Ghost Preacher who Shouts Sermons from Cemetery And Islets Off British Coasts in Recent Years Islands made a special appeal to an Englishman. He was born on one and it is natural that he should look upon the sea as his rightful boundary and as the best of all frontiers still. Which probably explains the brisk market in islands and islets off the British coasts in recent years. There is an atmosphere of peaceful seculsion when the waves beat on all sides of one's own estate, and a reassurance in knowing that quite a lot of trouble, interference, annoyance and other people's woes will not be bothered to come visiting by motorboat, states H, De Winton Wizley in ihe "News Chronicle."
How many islands are there around our coasts? (Try this one on your friends!) Oh—the Isle of Wight, Isle of Man, Anglesey, the Scillies, Channel Isles, Hebrides, Orkneys, Shetlands, Lundy—something like 200, say you. More than 5,500, say I.
The truth is that no one seems to know the actual number. They are all charted, but apparently no one has counted them, and mine is an approximate total, Lots of the islets are mere rocks. There are plenty you probably never heard of, such as Armed Knight, Irish Lady, Samphire, His Man, Clerks, Coquet, Mingalay, and Thorn, Something like half a million poole live on our British islands, and they speak four languages other than English—Welsh, Gaelic, Erse and Norman French, Anglesey, with 276 square miles, is the largest island, and Wight, with about 90,000 inhabitants, has the largest population; but I am not going to talk of islands like these. Let us consider the peppered specks—the Lonely Islands.
Frantic appeals were made to the police at Atlanta, Georgia, on May 31 to stop the terrifying activities of a clergyman and his assistant who conceal themselves. all night in a cemetery and shout sermons through megaphones at courting couples, Nervous breakdowns and twenty-four hour attacks of hysteria are reported to have been caused among girls and youths surprised in the darkness by the ghostly admonitions of the minister, the Rev. E. O. Jolley, and his assistant, Brother H. C. Artley, states the "Daily Mirror."
"Their sermons spread the belief that the cemetery was haunted by John Wesley until a youth pounced on Jolley concealed behind a tree, bringing him and a megaphone down with a flying tackle.
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