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t » *•" A CURATE'S CURIOS. The Rev. William Dunckley, a London curate, writes in The Church Gazette, with reference to what he calls My Curios," meaning queer waifs and strays of humanity with whom he has come in con- tact. One of these he describes as a crossing sweeper with the face of a murderer and a wooden leg." "You are not married? said the curate to the crossing sweeper. Well, I was once; but one year, sir, I went a- hopping, and when I came home the home had hopped. So I says Never again, from yours truly. Seen some curious things since I've been on the crossing ? Should think I have, but the two curiousestthings as ever I seen is these. One day a gentleman come along, and beg your pardon, sir, he cocked a snook at me, and then blew his brains out. Then another day when the steam-roller was at work, a chap came up and laid hieself right under it, and when they picked him up his head was like a pan- cake. Thank you, sir, good evenin', air, it'll just pay my closs." Number two of the curate's specimens is an old lady of 80, who hails from Cornwall. "My hna, band," she says, was a petty officer on boards a man-o'-war packet. He pricked his finger, took ill, and died. Just afore he went a white thing, for all the world like an owl or a butterfly, fled up and down him bead to foot, head to foot, and the praying men said they'd never seen such a thing before. Ah. dear, we'd had a sad loss, too, that last voyage of his. All the things as he'd brought from over seas was seiatxl by the the Customs.' We made a bit of money sometimes that way." Why, do you mean to say you were smuggler* ? Well, J ou see, sir," said the old lady, apologetically, there is no harm in it down to Cornwall; of course, up here it's different. The men used to bring rum ashore in great demi-johns, then would pour it out in pans and sell it to the trochers." Trochers—what manner of men were they ?" They wasn't men at all; they was women. Each woman used to come into the town with three or four pigs' bladders blown out with wind, and tied round her waist under her clothes, and she walked out of town with 'em full of rum. 'Trochers' they were called—very respectable people, but the Customs' used to treat them terrible. Thank you, sir, I knew you was a-coming to help me. After I was thunderstruck, and it went to my innerds, I had a dream of a dark gentleman, such a nice gentleman, as was to be of great use to me." My third curio is an old lady of the china shep- herdess order, so small and fragile that she seems out of place anywhere but on a mantelpiece. She is a relic of the once popular "What is your text?" sect, and her memory goes back 80 years. She tells me a queer jumble of fact and fable as we talk. She tells of a lady who was buried and who, having her finger hacked by body-snatchers trying to get a ring off, got up, walked home, and had four children afterwards. And did yon really know Mrs. Manning, the murderess ?" "Yes, sir. for 'ears I used to be in the same room with her down along Philpott-terrace. I was trying on ladies' dresses, and she looked after the stage." Did she really cook a goose over the murdered man ?" That's true, but, however she came to do it I never can think, she was always such a feeling' woman. Good afternoon, sir, and you won't be long before you come to see me again." My last is a very ugly curio. Have any of my readers ever heard of the mothers' meeting pest ? This one systematically, diligently trudges from meeting to meeting. Assiduously she sits through the reading and discoursing, and triumphantly she bears off her spoils in the shape of pounds of tea and presents of clothing.

THE QUEEN'S EXAMPLE. In Jrlr. Stevens's book on Downing College, Cam- bridge, a conversation of the Prince Consort's with the Prince of Wale's law tutor—the late Professor Birkbeck-is reproduced at some length. The .superiority of constitutional government was dwelt upon by the Prince Consort, and in a comparison of this country with France, he said the Queen trans- acted far more public business than the Emperor Napoleon. I do not think," he said, "that there is any clerk in a public office who works as hard as the Queen."

OUK LOUDON CORUKSPONDfeNT. The radid nrproach of Easter Monday, the first bank holiday of the year, may account for the revival of an idea that a fifth hank holiday should be created in England by statute. This suggested addition to Easter Monday. Wliit- Monday. the first Monday in August, and Boxing Day, is favoured by no less a person than Sir John Lubbock, to whose legislative1 efforts eight-and-t\venty years ago, the creation of these statutory bank holidays was due. rh worthy baronet considers that it would not be well to have this in the autumn but in the summer, and his idea is that it should be mack a perpetual commemoration of Diamond Jubilee Day. If anything of this kind were intended, it is a pity that it wu not attempted to be carried out two years ago, when anything in the way of worthily celebrating the Queen's sixtieth year of sovereignty was heartily welcomed: but Lhose who favour the idea will certainly exclaim u Better late than never." As far as the majority of folk in London are concerned, there is little doubt that an additional bank holiday would be welcomed, for the average Londoner lores an excuse for an outing: and, although as each such occasion cemes round, there is to be heard some grumbling at the hindrance to business, the dislocation of traffic caused by bank holidays, there is little substance in the protest, for it is usually made by those who can take an outing when they like, and who do not need the passing of any law to give them a day off. Lord Herschell's much-lamented death has removed from the governing body of the Imperial Institute one who had worked very hard to secure for it a success it has never yet attained. He believed very thoroughly in the Institute, and he did his utmost to persuade others to that belief; and towards the end he was active in promoting the movement which is now proceeding for a sort of fusion between that body and the University of London. It may be considered one added to the many fatalities which have attended the history of the Imperial In- stitute that so devoted a worker for it has thus suddenly passed away; but it may be thought that he had placed matters sufficiently in train to cause the promised fusion to be carried into effect. This will not be done, of course, without much criticism and some op- position. There are those who think that South Kensington is not an ideal site for a University of London which shall be a teaching and not merely an examining centre; while on the other hand many of the Fellows of the Imperial Institute are by no means impressed with the idea of being swallowed up by another body. It is said that the rights of these Fellows will be duly safeguarded: but it has to be remembered that many of them joined the Im- perial Institute for the sake of the amusements it afforded, and that open-air concerts and the like can scarcely be expected to be' associated with a University for London. Mr. Ritchie, as President of the Board of Trade, was fulfilling a duty strikingly within his province by opening this week the extension of the Great Central Railway to London. The more public interest attached to the event because it may be considered that this is the last of the trunk lines that the country may expect to see made, and that Marylebone is the last important terminus the capital can hope to possess. A kind of rigid law has con- fined the stations and the four systems running towards tha North to one side of the tho- roughfare running from north-east to north- west and connecting Islington with Bayswater. Euston and St. Pancras and King's-cross have all long been there, and nQW Marylebone is added to the list. It seems a pity that this last terminus was not called Boscobel, as was at first intended, because of its proximity to Boscobel Gardens, as that would- have had a fine distinctive ring about it, like Euston itself, and would not have had the merely local flavour of Marylebone. But a rose, of course, by any other name would smell as sweet, and the main point of interest for travellers by the new route to the north will not be the appellation of the terminus, but the celerity and comfort of the Great Central trains.. The influenza continues to be a subject for lively conversation in London—if lively is the right word to use in connection with such a wearisome and often fatal complaint. The mildness of the winter appears to have given the germs a fresh spell of activity, and even those who most dislike anything approach- ing Arctic weather would welcome a cold snap if only it would kill the pestilental bacteria which are working so much harm just now. The steady rise in the number of deaths from the epidemic in London is arousing keen attention and even some little alarm, and the medical authorities are now doing their best to the public to a sense of the danger of the disease. They point out what is too often forgotten, that the influenza is a highly contageous dis- order, and one of the most virulent of the acute specific diseases. There is consequently a necessity to take more precautions, against its spread than most folks have been accustomed to adopt, and to avoid all unneces- sary contact with a patient. It is a mistake to visit any who are suffering from the complaint unless such a visit is absolutely necessary and the chief point to remember is that the in- fluenza is contagious, and to take precautions accordingly. Simultaneously with the holding this week of the meeting at the Man- sion House in support of the move- ment for celebrating the millenary of Alfred the Great, the announcement has been made that the Admiralty was determined that the new first-class cruiser to be laid down at Barrow-in-Furness shall be named the King Alfred, in honour of the father of the British Navy. One feels a little sorry that the name is not to be given to a first-class battleship, but there is some consolation in knowing that the Admiralty nowadays does make an effort to choose sensible names for our men-of-war. It is strange, however, that the names of our great cities should not be laid under contribu- tion in this direction, for a London, a Dublin, a Glasgow, or a Manchester, would be felt to be worthily entitled, and its fortunes would be followed with a special zest and affection by the people of the city after which it was called. This suggestion is not a new one, but, if it be repeated sufficiently often, it may at length penetrate the Admiralty walls. There is a good deal of talk just now about the national income and expenditure, and this is only natural when each side of the balance- sheet shows nearly one hundred and ten mil- lions. But this good round sum, as far as the expenditure is concerned, is made up of many minute as well as some very large items and the yearly estimates contain a great number of interesting points as to these minutise. The taxpayer with an inquiring mind may learn, for instance, that the country pays £10 every year for the rat- catcher at Windsor Castle, but ;L2 less for the performance of similar work at Buckingham Palace, where a turncock undertakes the duty, as also does a turncock at Hampton Court Palace, where, however, only £5 is paid for the work. Among the odd sums of which the public little dream is to be included an item of one hun- dred guineas for winding and regulating the Great Clock at the Palace of Westminster; but not the least astonishing is that of £ 500 annually for external repairs to the stonework of that building. Seeing that the edificq q be,.} completed only about forty years, it seems strange that the stone should be crumbling away in its present fashion. Much, of course, must be attributed to the corrosive action of the London atmosphere, but a deal also must be set down to the nature of the stone, which was evidently not chosen with all the care and foresight sueh a task demanded. All visitors to thi? Palace of Westminster, by the way, will regret to learn that the First Commissioner of Works has not thought it desirable to apply to Parliament this session for any grant for completing the work of deco- rating the Outer Lobby or Central Hall. Thlfe is the portion of the edifice most seen by her Majesty's lieges, for it is there that every citizen can go without let or hindrance for the purpose of seeing; his member—if perchance he can catch him. Visitors have been accustomed for years to see St. George in the panel over the corridor leading to the House of Lords, and this year they have been able to gaze as well upon" St. David over the corridor leading to the House of Commons. But, although the designs for the corresponding mosaics repre- senting St. Andrew and St. Patrick have been prepared, no progress is to be made with them in 1899: and blank spaces instead of national patron saints will continue to be among the chief characteristics of the Central Hall. R.

"NEWS NOTES. rR, RUDYARD KIPLIXG'S very serious illness in New York elicited world-wide sympathy, and called forth expressions of unstinted apprecia- tion of his literary work. The soul-stirring way in which he has sung about the deeds of OTU- great common race" has endeared JIr, Kipling to Anglo-Saxons everywhere, and the German Emperor's telegraphic eulogism meets with the general endorsement. AVe sincerely trust that the virile Big-Englandev will soon be completely restored. THE Toulon magazine explosion was a very terrible affair indeed. So far as can be seen at the time of writing the calamity was one of those which could not have been prevented by even extraordinary human vigilance. The families of the poor people killed and maimed are receiving kindly aid from high and low in France. THE official view in Cairo as to the Khalifa is that the attempt to finally annihilate his power will be delayed until the autumn unless Anglo-Egyptian operations are unexpectedly precipitated. At present not much importance is placed upon the show of spasmodic dervish aggressiveness which lId"; been reported. LORD HERSCHELL is to have a honoured, if solemnly sad, home-bringing. He went forth across the Atlantic on Britain's State business, and won golden opinions in America. He died, unfortunately, ere his task was done and they will carry his remains back to the land of his birth on a battleship. THE latest news from Devil's Island is that poor Dreyfus is suffering great nervous prostra- tion. No wonder, after the worries he has undergone. THE Sultan of Turkey is reported to be spelling out strongly for an access of cordial understanding with Britain. The Sultan is wise in his day and generation. It would not pay him to flout this country in any way. MOXDAY saw the beginning of the lock- out of all members of the working Plas- terers' Union employed by firms connected with the National Association of Master Builders. We trust that an equitable arrangement between the disputants will be arrived at without delay, for a deadlock in the building trade at this time of the year is a very serious matter indeed. THE Australian cricketing team which is coming to England made a fine show at Sydney against an eleven representative of the ^est of Australia; and the idea gains ground that the best of our English combi- nations will have all their work cut cut to beat the Cornstalks. They are a good all-round lot, and, playing constantlv together, may be expected to do great things with an ordinary run of fortune. A MARRIED lady representing a Woman's Right Association in New York has caused to be introduced into the State Legislature a bill to forbid kiss- ing It will be necessary to alter the human make-up, mental and physical, in order to ensure obedience to any such a measure, surely! Objection to osculation is based on the argument that it helps to spread infectious ailments and is also immoral. Persons impelled to kissing in its varied forms do not usually, however, pause to listen to logic: and we imagine that the feminine objectors to the time-honoured custom are few indeed. As to what Sir Michael Hicks-Beach will do to meet his financial difficulties has been very much speculation and the Chancellor .of the Exchequer has had a good many recom- mendations to square up his Budget with the needs of the hour by suspending for the year the action of the Sinking Fund for the reduc- tion of the National Debt. Since Waterloo was won, we are reminded, we have paid off over 60 millions sterling of the nation's indebtedness, and in the 22 years lastast six millions a year has been wiped out on the average. Of all this posterity will reap the large advantage, and many argue that pos- terity should be called upon to pay something for its privileges, thus easing the present gene- ration of some of its heavy financial obliga- tions. THE Duke of York becomes the next Pre: i- dent of the R y [ Humane Society, a worthy body whoso v. His Royal Highness has always displayed an active interest in. His Grace of Argyll has held the office for over forty years, and now retires. THE PRIXCE OF WALES, on the special ground of his great personal interest in all branches of farming, has consented to accept the Presidency for next year of the Royal Agricultural Society. Cambridge University accepts the generous oilers of Sir Walter Gilbey and others of funds for the endowment for ten years of an agricultural department under the direction of a professor of the art. The working of this scheme is looked forward to with much hopefuhuess. k

THE DREYFUS SCANDAL. A correspondent of the Daily Xeics writes from Cayenne anent the interview of Judge Darius with Dreyfus: M. Darius, who is Acting President of the Court of Appeal of French Guiana, was instructed by the Minister of Justice to see Dreyfus on Devil's Island. The order was accompanied by a sealed letter, which he was to open only on landing on the island. It contained the questions from the Court of Cassation. M. Darius acquainted Dreyfus with the object of his mission, handed him the questions, and told him he had twenty-four hours to prepare his replies. Dreyfus uttered a joyful exclamation, and said, 'At length I shall be able to speak. My innocence will come to lIght. He then burst into tears and said, Thank you, sir. The lief mac, of Brussels, publishes the facsimile of a letter from Esterhazy, who is in London, to a lady friend in Brussels. The following passage is noteworthy: "I am physically exhausted and my courage has all but left me. The death of Faure is a terrible blow, for the animosity of Louber towards the Anti-Dreyfusites is certain." Apropos of Esterhazy, the police commissary who searched the offices of the Anti-Juif newspaper found four letters from Esterhazy to the editor, giving advice M to the plan of campaign. The group of Progressive Republicans in the Chambers has elected M. Meline its president. In an inaugural speech he referred to the disastrous influence of the Dreyfus affair as arising from the fact that the revisionists trans- formed it from the first into a political affair."

MARRIAGE CENSORSHIP. The Senate of the State of North Dakota has enacted a law providing for the appointment of a board of physicians to examine the physical and mental condition of applicants for marriage licences, and to decide upon their fitness to enter into marriage > relations. Licences are to be refused to any applicants who sufferJrom ailments which are likely to manifest themselves in their progeny, especially dipsomania, insanity, and tuberculosis.

WHAT A CHEF SAID. Most of us have vague notions of the functions ol a chef rle cuisine, that mysterious and erudite person- age written of so often by the late George Augustus Kala in the Daily Telegraph. A country newspaper throws some light on the real life of a chef. Mr. A. Benson, a professional chef, who has talked to the Sheffield Weekly Independent, resides at 17, Baker's-hill, Sheffield. I fotind Mr. Benson," says its rej)orlc-r, A-ho a young man, looking remarkably well. He said he enjoyed good health previous to coming to Sheffield I two years ago. Then he lost his appetite; was troubled with pains in the back and shoulders. weakness, nervousness, sick headache, lassitude, and low spirits. He grew rapidly worse, and his condi- tion became really serious. His sunken eyes, sallow complexion, and wasted frame caused him to look almost like a corpse. He went on: I consulted a doctor, but his medicine and treat- ment gave me not a bit of relief. The doctor told me that it was my occupation which made me ill. I rarely got to sleep until about four o'clock every morning, and sleep neier rested me. My spirits were dreadfully low, and I was so convinced that I was dying that I began to talk to my wife about her plans after I had gone. "A friend advised me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and as I had read of wonderful cures being effected by them, I determined to try them. Strange to say, I felt very much better after taking only two pills. I went on taking them, and the improvement continued rapidly, and after two boxes I was quite cured. It was simply miraculous. My appetite returned almost at once; my pains, headache, and sleeplessness left me like magic, and I then began once more to feel that there was some- thing to live for in the world. I am deeply grateful for what the pills have done for me, and I hope you will give my case the fullest publicity." Lost appetite, indigestion and nervousness afflict so many people, that no apology is needed for a few words on their cure. One of the things that Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are always curing, and which purgative pills and mixtures never cured perma- nently, is disordered digestion. When our blood is not in a proper state to absorb and use up the nourishment in the food taken, the stomach rebels and refuses to digest that food. The food may be ''moved on," still undigested, by a purge but that is not a cure. On the contrary, the stomach is afterwards left dry and sluggish, and the patient worse. An attack of constipation nearly always follows the temporary relief afforded by purgatives. Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, on the contrary, do not affect the bowels, but by enabling the blood to absorb and make use of the nourishment in the food, they remove the cause of indigestion and permanently rltre its effects. These pills are praised by all classes for the way they have cured, not only digestive ailments, but also all sorts of nervous disorders like paralysis, locomotor ataxy, also rheumatism, sciatica, and all diseases arising from impoverishment of the blood, consumption, anasmia, general weakness, neuralgia, early decay, all forms of female weakness, and hysteria. They are genuine only with the full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and are sold by chemists, and by Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Holborn-viaduct, London. Pink pills sold loose or from glass jars are not Dr. Williams' Pink Pills; accept them only in the pink closed wrapper as above described.

GRA.SS EXPERIMENTS IN STAFFORDSHIRE. In some experiments carried out for the Technical Education Committee of the County Council last season the greatest yield, 60cwt. of hay per acre, was. obtained on one farm from a plot dressed with ten tons of farmyard manure, the yield being 22|cwt. more than that of the unmanured plot. But valuing the manure at 5s. a ton, the increased cost 4s. 2d. per cwt., was not remunerative. The second- best crop was 56fcwt. per acre, obtained on a 4 piot dressed with 4cwt. of superphosphate, lewt. of nitrate of soda, and 2cwt. of kainit per acre, and in this case the increase cost only Is. 2d. per cwt. As this was the largest crop at a remunerative price, the dressing in question was the most successful of all. Besides, on the average for six seasons, this plot has given the greatest yield, 37Jcwt. Apparently the yearly application of thernantires has greatly increased the yield, that of 1S08 having been very much above the average—even more so, probably, than a good hay season would account for.. On another farm the highest average for five years was 60cwt. per acre, obtained with the help of 5cwt. ea,ch of basic slag and kainit, and 2cwt. of nitrate of soda. The average for the unmanured plot was 29cwt., and the increase on the other cost only Is. 4d. per cwt. A better proportioned dressing, 5cwt. of slag, 3cwt. of kainit, and lewt. of nitrate of soda, gave the greatest crop—47cwt.—on a third farm last season, the first of the trial; and only cwt. less than the highest yield. or 52|c\vt., on a fourth farm, six tons of farmyard manure gave 52cwt. 4

SOUTH AFRICAN SHARES. There are signs of an approaching mining boom in the shares of Matabeleland Rhodesian Companies, since the surprising possibilities attaching to these shares, received another illustration in a cablegram just to hand announcing a sensational discoverv on one of these properties, the reef being stated to give 17 £ ounces of gold to the ton. The shares of Mata- bele Mines have risen to over £ 3 lOs., and those of Matabele Gold Reefs to over JE9 within the last week. Taylor's Matabele Gold Fields zEl shares before the slump which took place in mining shares in 1895 were selling at over V-2 1.5s. per share. On the Company's Battery Reef there are very extensive old workings, and on this property a shaft has been sunk to the depth of 35ft., exposing a reef of more than 4ft. in width, and panning well over 2oz. of gold to the ton. These shares are now selling on the London Stock Exchange at under their par value, and as they have raised all the additional working capital they re- quire and own some of the most valuable gold pro- perties in Matabeleland, close to where the latest strike of 1 noz. of gold to the ton has been made, those in the know have been quietly picking up the shares at their present low prices, and say they expect to see the price of the shares of Taylor's Matabele Gold Fields in the near future standing at as many pounds as they are now shillings.

IN more than one recent edition of Scott's St. Ronan's Well we have been told how the author was persuaded to spoil the bpok byBowdlerisiijg it. "St. Ronan's Well" may have been injuredr-we incline to think it was—by the alteration effected in regard to Clara and her lover, but spoilt or unspoilt there is no romance of any writer of to-day that can compare with it and its gallery of delightfully painted por- trait". 1.1 NUM CATHARTICUM PILLS, digestive, corrective, And agreeably aperient, 9jd., 13^d. Of all Chemists. WIFE: ''Don't you think you might manage to keep house alone for a week while I go off on a visit?" Husband: "I guess so-yes, of course. "But won't you be lonely and miserable?" "Not a bit." Huh! Then I won't go." 9 LINSEED COMPOUND' (Trade Mark) for Coughs and Colds of proven efficacy, 13 £ <L Sold by Chemists only. MRS. BRADY Oi don't know phat's th' matther wid it. Th' mon as sold it tould me it was made ov seasoned lumber." Brady (in disgust): Seasoned, is it ? Well, the lumber must hov been seasoned in th'fall thin, fer th' leaves are all droppin'ahf." THE misery around Van (says a Constantmopte telegram) is terrible. Numbers are dying of hunger and cold, and the Government is inert. The Stambul Armenians are impotent because the Porte prohibits the organisation of relief. IT is interesting to notice that a memorial has now been erected to the memory of Mrs. Gaskell at Knuts- ford, in Cheshire.. There are good literary judges who consider her "Cranford" as good a novel as Pride and Prejudice or Mansfield Park." -IT is not surprising that the Hoqse of Lords has hastened to place upon its Standing Committee the new peer, Lord Glanusk. Sir John Bailey, of Here- fordshire—to give hin? his old ,name—was long, recognised, by political opponents as well as friends, as one of the clearest-headed men of affairs in the West; I LINSEED COMPOUND' gives Expectoration without Itrain, Oid., ISJ& Sold ky Chemists only. CARLETOIT He was quite a generous father-in- law who gave his son-in-law a check for 100,000dol." Montank Yes, but he's been cast in the shade by a Brooklyn man, who gave his daughter's husband a house and agreed to pay the taxes on it." I LINSEED COMPOUND' for Coughs and Colds, allayi irritation. Gives immediate relief. CoBflfif: I caiiiid at Miss Red bud's the other night, and she asked to be excused." Stone: "Yes. I saw you from her parlor window."

ANEW WONDER. Here is bad news for camera makers. Two Parisians have discovered a method of taking photo- graphs with a box that any boy can make for a few pence. The light is admitted through a hole bored in tho side of the box by a simple needle. With this box, and, of course, the necessary sensitive plates, photographs may be taken of objects so situated that it would be impossible to take them with any other apparatus at present in use. The only difficulty is to know the diameter of the hole that must be bored, and the distance from it that the sensitive plate must be placed in order to obtain a perfectly focussed picture. The photographs taken by this box are said to be equal to any obtained by the ordinary camera.

A YACHT'S CAREER. Sir T. Lipton's new yacht was built at Greenock to the order of Signor Florio, of Palermo, well known in connection with Italian shipping interests, and is a splendid vessel of 1242 tons. She was sent round to Palermo not long before the outbreak of war between Spain and America. The latter Government, being desirous of acquiring a few swift despatch boats, bought the zEgusa, for that was her name. but never took her out of port, fearing the risk of capture in the Mediterranean. Peace concluded, the United States induced Signor Floria to cancel his bargain on receipt of a good many dollars, and he then sold her to Sir Thomas Lipton.

PRINTING BY X RAYS. Manifold printing, by means of Rontgen rays, suggested by Professor Elihu Thomson in 1896. and further elaborated in Europe, is explained by Dr. F. S. Kolle in the Electrical Engineer. The process pro- poses to eliminate composition and presswork and to substitute blocks of 100 sheets of sensitised paper capped by the copy-sheet, either written or printed, in opaque ink. It is claimed that 20 seconds exposure to the X-rays transfers the copy to the sheets, which are then developed and washed. Twenty such blocks can be exposed at one time about a single tube and Dr. Kolle estimates an output of 6000 sheets per minute for each tube; or 10 men working eight hours per day can turn out 7,500,000 copies, and develop, fix, wash, and dry them.

AMERICAN COMPETITION IN DENMARK. The United States Consuls in Denmark are fully alive to possibilities of the Danish market. Consul Blom, of Copenhagen, in a recent report, says: "From conversations I have had recently with im- portors of rails, I am of the opinion that American manufactured steel rails can compete in quality and price with those hitherto imported into Denmark from Germany and Great Britain. The railroads in Denmark require rails weighing 451b. and 751b. per yard, and they use spikes, bolts, and fish-plates, not the so-called 'chairs. The locomotives are all im- ported from Germany, but I understand that it is contemplated to send some orders for American locomotives."

1.; IT seems to me that selfishness iz the ruling pashun ov an old bachelor, and jelousy ov an olo maid. T\W0RTH KNOWING if you have a cough that the quickest and simplest remedy—let alone its cheapness-Is KEATING'S COUGH LOZENGES. One alone relieves coughs, asthma, and bronchitis. As a Cough Remedy they are simply unrivalled. Sold everywhere in tins 13!d. each; free for stamps. Thomas Keatin, Chemist, London. ArKorosof the installation of M. Loubet as Grand Master of the Order of the Legion d'Honneur, an office he obtains by virtue of his position as Presi- dent of the French ;Republic, the Gauloi, men- tions that there are now nearly 45,000 members of .the Order, of whom 45 possess the Grand Cross, 200 are Grand Officers, and 1000 Commanders. The [ Grand Master has at his disposal a certain number of Crosses, but it is unusual for the President to Con- fer decorations direct, the responsibility being gene- rally assumed by a Minister. COAGUI^IWE.—-Transparent Cement, for broken articles. PAPA, what is inspector ?" Aij ^OTL. fti- spector, my son, is an official who draws mighty little oil and mighty big pay." LINSEED COMPOUND' for Coughs and Colds. A.at}nn&, and Bronchitis Of Chemists only. MRS. LUNELBIGH (shopping with her husband): Ie Oh George, look here 1 Doesn't this showcase of diamonds look perfectly beautiful ?" Mr. Luneleigh: "Yes, love. It would be a shame to take anything away from it, wouldn't it?" í LINSEED COMPOUND' Trade Mark of Compound Essence of linseed, for Coughs and Colch. FATHER How did your football game result to- day?" Boy: "The Bungtowners beat WI." "You have ahrays beaten them before, haven't you ?" 1 yes, but to-day they had a trained billygoat in tl»«r t»am."

ART AND LITERATURE. I THE exhibition of drawings and etchings by Rem* brandt, which opened last week at the British Museum, appeals very forcibly, not only to connois- I seurs of the master's work, but as well to every lover of etching of the finest type. It is long since such a collection of exquisite samples has been available ror general inspection, and the opportunity afforded ia one of the highest value. The arrangement of the exhibition is admirable, and the various stages of í Rembrandt's productions, from the intelligent ex- periment of his earlier years to the superb mastery of his later life, are made completely intelligible. These etchings and drawings, in number nearly 300, have been chosen from the vast mass of artistic trea- sures which the Print Room contains and frem the same source comes a large group of engraved works by contemporaries of Rembrandt. I TIlE Royal Academy enjoys at present (remarks the Daily News) its complete list of 40 R.A.'s—-its tale well told, if we may count Academicians-elect I in the same category with those whose diplomas have actually been made out and signed by the Sovereign. There are, however, certain formalities, conditions, precedent to this result—one of them being a deposit of a diploma picture, and its acceptance by the Council. This may involve considerable delay. A painter in full swing of work has not always a spare picture in his studio available for this agreeable purpose, or he may have his hands full of commis- sions which he cannot lay aside to take up a fresh subject. And so the R.A., whose election is a fait accompli, remains practically an Asso- ciate, and neither enjoys the privileges, nor is liable to the duties of his new position. We believe there are two such R.A.'s-elect at pre- sent, Mr. Abbey, and Mr. Gregory. But, for prac- tical purposes, the list is regarded as complete, and the number is 40, all told. In the ranks of the Associates, however, there is one vacancy—the vacancy which resulted from the death of Mr. Harry Bates, a few weeks ago. The Academy, as a rule, is in no great hurry to fill up vacancies in this second grade of its members. So that it is rather a surprise to find that a General Assembly will be held at the end of the month, and a new A.R.A. elected. It seems to be taken for granted that an architect is destined for this advancement. One would expect that a sculptor would succeed to the vacancy caused by the death of a sculptor. But Mr. Bates' death occurred only a couple of days before the last election, and the news of it may well have contributed to the selection of Mr. Goscomb-John. Two names are freely men- tioned as being in the running—Mr. Aston Webb and Mr. Belcher. Both candidates have a strong following amongst the electors. Mr. Belcher is the architect of the offices of the Chartered Accountants' Institute in Moorgate-street. He was also one of the competitors for the design for the new buildings of the South Kensington Museum, and he has built a very fine Town Hall for Colchester, the architec- ture in the School of Palladian Renaissance. Mr. Aston Webb has leanings to French Gothic, as may be seen in the offices of an insurance company in a street off Moorgate-street. He also did the design for Birmingham Assize Court and the plans for Christ's Hospital. He is, moreover, the successful competitor for the new buildings at the South Ken- sington Museum. IT appears to be impossible (observes the Globe) to get to an end of the complications which have arisen out of the South Kensington scandal. The more the workings of the Science and Art Depart- ment are investigated the more hopeless it seems to arrive at any definite conclusion as to the efficiency of the system which is followed by the official custodians of art. education. Expert opinion has for years been opposed to the Government methods in vogue at South Kensington, and as a tardy response to endless protests a Select Committee has recently inquired into and reported upon an impor- tant section of the work with which the Department is charged. Much justification for olltsidecomplaint was supplied by the report of this Committee, and many useful recommendations for necessary reforms were made. Now this report is in its turn censured by the Lords of the Committee of the Privy Council on Education, who declare that they retain the fullest. confidence in Sir John Donnelly and his colleagues," and avow themselves solely responsible for the administration of the museums. This avowal is extremely valuable, for it fixes the blame for the in- efficiency of the Department upon the right shoulders. The critics who have taxed the South Kensington staff with imperfectly understanding educational necessities will now see that Sir John Donnelly and his colleagues have only been obeying orders, and that their hands have been tied by their superior officers. It is the system that is rotten, and the carrying out of it has been painfully efficient. But this revelation makes the need for drastic reform only the more evident. The direction of the Lords of the Privy Council Committee stands self-con- demned, and the need for an exhaustive inquiry into all the methods of art education which they advocate is made most emphatic by their latest manifesto. The work of the Department should, indeed, be sus- pended until the whole educational scheme has been reconsidered rearranged; MKSSRS. CAESRIIIJ AXD COMFANV will on March 24, No. 1 of a new weekly paper, eii^tied the Gardener-, the largest, cheapest, most praotifvi!. I most profusely illustrated and most interesting Har- dening paper ever published. It will be conducted I on new lines and will contain features which no other horticultural publication possesses. MR. ROWLAND WARD, whose books on big game ar" familiar to readers of sporting literature, will soon publish a volume on The Great and Snu'.i! Game of Africa." It is to be a five .guinea book. Sir Harry Johnston, now in Tunis, who knows so much of Africa between North and South, contributes to this volume. So does Mr. F. C. Selous. The volume will be edited by Mr. H. A. Bryden. ADMIRAL SIII POULTESEY MALCOLM, whose "Diary of St. Helena" is announced, was the officer ap- pointed to the command in cbiefof the St. Helena Station in 1816-17. His special duty was to blockade the island, and frustrate any attempts that might he made to effect, Napoleon's escape. The Admiral's letter to Sir Hudson Lowe, Napoleon's gaoler, are interesting reading. Apart from his connection with Napoleon's history, Admiral Malcolm was one of the most, distinguished seamen of his time. He commanded the North Sea fleet that co-operated with, Wellington during the Waterloo campaign. How difficult it is for an artist who is possessed of originality, and is not satisfied to follow the beaten track, to gain credit for his work from the ordinary members of the public is very well exemplified in the manner of treatment which has been bestowed upon Sir W. B. Richmond since he began the decoration of St. Paul's Cathedral. He is carrying out there a great work in a thorough and consistent fashion, with infinite care and artistic ingenuity; and has attained already results of the highest importance. Yet he continues to be made a target for abuse simply because tho people who rush into print to assert their own incapacity to understand him will not take the trouble to appreciate the meaning of the decorative scheme that has been adopted. Happily, he is hardly likely to be influenced by fpolish criticism, and he has the confidence of the Decorative Committee, so that we may hope to see the undertaking for which he is responsible suitably completed. What would happen if any attention were paid to the clamour of self-constituted censors of artistic effort it would be hard to say. We might see the latest suggestion to tinker up Westminster Abbey and complete it with a bra-ndnew spire formally adopted; or New Scotland- yard, one of the few really successful architectural efforts that adorns modern London, reconstructed on popular lines; or St. Paul's nicely cleaned up and whitewashed. But there is, after all, a very solid body of expert opinion which quietly and efficiently opposes the tastelessness of the noisy agitators, and w& may fairly depend upon the influence of the men who know to correct the aggressiveness of the people whose knowledge is in inverse ratio to their assertive- ness. Two important worke on Scotch history are in the press. One of the two is the first volume of Mr. Lang's History of Scotland from the Roman occupa- tion. The other is Dr. Robert Monro's "Prehistoric Scotland and :its place in European Civilisation." Dr. Munro is the author of Ancient Scottish Lake Dwellings" and "The Lake Dwellings of Europe." His new book will be very fully illustrated. We may add that the same publishers will shortly publish two new volumes of their County Histories. The volume on Aberdeen is written by Mr. William Watt, editor of the Aberdeen Free Press. That on the three counties of Roxburgh, Selkirk, and Peebles is by Sir George Douglas, and will be published before the end of this month. MESSES. CASSELL AWD COMPAITY will shortly issue an entirely new and enlarged edition of Galbraith and Haughton's Optics, which is the book appointed in this subject for the Sophister Classes and far the Ordinary Degree Examination (i.e., B.A. Degree in Arts) in the University of Dublin. This new edition has been revised and to a great extent re-written by the Bev. Isaac Warren. M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin. The book will contain a, number of additional illustrations. KELLY'S Handbook to the Titled, Landed, and Official Classes," is an annual reference work of the greatest utility and reliability, and the new issue for 1899 well retains the splendid reputation of the publication. Ttife New Year's Honours are all included in the volume, and all the corrections are brought down to the latest possible date, 1Iond this year's presentment of a work which must be quite indispensable to many is equal in completeness and accuracy and admirable arrangement to any of its {tfddtoewora, r

EPITOME OF NEWS. M. LTTCIFIA, Socialist, has been elected President of the Paris Municipal Council. THE wages bill for Devonport Dockyard next year will be almost £ 500,000, about zF.70,000 more than the Navy Estimates provided for. AN office-boy belonging to the Paris journal, Libre Parole, has been robbed of a satchel containing 26.000 francs. TIIE highest waterfall in the world is Cholock Cascade, in the United States, which is just half a mile high. BYRA, a town in Africa, is built entirely of zinc. The public buildings and residences did not cost more than £ 6000. MR. JUSTICE BUUCE has been appointed the judge under the Benefices Act, 1898, in succession to the late Lord Justice Chitty. COLONEL MACDONALD'S expedition is shortly ex- pected at Mombasa. The colonel and his staff are reported to be well. INSTRUCTIONS have been given that militia recruits are not to be put on fatigue duty which can be avoided, as it is believed that it gives them a distaste for a soldier's life. THE Bishop of London has appointed to a stall in St. Paul's Cathedral Canon Ingram, rector of St. Margaret's, Lothbury. He is a High Churchman. GENERAL REYES, the leader of the Nicaragua rebels, has surrendered to the commanders of the American worship Marietta and H.M.S. Intrepid. THE Echo de Paris makes the announcement that early satisfaction is likely to be accorded to England in regard to trade in Madagascar. ONLY 70 years have elapsed since the first railway in the world was finished. During that compara- tively brief period 400,000 miles have been con- structed, the British Empire accounting for about a sixth. TIIE annual meeting of the captains of first-class county cricket clubs will be held at Lord's on Thurs- day, March 16, at two p.m., for the purpose of nomi- nating umpires for the ensuing season. ONE of the patients at the Liverpool Hospital for Tropical Diseases is Captain the Hon. Robert Somerset, who recently returned from service in the Niger, where he contracted black water fever. WITH reference to a statement made in the Spanish Chamber to the effect that Don Jaime, the son of Don Carlos, had been staying incognito at Gerona and Valencia, the Kurjer Wars.:au-ski has been authorised by the Prince, who is stationed at Warsaw in his capacity as an Ensign in the Russian Hussars of the Guard, to declare that the whole story is without foundation, the Prince not having left Warsaw for the past five months. THE falling off in English Rugby football as com- pared with that of Wales and Ireland may be seen from the results of the matches between England and Wales and England and Ireland. Against the latter, of the first 17 games played, England lost but one. Of the last six played, she had gained but one. Pre- viously to 1890, Wales had won no match against England. Since that date she has won four. Eng-' land and Scotland have always been very level, the former at present being a game to the good. THERE are many strange places of worship, but one of the most remarkable is doubtless the miners' chapel in Myndd Menigdd Colliery, Swansea, where for more than 50 years the workers have each morn- ing assembled for worship. This sanctuary is situated close to the bottom of the shaft. The only light is that obtained from a solitary Davy safety lamp hung over the pulpit from the ceiling, and the oldest miner in the colliery is generally chosen to officiate. It is the custom in some other places for coal-miners to gather together at meal-times for prayer-meetings and the like, but it is said that this is the only instance where a special apartment is fitted out in a coal mine as a chapel. THE average man who reads the newspapers may have noted that Baron Brampton would often post- pone overnight the sentencing of a prisoner. In a conversation the other day, his lordship spoke to this effect: I never pronounced a sentence without first thinking it out very carefully. It was in order to give me greater time for deliberation that I often postponed the sentence until the morning after the trial had been concluded." The view, generally speaking, of his lordship is that a judge should apply common sense as well as law to his work on the Bench. AN appeal has been issued for contributions to wipe out the debt upon the new Westminster (Presby- terian) College at Cambridge. The college's chief I benefactors have been Mrs. Lewis and Mrs. Gibson, of Sinai and travelling fame, who purchased a site for the college and have given E5000 besides. These two ladies inhabit a beautiful house just beneath Castle- hill, and are as remarkable for religious generosity as for ripe and versatile scholarship. ;E16,000 of a debt still remains. PRINCESS MARIE OF ROUMANIA is a beautiful and clever woman. Although placed in a position of unusual difficulty among semi-barbarian and Oriental surroundings, she has succeeded in gaining the sympathies of her future subjects. Princess Marie is the wife of Crown Prince Ferdinand, who will succeed his uncle, King Charles of Roumania. She is the daughter of an Imperial Grand Duchess of Russia; and a cousin of the present Czar, as well as a grand-daughter of Queen Victoria. Princess Marie has two children—a boy, Prince Carol, and a little daughter, Princess Elizabeth Charlotte Josephine Victoria Alexandra. TIJE Committee of Lloyd's have decided to bestow the silver medal of the society upon Quartermaster J. W. H. Judderv, of the steamship Mohegan, as an honorary acknowledgment of his extraordinary exer- tions in contributing to the saving of life on the occa- sion -of the loss of that vessel on the Manacle Rocks sion;of the loss of that vessel on the Manacle Rocks near the Lizard, in October last. Quartermaster Juddery, observing that the lifeboat from Port- housfock, owing to the strong tide, could not ap- proach the vessel near enough, swam off to the boat, and, taking a line, swam back again, and thi'; mate- rially helped to save the whole of the people :n' the rigging.. THE Council of the National Rifle Association have appointed Lieut.-Colonel C. R. Crosse, formerly of the Queen's Own (Royal West Kent) Regiment, and lately Chief Range Officer at Bisley, to be secretary of the association, in place of the late Colonel W. C. Maclfinnon. The council have decided to rescind their, resolution (recently announced) to reduce the bull's-eve of the 200-yard target, at Bisley to 7in. diameter, and the inner ring to 16in., a resolution which encountered much opposition at the annual meeting held on Monday. As now settled, the target's dimensions and divisions will remain as they were at last year's prize meeting. THE Registrarship of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, to which Mr. Edward Stanley Hope has just been appointed, is a very comfortable post-the duties being light and the salary attached- to it— £ 14.00—by no means to be despised. Mr. Henry Reeve, Mr. Hope's most noted predecessor, held the position for nearly 40 years, and during a great part of that time he was able to combine with its duties the editorship .of the Edinburgh Review a. constant literary connection with the Times, and the authorship of a considerable number of books. THE patriarch of railway life has probably been discovered in the person of Mr. Samuel Watts, who has just retired from the position of station-master at the Great Northern Railway and Great Eastern Railway joint station at Godmanchester. He says: he has been at railway work for 58 years, which, he claims, is the longest term of service so far dis-. covered. He began work under Hudson, the notorious railway king, in a period when third-class passengers were only allowed one train up and down a day, con- sisting of a series of trucks without seats or roofs. Railway porters at that time wore top-hats, like the early cricketers. They were sworn in before, magis- trates as constables, and carried truncheons and handcuffs as well as luggage. The guards had a supply of rockets in case of emergency. The unfor- tunate postal clerk who accompanied the mails had a seat outside the carriage, in the open-air. CAPTAIN BAGOT, M.P., who has been appointed Parliamentary private secretary to Sir Matthew White Ridley, is a brother-in-law of Mr. Hope, each having married a daughter of Sir John Leslie. He was for some years in the Grenadier Guards, and acted for a short time as aide-de-camp to the Marquia j of Lome and to Lord Stanley of Preston during 't, 9' their tenure of the Governor-Generalship of Canada. Since 1892 he hatf sat in the House of Commons for the Kendal Division of Westmoreland, and lately has been acting as Parliamentary Secre- tary to Mr. Hanbury, the Financial Secretary to the Treasury. IT is encouraging to learn from the report of the Executive Committee presented to the annual meet-, ing of the Society for the Protection of Birds, that progress is being made by the society in its against the wanton destruction of bird life. In Bome districts, owing to the ruthless destruction that has been going on, it appears that some of the most beautiful species, st'ch as the goldfinch, had become almost extinct, arid it is to prevent such a thing as this that the society is at work. All will agree with the remarks of Sir Edward Grey and Mrs. Creigh- j ton, that nothing adds so much charm to the country as the presence of birds, and all will sympa- thise wfth the efforts of the Society to prevent this

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A SPORTING TYRO. It would be unfair to give the name of the hero of the following true little tale told by M. A. P. He ia well-known in the City, and not long ago graced a foreign race-course for the first time. He was entirely ignorant, of the rudiments of racing, and barely knew the difference between a racehorse and a clotheshorse. Anyhow, it seemed to be the proper thing for a rich 'man to own a horse or two, so he acquired a few well-naiiied fairly-sized youngsters. He was in the, weighing-room, watching the weighing-out of the jockeys, when the clerk of the fscales said to him. "Mr. Blank your jockey declares throe pounds overweight," Indeed," said the owner diving his hand into his pocket, I'm so sorry. Can you oblige me with change for a fiver He knows bettor now.

A MATRIJDONIAL ADVERTISEMENT. Ilosuijpshi seeks (says a Japanese paper) a hus- band. She describes herself thus I am a beautiful woman, 'with .cloud-like hair, flowery face, willow- like waist, and crescent eyebrows.' I have enough property to walk through life hand in hand, gazing at flowers in the day, and the moon at night. If there js a-gentleman wto is clever, learned, handsome, and of good taste, I will join with him for life, and the pleasure of beintr b'lried in the same grave."

CARTER'S LITTLE ?V-SSRV M LIVER PILLS, SULAM FM BEAUTIFUL TEETH S0Z0B0WT £ <2 O# plessaateeidsBtaftiee M V ▼ YIAL votM. Cleanses the teeth and spaces Fnr*ljv»3 Able. between them nothing eU* Cure Torpid Liw, Bile, wilL Sound pearly white gtt-o** Coaipiexlrtn, aud 8iok Yima ■ i 1 f.. r r to oaied. eoinroa. 1ft. 144 Aak for SOZODONT. 9b. 84. E 8: MOST or the accounts sent to this country ot the funeral of President Faure described the aspect of the streets of Paris- ou that occasion as suggesting rather a national holiday than a day of mourning for the head of the Government. Balconies and windows were crowded with sightseers, and the pave- menfs were thronged with men, women, and children,, who had apparently come out to enjoy themselves. The descriptions of the line of route from theElys^e to Notre Dame, and from the Cathedral to Pere Lacliaise, bring to mind the cynical prophecy uttered by Horace Walpole concerning the probable state of London if England ever lay at the proud foot of a conqueror." He declared that "when the invaders with 10.000 men are within a day's march of London people will be hiring windows atCharmg-croso and: Cheapsido to see them pass by." < !mmm! i flOCOA-The NAtional Drink. I NEVER in the history of the world has Cocoa been fi JLI SO much held in favour as a national drink as it | is at the present day. Yet there are Cocoas and Cocoas. | MF.S-SRS. FRY,have gained no fewer than 276 GOLD | MEDALS and DIPLOMAS, and their Pure Concen- | <t rate<i Cocoa is the result of an accumulated experience B o: 170 Years, a fact which places this well known Finn g at an, advantage far above all N iSsIlfefcv the rivalry existing amongst I firms of latter-day growth, i Then is no better beueragt than FRY'S Pure Concentrated Of which Dr. Andrew I COCOA l.t WiJeou, F.IU:E., 1 ideal of perfection." H JUST THREE WORDS are neccBsary in order to u-Pt the p ) itfllt OOOiMl, T" TET). MAX JJOKDAU would find plenty of material for re- in the state of the Pitcairn islanders. Owing to inter-marriage more than to anything else, these peop.e are in a deplorable condition of mental de-. '■ generation, and are fast falling back into a state from i lllankind has long ago evolved. The officer* who have reported to the Colonial Office on their con- dition declare that not only is new blood wanted, but frequent communication ought to be established between them and their neighbours. Mr. Chamber- lln has given orders that these recommendations should be carried out, and it is to be hoped that the Pitcairn islanders may yet be reclaimed. ..ë FEIAIj I S/lead III'.