Manuscripts 2,000 years old, some of them in Sanskrit, original holy books of the Buddhist faith, beautiful bronze mirror, arid speci mens of sculpture more than 10 centuries old, are among the ar-[chacological exhibits. brought here by Mr, Langdon Warner, Fellow for Research in Asia, of Harvard University, Mr, Warner has completed a tour' which started a year ago through Western China, 'The trip, in which special search was made' for traces of early Ruddhist influences, carried the expedition along the ancient trade route to India and north to the Gobi desert to an_old city, now in ruins, at which Maveo Polo out fitted' six centuries ago, for his 40- day journey to the Great Khan's capital, Karakorum, At the ancient city, which Polo call sina neither Yogetable nos animal life is possibi camels, with which the. expedition proceeded, were halted eight milex in the rear and were used to haul water to the excavating party.
The desert hus advanced its the Chamber, had seated some hundreds of his' constituents on the benches and leaning against the table in front of the Speaker's Chair} was giving them an oration on what usually happens during the! sittings. Some members will soon come along with a cinema film, and wonder no one has yet borrowed Parliament for the purposes of cheap entertainment when the House fs not sitting.
The Bungalow Murder.
The papers this week have devoted an immensity of space to the trial and conviction of Patrick Mahon for the murder of Miss Emily Kaye, whose body he boiled in the bungalow: near Eastbourne, There never was riy real defence, as this only alles ed that Miss Kaye had a sudden attack of resentment and threw axe at Mahon, who struggled with her until she fell over, striking her: head on a coal cauldron, which caused her death. This was too thin! for the jury, and they were not long in making up their minds. Muhon turns out to have an extremely bad record, which embraces five years' penal servitude for an assault on a domestic servant while trying to rob a bank at Woking. Undoubtedly, ho exercised a very great influence on women, since he was one of those smooth-spoken smug hypocrites who can always count upon popularity _amony females. He will, course, appeal, and so is Vaquier appealing, 100,000 people tion for the rapi Goldenburg, who recently murdered the bank manager at Borden' Camp. It always seems possible! to appeal to the sickly sontimentality of large sections of the public.
Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of our everyday life is that though we have still a million unemployed we never hear of any! distress, although you do hear of work going and no one ready to take the jobs on. From this it is perfectly "clear that an immense! number of people are quite satisfied to live on the dole, and so long as it continues on the present scale they will go on doing so. If the Russian delegates, who are still here, remain much longer, we had' better put them on the dole too, because they must be spending a lot of money to no purpose, and will need shortly some extra cash.
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