Abergavenny Chronicle

THE FLANNELETTE DANGER. I The Peterborough coroner, in returning a verdict of accidental death on a married woman who was burned to death through wearing a flannelette nightdress, said that, despite many protests and recommeridatkme on the subject, the Government refused tc prohibit the sale of flannelette, and conse- quently people would still continue to be burned to death.

Chelmsford's rates will he increased this I year by Is. 6d. in the X owing to the in- creases made in the salaries of the officials. and workmen of the corporation. An original holographic poem by Robert Burns brought tl32, and a letter from the poet to Lady Henrietta Dorr 145; at a sale of rare books and manuscripts in New York.

1 4 t —— F-A 1 t.ÝN A-I ND FANqy. 4, f ?? "I j.  ?' u v V "Ajpne married a self-made wan." "Yes, but h hMcompeU Ijijn to ke extensive alterations." "What excuse does this man give for de- serting his wife?" "He says her conduct was Teutonic." "In what respect?" "It seems she hit him with a poker after they had agreed to suspend hostilities." She: "You needn't make fun of my noso; I didn't chooee it." He: "That's right, sis; it turned Tip. unasked." f J "Did you notice how your wife laughed at all my jokes? She's got a keen sense of humour." "No; she's got a dimple." Chairman (addressing a meeting): "I am sure we are all sorry that our eecret-ary 'in not here to-night. I cannot say we miss his vacant chair, but I can say that we miss his vacant face I" "t Phyllis: "Mother was very angry with you last night." Jack: "Why, I didn't kiss j you?" -Phyllis: "-Susib co. And she waited all the evening at the keyhole for nothing. Master: "Robert, here is an example in subtraction. Seven boys went down to the pond to bathe, but two of them bad been tola not to go into the water. Now, how many went in?" Robert: "Seven air." Wife: "Oh, Doctor, Benjamin seeme to be wandering in his mind." Doctor (who knows Benj amin): Don't trouble about that; he can't go far." Small Son: "I know what I'll be when I grow up. I'm going to be a great inventor Father: "What makes you think you have inventive genius?" Small Son: "Why, I Wanted to take a screw out and I couldn't find any screwdriver, and so I unscrewed it with your razor." "What kind of a fellow is Willowsnap?" "I don't know. I've only seen h m whenhia wife has been present." "My dear, I am surprised that you should accuse me of being intoxicated last night. Did I not sit up an hour after I got home, smoking and reading?" asked he. "Yes; and do you know what you w-ere smoking? It was one of my curl-papers." "What did the critics think of Scribson'a latest novel ?" Not much! One said it might be a good book to read 'in a train, if there were plenty of charming 6cenery to look at along the route." "Harry, dear, you love me more than any- thing else in the world, don't you?" "Of course I" "And you wouldn't give me up for ar million pounds?" "Hm! Anybody offered that?" "I say, pa," queried little Billy, "what'a an echo?" "An echo, my son," replied the patient old man, with a sig-h that was long drawn out, "is the only thiug that can do a woman out of the last word." Genevieve: "My mother says she can re- member when your mother kept a grocer's shop!" Evelyn: "Indeed, and she ought to. considering the number of reminders she has had about the grocer's bill she still owes us t Private Jimson was relating his experi- ences of the war. He said he was once taken prisoner and the enemy stripped him of all 1,is clothing. "Did you feel the cold inach?" asked a friend. No," replied Jimson, "not at all. You see, they carefully covered me with their rifles." Little Dorothy: "Oh, mother, what a pretty dress! Do wear it to-night." Mother: "-No, darling-not to-night. This is to wear at the party, when ladies and gentlemen come to dinner." Little Dorothy: "Oh, but, mother, can't we pretend just for once that daddy is a gentleman?" "I don't mind Jack's slang," said one of the girls. "He is so clever in the use of it." "How so?" "Why, he sent me three dozen photcd of famous beauties, with a card on which the only words were, You're another "Wad it your craving for drink that brought you here?" asked the sympathetic visitor at the gaol. "Great Scot, ma'am! Do you think I'm fool enough to mistake a prison for a public-housep" The farmer came up from a. remote county to give evidence in a law-case, and he lodged at an hotel in the Strand to be handy for the Law Courts. The first morning, about five o'clock, a chambermaid, to her amaze- ment, found the old man shuffling about the lower regions in his shirtsleeves. "What do you want, sir?" she asked. "I'm looking for the kitchen," was the reply. "I want to wash mvsen' Uncle Bob: "I hope, Tommy, you are a favourite with your teacher?" Tommy: "I think I must be. She can't seem to get enough of me, or she wouldn't keep me in so much." Flora: "The idea! Here is a doctor who says that yawning will remove that annoy- ing buzzing in one's ears." Laura: "That's true. The other night, after young Mr, Jones had been talking steadily to me for' three hours, J yawned twice and he went home." "One moment, please, Miss Jones! At pre- sent I am wrapped up in my own thoughts," said a conceited fellow to a clever girl "Gracious, Mr. Robinson, aren't you afraid you will catch cold?" Waiter (watching customer who had. or- derod boiled eggs): "Weren't they boiled long enough?" Customer; "Yes, but not is-con enough." Inquiring Lady: "How much milk does your cow give a day?" Truthful Boy: "About eight quarts, lady." Inquiring Lady: "And how much of that do you sell?" Truthful Boy: "About twenty quarts, lady." The head of the Government Depart- mental Office w reproving a subordinate for having written an insufficiently clear lettef. "He who does not make himself un- derstood," thundered the chief, "is a fool! Dd you understand me, eh?" "No, sir." Maude: "Mr. Willing asked me to accom- pany him to the opera to-morrow evening." f Clara: "And you accepted the invitation?" "Certainly." "Strange! He asked me also." "There's nothing strange about it at all. I told him I wouldn't go unless he provided a chaperon." Girl Visitor from the city (slyly) to /aimer's son: I suppose you find the girls round here a bit slow?" Farmer's Son: "Slow! Why, no; there is Dolly Smith can milk her fifteen cows, before brcàkfasM"

i, '? ff, i it f JilNÓS THOUGHTFUL I Who is the happiest of men? He wht values the inerits,tt othets, and in tniQ pleasures tal&s joy, even as though it wni his own.—Professor Blackie. "There is nothing," says Plato, "so de- ligh tful as the hearing or the speaking. oi truth." For this reason there is no convej- sation so- agreeable as that of the man oj integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive.—Addison. Speak the truth, but without offence; Should this be too disagreeable, be silent; but tell no pleasant lies.—The Manu. I CRITIC OR CROAKER. I There may be exceptions, and nearly any one may be an exception on occasion, put in general it is true that the man who is doing good, earnest, reasonably successful work 1 any sphere is the last man to be harsh and unsparing in his criticism of fellow labourers in similar walks and ways. And thie reason is largely that the one who is making. anj job go know too well how hard jt 18 and' what price iflust be paid for sue- cess, to have the heart to be very critical. Usually it is the man who knows almost nothing about a piece of work, and who has never, learned by actual experience the diffi- culties in the way of doing it well, who hands out a superabundance of omniscient criticism and cocksure advice. So that when you find the criticising habit growing oa, you it may" be an indication; that you are getting very wisf; and capable of instructing all and sundry, or it may only be an indica- tion that you have passed out of the active, < Useful class and have become a croaker. You had better find out which it is. Dress yourself fine where others are fine, and plain where others are plain; but take care that your clothes are well made and fit you, for otherwise they will give you an awkward air.—Lord Chesterfield. Nature intends that a provident person shall be richer than a spendthrift, and the utmost efforts of socialism cannot prevent it.—Ruskin. I FORMS OF NATURE I These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have. not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along thet heart; -And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration :-feelings too Of unremembered pleasure; such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence t On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust. To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world, Is lightened. —Wordsworth. It is a great thing to have some little work always going forward. Only by experi- ence will you really understand how a very little thing done faithfully every day will in the process of days mount up to a great sum.—A. K. H. B. I THE GREAT TIDE. There is a great tide running in the hearts of men. The hearts of men have never beaten so singularly in unison before. Men have never before been eo conscious of their brotherhood. Men have never before realised how little difference there was between right and justice in one latitude and in another, under one sovereignty and under another; and it will be our high privilege, not only to apply the moral judgments of the world to the particular settlements which we shall attempt, but also to organise the moral force of the world to preserve those settle- ments, to steady the forces of mankind, and to make the right and the justice to which great nations like our own have devoted themselves the predominant and controlling forces of the world.—President Wilson. Each trouble is meant to relax the world's hold over us and our hold upon the world;"ea.oh loss to make us seek our gain in Heaven.—E. B. Pusey. I THE FORCE OF HABIT. I To think of ourselves as 'masters of our ha.bits is to bait a trap for our own moral death. What we aLre at this moment, what we can do at this moment, depends not only upon making up our minds at the time being, but also upon how we have made up our minds countless other times in thou- sands of minutes already gone by and now out of our control. The one thing we can- not control is the past; it may, however, control us for good or for evil. Man is not born 4'0 solve the problem of the universe, but to find out what he has to do, and to restrain himself within the limits of his power of comprehension.— Goethe. Games not only keep a man in health, but give him spirit for his work; they teach him how to get on with other men: to give way in trifles, to play fairly, and push no advantage-to an extremity J—-Sir John- Lub, bock. • < THE WHOLE DUTY OF MAN. I To be honest; to be kind; to earn a little more; to spend a little less; to renoifnee, when that rhimal be necessary, and not to be embittered. To keep a few friends, 'but these without capitulation. "• Abow-all, on the same grim condition, to Jceeji friends with himself. Here is a task for all that a man h^- iof foiMttfde -ap4 delica^yi^iSir Philip-Sidliey. THE LOVED FACE. I It is the property of things seen for the first time, or for the firBY time after long,. like the flowers in spring, uto reawaken in: us the sharp edge of ronse and that-impression of mystic strangeness which1- otherwise pfcsses out of life with the coming of 'years; but the sight of a loved face is what renews a man's character from the fountain upwards.—R. L. Stevenson. Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed: Nature never pretends. —Lavater. ON DUTY. I In his own life a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit gladly by it when it shall arise. He ts on duty hter«*—he knows not how or why—and does not need to know. He knows not for what hire, and must not ask. Sontehbw or -,4)ther-thon h he does not know what goodness is—he must try to be good. Somehow—though he doetf rfot kiiow whit will -c:fu'lfi-he''mUitt try to give happiness to oth<fc"s.—Robert Louis Stevenson.

QTHE? MflfS MtNJ? I qT!1E MfS MINm,1" I It is not a bad t £ jn £ to be a nation of ■ I shopkeepers.—General Sir H. RawlinsoijL i I WOMEN LAWYERS. Women in New Zealand have been prac- I tising the law for many years.Sir Joseph Ward. v -j ?I I I ADVICE TO EMIGRANTS. My advice to those wishing to emigrate is I to choose a temperate country.—Sir Rider Haggard. I NATIONALISATION OF MINES. Nationalisation would lead to a perma- nent state of semi-famine in coal.—Mr. A. J. Hobson. I IN A CLASS BY ITSELF. I have been through all the epidemics and know nothing in the history of medi- cine similar to the lata influenza epidemic. —Dr. Tyson. I THE PUBLIC-SCHOOL SPIRIT. I The public-school spirit has proved its woith time after time during these years of grim war.—Prince of Wales. I BY-ELECTIONS. I do not attach undue importance to by- elections. It is natural that there should be reaction.—Mr. Churchill. I I "THE DEAR OLD SMELL." People who have temporarily left Billings- gate have been known to refer, on return- ing, to what they ca.11 "the dear old emell. —Dr. R. G. Burnsted. I THE BEER OF OTHER DAYS. Beer to-day is in no way of the same value *as the beer of dass gone by.—Professor H. G. Armstrong. I THE "WORKING CLASS." I am getting tired of workmen being re- r-rded as a different class from their fellow- citizens.—Mr. Emil Davies. I THE OFFICIAL MIND. I The official mind seenus to prefer the com- I plicated to the simple, and the tortuous to the direct.—Earl of Dartmouth. I CHEERFUL! I I do not think we are çoing to see very much of a drop in prices; there may even be a rise.—Sir Rcbert Horne, Labour Minister. THE QUICKEST WAY. I The public will only acquire by degrees the habit of using passenger aeroplanes when they are in a hurry.—Mr. Holt Thomas. ALLOTMENTS IN THE PARK. I There is plenty of space in the parks, generally occupied only by a woman and a dog, which could be much better occupied by allotments.—Sir Kingsley Wood. A PATIENT PEOPLE. I You are the "most patient people I have J ? known. Canadians would not have lived ? under the English restrictions.—Mr. Lloyd Harris. I DRINKING HOURS. 1 I want you to help me see that the drink- ing hours of London never reburn to nine- teen and a-half hours a day. It is better that we Christians should die -rather than !et such a thing happen.—Bishop of London. A PROPHECY. I Mr. Lloyd George will be leading the Labour Party within the next twelve months.—Mr. Pemberton Billing. THE CHURCH AND LABOUR. I Unhappily the Church is now regarded I as the hereditary enemy of organised labour. —Canon J. H. Kidd. THE WHITLEY SCHEME. I The Whitley scheme has had no assistance I from the Government, who in some in- stances hindered it.—Colonel C. L. Malone, M.P. ADULT EDUCATION. I I Democracy demands that the provision I shall be made for the education of the adult who has not had the good fortune of having I his mind trained in youth.—Lord Haldane. I THE RED FLAG. I The Russian steam-roller has gone, but I the man with the red flag is still there.— I Mr. Arthur Poneonby. I A HOUSING STRIKE. I I am prepared at any time to ask the I people to declare a strike on the housing I question.—Mr. Robert Smillie. OUT OF HAND. I Young people have to some extent got out jQf hand, and are in a very difficult frame of. I mixid.-S;r Cyril Cobb 1\ à' THE PRISON SYSTEM. I The present prison system is so intolerable that the Home Secretary is not able to find men sufficiently inhuman to enforce tha I I rr:ulations.-Mr. Fenner Brockway. i OUR SUNDAY. I We must get rid of our puritanical ideas I of Sunday, and give the boys a I P. F. Warner. SOLDIER AND CITIZEN. I A man, although he is a soldier, is stilPa I citizen, dressed up in a particular garb. I Mr. Ingleby Oddie. THE FLYING AGE. I Within a very shorty time flights of un. heard-of-range and duration will take place 'all over the globe.—Colonel Bristow, R.4.F. I GOOD BUSINESS. I The more parish affairs are rim aB a busi- ness proposition, the more will the spiritual results increase.—Rev. P. McCormick, D.S.O. TO THE POLE BY SUBMARINE. I The submarine comes first as a modern method of transportation to reach 'the North Pole, the dirigible balloon next, and finally the aeroplane.—M. Stefansson. t

I CLUB WINDOW.; I 1. ;? .1 CLIUo?0. :? ,WINDO'W?, I I ?:' ?? I average';eigt of an'- &rain Î8' | fo4-nine ounces ai?d a ?It; a. woman's brain average forty-four oimees.1" ? A good story is, told of an encounter be tween General Botha -and Lord Kitchener during the closing Stages of the South African War. The two had been discussing the terms for an armistice, and Botha sud- denly rose to go. "Don't' hurry," said Kitchener, "you haven't any train to catch." "But I have," retorted Botha as he vanished, a statement which Kitchener didn't appreciate until a few hours later, when a report came in to th,& effect that" Botha had captured a British armoured train on the Dela-goa line. Mr. Sidney Kidman, the Australian Cattle King,, own, the, biggest. farnj, in the p world—40,000 acres.. He has 100,000 cattle, twice as many sheep, and several thousand horses. Don Luis Terrazas, a Mexican, beats him in the' matter of stock. He has 100,000 horses, 700,000 sheep, and well over a million head of cattle. ■■■ ■ A letter to Thomas W. Wilson, Washing- ton, D.C., was recently returned to the sendrs "party unknown," proving that I be United St ates Post Office Department d)es rot know th- President by his real name. The letter, was sent by an old Southern lady who has known the President eince boyhood, and to whom he has always remained "Tom Wilson." During a case before Mr. Justice Darling a male witness addressed a sharp admoni- tion to his wife. "Be quiet, 'Silf s-a id an attendant. "You mustn't reprove your wife in court." "Neve^ mind!" exclaimed Justice Darling in. a stage whisper. "Let ge w isper. the poor fellow alone. Maybe tllis is the only chance he's got." • On the occupation of Cologne General Sir a. C. O. Plumer was assigned a villa be- 1 longing to a wealthy German Jew. After tho General's arrival the owner buttonholed the A.D.C., and with many bows and flowery words, expressed his deep sense of the honour of having so great a soldier un- der his roof. Had the General; any com- mands for him? He had but to express a wish for it to be fulfilled. "I will- see," said the A.D. C., who departed and presently returned. "Has the General any orders for me?" cried the eager Teuton. "Yes," said the A.D.C., "at least the General desires something." "Ach! vot it is, vot it is?" "The General's one and only desire," coolly answered the A.D.C., "is that during his occupation of your villa you will be neither seen nor heard!" » » The invention of watches can be traced back to tho fourteenth century. They ap- pear to have been invented at Nuremberg. They were not flat in those days, but egg- shaped. < < Dr. Henson, of Chicago, was to lecture on "Fools" before a Chautauqua audience. Bishop Vincent introduced him thus: Ladies and gentlemen, we are now to have a lecture on Fools,' by one of the most distinguished"—long pause and loud laugh- ter—"men of Chicago." But Dr. Henson was not to be outdone. He arose and said: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am not so great a fool ab Bishop Vincent"—long pause and up- roarious laughter—"would have you think." Germany's terrific losses of man power in the war arc very small compared to the losses in the Thirty Years' War, when- there was practically destroyed an entire genera- tion. Two-thirds of the entire population of Germany was destroyed; in some States, such as Bohemia, three-fourths of the popu- lation were killed or exiled. Out of 500,000 inhabitants in Wiirtemberg only 48,000 were left at the end of the thirty years. The new chief of the Central Branch of the Criminal Investigation Department, the Hon. Frank Bigham, has inherited Lord Mersey's brains (says the Express "). He is as great a hustler as his brother, Lieut.- Colonel Clivo Bigham, but is less prone to rush about here, there, and everywhere, wherever anything is doing and where re- wards for valour may be reaped. Colonel Bigham started the war at the Horse Guards, with occasional week-end trips to France. He disappeared suddenly from London, and was next heard of as A.P.M. at Gallipoli, where a shell went through? his tent. He then went down with the Persia, received a nasty blow on the head in so doing, and turned up, after thirty-six hours in an open boat, at Alexandria, looking as perky and brisk as ever. I am told that his application for a wound stripe was answered by the unkind question: "Where did the torpedo hit you?" be « A very pretty girl said to Mr. Sargent, the famous artist, at a dinner party: "Oh, Mr. Sargent, I saw your latest painting and kissed it because it was so much like you." "Ahd did it kiss you in return?" asTced the artist gravely. "Why, no, of course not!" was the reply. "Then," said Mr. Sargent smilingly, "it was not at all like me." President Wilson's fmile is famous, but Mr. Daniels, his Naval Secretary, is said to be able'to give the President a long start, and beat him easily. In the words of one American pressman: "He has a benignant smile, an engaging smile, a genial, friendly smile, a welcoming smile, an all-embracing smile, an all-over smile, a persuasive smile, a sunny smile, a smile that belongs to Daniels and to nobody else, dead or alive." » » M. Clemenceau was the victim of an elaborate jest years ago, during his first Premiership. A number of Parisians re- ceived bogus invitations to dine at tho Premier's house. Some were total strangers, and their grateful acceptance mystified M. Clemenceau until he realised the hoax. He did not put tkeiiv off. He ordered the dinner, and gave his guests a pleasant even- ing. Not until the evening was drawing to i close did he inform them that their invi- tations had been sent out by someone of 1 whose identity he had not the remotest knowledge. Mr. Josephus Daniels, Secretary of the United States Navy, was editing a local newspaper when he was in his 'teens. Within a couple of years he was both owner I-,id editor of the "Raleigh State Chronicle," tilting fearlessly at abuses of all sorts. Within a few months an attack on a high-placed judge lodged him in prison, with a fine of £ 4,000 hanging over his head. He refused point-blank either to apologise or pay the fine. He declared he would rot in gaol before he paid a cent; and he continued to pen his articles from his prison-cell until the fine was withdrawn and he was a free man again.

David UIe. of H.M.S. Implacable, was I drowned at Weymouth by the upsetting of a I canoe be had hired. Mr. F. Marsh, who has been the blind or- ganist of Holy, Trinity Church, Iristol, for I fifty years, hae resigned.

.ji;f ,J. "¡,I-N,f8IIICI'P' LApB SETT MENT, "Land Settlement" is the subject of the twentieth of-' the Ministry ofReooc- little grey painpbjets dealing "yith political afebjects of. topieal public interest- This series marks a new departure in official publications and one which, having regard to the vastly increased interest that the nation at large is necessarily taking in questions of government, is likely to estab- lish a precedent for future Government literature., The aim of these pamphlets has been to present in a readable and popular style an authoritative survey of current problems and of the manner in which they are being tackled. t The pamphlets are attractively "made-up," well printed, and sold at every bookstall at a price within the reach of a The information is presented in a clear, simple and interesting form, and gives an QJfphftqnity the ordinary man, who has toeither the time nor, it may be, the incli- nation to read through reports and blue- books, of learning what has been or is being done towards solving the many pro- blems of poet*waj* reconstruction. The present pamphlet on Land Settle- ment briefly reviews the position of agri- culture in this country, and proceeds to show the lines on which the G^vern^flenii aje preparing to carry out their national polity of land settlement, especially with regard to exvice men. Further pamphlets are promised on Publio llealtjh, Domestic Service, Electrical De- velopment, Transport, Fisheries Develop- ment, ?ft.nd various Educational topics .ø  pampMeta may be obtained from' in, 00- Stationery Office, or through any Bookseller (price 2<1.). ■ ========^

RUSSIAN STOWAWAYS. A remarkable story of adventure was told at Liverpool when three Russians were sen- tenced to seven days' hard labour for stow- ing awqy in the ateamer, Poland from Rot- terdam. It was stated that they paid a bribe of about .£100 to members of the crew for allowing them to hide under a spare boiler in the ship during a voyage lasting three days. They were living in London in 1917, when they returned to Russia to fight, finding on their arrival that the Kerensky revolution had taken place. As no more men were wanted for the army they Were told they were free, and they journeyed from Arch- angel to the Ukraine at the expense of the Government. They were afterwards captured by the Germans, who intertied them as Eng- lishmen for ten months, and then sent theip with repatriated British prisoners of war to Rotterdam, where they were stowed away 111 the steamer Poland. Mr. Harris, of London, who appeared for two of the men, quoted the Common Ser- jeant, who said the other day that he wotild do nothing so inhuman as to send a man back to *R"ssia. The stipendiary said he had not the power to order the men back tol. 'Riussia. The men had come to this count4 in difficult times, and, after serving th& sen- tence, would be dealt with by the alien* authorities.

DYING SUICIDE'S WILL. Mr. John Polkey, a visitor at Folkestone made his will while lying on the floor of hia bedroom bleeding from a self-inflicted throat wound. On another sheet of paper he wrote,. "I did this act myself." Polkey, who belonged to Llandudno,, served in France, and was invalided out of the Army on account of neurasthenia. At the inquest the coroner said Polkey's condition was doubtless largely due to the strain of war service. A verdict of "Suieide while insane" was retiiriied..

I SISTERS CAUGHT BY TIDE. Two sisters named Payne, the six anå- eicven-yeap-old daughters of a Selsea resi- dent, were paddling in Pagham harbour when they were cut off by the tide. A gallant, but unsuccessful, effort at rescue was made by Captain Winfield. Sir Archibald Hamilton, Bart., a visitor,, was more successful, and brought the chil- dren ashore, but life was by that time ex- tinct.

I WEALTHY SHOPLIFTER. Mra. Josephine Fox, whose income waei said to be £1,000 a year, was fined E20 for shoplifting at Scarborough. It was alleged that after making a pur- chase she concealed goods valued at 14s. 9d. It was pleaded that Mrs. Fox had devoted' twelve months to "ceaseless attention to her husband, who was dying from a painful disease, and that the incessant strain had unnerved her.

Tempted by the produce on the allotments- which adjoin Hampton Court Park, a deer tried to jump over the railings, but was impaled, and it was afterwards killed by the- park-keepers. It was said that a man fined for gambling- at 'YŒt Ham went round the streets on week-days with an organ, carrying a card inscribed, "Discharged soldier—Blind."

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