Show dads s letter from london by JAMES 11 WALUS WALLIS director of publicity european missions word reaches london that of the former churches in moscow mose alose e only 56 can W now be ba used for worship the remaining nia ining 50 5 0 0 have been torn down or converted into theotres tres shelters or ol club james H wallis houses A warm tribute to the memory of his parents Is paid in the will of mr air frederick lionel dove recently riles files in the london probate courts in ili his will he gave most humble and lie arty thanks to almighty god tor for giving me the good mother and father with which he blessed me and I 1 beg all my children to keep keel them both in remembrance as an example to follow and I 1 further beg of them to continue to live in sisterly and brol brotherly berly affection affects and love with one another striving to 0 o do all the he good they can and to assist in leaving the better than they found it an interesting contribution to the grobl ein of dealing with mosquitoes has abeen made by a french woman near Alarce marseilles illes basing her experiments on the powerful attraction of light for such insects mile gourdon has invented an apparatus containing an electric bulb supplemented by a contrivance comparable to a vacuum cleaner allured by the illumination the mosquitos oa swarm into a tube along which they aie irresistibly carried until they touch an electric wire with fatal effect one of mile Gouid gaui dons ons bags consisted of victims weighing about 6 pounds or according to the estimate of a learned entomologist about mosquitoes further experiments on oil a more extensive scale are to be carried out sir george geor ge e newman chief medical of officer of the ministry of health in his annual report which is published today quotes the following figures for eng england and and wales for the past fifty years the death rate for great britain has fallen from 21 to 12 per thousand infant mortality ra rate e lias has dropped from to 66 per e t thousand ilou s and mortality rate from consumption has declined by nearly 75 per cent and expectation of life at birth has risen from 41 years for a boy and 44 years for a girl to 56 and 60 years respectively in 1922 the percentage of deaths under 50 years was waa in the short space of ten years that figure has fallen in 1931 to to bring about this improved condition of health costs great britain a year acnone who thought chough t of such smell a ridiculous thing as trying to steal the kings crown dom the tower towel of lo 10 london idohl today would lie be regarded as mad nothing Not liing in the world is so carefully guarded gu aided yet years ago next monday the crown was really stolen and carried out of the tower though it was soon recovered an ali officer named colonel blood who had made friends with tiro rhe deputy keeper of the jewel house an old man of 80 went on oil the morning of may 9 1671 and asked the keeper to show the crown to himself and three friends As soon as the keeper took them to the jewel house they chiew a cloak over the fie old mans head gagged him nd told him it if lie he did not kap quiet they would kill him ile he struggled and they struck him on the head and stabbed lihn then blood seized the crown another man took the aib oib 01 b and another seized the seep tre and feegan to file it in two so that it could be concealed easily fortunately at that moment the keeper keepe 3 son who had just arrived from flander with his brother in law captain beckman a i ra ran ii up the stairs to salute ills 1 t s family the villainy villain 4 gushed past him at the drawbridge blood fired a pi itol in ili the face of the warden who though not injured was so frightened that he let the thieves get by they got out of the tower and biad almost reached the place where horses were waltin waiting for or them aben beckman who zas was a fast runner overtook them blood fired a pistol at him but the keepers son coming up the thief was overpowered and carried back a prisoner to the tower in the scuttle scuffle the crown fell on the pavement and some of i the stones were knocked out but all wei were e le ie covered |