New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 6, 1926, Page 11

DOINGS IN FOREIGN CAPITALS LONDON= Scientist Explains How Ancients Used Mechanics to Simulate “Miracles.” London, Nov. 6—The ghostly hounds of Herne the Hunter mentioned by Shakespeare in the Merry Wives of Windsor, have been “heard” by the wife and daughter 'of Walter Legge, of Farm House, Old Windsor. Mrs. Legge declares that on two occasions she heard the clock of Old Windsor tower chime the midnight hour and immediately afterward the sound of baying hounds, as if a pack in tull cry. On the second occasion her daughter came into her room, she says, and asked “Did you hear them? They must have been Herne the Hunter’'s hounds.” Mrs. Legge asserts that during the many years she has lived at Old Windsor she had never heard the sounds be- fore. Tradition has it that Herne the Hunter was a keeper in Windsor forest in the days of Queen Elizabeth. Having been disgraced he hanged himself to an oak. Herne's Oak, said to have been 600 years old, was blown down August 31, 1863, and a young oak was planted on the spot by Queen Victoria on September 12, 1883. “MIRACLES” OF THE ANCIENTS " Nero not only played a fiddle, but he also was a player of the bagpipes, an instrument illustrating a very ancient use of compressed air, declared Willlam Reavell in his presiden- tial address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. The subject was “Compressed Air.” Besides Nero's bagpipes, Mr. Reavell said organs with piston bellows were described by Vitruvius and Hero, while such instruments were also known to Archimedes and Plato. The speaker also described how, before those periods, the Egyptian priests made use of compressed air to work *“miracles” in their temples. PRINCE NOW A GOLFER The Prince of Wales has lost some of his fondness for horseback riding and of late has fallen under the subtle fascination of golf. The prince, as a beginner, is fond of joking about his game. He admits ho cannot play golf as well as he can do the Charleston. He cstimates that on an average he loses six balls a day. He loves to hit at the ball, and has yet to keep his @rives under control. At Sunningdale the prince, after one round, enjoyed a 20 minute light luncheon and was on the tee again. Wales® triends are fond of pointing out the fact that the heir to the throne never permits himself to hold up cou- ples while he and his caddy search for a ball he has planted in the rough. SHAW STARRING STARS George Bernard Shaw's.name, which glared in letters two feet high in front of one of Lon- don’s largest music halls showiflg one of his plays, has been reduced in size, at the author's ®request. The letters now are smaller than actually appearing there. he Showing up of Blanco Posnet.” s being acted by Sir John and Lady Martin-Harvey and a company of 30. For years the lord chamberlain banned this story of a horsc thief on the ground that it was blasphemous. However, after braving the derision of cultured playgoer he rclented. Mr. ®haw suggested that his name had been displayed so' prominently that his fricnds might get the impression that he himself was appearing at the music hall, when, as a matter of fact he was not able to find time to cach up with_his writing: SAW DEAD BROTH Tistelle Ste T. Stead, t of spiritualists here, t within the last few weeks she had seen her two dead broth- One of the brothers died before her father, who lost his life in the steamship Ti- tantic disaster in 1912, and the other one since. Miss Stedd related how her brothers had stood before her. She said she had felt their hands and that they Stead's father also was a s d, daughter of the late William BERLIN German City, Grateful to Pigs, Erects Monument to Poker Tribe. Berlin, Nov. 6—The city of Lueneberg has erected a beautiful monument to a lean, scraggly pig. The memorial, a bronze repro- duction of the now famous anlmal, was put up out of gratitude for the great increase in the city's wealth growing out of a discovery made by the pig. About five years ago the owner of the pork- er noticed its peculiar pranks in the grazing yard. He investigated and found it licking a deposit of salt. The deposit has since been ex- ploited and is one of the richest table salt mines in Germany. POLICE MUCH HAMPERED The police of Berlin are materially hamper- ed in their adoption of modern methods by innumerable antiquated regulations in force evidently because no one has ever thought of rescinding them. According to the published statement of the Prusslan under-secretary of state, Dr. Abegg, the police code contains many thousands of these out-of-date ordinances. One of the oldest, from the year 1751, Qecrees that church bells are to be rung only in three stipulated periods within a certain hour. Another of 1811 prohibits “the extor- tion of tips by farm hands from passing trav- elers in post-chaises,” which seems to have been the custom at that time, Still anothen prescribec exactly how the eggs of ants should be collected. Then there are regulations pro- hibiting dancing lessons on Sundays and also the preparation of artificlal coffee. Grotesque seems an injunction of 1880 bar- ring pickpockets and other thieves from pub- lic markets without a special police license and even then compelling them to do their shop- ping only under police supervision. Still another precept of 1802 prescribes for all waltresses dresses closed at the neck with skjrts down to the ankle. 'SED TO CHANGE DRESS Karl Severing, retired Prussian Minister of the Interior, was one of the few Soctalist gov- ernment officials who during his whole term of office remained true to proletarian traditions in the matter of dress. Herr Severing never owned a dress suit or even a dinner jacket, & convention which most of his comrades since the revolution accepted as a matter of course. He devoted himself to his office with a single- ness of purpose for which even the bitterly hostile press gave him unstinted praise. Though a magnificent official residence was set aside for him on Unter den Liden, Severing kept his family at Bielefeld, In the Ruhr valley, during his seven years as minister and virtu- ally lived in his office in the Ministry of the Interior. PRINCE NOW I Once among the richest of ruling German princes, Leopold, last of a distinguished line of royal governors of the principality of Lippe- Detmold, is virtually penniless. After the re- an state of Prussia recently granted him ef from poor rates so that he could file suit ayment of a debt without cost, it was d that Prince Leopold did not have the h security required by German law to cover court expenses. The suit has been brought against a Dr. en to whom Leopold alleges he sold a of land five years ago for $50,000 and received payment. “Leopold is land poor. s settlement with the state after his abdica- tion during the revolution in 1918 netted him 4,000 acres of land and his beautiful castle. He has been unable to find buyers for more of his land since Dr. Thyssen, who is not re- lated to the industrial Thyssen family, bought several thousand ac INVENTION TO TURN PAGE A Berlin inventor claims to have solved the problem of turning the pages of a musical selection, an operation which always ed members of bands and orchest; rention consists of a lever operated with the foot. The lever is attached to the music stand in such a manner that by stepping on it the page is turned. 6, 1926. PARIS=—= Frenchman Just Submits to Hun- dredth Transfusion of His Blood. Paris, Nov. 6—The terrific din made by so- called ‘“noiseless” automobile horns which probably will replace the squawking type now in use in Paris caused a special police com- | mittee attending a demonstration of them to | clap their hands to their ears and flee the scene. Salesmen representing numerous firms de- sirous of supplying the automobile trade, pre- | sented several scores of thelr “silent” samples. In the effort to prove how nolseless they were, however, they tooted the horns so vigorously and constantly that the police had to beg for mercy and fled into the building. The Paris police authorities recently ap- pointed a committee to investigate and seclect a standard type of horn less noisy than the ones which make the Paris streets so hideoug- ly blantant. This was the committee's first meeting with the trade. The next one has not been scheduled, the committee desiring to await until its nerves have quieted. WORLD'S TRANSFUSION RECORD «The world's record for blood transfusion by one person is credited to Raymond Briez. Hc has just submitted to the operation for the hundredth time. Since November, 1024 Briez has given five and a half gallons of his blood for suffering human beings, without recompense of any kind except the satisfaction of having done a good deed. 2 ’ Briez is only 29 years old and devoted to outdoor sports. He entered upon his career as a blood-giver quite by accident. While v iting a sick friend, he heard the- doctor that the only hope of recovery was in blood transfusion. Immediately he offered himself. Briez is 8o strong and healthy that the opera- tion has little effect on him. He continues work in his office as usual before and afters each transfusion operation. ANTHEIL IS WELL RECEIVED George Antheil, the 26 year old American composer, is hailed as a master by French critics, who found the second performance of his Symphony in F had more than confirmed the impression made by the first hearing. The composer and Vladimir Golschmann, the con- ductor, were glven an ovation of an intensity rarely heard in a French concert rooni, espe- cially to a foreign artist. Written in neo-classic style and with what some term a rather dry technique, the sym- phony displays a wealth of dramatic power and vigor. Not having the stores of German folk tunes that Beethoven and Mozart had to draw upon, Anthell sought his themes in the scraps of music In his mind, dating back to childhood. These included the popular senti- mental songs of the 1910 period, the ragtime that came a little later and fragments of sym- phonies heard at concerts. Welded into a composite new form, the work moves on in direct and logical procession to an imposing climax. The musical critic of Comdia con- cludes his eulogy of the composition by saying, “We must hail George Antheil a thorough- bred musician whose work does high honor to the young American school.” POPULAR The red deer of Old England are finding their way to Blarritz to make sport for the cosmopolitan society of this south of Iran resort. RIDING TO HOUNDS Riding to hounds has always been popular with the wealthy residents here, but in the past has been largely confined to fox hunting. Now stag hunting has come into favor, but not enough deer are available in France and importation is being resorted to. The stags, brought from the famous deer parks of England and Scotland, are hauled to | the hunting fields in prosaic moving vans, lib- | erated well ahead of the hunt, and given every | sporting chance to escape, ‘i At the opening hunt of the scason a most | fashionable following gathered for the cere- | mony of blessing the hounds at the Church of | int-Eugenie, on the outskirts of Biarritz. | | 18.61 pounds per gallon; 5 per cent|mond? | butter | hpounds Q. | tengtn 2" A, Q. | States value 10NS ANSWERED You can get an answer to any question of fact or information by writing to the Question Editor, New Britain Herald, Washington fat, {per gallon. How A tenth .f a sca mile; about | g {100 fathoms or 600 feet. ; How many cro on steam railroads in per | age cost per tie of 94 cents Where is the Moja Battling Nelson? 8.60 pounds per gallon.| A. long is “a cable’s |nally) 12 71 | between bases, 1. e. s ties arc used | & the United | A ar and what is their [570¢S? 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Meets Monday Evening The Monroe School Parents and .'I‘v,.n‘hl‘rs' association will Monday evening at § o'cloc school auditorium. W. |the New Britain Normal school and | Dr. George E. Tucker of Hartford are on the list of speakers. The | Monrog school association is Jook- ing forward to an active year as ip- 1in the ncighbourhood. ', W. C. A. NOTHS | The Girls Reserve department of | | the local Y. W. C. A. are preparing | a room In the northeast corner of | | the building for their own use, the apartment to be called the Girl Re- serve room. Members of the Re- |serve are painting the furniture and | | making pillows for the place and| the room should be ready for occu- pancy in about two weeks. A clrcus by the members of the |Reserve in connection with the in dustrial girls' class is In thie works for presentation on or abont Decem {ber 3. The event will include a menagerie and sideshows with the {customary pink lemonade and 1 |nuts. 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