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THE QUEEN'S DEPARTURE. Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria left Charing-cross just after noon on Saturday for Norway and Denmark, attended by the Hon. Charlotte Knollys, Sir Frederick Treves, Colonel Henry Knollys, Colonel Frederick, Colonel BrocMehurst, and a considerable retinue. Her Majesty shook hands with those about her, and hatted for a few moments with Sir Berkeley Milne, Chevalier de Martino, and. the Norwegian ;and Danish representatives, who were on the iplatform at the station. The Royal party proceeds first to Norway to visit the King and Queen, and will then go on to Copenhagen. The special train arrived at Port Victoria at two minutes after one, and her Majesty was received by Admiral Sir H. L. Pearson, Commander-in- 'Chief at the Nore, Commodore Colin Keppel, and other officers. The Queen on boarding the yacht Victoria and Albert was received with a Royal salute from the commissioned ships in Sheerness Harbour and the Medwai. Owing to the weather being unfavourable at sea the Royal yacht remained at Sheerness all night, the departure being delayed till one o'clock on Sunday afternoon. The sea was then smooth, and the weather conditions were most genial. The warships hoisted mast-head flags as the Victoria ;and Albert left, but owing to it being Sunday the customary firing of salutes on the departure of the 'Queen were dispensed with. As the Royal yacht was passing down the Thames the Palace steamer Royal Sovereign overtook her, and Captain N. E. Hucker, the master of the latter vessel, immediately hoisted the signal flags, Good-bye," to which her Majesty replied, I will come back."

FOUND BY THE SUN. The sun has revealed an interesting scienti- fic discovery which will delight the archaeolo- gists of the entire country. At Castle Park, Colchester, as elsewhere, the great heat of the past weeks considerably modified the natural greenness of the grass. But in one place there were noticed parallel and transverse bands of grass which were much browner than the sur- rounding verdure. I Closer examination showed that the brown bands formed the ground plan of a spacious Roman villa. The shallow soil over the ruined walls of the villa had been dried more tho- roughly than the deeper soil on either side of them, and thus the sun has made a tracing of the villa for the edification of scientists.

FATAL MOTOR TRIP. I A terrible motor-car accident at Leeds resulted in the death of one man, serious injuries to two, and lesser injuries to three ladies. The car was on a trial trip, illlcharge of Mr. T. H. Atkinson. He carried two passengers, Mr. J-hn T. Ring and Mr. W. Saxton. Mr. Atkinson drove the car from Uovmdhay to Leeds, and when it came to the bottom of Hare- hills-Jane it ran into a horse drawing a stone cart, and swerving to the other side of the road crashed into a pony trap occupied by a man and three ladies. Mr. Ring was instantly killed, Mr. Coxton seriously injured, while Mr. Atkin- son escaped with merely superficial bruises. The ladies in the trap were severely shaken, and Mr. Joseph Walker, who was driving, Was injured very seriously.

FOUND ON A HOLIDAY. I Joseph Norton, who was charged at Highgate with embezzling his employer's money, probably does not think Brighton desirable as a holiday resort. A London detective was walking along the sands when he met Norton, and recognised him as a man for whom he held a warrant. The de- tective was holiday making, but his professional zeal overcame his desire for a holiday, and he brought Norton back to London. Norton was committed for trial.

HORSE ATTACKS A LADY. I Mr. Leopold Rothschild's racehorse, River savagely attacked a lady cyclist as she was rid- ing along the Bury road, just outside Newmar- ket. The attack was made with as much viciousness as the onslaught by Marigold IV. on Otto Madden at Brighton. The lady was riding her bicycle in the direc- tion of the town when River returning from exercise with the rest of the horses in the stable, dashed at her open-mouthed. The boy riding was unable to control him, and the horse had almost seized the lady when she jumped off her machine and, letting it drop in the road, darted into the Belt-a small wood by the road- side. The same horse gave another remarkable dis- play of unruly temper when he broke loose and galloped about Newmarket Heath for an hour before he was caught. An accident occurred at the conclusion of the Meadow Handicap at Windsor on Saturday. At the half distance Guise, who was lying several lengths in the rear of the placed horses, swerved to the left and ran into several spectators who had encroached on the track with the idea that all the horses had passed. One well-known fol- lower of racing who was caught by the horse was hurled some distance, but escaped with a severe shaking and a few bruises. A man named Holder, who lives at Hampstead, was less fortu- nate. His right leg was fractured and his facç and head badly- bruised.

TRAGEDY OF A VOYAGE. I "Some person or persons unknown" belong- ing to Las Palmas was tho subjects of a ver- dict of manslaughter given by a Southampton coroner's jury which inquired into the death of Patrick O'Dea, who died on the Union Castle liner Durham Castle. While on the voyage from the Cape O'Dea landed for a brief time at Las Palmas, where the vessel called. While on shore he was at- tacked, and in the fracas sustained a fracture of the skull. Fp succumbed to his injuries when-the vessel was nearing Plymouth.

A snake six feet long has been killed close to the sea at Dovercourt, Essex. Mr. J. E. T. Graham, Consulting Town Clerk to Scarborough, has represented to the corpora- tion that E100 per annum, his present salary, is too much and recommends that it be reduced tc X50. Mr. Root, the United States War Secretary, who is on a diplomatic tour in South America' has arrived at Buenos Ayres, where he was greeted by a large crowd and continuously cheered. At the annual meeting of Arthur Guinness an4 9°*» Lord Iyeagh, presiding, said the trade had increased in all branches, and the year's profits were the highest since the formation of the company.

I DRESS OF THE DAY. I I THE COMING AUTUMN FASHIONS. I In spite of the secrecy observed with re- gard to the coming autumn fashions, hint3 concerning their tendency continue to leak out. The- latest news gleaned from high modistic circles is the prophecy that white costumes will be much in evidence during the early autumn, and that, in fact, they will be worn by smart mondaines far into the early winter. These costumes will be carried out both in smooth white doth and in heavy ivory serge, the latter, it is predicted, being likely to receive a larger share <oi popularity than the former. Both cloth and serge will be fashioned into costumes with long three- quarter coats cut with deep well fitting basques and adorned with neat velvet collars in some pretty bright shade such as emerald or hunter's green, tawny orange, or sapphire blue. I A SMART AFTERNOON COSTUME. Frenchwomen always toave a great affec- tion for fine faced cloth, and wear it con- stantly at all times of the year. This autumn it seems probable that an equal partiality fci this most fascinating of materials will dis- play itself on this side (Ðf the Channel, foT the majority ¡øf dressy autumn costumes in course of preparation in the ateliers of the leading cemturieres and tailors are made of this light supple cloth. The charming ex- ample illustrated in OUT sketch is fashioned fat this beatuiful fabric in a pretty shade of ■-&HART LITTLE COSTUME OF GREY-BLUE CLOTH TBIHMED WITH BLACK TAFFETAS PIPINGS. soft dull grey blue. The little bolero- coatee which forms the upper part of the cos- I tume is made with the fronts hanging loosely from the breast seam, but with the rest of the bolero caught into the wide plain belt of black taffetas and allowed to pouch slightly over it. The deep roll-collar which turns back from the neck is adorned with three rows of narrow black taffetas pipings crossed by tabs of the cloth which button down on to the collar with small black taffetas buttons. Similar tabs and buttons ornament the breast seam and appear on the original sleeves which consist of an epaulette, a short little cape, and a loose inner sleeve, all three adorned with rows of the black piping. The skirt is very simple, fitting closely over the hips and hanging in loose full folds about the teat. Its sole ornament consists of rows of the black piping crossed by buttoned tabs of the cloth headed with a row of machine stitching. SMART AUTUMN HAT. I Already the first autumn fashions begin to put in an appearance, suggesting by their presence that summer is rapidly drawing to a close. Of course, these early modes are somewhat of a tentative character, an at- tempt, as it were, to feel the pulse of the fashionable world; but they will rapidly be succeeded by the definite autumn styles, and in another month or six weeks there will be little or no sign of the defunct summer fashions. In the meantime, the new millinery is well worth a little of our attention, as it is exceptionally pretty and becoming, and has already developed into what may be con- sidered as the settled autumn modes. SIMPLE AND INEXPENSIVE. I Our artist has sketched for us a very charming example of the new hats, simple and inexpensive enough to be capable of ac- hievement by the home milliner, yet quite smart enough to make a worthy accompani- ment to a dressy afternoon costume. The straw of which this hat is made is a deep warm brown in colour and has one strand of chenille woven into each plait, producing a charming effect. Round the low crown is twisted a band of brown velvet ribbon, I SJURT HAT OF BROWN STRAW. I which is tied in a small flat bow at the back. In front of the hat, slightly to one side and well on the brim, is placed a knot of lovely roses in rich warm tones of brown shading up to delicate peachy yellow through a whole range of exquisite coppery hues. The foliage of these roses is entirely made of silk, shaded to match natural rose-leaves. The hat is completed by a cluster of hand- some brown ospreys set immediately behind the roses and sloping back over the hat. A MODISH COAT. I As soon as the first tinge of cold makes it- self felt, which, alas! will be all too soon now, we shall feel the need of some fairly warm garment to slip over our thin summer attire. An ideal garment for such a purpose must be light enough for immediate wear, while sufficiently warm and comfortable enough for walking. I have seen a very smart and becoming coat, which is fashioned of a smooth putty-coloured cloth. In the front appears a smart little waistcoat of blue and green plaid silk, the same silk ornamenting the turn-down collar and large gauntlet cuffs. The upper part of the coat is arranged in a succession of wide stitched pieces of cloth, fastened down on the inner edge only. On either side of the waistcoat comes a stitched band of ..the cloth sharply pointed at the lower end an4, buttoning down on to the wide stitched belt. The lower part of the coat is quite plain, save for a line of machine stitching all round, and is finished with large olaid-covered buttons.. »

I LEADERS OF REVOLT. WAT TYLER, JACK CADE, KETT THB TANNER.. At a time when our sympathies are turned towards the Russian people in their efforts to secure freedom and a definite measure of repre- sentative government, it ip interesting to recall to mind the almost exactly similar efforts of the peasantry of England three and four centuries ago. History has handed down to us a some. what unfavourable opinion of such men as Wat Tyler and Jack Cade, but Mr. Jesse Collings, in his admirable work on "Land Reform," just published (Longmans, Green, and Co., 12s. 6d. net), carefully reviews the facts concerning the peasant revolts led by these men and others, and enters a spirited protest against the prejudices of the historians of that period. The Black Death. It seems only necessary to recapitulate the conditions of the people in the year succeeding the "Black Death" in 1348, and the recurrence of the pestilence in 1361 and again in 1369, to form some estimate of the readiness with which I they would welcome any movement which sug- gested to them a means of escape from their bondage. They were under the iron heel of ■"feudal lords and lordly prelates," who believed that to hold the great mass of the people in, servile bonds was a divine right. All legislation j was based on this assumption, and the poor j serfs had no rights against these lords, not even; the right to marry or give their children in mar- riage without their lord's consent; indeed, they themselves anq their belongings were the pro- perty of their lcjtrds, and Hallam, in his "Middle Ages" quotes several instances of villeins having been sold with Ifheir families and chattels. The infamous" Statute of Labourers,"enacted in 1349, expressly stipulated that "every one, bond or free (with a few exceptions) shall be bound to serve anyone that shall require him at the same wages as in the 80th of our reign" (1347—the; year before the "Black Death"), and any one who refused was liable to be "committed to the next gaol, there to remain under strait keeping till he find surety to serve in the form aforesaid." Enter Wat Tyler. But the peasants were stubborn, and even more stringent Statutes, culminating in an Act of 1360, which threatened that any one who should leave the service into which he had been forced, or should even go into another locality, should bejt outlawed, hunted down, and when taken "he should be burnt on the forehead with an iron made and formed to the letter F, in token of falsity." This sort of thing went on for twenty years, with indifferent success, however, for even more severe laws had to be enforced. Then in 1381 the men of Essex and Kent—the latter "led by Wat Tyler-could stand it no longer and marched on London. The king met the Essex men readily enough, and wisely assented to their demands, but in the interval his ad- visers, led y the Archbishop, who was Chancellor had been active, and when the men of Kent arrived at Blackheath he refused to see them. The king did ultimately meet the insurgents at Smithfield, and opinion may differ as to whether "Wat Tyler, their captaine, a crafty fellow of an excellent wit but lacking grace." bore himself insolently. At any rate, Walworth, the then Mayor of London, stabbed him, and the king's attendants dragged him from his horse, and with their swords "thrust him through in divers places." Thus Mr. Collings Wat Tyler was at the head, not of a mob, but an organised force. He was a leader in a position to treat and to make terms, and to see that these terms were carried out. He came alone—without even a bodyguard- practically unarmed, to a parley arranged by the King himself and at his invitation. In this position his person, at least, should have been respected. Jack Cade. Another rebellion which gave a picturesque personality to history occurred seventy years later, when the men of Kent again rebelled, this time under the leadership of Jack Cade. Perhaps no man in all history," says Mr. Collings, has been more ridiculously carica- tured than this remarkable peasant leader. The plaster of calumny was, by his enemies, laid so thickly over his reputation, and has become so time-hardened, that it is difficult to break it off." Even Shakespeare, in his Henry the Sixth," joined in the torrent of ridicule, as witness — Cade (addressing his followers): Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny; the three-hooped pot shall have' ten hoops; and I will make it felony to drink small beer; all the realm shall be in common; and in Cheap- side shall my palfrey go to grass; and when I am King, as King I will be- "All: God save your Majesty "Cade: I thank you, good people. There shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers, and worship me their lord." This is very excellent fooling, but not very convincing. Perhaps Mr. Collings IS more nearly correot in his estimate of this wonderful character. The old historian," he says, all in dead- liest opposition to Cade, are practically agreed as to the incidents of his rebellion. They show beyond dispute that he was a brave soldier and an able general, who fought with a definite end in view." Kett, the Tanner. Only less interest centres round some of the other leaders in this grim struggle. There was John Ball, "the crazy, profligate priest of Refit," who was a rebel" even before Tyler. In season and out of season, in market-place and churchyard, and with a full knowledge of his ultimate fate, this lone and homeless man preached to eager crowds, on whom a great expectation had fallen," the doctrine of humll1 liberty and the equality of human rights. Some weeks after the death of Tyler he was hanged, drawn, and decapitated in the presence of the King, and his body, having been quartered, vaB sent to four cities of the realm." Mention should also be made of the heroic fight for free- dom of the Norfolk peasantry under Robert Kett, who., although a tanner, also held three manors, and was, therefore, a man of sub- stance. "The brave and constant Kett" achieved a very large measure of success, cap- tured the city of Norwich, and had put his adversary, the Earl of Warwick, into serious straits when the timely arrival of a large force of trained, well-armed, foreign mercenaries— German lansquenets and Italian free lances- decided the fortunes of the combatants, and the rebels" were routed. Kett and his brother were captured and hanged in chains on the top of Norwich Castle. "Drowned in Blood." Each rebellion was followed by acts of the most fiendish cruelty. Peasants were con- demned to death in <^oves, and "on account of the multitudes that had to be executed," be- heading was at first employed, but this method of capital punishment "did not correspond to such monstrous and manifold crimes," so it was decided "to punish with hanging and drawing," nine or ten being hanged on one beam. Even when the friends and relatives of those executed at St. Albans stealthily removed the bodies from the gibbets, strict orders were sent to the bailiff to cause chains to be made, and to compel these people "to bring back the bodies to the gallows, and to. hang them on these chains so long as one piece might stick to another." After the Norfolk rebellion 3500 were massacred, and another 300 were hanged. It is stated that during the year 1549 alone, the revolts, which extended almost I all over the country, "involved the destruction of 10,000 Englishmen by the arms of foreigners." We are not told what actually does take place in Russia to-day, but if it equalled in any degree the abominable cruelty of these dark days, the whole civilised world" might very rightly ring with execration. R. S.

NEWS IN BRIEF. I Tragedies and Disasters. Fred David, of Llanelly, was drowned on Sunday while bathing from a boat near Whitford Lightship, in Carmarthen Bay. Frank Lamb, twelve years old, was knocked down and killed by a milk cart at Crofton Park on Saturday while he was play- ing in the street. A verdict of "Accidental death" was re- turned on Saturday at the inquest at Not- tingham on George Smith, five years old, who was crushed to death by a horsed roller on a cricket pitch in old Bashford Park. Whilst playing egg-in-the-cap" in Mar- nock-road, Bromley, on Saturday, a little boy named Francis Lea was run over and killed by a horse and van. Mrs. Jackson, the wife of a chimney sweep, was found dead in bed, with traces of blood on the floor, at Hilltown, Dundee, on Sun- day. It was stated that the husband has fled to the hills. Harry Gradwell, 11, of Bolton, was washed off some steps by a wave at Blackpool on Sat- urday, and was drowned. A shoeblack entered the sea up to his neck to rescue the boy, who was powerless amongst the great breakers. Walking along the railway line near Dal- ton, George Porter, a cycle-maker, was struck by a passing engine and killed in- stantly. At Bristol William Palmer was run over and killed by a goods train in the Midland Railway's shunting depot. At Dumfries a boy of fifteen pleaded guilty to attempting to cut his throat with a razor, saying he could not obtain employment be- cause <> his father was known to the police. A verdict of Death from ptomaine poisoning," was returned at a' Liverpool in- quest on Samuel Clucas, a master baker, who Was taken ill after eating German sausage. Mr. A. O. Lindsey, of East Wood-hay, Hants, was found in his bedroom with his throat cut, and is supposed to have commit- ted suicide. At an inquest at Cradley heath it was shown that a little girl named Ellen Griffiths had died from injuries sustained through be- ing knocked down by an unknown cyclist, who dismounted, picked up the girl, and gave her money, and, believing she was un- injured, rode away. Accidents. The rear portion of a West Croydon pas- senger train ran off the metals on Sunday at Wimbledon. The footboards of some of the carriages were damaged, and traffic was de- layed. In a collision at the Humber Regatta on Saturday one of the yachts, the Kitterina, heeled over to such an extent that spectators thought she had gone right over. Consider- ably disabled, she was towed into the har- bour. At Dudley a youth was accidentally shot by a companion on Saturday, and was in- jured seriously. Firing at a rabbit at Bishop's Stortford on Saturday, a man hit three others of the party in the hands and face, but missed the rabbit. A workshop at Holloway Head, Birming- ham, collapsed, a girl employed on the pre- mises being injured. In the Strand a fire broke out in the kit- chen of Romano's Restaurant, but was promptly overcome by the staff of the Vaude- ville by the use of the theatre hydrants.. Four waggons, two of which overturned, were derailed through missing the points, at Bishopsgate goods station. Slipping on a banana skin, Dr. Thomson, of Sheffield, has sprained one of his ankles. Told in the Courts. Jane Dash, a cook, was charged, on Satur- day at the Marylebone Police Court with ob- structing the street by assembling with others for the purpose of betting. She de- clared that it was the first bet she had ever made, and she was fined £ 5. John Charles Parkinson, a solicitor, was fined on Saturday at Liverpool for ticket frauds on the Lancashire and Yorkshire Rail- way Company. This is his. third conviction for a similar offence. Arthur Harold Jones, chauffeur to Lord Elphinstone, who said he had driven for the King, was fined twenty shillings and costs at Newcastle Police Court on Saturday for neg- ligently driving a motor-car. William Horner, of Hoddesdon, was charged at Harlow, Essex, on Saturday, with stealing a pony and trap and jewellery, valued at £50, from the Fish and Eels Inn, Roydon, of which the Rev. Dr. Thackeray is landlord. One of the passive resisters brought before the magistrates at Caxton, Cambridge, on Saturday, said that in accordance with the recent decision they ought to be compensated for what they had already paid, and the magistrates adjourned the case for three months. For exposing for sale meat which was un- sound and unfit for human food, George Belsland, a butcher, of 233, Great College- street, St. Pancras, was fined £10 with costs-. at the Marylebono Police-court. The World of Sport. The South African Association football team-the first team to leave South Africa— which has been touring in South America arrived at Southampton on Saturday on the Royal mail steamer Thames. The American yachts Vim, Caramba, and Auk have been chosen to defend the Roose- ve_t Cup, offered by the German Emperor, .or which three German yachts will compete. Asked to give a reason for Bude school average attendance being only 84 per' cent., the attendance officer said it was on account of golfing. Parents told him that they did not mind paying a fine if their boys could earn 2s. 6d. a day for acting as caddies. Mr. E. A. V. Stanley, of Quantock Lodge, who has for some years past hunted the Qnantock S'taghounds, has been selected to succeed Mr. R. A. Sanders in the Mastership of the Devon and Somerset Staghounds. Music and the Drama. A large number of people attended the opening promenade concert of the season at Queen's Hall on Saturday. Hundreds were turned away some time before the hour of starting with the cry, "All seats sold; ticket-holders only." Miss Gertie Millar will not take part in the forthcoming production of "Aladdin" at the Gaiety Theatre, on account of the ill- ness of her husband, Mr. Lionel Monckton. Her place will probably be taken by Miss Ada Reeve. Military and Naval. The British squadron, consisting of H.M. cruisers, Euryalus, Hogue, and Sutlej drop- ped anchor at Rifofjord on Saturday morn- ing. The Natal Rangers and the Natal Carabi- niers with 200 levies, carried out a series of operations in the Imati Valley on Saturday, capturing two chiefs and six other noted re- ocls. Without his consent, said Mr. Brodriek, at Tilford, Surrey, his name was given to the Army cap, with which he had no more to do than any man present. Lord Roberts has agreed to unveil a tablet in the crypt of St. Paul's in October to the memory of the men of the Middlesex Im- perial Yeomanry who fell in the late South African war. Colonel Pollock's anti-red tape army will disband on September 11, after training for a week under General French at Aldershot. The experiment has been a great success, and many lessons have been learned from it by the military authorities. Social. Eighty French members of the Inter* national Brotherhood Alliance arrived ill London on Saturday for a visit of several days' duration. They were met at Cannon-i street by Mr. A. R. Baker, M.P., and other members of the alliance in London, anct were taken to quarters in Smithfield. Mr. George Meredith 'has left his summe retreat on the Suffolk coast, and is now. staying for a few days with his son at S<v John's-wood. Lord Brassey has announced his intention of presenting the corporation of Bexhill with a maypral chain and badge. The King has appointed Colonel John* Mount Batten to be lieutenant and custoa rotulorum of the county of Dorset in the place of the late Earl of Ilchester. The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Alverstone)! entertained more than fifty of the members of the Royal Courts of Justice staff at a day's outing at his country house at Cran- leigh, near Guildford. Lord Tweedmouth, First Lord of the Ad- miralty, will be the chief guest of the Master Cutler, Mr. W. F. Osborne, at the annual1 feast at Sheffield on October 18 next. Ih aid of the restoration of St. Mary's, Church the bazaar opened by Princess Henry, of Battenberg at Carisbrooke Castle has rea- lised .£500. The speaker was to have opened a bowling- green at Caldbeck in the heart of his Mid- Cumberland constituency, but, after a larger gathering had patiently waited an hour past the appointed time, a telegram arrived, an- nouncing that, owing to the breakdown off his motor-car, Mr. Lowther would be unabler to get through. Someone else then performed.. the opening ceremony. Commercial and Industrial. The first sod on the site of Messrs. J. M* Dent and Co.'s new factory at the Garden City was cut on Saturday by Mrs. J. M., Dent. At Rowley (Staffs) the strike which has existed in the stone-paving trade for twenty- eight weeks was settled on Saturday. The prospects of the potato crop in the western districts of Ireland are this year oil the gloomiest character, and fears are ex- pressed that the Government will again hav& to come to the aid of the people if absolute- destitution is not to prevail. Lord St. Aldwyn, presiding over the meet- ing of the South Wales Coal Conciliation! Board at Cardiff, on Saturday, decided in; favour of the application for an advance of five per cent in the wages of the colliers. The masters had offered an advance of 2! perr cent., but the men had declined to accept it., All the trade unionists have been locked? out at the Bardon Hill Quarries, Leicester, for four weeks, and on Saturday the ownerBl: proceeded to evict a number of the men from;. their cottages. At a conference on the unemployed ques- tion at Cambridge on Saturday M. J. Casey, a representative from New York, advocated) the adoption of the Belgian system of for- cibly detaining tramps. We are all imperialists now," said General Booth in a speech at Coventry on hier emigration scheme; "but what is the use ofl having a great empire unless we make use Of1 .t With a view to the development of the. peat bogs of Canada as a commercial assefc the Dominion Government has ordered an ex- pert investigation. Mr. George Ford, of Hungerford (li^rks^ has just harvested and thrashed a field off black Tartar oats, measuring just under four and three-quarter acres. The produce was eighty-five sacks, or an average of eighteen sacks to the acre. The London and South Western Railway have decided to take over the motor-'bus ser- vice established by Messrs. Thornycroft and Co. between Farnham and Haslemere via- HindheacL From Other Lands. Pete," a large rattlesnake in the Zoologi- cal Garden at Bronx-park, New York, has, been operated on for appendicitis. The sur- geon declared the operation a success, but the snake died. A horse belonging to Mr. Charles Pur- shall, of Canandaigua, New York, wears trousers. Mr. Purshall is an agent of the humane society, and the trousers are a pro., tection against flies. Two hundred and sixty women floor scrub- bers and cleaners in the large offices in Chicago have "struck" in sympathy with their husbands, the window washers, who- are demanding an increase of pay. Anarchy reigns in the northern part of San D6mingo, and commerce is at a stand- still. A negro named Bob Davis, who had as- saulted a white woman and a negro girl, haa been lynched at Greenwood, South Carolina.; The Governor, who was present, appealed to* the mob to desist, but Davis was tied to a. pine tree and riddled with over 100 bullets. The French Cabinet has decided to stand firm against the Pope's encyclical. The con- flict between Church and State that will en- sue will be without parallel since the Angli- can Church freed itself from Rome. Why, we could make use of him in the Berlin Opera House," said the Kaiser, who, was favourably impressed by the fine voice of the leading tenor at an employees' choral society's concert at the Erupp Works in Es- sen. It is now reported that the tenor, Herr Koella, will be trained for the Berlin Opera. Wild speculation followed the dividend de- claration of the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific railways on the New York Stock Exchange. Many men made fortunes ranging from X200,000 to half a million each. It is stated that the King of the Belgians will -visit San Sebastian on September 6. pro- ceeding later to Biarritz. Other Interesting Items. All the electric trams on the London.: County Council South London system were stopped for more than an hour on Saturday on account of an interruption of the curreufc. at the Greenwich generating station. Miss Birdie Robinson, of Rumburgh, as- sisted in ringing a peal of 5,040 changes, lasting two hours and fifty-two minutes, at Rumburgh Church on Saturday. Annoyed by the secret marriage of her- daughter, a Mrs. Payne threw herself de- spairingly into four feet of water, and was- rescued with little difficulty. Mr. Fordham, before whom she was charged at North Lon- don with attempting to commit suicide, said: You did it to make a scene because yott,. were annoyed. I shall deal with you far- being guilty of disorderly conduct, and bind you over to keep the peace. Don't make such an exhibition of yourself again." The Breton delegates to the Eisteddfod at Carnarvon left for England on Saturday on the steamship Ena. They remain in Eng- land eight days. When he should have gone to church to be married, a young man living at Symonds- bury (Dorset) fell asleep in a field and failed to appear. The engagement has in conse- quence been definitely broken off. Mr. Whitehead, the newly appointed British Minister to Servia, has arrived in Belgrade. A heavy branch of one of the large tree*, at Lancaster gate, Hyde park, suddenly at Lancaster gate, Hyde park, suddenly crashed down on the roadway on Saturday night. Several parsons narrowly escaped in- iurAy- A pike weighing 301b., and 49in. long, has been caught, with a spoon bait in a lough at Ballina, Co Mayo, by Surgeon-Major Rayner. First aid cabinets containing all appliances necessary in an accident have been attached to several electric car. standards in various parts of Leicester. Owing to the part of a gravestone having been used in its construction, an old oven, which a Newark baker had removed vester- day, always stamped "Aged 77" on one loaf of each batch.