3 JANUARY 1931, page 17

A Hundred Years Ago

The machinery for arresting the progrea4 of these pleasant and dangerous vehicles, appears to be still extremely deficient.. On Wednesday evening, while some men were attempting......

Love And Suicide.

A young man, named Thomas, shot himself, in John Street, Hanway Street, on Monday, in consequence of a love disappoint menu. It appeared that the foolish lad worked in a shop in......

Wild Beasts At Olympia

By F. YEATS-BROWN. N INE lions and a tiger arc shown at Olympia, also twelve sea-lions. The rest of the circus is as good as I have ever seen. More's the pity that it should be......

Humane Consideration.

On Sunday night, four miserable creatures were discovered, half dead with cold, huddled together under one of the dry arches of London Bridge. They had collected a little straw,......

How To Still A Child.

A serving-wench, left in charge. of a little girl in Edinburgh, a few weeks ago, m her anxiety to disengage herself of the task of attend- ing to her, dosed the child with......

Next Week

A NEW l'oExt by RABINDRANATIL TAGOID: " PERSIAN ART " by SIR C. DENISON Ross How TO ABOLISH SLUMS " : by ALFRED 'Bossom " Tan CONTROL OF TIME DRINK MADE " : by B. Suratoom......