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...Rachel McDowell is bigger than her religion. . . . Her own are stoning her for her courage. When they have piled their cairn high I should like to place on it: "Rachel McDowell, Honest Woman! I Salute...
...godmother for an Eskimo baby (which, like all Eskimo babies, had a blue patch on its back), wore sealskin trousers (she had "to wiggle about very skillfully to get in"), hung up a world's record ("the northernmost point ever visited by a foreign diplomat"). A commemorative cairn is to be erected on the spot (Upernivik), with inscriptions in English and Eskimo. She ate whale skin ("a most toothsome delicacy") but balked at dried seal intestines. Before a U. S. Coast Guard cutter carried her to the U. S. she was given an Eskimo name, Inunguak ("real human being...
...Zealanders will hasten to establish our claim to the fish "Pelorus Jack" which was referred to as an Australian by a correspondent in TIME of April 18. But in case they do not: Pelorus Jack was a very real and popular personality who for many years frequented the cairn waters of Pelorus Sound, New Zealand, and made a practice of meeting the daily steamers as they passed through the narrow French Pass on the regular route between Wellington and Nelson. (I am a native of Nelson and saw him innumerable times and this is not a fish story.) Where...
...find a companion to Charlotte as much as anything else that the new Cairn was ordered. Edward of Wales has a Cairn too, a snappy little bitch named Cora...
After a decent period of mourning, His Majesty George V had a new dog last week. Like its predecessor, it is a lively, ginger-colored Cairn terrier. Snip, the previous Cairn, was an affectionate beast who whimpered outside the royal bedroom all the time King George lay gravely ill three years ago, and accompanied His Majesty to almost everything except the state openings of Parliament. Snip died in April. Mourned by the royal household and the nation, he was buried in Sandringham by the side of Edward VII's dog Caesar who had the distinction of preceding the Kaiser...