The Haslingden Gazette. — 1913-12-06 (Haslingden, Lancashire, England)

THE EDITOR OF THE " GAZETTE."  • Dear Sir,—As a .rateparr of Accrington 1 think I I have a right to complain with regard to a nuisance which daily takes plata) close to the centre of the •town, a nuisance which should have bees abated long ago, and although the Corporation i (" The past Corporation") have been n office for so long a. period, it ia surprising that the matter has never yet. been brought to their notice. The nuisance which I am about to complain of ie concerning the Chimney in connection with the Accrington Destructor---so welt called that it is not surprising that it. destroyvi the work of other folksbesules myself, and actually impossible to keep the interior part of houses clean. From that diinmey ashes black- as ink emanate like, molten rook or lava from the mountain of Vesuvius, and travel in 6e same way as the beautiful snow, filling the air and the earth below, over the housetops, down the people's chimneys, in at the doors jumping about the chairs, sofa, table, and destroying many a meal, the nuisance as so great. Had any private individual been the posressor of that Destructor long ago would a summons have been issued and a' fine imposed, and also an order to immediately remedy that evil. Is it possible that the Accrington Town Council, like the King in "The Mascot," can do no wrong? Thanking you in anticipaties.— Faithfully yours, 3. Knowlmere-street, Accrington.  J. COWELL  One crow will (-le.A.r.ey 700.000 in9ects every year. The height of the Rock of Gibraltar is about .437 ft.  Gloves with separate fingers were first seen in the twelfth century.  The .00st of a muddy day in London is something like £5,000.  Great Britain spends about £14.000,000 on tobacco and pipes Crary Tear.  The King of Siam, proposos to make a ton,r of India during the next cold season. Mr. F. W. Strong, late British Minister to Mexico, has been appointed Minister to No reeoptacle has ever been made with sufficient f4rength to resist. the bursting- power of fromi water.  The doll is probably the rnoet antique of toya. It has been found inside the grexes of children of ancient Itoine.  After being on hunger-strike for several days. Mrs. Sheehy Skeffington; a Suffragette, was released from Mountjoy Prison, Dublin, on Wedirws. day.  Peas and beans are the most nutritious of vegetables, containing just. as much carbon as wheat. and about double the amount of muscle-formiug food.  • One. hundred an ten windows were stated, at the Ulster Amizes, to have been broken during a ten minutes' riot. at Castledawson, County Londonderry.  The sentence of death paasocl on William 'Griffitio, a. Liverpool ship's fireman, for the murder of his sister-in-law bas been commuted to penal servitude for life.  In Jewish marriages the bride is always placed to the right of the bridegroom. With every Other nation of the world her place in, the ceremony on the left  Among the rarest of precious stones, the green garnet is probably the most valuable. This gem is of a superb, rich shade. far more brilliant than that of emerald.  After bolting and throwing two farmers oub ci a trap at Tiverton, Devonshire, a horse returned to the spot where the accident 'happened. One farmer was fatally injured.  German wireless stations on the Pacific Ocean Is!ands of Yap, in the Caroline Islands, and Naura, to the north of the Solomon Planck, were inaugurat(kl on Wedne'sdaN.  It was announced on Saturday that in Mahal next the Booth Line will adopt Plymouth as the homeward port of call for their American service instead of Fiahguard. "Poor men's wives are the greatest spendthrifts. in the world in their rush for choapneat," said Mr. Pett Ridge at the Working Men's, College, Camden Town, on Saturday night.  Shavings saturated ,vrith petrol, a can of explosive, a candle, and two copies of the " Suffragette" were found in a' portion of the East Surrey, Club.. Itedhill, on Sunday night.  Lecas Assizes on Monday, George Frederick Law, thirty-four. a Sheffield forgeman, was sentenced to death for the murder of Annie Cotterrill at Sheffield, on October 21.  Horses, giraffes, and ostriches have the largest eyes of all terrestrial animals; but among marine animals there are: cephalopods. or ,ink-fishes, which have eyes as large as a plate.