. The mistake was cor
rected and never occurred again.
Again, there is the Vinegar Bible, y
containing THE Parable of the Vine
gar" instead of THE Parable of the
Vineyard" which appears in the chap
ter heading to Luke XXX. in an OXFORD
edition of the authorized version,
which was published in 1717. The
book was published in imperial folio
and is said to be the most sumptuous
of all the oxford Bibles. The printing
Is very beautiful and some of the
copies were put out on velium, but,
unfortunately, the proofs were care
lessly read and the book referred to
was called "a basketful of printers
errors" a circumstance that now
causes it to be priced as curiosity.
THE Wicked Bible is the queer
ton of the authorized Bible printed
in London by Robert Barker and
Martin Lucas in 1881. In this the
negative was left out of the Seventh
and William kilburne,
writing in 1859. says that owing to
the zeal of DIR. USHER. the printers
were fined $4,000 sterling. In Laud's
published works there is a copy of
the Kings letter directing that the
printers be fined $4,000, but another
authority asserts that the real fine
was one of f1.500, inflicted by the
archbishop, ito be expended on a
fount of Greek type" Only four
copies of this scarce Bible are now
known, as the edition was destroyed
and all the copies called in as soon
as the mistake was discovered. There
exists a German Bible containing the
same mistake.
Another of the curious Bibles is the
Prosecuting Printers" Bible. contain
ing the phrase, printers have perse-
cuted me without cause" psalms,
cxix 16D. The substitution of the
word printers" for princes is respon-
sible FOR the name of this Bible.
All we know of this edition is stated
by Stevens in his catalogue of the
Caxton exhibition of Bibles. This au-
thority tells us that these words were
put into a Bible printed before 1902.
There Is also the Ears to Ear"
Bible, In which occurs the expression |
Whose hath ears to ear, let him |
hear" 0Matthew, xii.43). This adapta-
ton to cockney usage is found in an
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Only Liquid Metal.
MERCURY. or quicksilver, has be,

MERCURY, or quicksilver, has been
known as an element since
900 BIC. It is the only metal which
is liquid at ordinary temperatures. 1t
is sometimes found free in the crevices
of rocks, but is more ordinarily found
In combination with sulphur in a
mineral known as cinnabar.
Mercury is a heavy. lustrous. gray
ish-white substance, whose vapors and
compounds are all poisonous. Com
pounds of mercury and other metals
are called amalgams. which are large
~ used for the extraction of gold and
silver from their ores. Tin amalgam.
for silvering mirrors, is made from 80
parts of mercury and 20 parts tin, and
an amSlgam Of copper, cadmium, gold
and tin Is also largely used in den
tistry. Pure mercury is used in MAX
ing barometers and thermometers. It
is produced in Soain, Italy, Russia
and the United States, California sup
plying most Of this country's quota,
which Is obtained by distillation of the
ore. Half of the mercury produced in
the United States is exported to
Mexico, Central America and China
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Interview With Noted Savant Yields
Inside Information About Race Track

him, with a bottle of homemade chill
sauce which neither should have
missed
And do you think Mrs. Awful looks
like you?" was my next question.
II certainly do" replied the pro-
lessor.
"Hark! Trumpets far-off sound.
lng!" was Mrs. Awful's next speech,
and she jumped through the holes in
the screens left by the girls.
Left alone with the professor, I
asked:
We'll. what about horses?"
We'll, listen" he said: II once bet
on a jockey named Hummer. who had
ridden a horse so many times that
they were almost twins. The horses
name was Exterminator. He had