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TO THE 'OTHER WORLDLY.' Why sigh for homes beyond the skies, And sights and sounds of Paradise? And, contemplating these, despise The heaven that close around you lies ? Why this our dwelling-place deplore? The earth beneath thy feet hath store Of wonderment and treasure, more Than any burnished golden floor. Why sigh for martyr's diadem Beset with many a gaudy gem? Each star, each flower that tops a stem, Each hoar-frost tracing, equals them. Why to Heaven's harps and songs aspire? The lullaby, the bird's full choir. The poet's rhyme, the minstrel's lyre. Give all the music ye require. -T.R.B. Are you a being, 'and boss of your own soul. Or are you a mummy and carry a scroll? Are you Somebody Else, or You? When you finally pass to the heavenly wicket, Where Peter the Scrutinous stands at the picket, Are you going to give hiní a blank for a ticket ? Do you think it will do? —Edmund Vance Cooke. <>

AN APRIL DAY. Breezes strongly rushing, when the North- West stirs, Prophesying Summer to the shaken firs; Blowing brows of forest, where soft aire are free, -Crowned with heavenly glimpses of the shining sea; Buds and breaking blossoms, that sunny April yields; Ferns and fairy grasses, the children of the fields; In the fragrant hedges' hollow brambled gloom Pure primroses paling into perfect bloom; Round the elm's rough stature, climbing dark and high, Ivy-fringes trembling against a golden sky: Woods and windy ridges darkening in the glow; ii' The rosy sunset bathing all the vale below; Violet banks forsaken in the fading light Starry sadness filling the quiet eyes of night: Dew on all things drooping for the summer rains; Dewy daisies "folding in the lonely lanes. O

DON'T NAG. Don't nag. Don't even nag in your mind. Don't look naggy. It is worse to look naggy than it is to say naggy things, because the naggee is apt to imagine more nag than there really is. „ Some mothers have negged their boys straight into liquor saloons, and their girls straight into the arms which they naggingly disapproved of. It is hard, but it is true. There isn't a bit of love in a nag, how- ever much the nagger may talk about affection. It is full of unrest and friction and selfish- ness, and words more destruction than all the cyclones and earthquakes that ever happened. They kill at once. The poison of the nag is insidious, and the naggers and their victims die by degrees. —Eleanor Kirk.

♦- YOUNG APRIL. With beast and bird the forest rings. Each in his jargon cries or sings; And Time throws off his cloak again Of ermined frost and cold and rain. So sang Charles D'Orleans on an April day in the fifteenth century, and still each re- turning year all nature, including Variety call human, wakes to new life with the waking of the spring Here m the north the change is more gradual than m many of the southern counties. But when did this wayward month ever bring us two davs alike? Each one charms us by some S spelC and joung April wrns hearts hv the infinite variety of his poweis or fiacination/ Nor is this because we admire the ouaEties of fickleness and. inconstancy. We know that beneath the uncertain glory <2 *n Aoril day." each new dawn has its fteSj purpose in view and is bringing us nearer to the perfect bloom and beauty of th|omet?mes he tempts the early blossoms out in our fields and woods, and then plays the traitor. Biting winds bear the sharp breath of winter once more from the far east and north. The petals of the blackthorn a.re shaken from the boughs like snowflakes that have lost their way. and the tali, patient trees wait a little longer before un- folding their new raiment in the sun. The delay is only momentary. Swiftly repent- ant as a child, young April makes amends, and in no half-hearted way. Scoffers say an English spring spelk only rheumatism, east winds, and influenza They are wrong, for even m the crowded city its message- is heard, ami the magic of its presence steals into sad and weary hearts, and whispers of reviving hope and 8tThifk the ideal April day of the poets, the memory we cherish from earliest years, and which far-away colonists pictuiein their dreams of the beloved homeland. The sun- light is so warm, yet never oppressive, the grass so delicious, so vivid a green, the breeze is so soft, and the sky so deep and pure a blue that the whole world, like Lowell's Huldv," "seems to have got a new soul Out in the open the white- frilled daisies turn their innocent gaze to tL sun the slender bulebells ring their fairy music to which no one has yet written the words and the little lambs frisk merrdy It Jay Soon every inch of ground be- neath your feet will be aflame with butter- ruD eold. Here is wealth for the seeKers «f treasure No misers curse rests uP^ it; no price of toil and selfishness and sin must be paid for it no hardening or heart, no narrowing of life to a thing of low and sordid aims will follow in its train. rree is the gold that embroiders the mantle oi spring, and the riches of lasting youth and aladness await you in each shining golden <Tup • • The woodland song becomes at length such. a chorus of tuneful sound +, of __]v .,n expert could distinguish each But the.high cfeax flute of the blackbird can still be heard above the rest and the thrilling warble of the linnet, ami'over our heads a rapturous thrush can scarcely shako his glad notes out fast enough to satisfy his rejoicing soul: sSUer is coming, dear> And all the winters aie hidden. ? two of soft winds and Another week th6 next time we sunny skies and blossom will be pass-* this way the haw x>noi u • over spread like the bridal veil of wereT, •very bush and brake, each J with a blush of dehcate heart, adding its share to the fragrance ana loveliness around.. But the day wears to its close and ere the hour of sunset a hush descends on fi wood. So, too, young April, with a magic charm, must end, and soon we m pass on to the fuller glow of summer, Lot 115 bear the message of hope, the yearly evangel" he brings us while we Let fT us awake with the spring to new thoughts and wider aims, and take once more new f°r the way before us. Though we leave behind the and gold of the haw- thorn and the buttercups, though the dust thould dim the eprly tints of hedgerow i>rm crass and the thrush no longer carol madly" In the wood, hearts that have tuned their song aright to the music and the meaning S& of the spring may koep the fragrance and freshness of young April through every month of the Farrah L.L.A.

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St Dogmael's and its Abbey CHAPTER V. BY "PHILIP SIDNEY." Like so many other parishes, especially in Cardiganshire and Pembrokeshire, the earl- ier church has had to give place to a modern, and comparatively uninteresting building. So far my enquiries for the loan of any drawing of old St. Dogmael's Church have produced no result; and of it I know no more than what Mr. Fenton wrote in his "Historical Tour"; viz., "The present parish church is of mean appearance, but very long, and evidently raised from the ruins of the abbey, as the windows of the chancel, though now without glass, exhibit remains of workmanship that could never have been meant originally to furnish such an edifice." Perhaps some native, "who knows all about it," will drop me a line, giving the year in which the present church was erected. It was before September 1874. The dedication is given, in the current Diocesan Directory as Dogfael, afterwards St. Thomas"; the Lord Chancellor is patron. The parish area is 6,285 acres; the popula- tion 2,124, for 540 of whom there is church accommodation. Far and away the most valuable posses- sion of the parish is its silver communion cup, with paten cover. It is one of those which came into it in the stirring days when that stout old Welshwoman, Elizabeth Owen, wrongly called Tudor, reigned and ruled in England." Why? Because it is of the date of 1573-4; and in 1567, Parker, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Grindal Bishop of London, had issued their injunc- tions against the use of 'Massing Chalices,' and required all parishes to provide decent Communion cups.' The result naturally was that practically all the earlier plate was melted down, and made into these Eliza- bethan cups, of which this at St. Dogmael's is so perfect an example. I hope it will be on exhibition in August, when the Cambrian Archaeological Association visits Cardigan and the district. Of its border pattern and inscription I have, by the kind offices of Vicar Morgan, taken a rubbing. Round the bell runs the legend:— *POCVLVM ECLESIE DE SANT DOGMELS. With its loover on. the height is just 6-1 inches. 8 Then there is a set of good pewter, an egg-cup" like like unto that at Mount Church, a mug with one handle, and o-vs paten; all without inscriptions. These too might well come to the Exhibition. In his Gemma Ecclesiastica"— The Jewel of the Church-Gerald treats especi- ally of the Lord's Supper, and has many miracles to recount in connection therewith. He tells us how laymen may. under certain circumstances, administer the sacraments, but they may not enter the chancel, nor should they, as is their wont, sing profane songs in the churchyard on saints' days. Listen:—" A priest of Worcester, who had lent a too attentive ear to such melodies, standing before the altar in full canonicals, instead of the Dominus vobiscum' in the orthodox Latin, burst out into the English Swete lamman dhin are,' a wordly ditty beginning Sweetheart thy lover calls.' and from that day that song, is anathema in the diocese of Worcester." The register of St. Dogmael in Kemes be- gins with Latin entries in 1699, or ten years after William and Mary were made King and Queen. From its leaves I think we may say that the succession of Vicars is on this wise: Mr. Gwynne. William Jones. [Who died in 1825, after being, for nearly fifty years, vicar of the parish.] Henry James Vincent, M.A. [Nearly forty years, vicar here, died 1865. He is said to have written a history of the parish: some day I hope to see his manu- script of it.] Daniel Jones. [He died, in June 1868, after a short vicariate of some three years. Memorial stones to these last three will be found in the church and its precincts.] T. E. Jones. [Vicar about seven years.] Thomas Jones. [Died 1895.] John Myfenydd Morgan 1895.— Here are two entries by Vicar William Jones. Be it remembered that we the inhabitants of St. Dogmaels, at a Vestry held within our Parish Church, have agreed with James Nicholas for the teyling of 3 Light of ve south side of our church at one shilling and twopence p. yard; and ye said James Nicholas is to finish this said work before next Lamas Court. As wit- ness our hands, all the Charges is to be on the sd. James Nicholas. James X Nicholas. by mark. William Jones, Clergy. David Lewis. John X Harry by mark. Churchwardens. Witness present. William Sambrook. David Richard. A business document, if ever there was one, the evident after-thought that "the Charges is to be on the sd. James Nicholson," being simply perfect So much for the" teyling," now for the road mending:— Also we the said inhabitants, at the same time have agreed to make an assessment of eleven pence in the Pound, towards the mending of the Road from Cardigan to St Dogmells. William Jones. Clergy. Reader, never despise an old register, no matter how torn or imperfect, there is sure to be some bit of parish history in it. When Mr. Fenton visited the old church he saw a square freestone lying loose against the wall." It was Inscribed:— HIe JACET IOHANNES BRADSHAW, ARMIGER, QUI OBIIT ULTIMO DIE MAII, ANNO DOMINI 1538. To-day the visitor sees just one half of this square freestone, on it:— IOHANNB ARMIGER MO DIE M 1 1538. I 1 1538. What has become of the missing half no one can tell. I should like to see this relic carefully taken into the church, and secure- ly fastened to the chancel wall, who knows but that the other bit would soon be found? One man on a Saturday afternoon, could easily do this, and should feel it an honour to do the job. It was to John Bradshaw, at the dissolution of the religious houses, this abbey was granted, whose posterity re- sided there for several generations. Then too the glorious SAGRANUS scone might likewise find a resting place in the chancel, where its ogham characters would not be exposed to the weather. Vicar Vincent intended to put it under cover, but died before doing so, This mass of phorphy- ritic greenstone, just seven feet long and tapering up from 12 to 9 inches in breadth, was once tieed as a, stone bridge, but fortun- ately its engraved side waA towards the water and so saved from being foot-worn. Carved "tonee and the like have a nack óE disappearing in tinio, IOC all custodians are not so careful of such treasures as is Vicar Morgan. I wonder if there still be at St. Dogmael's a mutilated coffin lid, with early Greek cross on it, similar to those found at Margam; or another slab on which only the cross shaft remains; or the slab of the high altar of the Abbey marked with five small crosses. And here for the present at least my story ends. May the men and the women of St. Dogmael's ever love the shrine set in their midst, a shrine, the still standing walls of which have echoed to the voice of Gerald, whose figure stands out across seven cen- turies, towering above his fellows, as he did in actual life.

Cymru Fu. cxi. 361. CAERLLUGEST. Although far from claiming skill in the in- terpretation of Welsh names, may I propound asuggestion or two arising from the Rev. Stedman Davies' query ? His mention of Caerllugest being "Caerllegest-" in old manuscripts may support the assumption that it means Caerlluest after all; as gwesty "—"hostelry" has almost the same meaning as lluest," we see a remoter form in llegest" when the g" had not been dropped. The presence of "lie" can easily be accounted for by comparing the prefix of another kindred word, -"liett.y. Again, I would suggest a possible identi- fication of Llegest with Llechan," the saint. This will not seem so far-fetched if' page 69 of Zimmer's Celtic Church in Britain and Ireland" be read, which treats with an old Irish way of familiarizing the names of saints by adding to, or shortening them according to their personal peculiar- ities. Aberystwyth. D. J. 362. DIARY OF REV. TIMOTHY DAVIES, CAERONEN. 1766. March 22. Mary, wife Tlios. Richard Jr., Kellan. June 14. Mary. uxor Wm. Andrew; and Mary, uxor, Evan Dd. Simon, both of Kellan. 1767. Jan. 23. &nj. Baker, and his wife Eliza- beth of Coedmorucha. Feb. 20. David William and his wife Eliz. i of Coedmor-fawr; William Davies of Bay- liau admitted after backsliding a long time. God bless 'em. April 18. Jane Morgan, maidservant at LlwynHan. Dec. 25. Jenkin Jones Francis, and Ann his sister-in-law, both of Kellan. 1768. Feb. 19. Mary widow of Wm. David Led wick, Kellan. Ap. 15. John Jenkin, Llanffrwd. and Jobn Moses, Ffosyffin. # May. 13. Elenor Anthony, Molly David Anthony, and Elizth. William, of Kellan. July 8. James Thomas and his wife Mary, Kellan. 1769. April 14. Jenet Evan, Kellan; Ann, wife of Moses David, Llanfair. 1771. April 14. David John, and Mary his wife, Lluest Bedw, Llanfair. An acct. depending betwixt Hannah David of Llanvayr Clvdogau. Paid by way of in- terest, June 13, 1743. For the old woman and her daughter, being the Michld. 1742. £ 2 10s. Od. [This is crossed out. Acctd. here, 16 Feb. 1762. with Peter Davies, He owed me C7 15s. 2d., which he promised to me. June 28, 1,762. Reed. from Mrs. Rowlands, six pounds, in part of Rent due from Ty'n Glyn. Reed. Nov. 5., 1762 from Glyn, p. Mrs. Jones of Derry, £ 7 15s. Od. due at Mich'mas, 1761 per an old acct. Reed. Feb. 25, 1763 from Peter Davies, per 'John Griffiths £ 5 10s. Od., being rent due for Michl 1762. Agreed then, and Peter Davies, and John to pay me six pounds yearly. Had no Ernest, nor anything for belov. ye house. Betty Morgan's note of agreement for her share is for the term of six years commencing May 1761 for £ 2 Is. 3d. for the two first years, one hen, and ten eggs, and for ..the ensuing four years she is to pay £ 2 5s. Od. The two years completed May 1764. 363. LAMPETER REGISTERS. (27). BAPTISMS. 1709. March 16. Evan, s. David and Elenor Evan. of ye town. March 25. Sarah, dau. William and Deborah ffrancis. April 12. David, s. Morgan and Mary Harry. I April 23. Hester, dau. David Jenkn Saml. and Jane, his wife. April 24. (being Easter Day) Anne, dau. Walter and Elizabeth Shambett. April 29. Margaret, dau, Jonn and Jane Richard, of ye town. May 8. Ann, dau. John and Mary ffransis. July 10. John s. William John, and Mary Pignolatt [?] his wife. July 17. John, s. Evan Dd. Phillip, of Boydiau, and Jane his wife. July 24. Rees, s. Howell and Jane Alex- ander. [What of this family?]

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I MAULED BY TIGERSL The Bostock Wild Beast Shew at the Hippodrome at Paris hae been the scene of another serious accident, in the course of which Charles Miller, the tamer, was badly mauled by several tigers. When he entered their cage one of them sprang at him and knocked him down. The others joined in the attack, and before the attendants succeeded in extricating him from danger he had been terribly torn and bitten.

BLOWN OUT TO SEA. During a strong westerly gale on Good Friday the yacht Little Teal, with three persons on board, was blown out to sea, and would have undoubtedly been lost but for the services of the lifeboat Matthew Simpson, belonging to the Royal National Lifeboat Institution, which went out from Berwick and succeeded, when eight miles out, in picking up the boat and bringing her and her occupants into harbour.

DEATH OF LADY MARY DOUGLAS. The death is announced of Lady Mary Douglas, wife of the Rev. Hon. Henry Douglas, Honorary Canon of Worcester. She was the eldest daughter of the tenth Earl of Haddington. Though a great invalid, she was a great worker for the poor, and willingly consented to her husband resigning in 1877 a rich country living to work in a very poor parish in the city of Worcester, where her name has been a household word.

REVENUE OFFICERS BAFFLED. A Paris magistrate and some revenue officers have just had a most amusing adventure with a conjuror, who is known to be extensively defrauding the Customs by selling contraband rigars in cafes, and has already been fined for doing so. The itinerant entertainer was giving a performance in a caf6 on the Boulevard Voltaire when the representatives of the law pounced on him as he had opened a -box, and took out several cigars and laid them negligently on a table. "Take care," he said, as an officer seized them, but at that moment a cigar Lurst, and a shower of sawdust fell over the offieer's coat. The other weeds proved equally fraudulent, and the magistrate and rfficprs took their departure discomfited, the conjuror being too sharp for them.

CRIMINALS' FINGER PRINTS. The authorities at Scotland Yard have a wonderful collection of the finger-prints of modern criminals, and some ef these are to be sent to the St. Louis Exhibition in illustration of the methods adopted by the British police. The exhibits, says a London contemporary, will probably include the piece of skylight removed from the Conduit-street galleries after the recent notorious burglary. The burglars, it will be remembered, were discovered through a thumb-mark on the dirt of the roof-glass. This glass was removed end photographed, and the finger-print was identified as that belonging to a man who was subsequently captured, and who is now, with his companions, enjoying his Majesty's hospitality at Portland. Another specimen will be ti-.e finger-print of Edwards, the murderer of the DarLy family at Camberwell. OIl arrest Edwards wts requested to place the fingers ef both his hands on a piece of g:ass covered with thick ink, and the marks were then photographed. The officer in charge fancied he recognised the lines, and in a minute turned up the register of Edwards's previous convictions. The remarkable part of the science of finger- prints is that it is impossible permanently to destroy the distinctive lines. One prisoner, know- ing that his print would be taken, bit the tops of his fingers the morning after his arrest, in order that the detectives might be mystified. His ruse, however, increased their curiosity, and he was quietly told that it would be better for him to abstain from further damaging himself. The prisoner's finders, three weeks later, had resumed their former appcarance, and he voluntarily sub- mitted to the test, with the result that the marks shewed, from the register, that he had been previously convicted. The English system is regarded as the finest in the world, and is certainly a great advrnce on that adopted in Paris, where the thumbs arc ;-iill con- sidered to be the principal factors in identification.

RESULT OF THE Y,12,000 ROBBERY. Interest in the robbery of £ 12,0C0 in Bank oi { England notes from Mr. George Marshall, of Ketford, Nottinghamshire, solicitor, who was at the time staying at the Hotel Metropole, London, is revived by the failure of the firm of which Mr. George Marshall is a member. A receiving order was made against the firm in the Lincoln County- court a few days ago, and the statement of aff?irs lodged in the partnership of Messrs. George and Charles Henry Marshall shew the gross liabilities to be £ 25,904 12s, 4d., of which iP,25,796 17s. lOd. is expected to rank for dividend. The assets are estimated to produce 41,709 9s. 4d., which, after deducting preferential creditors, leaves an available balance of LI,601 14s. 10d., and shews a deficiency of E24,195 3s. In tke separate estate of Mr. Charles Henry Marshall the gross, liabilities are stated at iE5,056 5s. 8d., of which £2,606 5s. 8d. is expected to rank for dividend. The assets are estimated to produce E5,500, and this shews a surplus of £ 2,&93 14s, 4d. The statement of affairs in the separate estate of Mr. George Marshall has not yet been lo-ged, t,

THE SULTAN'S NEW YACHT. ] The decorations of the Sultan of Turkey's new yacht, built by Sir W. Armstrong and Co., have just been completed by Messrs. Waring and Sons at their Tyne works. The rooms comprising the Imperial suite, as well as the reception-rooms, are decorated in various phases of the eighteent'h- century Renaissance style, which permits of the introduction of furniture modelled on the comfort- able English forms of that period. All the principal rooms are panelled in woods of beautiful train and texture, with gilt enrichments, 'ihe Imperial dining-saloon, for instance, is in fioely inlaid mahogany with margins of amboyna the Sultan's btdroom is richly effective with absolutely plain su; faces of satin-wood with parquetry panels of the Si.nie wood the Imperial study is lined with cedar- wood-with purple wood inlays. These three rooms are situated on the main deck on the upper deck there are the Imperial entrance, panelled iu Italian walnut, the Imperial saloon or drawing-room in inlaid mahogany, ;.nd the guests' entrance in fine oak. The yacht also contains quarters for Royal Princes and for gu< sts, with dining saloons, cabins, &c., very delicately and charmingly treated.

The Rev. R. M. Spoor, of London, was seized with illness while conducting the morning service on Sunday at Grace Hill Wesleyan Church, Folke- stone, and died during the afternoon. The fear of becoming an inmate of a lunatic asylum caused Mr. Hart, a merchant, of Crouch Hill, to shoot himself. He wrote a most pathetic letter to his wife. Labourers who contemplate emigrating to Canada are warned that they should have money and experience. Another attempt to liberate the Princess Louise of Saxe-Coburg from the asylum where she is kept prisoner has faited. A Mormon conference has been held at the Finsbury Town Hall, London. It was stated that there were 5,000 Latter-day Saints in England, 500 of whom were ia London. A Bristol youth, living in straitened circum- j stances, has suddenly become the possessor of a ft fortune of £ 10,000 a-year. I

CHIPS OF NEWS. Visiting Swansea Hospital to see his son, who is all inmate, Pnilip Davies, of Loughor, Glamorgan, slipped in a corridor, fracturing his right leg, and was himself detained as a patient. In gratitude for the aid sent them by the Kaiser at the time of the terrible fire at Aalsund, in Norway, the inhabitants have re-named a famous cascade near their town the Kaiser Wilhelm Water- fall. Mr. Allan, of Naphill, Bucks, has not missed a meeting of the Wycombe Board of Guardians or the District Council for eight years, although each attendance has involved a walk of about eight miles. On the plea that his wife pawned everything in- the house, a man applied at Lambeth Police-court on Saturday for a separation order. "That is not sufficient ground," said the magistrate; "you must took after your wife." While Major Walters, commanding the escort of the Perso-Afghan Boundary Commission, was sleep- ing in his tent, a large viper of a venomous species crept under his bed, but was discovered and killed by a pair of Persian pet kittens. Forty dozen fresh eggs constituted the Easter gift of the people of the island of Achill to a Dublin hospital, as they are too poor to give a money contribution. Sewage pollution, says the annual report of the Thames Conservancy, is carried as far as the Blyth Sand cockle-ground from sources below the Con- servancy limits. An address and a purse containing £60 have been presented to Mr. J. Anglim, a Marylebone workman alderman, by fellow-workmen in appreciation of his public services. One of the Good Friday charges heard at Marl- borough-street Police-court concerned a youth who was found driving a cab, the licensed driver being inside the vehicle. He was fined 10s. While ploughing in the County Mayo a farmer had his two horses killed by lightning, from which he had a remarkable escape with his life, as it struck him and burnt his trousers.. A lighted match carelessly thrown among the furze on Tunbridge Wells Common on Saturday caused an enormous fire, which reduced the southern slopes of the common to a black wilder- ness. Major Reid, late Loyal North Lanes. Regiment, has been appointed deputy-governor of Dartmoor convict prison. The Cunard liner, on arrival at Liverpool on Saturday, reported very stormy weather on most of the passage from New York. Two stowaways from the Cape, who said they were unable to get work in South Africa, were fined £10 each at Southampton. Willie Clough, forty-three, single, a pavior, was choked by a large piece of meat which became lodged in the windpipe whilst he was eating his dinner on Saturday. A tramcar and a trap collided at South Croydon on Saturday. A Mrs. Ward, her daughter, and the coachman were thrown out of the trap and seriously injured. Because a former Isle of Wight asylum lady doctor resigned to get married the committee have decided not to invite applications from ladies in the future. Figures in a Blue-book just published shew that during the past year 1,242 persons were killed on British railways and 18,557 injured. On arrival at Queenstown on Saturday the Cam- pania completed her 250th trip across the Atlantic. She is computed to have carried 200,000 passengers to and from New York. Wages of miners in Northumberland—underground workers and banksmen—are to be reduced by 2i per cent., and those of other surface labourers in proportion. Several persons were burnt to death by a fire which occurred in a building in the Maria Market, St. Petersburg, on Good Friday. Others who leaped from the windows were killed or seriously injured. For the first time this year the note of the cuckoo was heard in Highgate Woods on Sunday. King Christian of Denmark intends, if his health remains good, to visit the Court of St. James's next June. The Dutch troops have been vigorously operating against the Achinese, in Sumatra. The natives had 541 killed, while the Dutch losses were three killed and twenty-five wounded, including three officers slightly wounded. Harrison Howard, seventy-two, a fisherman, has been found dead in about eighteen inches of water on the beach at Skegness. Death is supposed to be due to cerebral hemorrhage, caused by over- exertion. A motor-car, travelling at a moderate speed near Winchester on Good Friday, knocked down a man named Henry Macey, of Shrewsbury, breaking his leg and several ribs, and injuring his shoulder. A miner named Jospeh Whinchurch has died at Dudley from injuries caused by the explosion in one of Lord Dudley's collieries at Netherton last week. Another of the men injured is in a precarious condition. Four horses, a goat, and forty pigeons were burnt to death in a stable fire at Sunderland on Sunday. Frederick Jones has been remanded on a charge of embezzling two sums of £10 each while sub-post- master at Risca (Mon.). The King has been pleased to appoint Mr. Harold Thomas to be Recorder of Kingston-upon-Hull, in the room of the late Mr. John Forbes, K.C. Two champion prizes for Southdown sheep and farm stallions given by the King will be competed for at the Royal Counties Show at Guildford in June. In future ladies wearing trains to their dresses who visit theatres in Vienna will be requested to lift their skirts in order that they may not stir up the dust. General Sir Fowler Burton, K.C.B., who went thrdiigh the Crimea and the Indian Mutiny, died suddenly at Devonport on Saturday night, aged eighty-two. In the course of some aatl-religious disturbances at Sestao, in Northern Spain, a Catholic cemetery was laid waste and an attempt made to burn a church. Investigation by the Women's Union in connec- tion with Bristol branch of the C.E.T.S., into the conditions under which barmaids in that city are employed, is to be followed by a plan of campaign. A fire at Derby-road, Croydon, on Sunday morn- ing, resulted in the death of an old lady named Mrs. Hamilton, and serious injuries to four other persons. The Earl of Ellesmere will shortly commence sinking a new mine for tapping the valuable seam of Arley coal adjoining his Wharton Hall collieries at Little Hulton, Bolton. Keziah Barrel], aged three, was knocked down and killed by an electric tramcar at Burnlev, on Saturday. The lifeguard picked her up, but in doing so broke both her arms and fractured her skull. Great floods have occurred in the State of Ohio, A reservoir of 23.000 acres area is endangered.

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