... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. �� lld dersfic,ld walked . Hudder , fficld n ,ted v. HudderP- tie, and printed himself Old s™' token of respect for the late Mr. Pringle, who died suddenly at iu« M. the. Committee appointed home on ndise Marks Act inquire under ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. Exasperated by his wife’s frequent allusions the “skeleton in the cupboard,” Mr. Joseph Gaines, Shanghai tobacco salesman, played a “joke” on her which resulted her being taken to hospital and his being taken gaol, says the British ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. There is always a homely welcome for the rORKSHIRE During a boxmg meeting in a small town near Limoges, France, the audience was surprised to see two young boxers who did not appear on the programme enter the ring. The organiser ...

... TO-DAY'S SHORT STORY. urchin, without shoes or stockings, pushed hia way into the reception room of the College of Pestology’s new laboratory premises. Pentonville Road. London, yesterday and said to Mr. A. Moore Hogarth, the chairman, ‘‘Guvnor, will ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. A young couple Prague (wires Reuter) ■were married at noon. At 12.20 the bcide spoke •harply to her husband. He hit her. At i 2.25 the bride asked her lawyer, who had been best man, to inetitut© divorce proceedings against her husband ...

... TO-DAY'S SHORT STORY. Professor Brodetsky, Professor of Applied Mathematics in Leeds University, speaking at Leeds yesterday relativity, recited the following limerick; There was a young lady called Bright, Who travelled much taster than ligiit. She went ...

... should write original short story. It should not exceed a thousand words in length, and must written on one side of the paper onjy. Special attention will be given to spelling, punctuation, and composition, and the best stories will be printed in the ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. Whilo Alex McLeod, a boy from tho Hudson Bay country, spent tho night in the cells of the police station awaiting trial on charge of theft tho evidence disappeared (states British United Press message from Boston, Massachusetts) ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. Li^ut. -Colonel Brain. Postmaster-Surveyor Birmingham, the dinner the National Federation of Sub-postmasters in Birmingham last night, said knew of gentleman whose duty it was to write. The Postmaster-General regrets so-and-so.” ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. A curate at Coblenz has been sentenced to six weeks’ imprisonment for punching a Nazi (National Socialist) on the jaw. The curate, who was going home with his Vicar late at nighty appears to have been annoyed by the Nazi shouting ...

... TO-DAY'S SHORT STORY. A green parrot called Baby was the chief witness in a case before Judge Hamlin in the Racine Avenue Police Court, Chicago (states the British United Pre-s). The complainant, Mrs. Olympia Blair, sued John Slovick, the proprietor of ...

... TO-DAY’S SHORT STORY. Chao Chang-fu, old rickshaw coolie at Shanghai, consulted soothsayer. The soothsayer (says the British United Press) dispersed the evil spirits, granting Chan Chang-fu immunity from all harm at tho hands of man or boast spirit. Chan ...