There is plenty, of interesting' gossip this week. Thus we learn. that it is believed that the amount raised by the sale of poppies on Armistice Day this year will create another record. The full figures are not yet finished but increases ever last year's figures are shown fu Birmingham, Leeds. Lewisham, Grimaby, Lincoln and Wolverhampton—Lord Allenby has been appointed chairman of the King's Roll in place of Lord Jellicoe who has been appointed President—Saturday is not to be an extra Bank Holiday this christmas, according to Mr. Snowden, but there is no' doubt most firma, businesses and shops will be closed—Mr. Pett Ridge, the author, has left estate of the value! of £1,848, with net personally £154.
anonymous donor has given a sum of £100,000 as the nucleus) of a fund to provide pensions for: district nurses, to be called "The 1980 Fund for Trained District Nurses."—We are told this wee that fan efficient death ray_was no mere figment of imagination. Mr. Henry Rhodes, editor of the Chemical Practitioner, speaking at the annual meeting of the British Association of Chemists at Liverpool said that researches were being carried out with invisible rays of such power that they would be capable of exterminating whole populations. 'The next war—we hope there yo I be fought by chemists and physicists, and if the country' were threatened and declared war, the conditions of its dyestuffs industry would determine the whole fs rapidly from the heads of people and from the fashion world. Hairdressers are no longer supplying it. Real golian hair is, hewovor, admired at tumch og ever, but we are told that in another generation blonde hair may be as rare as real white hair la today.
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