Ontario Community Newspapers

Port Perry Star, 22 Mar 1911, p. 5

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RE an Tro CPR ER of Por of the last eB frie Rep of Doddinghurst, Essex, ag- X95 years, an average of el. Tickets for 3 owt. of 'coal were given to: 1,180 blind persons, who stepping oup A of ns, n ts . ignorant el lettered, th way. with the! Lf ating, fi vide is the! center of the solar system, , ol mystery and unforseen force. sunshine is a friendly, thing that touches common 'and conduces "to comfort, d oonduces to 'the' comfort t. Sunshine is not the sun, "of would 1 'eepresent the ¥ gonception aly God: Ehrint n 'practi workaday Wut bare te it te oy "Christ is the sunshine; that of 'the transcendent Deity' the earth." ng 'with miracles; Sir Olis/ ver sid they were no more impos-| Bav-! sible; mor more lawless than the in- 'miles. of a human being would "golony of ants and bees. yegion of the miraculous," Sir Oliver, 'has been {but he human, terrestrial aspect | {were entertained to tea at the Bhoveditch Tabernacle by an anony- mous lady donor. the According to a return by the com- mittee of the city ty policp, London; | ¥ there were 400 with. ve- i hicles in the city in the last quar- a8 ter of '1910, four proving fatal. Since the sy have been exterminated at a cost to le. the council of nearly $635. Mrs. Francis Wnght, of South- Pej york, who went to the assistance of a 'police constable when he was ing with an armed burglar; rated with the Albert me- ast by King George. . It was stated at Kingstom-on- Brewster. Bessions that during. the past six years the Sur- rey compensation authority has cloded eighty-two licensed houses in the county at a cost of $600,000. Gardens are to. be provided for London elementary schools at the rate of ahout twenty each year, the Day 'Schools Bub-Committee have decided. The average cost of form- ig & school garden is about $75. The Epping Forest: Committee of the corporation of London, in their annual i¥eport, state that the nec- essary work of thinning 'was con- tinued last year, each block of weod- land being treated according to its A remarkable sight will be wit- nested in London on Good Friday afternoon when a large procession of some 200 clergy and 3,000 laity, 'headed by the Bishop of London ans will march from 86. 'Martin's-in-the-Fields - to Bt. Taw Paul's Cathedral. | INSURING AGAINST DEVILS. us Way the € 'Chinese. Have of om | Taking Out an Anpual Policy. during the first' Se hinese. of coronation novelties. Imitation §' ceremony. "obi ocoronets for those who'are not en- ; brated, bei i of homage to the ut 'the cere: arigus. forms' Wetld, z foe his: in] de 'so by 2 . CORONATION JEWELRY. Real Coronels are Cheaper Than the Imitations, London. jewelers are. working overtime in producing all manner "to wear the real article are among them. Strange to say, real coronets: are sheaper than the imi- jiations. pecial tiaras "and Goronsls which the he fashionahlo jewelers are turning' out for the coming social festivities range. in price from $500 to. $50,000 or more. 1 are set ith pears and diamonds in ela- 'and when fakes place at regular stated inter Jn 274 cities cities a careful ex« amination of children's - eyes ig made at intervals and records kept; three cities have Brolessional occulists for t pur- d 215 furnish glasses at the ero Expense. For children with © hearing 131 cities have aps po re experts, but oply 24 have arranged special schools for - such children. In 196 cities courses of instruce Hou for teachers for curing defects of speech are arranged; in 171 cities special treatment of throat: and nose diseases and for children 'Suffering from impediments in their speech, is arranged. Also for chils\ dren with: NERVOUS TROUBLES and for weak minded children 103 suxiliazy. classes in "Tully graded schools and 169 independent. auxil- iary schools are established. In 238 communities special phys- icians are appointed tq determine the existence of tuberculosis among the school children ; 100 cities mere« ly exclude such children 'from at- tendance at school; in 139 other cities such children' are sent to ap- propriate institutions at the city's expense. To all the efforts mentioned i in the foregoing may be added the duty i feeding farery children which done in 301 cities., This is not oro in Germany from charitable mo= tives; free breakfasts or lunches are not given or taken as alma, but the whole movement is prompted by pedagogical motives, since instruo- tion to hungry children i is about as useless as it is to sick children, : It may be stated that the 'appoint- 'ment of school physicians is to-day almost universal in. Germany, and that in consequence of the work of these men as well as of school nur- ses new ideas have been' developed and improvements have beeh intro- duced, so that the foregoing: report 18 in some of its statements already antiquated. ' PPNRCRATAN RR "oF A CLOCK OF 1790. & An interesting specimen of a long clock, made in 1790, 'is owned by a gentleman at: Lutterworth, says the Westminster Gamette, It has an oval face, a hand which points to the days completing the round in' 1 ldays; one which dead beat. | points

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