... Counties Cup was won for the first time, and this success was repeated in each of the next four years. Among the many players who wore the blue and white jersey before the end of the last century, the most famous was Alan Rotherham, the England player and ...

... this upheaval. The name of Tussaud came from the Frenchman she married in 1794, but from whom she soon parted. Coming to England with a collection of her wax figures she first toured the provinces, and later established herself in Baker Street, subsequently ...

... drivers in the midst of the melee who had no cotton-wool to stuff in their ears, and had to use oily waste instead. I was taught a good deal about driving by a pre-World War One winner of several Austrian Alpine contests. His advice was Never touch the 'ooter ...

... destroy ships of the British Fleet off the New England coast by this means. A quarter of a century later another American, Robert Fulton, produced a submarine which he suggested to Napoleon should be used as a secret weapon against Nelson's fleet. Napoleon ...

... Swansea business man, on reaching home after a narrow victory over England, found a strange wig in his overcoat pocket. So, to Edinburgh, fairest and most civilised City of the World where the ghost of Johnnie Knox still preaches sermons outside the pubs ...

... ornaments and other articles found in them, such as spindle whorls and needles used by women for embroidery. The known caves of the world must Continued on t>age 66) (On right The world's greateststalagmite. The Big Dome in the Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico. ...

... esfre's Night HOLIDAY fare was particularly luscious and profuse this year and we still are enjoying it. A great many of us had to make do with window shopping where the traditional turkey was concerned, and the poultry merchants found, to their amazement ...

... Excellency may well offer you as an appeasement to his anger. But take comfort; he will order your hasty departure from the world with regret; he is a kindly man at heart. Woe! lamented Wang, that I should have believed reports which were untrue. Alas ...

... a shock to an author on a U.S. lecture tour to be told by a hotel clerk that if he wants a room to show samples in, that will be two dollars extra. Here and there Godfrey Winn received other shocks which convinced him that U.S. hotels are less good, British ...

... which an epic mystery, a world-shaker of its kind, was to be written, and with a score of variations. Fraser Trenholme and Co. intended naming the vessel James B. Matthews, but on the outbreak of the Civil War they could find no use for her, and left her ...

... metaphorically to tap him on the shoulder and suspend his naval ambitions. He could be of irore use in other, ways. The rest is recent history. In the U.S. Naval Reserve, so ne- times with his own countrymen, sometimes with joint forces (he was with ...

... McMillan Memorial Fund, received the guests in the absence of Mrs. Lewis Douglas, President of the Ball, who was away in the U.S. with her family. Besides the chair man receiving the guests were Lady Waddilove, one of the vice-presidents of the Ball, and ...