Evening Express

EDITING A PAPER. Editing a. paper is a nice business (says an American journal). If we publish a joke people say we are raddle-headed: if we don't we are an old fo&sil; if we publish original matter they say we don't give 'em enough selec- hODS; if we give 'em sdedions they accuse us of stealing from our exchanges', and say we are too lazy to write; if we give a. man a "puff" we are partial; if we compliment the ladies the men aiv, jealous; if we aou'-t- we are publishing a paper not fit to make a bustle of if we leinain in our office we are too proud to mingle with the "common herd": if we are on the streets we are not attending to our busme's if we wear poor clothes, business is dull: if we wear good clothes we do not pay for them. Now, what shall we do? Some may say we stole this from an exchange—and we did.

FOX SAILORSTFRIENDS. FOREIGN ARRIVALS AND HOVE- MENTS OP LOCAL VESSELS. Ka-ehill left Stettin for Kotka. 5th. White Jacket left Marseilles for Poti 4th. Le&reaulx left Chrita Vecehia for the Danube 3rd. hhymne, left Lisbon for Seville 4th. Hart arrived Newport 5th. AlAcritv arrived Havre 5th. 8tokesíey arrived Calais 5th. Benefactor arrived Huelva 4th. Eastgatc left Constantinople for Hamburg 3rd. Gena left St. John's for Penarth Roads Znù. Whitehall left Dover for A-itwerp 4th. Eden arrived Sunderland frolu the Tees 4th. ltliyl arrived Bilbao 5th. liuabou arrived Amsterd41lU 5th. Radian arrived St. Xazaire 5th. Red Jacket left Gibraltar for Southampton 3rd. Meiropc Abbey left Dart for Swautwa 4tb. Stokesley left Rotterdam for Cardiff 4th. Peter Graham left. Barry for Devonport 5th. Blodwen passed Constantinople for Rotterdam 4th. Gwalia left Burrow for Bilbao 5th. Charles T. Jones passed Prawle Puir.t :"or Barry 5th.

A CONTINENTAL HOLIDAY. HOW THE ENGLISHMAN GOES ABOulT IT. In the "Windsor Magazine" for June, Mr. F. Frankfort Moore gossips on the subject of an Englishman's mode of holiday making. Ee tells us: — "The sanest man whom I ever met came to me a year or two ago saying that he had heard so much from men who were in his office about the wonders of the Continent he had made up his mind1 to spend' the August in the midst of these beauties, and he won- dered if it would be too much trouble for me to sketch out an itinerary for liim. Of course I assured him that it would afford me the greatest possible pleasure to do this or anything else for him, and I inquired if he had any liking for a particular type of scenery, or if he preferred walking through picture galleries or resting in quaint and stuffy inns situated in the slums of pictu- resque old towns with red-tiled houses and a general air of operatic squalor. He told me that he wasn't particular. He had seen some charming old red-tiled houses in a town on the stage of the Lyceum Theatre, and he thought he would like something of that type, if not too expensive—something made up chiefly, I gathered, of curious old inn signs and. church bslfrys. At the same time he said he was fond of mountain and lake scenery of an imposing and wildly romantic pattern, where strangers would most likely quote Byron, though of course he should be disappointed if he did not see a gondola or two, as well as a chamois, and a cathedral with some interesting relics. I had no diffi- culty in perceiving that his imagination had been stimulated by a recent course of Savoy opera or Lyceum drama, but that did not matter. I said I would see what I could do for him if he allowed me a day or two. He thanked me and hoped I would be abie to give him a week at Monte Carlo. He supposed that Athens and the Pyramids ould scarcely be taken en route. Well, I took a consider- abe amount of trouble making out a regular &rand tour for him, which included as much of the Alps as would enable him to say he had been over the Alps, a glimpse of the Italian lakes, run to Naples, and a double to the Rhine as far as Cologne—I couldn't give him more cf it for the money—and then a rush through Belgium and a bird's-eye view of Holland from the window of a railway train. I even went so far as to write down the names of the hotels art whi-h I knew he would be safe in sojourning. f. I the railway fares. He received my information with enthusiasm, and said he would l,uy a. map the next day in order to make himself familiar with the relative position of the various places mentioned in my list, for of the majority he had, he said. never heard the names pre- viously. I did not see my friend until the early winter, and then I asked him how he had enjoyed the excursion which was to re- move from him the reproach of never having been on the Continent of Europe. What excursion?' said he. 'Why, the one I planned out for you, to be sure,' I replied. 'Oh. that one?' said he, as if it had suddenly occurred to him that he had been taking a holiday on the Continent. 'Oh. 1 didn't go there after all.' 'What do you mean by "there"? I said. 'I put a good many names down nn that list for you. didn't I? Which of the localities do you allude to as "there"?' 'Well, the fact is.' said he, 'when my wife and I began to discuss the business we came to the conclu^on that as the baby had been suffering from insomnia. foe tSome weeks before, it would be wiser for us to pack up and go off to Deal, where there are fine sea breezes and a magnificent view of the Channel on clear days, and we accordingly went to Deal. and had no troube in finding very comfort- able lodgings. If you have never been to Deal I'd advise you strongly to try it. If you wmind me I'll give you the address of our lodgings.

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Social and Personal INTERESTING PARS ABOUT INTERESTING PEOPLE. A Column, ef Gossip and Chatter ea an Infinitude of Men and Matters. Mr. S. R. Crockett is not going to edit a new magazine. The Duke of Atholl is the (only nobleman who clothes his men-servants in Highland dvfcsa in London. A bright boy of something under twelve is the Hon. Ivan Josslyn Luiniey Hay, the new I'age of Honour to the Queen. He is the third tion of the Earl of Erroll. One of Mr. George Grossmuh's practical jokes is to go into some grave old City bank and ask for brandy and soda and sandwiches. The elderly gentleman behind the counter in- variably explains with all gravity that f-.ey don't do "b.-and-s." and sandwiches there. Mr. Marion Crawford, the novelist, is still on the Atlantic on his yacht. He sailed for the Azores on the 23rd, and will journey from thence to Gibraltar and Naples. The yacht is a promoted pilot-boat. She was once pro- saically named the Ezra. Nye, but is now trans- figured into Alia. The Marquis de Mores, who is now on hie 'way to the Soudan to bad: up the Arab chieftains, is a well-known duellist. His most famous duel was fought with Ca-ptain Meyer, whom he killed four year., ago, standing his irittl for 'the occ-uxreneei amd obtaining a.n acquittal. Mr. Abbey's ftnuneial difficulties will, it is believed, be only temporary, and he and his partner, Mr. Grau, hope to resume business almost at onee. The ohief cawe of the failure was the firm's venture with the Lilian Russell Opera. Company. Sir Henry Irving's tour resulted, it is said, in a profit of £8,000 to the firm, and Bernhardt' tour to half ad much again. Lord Ronald Gower, woo ha.s been speaking on the subject, of the tall hat, is the only brother of the late Duke of Sutherland, and uncle of the present duke. Lord Ronald is of versatile talent. He was one' of the origi- nal eonitrlibutors to "Vanity Fair" (under the pseudonym of "Talon Rouge"), has written two very interesting volumes of reminiscences, and is a sculptor of xome eminence. His full r-pme its Lord Ronald Sutherland-Leveson- Gower, but. he prefers to abbreviate it. Prince Hatzfeldt, the new tenant of Earl Cowley's seat in Draycott 1'a.r1:, owes his ability to rent a nobleman's country house to the fact that he is -Mr. Cyrus Huntington's son-in-law. The Prince is a kinsman of the German Ambassador in London, and has mado the most of his life so far as it has gone.. He met Miss Huntington when lie wa.s employed as one of the secretaries in the German Lega- tion at X ew York. The ball which Lady Wimborne intends to give will be a very grand affair. Wimborti*; House, in Arlington-street, was originally a ducal residence, for it belonged to tho Duke of Hamilton, and was then known as Hamil- ton House. It came into the possession of the Guests, and since then has been one of the principal social centres in London. The suite or reception-rpoms i8 very fin". There is So large square ball-room, formed by roofing iu an old and u-sele&s courtyard. At the back, 0: St. James's Park side of the house, there is a considerable piece of garden. The Attorney-General of the Natal Ministry, Mr. Harry Eacombe, Q.C., comes of a family that was once well known in City circles. Five-and-twenlty years ago he was a trader in Durban. His fumgot into difficulties, so he .plunged into the etudy of the law, lived with almost painful economy, and in time qualified himself for the profession of which he is now go distinguished an ornament. Although oc- cupying the "wnw political plabform as the Natal Premier, Sir John Robinson, he is looked upon in Natal as hi.. rival and probable successor. Another European prince has picked off an American heiress. This is Prince I Radziwill, one of an ancient Polish family who are con- nected by marriage with the Hohenzollerns. His wife, now the Princess Radziwill, was a Miss Melmo, and is reputed to have endowed her husband with an income of six millions of dollars. Her sister, Mrs. Eugene Kelly, is the wif^ of an American who commenced life in a ,«mal. Californian dry goods store, and is now one of the richest men in the States. The Earl of Mexborough haa entered upon his eighty-seventh year, and is one of the ol lest members of the Houee of Lords. Sixty- I' five years ago he sat in the unreformed Parlia- ment for the notorious pocket borough of Yatton. This venerable peer enriched his house, although not his heir, Lord Pollington, by his second marriage with Miss Raphael, one of the family of foreign bankers. Lord Pcl.i'gton has, however, no children, and as he has been a husband nearly 30 years is haidly likely to have any. The Mexborough title rid estates will thus in all probability pass to the second family, who a few years ago leatlitea largely under the will of Mise Anne Raphael, of Stockwell Hall. The London correspondent of the "Man- chester Courier" announces the engagement of. Mr. R. P. Houston, member for the West Tox- teth Division of Liverpool, to Mies Janette Steer, the actress. The correspondent states that the marriage is fixed for August, and that Mr. Houston has bought a. London house. The prospective bridegroom is a man of 43, who took honours at Liverpool College. He served an apprenticeship as an engineer and' shipbuilder, and did so well that when he was 21 years of age he was appointed superinten- dent engineer for one cf the great Atlantic steamship lines. He is now the principal owner of the Houton line cf steamers trading with South America. Miss Janette Steer is a daughter of the late Mr. Cnarles Ster, a judge of the -iigh Court of Calcutta. She took to the stage by choice, not from necessity, and was in the awful burning down of the Exeter Theatre, where 188 lives were lost. Miss Steer ww playing the Gipsy Queen at Exeter, and had a presentiment of coming evil. Her sister is the widow of the late Sir Maurice Duff Gordon, and was once as Mrs. Mackintosh associated with her in theatrical work. In the current issue of "Great Thoüg!1t; date June 6, a brightly-written interview with Mr. Le Gaiiieane tells of tiie three p.eoes of good fortune of his life. He was still an articled clerk with a Liverpool firm of accoun- tants, and 'had not yet issued his first privately- printed volume of verss—"My Ladies' Sonnets" —wheii ho and another youns; clerk went to see Wilson Barrett as "Cha.tter.ton." When the great actor drove from the theatre they in their enthusiasm ran after the ("rub to shake hands wiith their hero. Witlh characteristic kindliness Mr. Barrett stqpped the cab and re- turned. the greeting with much warmth. Some time latter both the young men wrote to Mr. Barrett, Mr. Le Gallienne sending a copy of his first book with the letter and expressing the desire of his friend to go on the stage. Mr. Barrett consented to see the aspirant, iind gave him a small part. The friend is Jam** Welch, the actor, andt is now Mr. Le Gallienne's brother-in-law. It was, perhaps, in the nature of things that Mr. Le Gallienne tuibsequAn'lly left tihe business of figures to became Mr. Wilson Barrett's secretary. He does not think I iit ■pos-lble to sipssuk too highly of the good work Mr. Barrett h'as done privately. Fortune smiled on Mr. Le Gallienne :<<r\in when he sent- his specimen columns Into the "Star" and wa^ «ucce#ip!ful: and his t'hird pii-ce of good fortune was his friendship with Mr. John Lane. Mfr. Le Gallierme has already pub- l;*hed seven bocks, he has a romance in wait- ing for September, and he has taken to lectur- ing. He is only thirty even now.

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OVER THE NUTS AND WINE QUIPS ANFC CRANKS FROM BOTH HEMI- SPHERES. A. Selectiaa of Jokes and Funny Aneodatas for .]It Mental Recreation of Old and TTwung. Love's Sacrifice.—"Has she any proof of his love?" "He lets her brother ride his bicycle." "All this country wants, sa.id Mr. OToole, "is peace. An', bedad, we'll get it, too, if we hov to fight fur it." Doctor: You are fagged out; you must give up all headwork. Patient: Why, that spells ruin! I'm a hairdresser Little Bobby: How did your football match turn out? Little Billy: It wasn't played. We settled it Uy arbitration. "No man." says a loquacious wife. "ever complains that a woman talks too much when she's a. girl and he's engaged to her." Miss Makeup; Doctor, can you tell me of a perfect face powder? Dr. Gruffleigh: I cannot, madam. A per- fect faoe does not need any. "There is nothing like our House of Lords," boasted the patriotic Briton. "Still, you can't say it is without a peer," replied the American. Bobby: Why do people call an unmarried woman a spinster, pa? Pa: Because she is spinning a web for an unmarried man, Bobby. "One of the ironies of life," says a philoso- pher, "is the fact that the man who has mondy enough to pay as lie goes can get all the credit he wants." Mrs. Talkmore: What kind of people are your new neighbours? Mrs. Gadabout: I don't know yet. They haven't hung their wash out yet. "Woman, began the friend of the family consolingly, "is a. creature of many moods." "My wife isn't." ventured Mr. N. Peck. "She is always in the imperative." But Would Like To.—Miss Kitt\y Scatter- brains (vivaciously) With all my faults you love me still, don't' you, papa? Papa (grimly): I don't know. I never saw you still. Farmer Hodge: I see it says here that some of them Lunnon banks have been doin' business for 150 tyears, and never closed their doors." Mrs. Hodge: Dear me, how careless! I wonder anybody trusts them with their money Monday is Washing Day. Tommy: JMamma. why did they put Monday next to Sunday ? Mamma: Don't trouble me now, dear. I'm sure I don't know. i'oinmy (after a pause): Was it because cleanliness is next to godliness? A Musical Hint.—"We have just bought a new clock, Mr. Stalate," she said, sweetly. "Indeed?" "Yes, and it has such a novel arrangement. It has a music-box attachment." "Dees it play every hour?" "No; only at 10.30. Then it plays 'Home, Sweet Home. A Long-felt Want.—A correspondent asks what invention would do the most good to tha fargest number of people; and, after thinking the matter over for four nights. horizontally and otherwise, we have decided to answer thus: —A brake attachment for gas meters. No Cl)anc« Nowadays.—"Young Man," said the elderly partly with the big watch- chain, "I laid the first foundation of my for- tune by saving tram fares." "I didn't know you were ever a conductor on a tram," remarked the flippant youth. "It can't be worked in these bell-punch days, anyway." "Your trip to Italy must have been very pleasant," said one of the most iutelligent young ladies in a Wiltshire village to Simp- son, who had just returned from foreign parts. "Very interesting indeed," answered he. "Now, tell me," said she. "does Italy look like a boot? You know that's the way it looks on the map." Mrs. Gabble: Baby seems to be awfully slow in learn, ii g, to ialk. Mrs. Gabble's Husband Have you ever given her a chance to try ? A French confectioner, proud of his English, and wishing to let his patrons know that their wants should be attended to with- out delay, put a notice in his window, "Short Weights Here." Appreciation.—Papa; Here's a nice little money-box, Willie. Willie: Won't you give me a shilling, Papa: A shilling ? What for? Willie: To put in nJiy nice little money- box. A Leap Year IdylL-Newcome: The Widow Smith proposed to me last night. Crawley: Really What did you say ? Newcome: Told her I'd be a son to her. You see, her daughter got there first. "Don't you, sometimes make a mistake, and fynch the wrong man?" asked the travelling Briton. '"We did once," replied the Tennessee farmer; "but we offered to do the square thing by the widder." "How was that?" "We told her she could take the pick of the crowd for her second husband." Doctor: My dear madam, I can do nothing whatever for you. Lady Gracious What is the matter with me? Doctor: Nothing! -0- As Ordered. A commercial traveller who invariably stopped at a certain well-known hotel when in Loriekin on business used always to call for "old hen" when he saw chicken on the bill of fare. The waitress and cook thereupon prepared for him, and whenever chicken was served an old hen was also provided for this particular guest. After this order of things had continued for three months without their victim suspecting the joke, he one day called the waitress to him and told her he was getting tired of old hens, and he thought he'd like to have a taste of chicken. "Very well." was the reply, "you can have it, but you ordered old hen regularly; and as this house always pleases its guests when possible we've been giving you what you ordered." j The Parisian beggar is generally a person of wit. A member of this fraternity met one evening, at eight o'clock, a gentleman who was on his wa'y to a dinner-party. "Have pity, monsieur, and give me a sou," said the beggar, "for I have had no dinner to-day "Go away!" exclaimed the gentleman. ''I've had no dinner either "Too bad!" answered the beggar. "Make it two sous, then, and we'll dine together!" First Boy: You ought to have come to the concert our music teacher is goin' to give. Second Boy: You goin' to be in? First Boy: Yes. I'm one of the primmer donnas. We're goin' to give a cantata. Second Boy: Wots that? First Bov: Oh, it's all about sunshine and storms, and picnics, and harvesters, and all sorts of country things. It's great. iSecond Boy: Do you sing all that? First Boy: No-no. I'm only in the first scene "Early mornin'. Second Boy: What do you do ? First Boy: I crow. "flu'v's your son, the banfcster, getting on "Badiy, poor fellow. He s in prison." "indeed "Yes; lie was retained by a burglar to defend him. and he made so good a plea. in the burglar's behalf that the judge held him as an accessory." I puzzled. I The story is told of a famous mathematician ¡ that he was frequently guilty, during his courtship, of walking the greater part of a mile with the young lady of his choice with- out speaking. One evening she took advan- tage of his absent-mindedness to play him a trick. She slipped her hand from his arm and hurried home a. nearer way. He con- tinued to hold his arm in the same position. ¡ walked up the steps of her father's house and rang the bell, when, to his astonishment, she herself opened the door. He stared in an incredulous manner, and exclaimed— "Why, IS-, how in the world did you I get on that side of the door?" j

From Far and Near I I 4 COLUMN OF CHAT ON I INTERESTING SUBJECTS. Items of News and Anecdotes Gleaned for the "Express" from ST., S., and W. I The new British Army magazine rifle will throw a 'bullet to a distance of over 4,000 yards. A Turkish turban of the largest size contains from ten to twenity yards ol the finest and softest muslin. A society is being formed in Paris for the study and Improvement of the various breeds of sheep dogs. Every ion of Atlantic waiter when evaporated yields 81ib. of salt; a ton of Pacific water 791b.: Arctic and Antarctic waters yield 851b. to the ton, and Dead Sea water 1871b. The Esquimaux have a. queer custom in re- gard to doctors. At each visit ttlie doctor is paid. If the patient recovers, the physioian keeps the money: if tihe pati.ent dies the money is returned to iilie family of the deceased. A shark measuring sixteen feet in length, is .announced as having been captured recently in the harbour of Sidney, New South Wales. The fish's stomach on being opened was found to contain a large dog's collar, a man's coat, a briarwood pipe, some coppers, and a great number of safety pins. Napolean's luckjr day was the second of the month. lIe was made a Consul on August 2, 1802, was crowned December 2, 1804, won the battle of Austerhtz December 2, 1805, and married the Archduchess of Austria April 2, 1310. Jamea Macline, who lived in the middle oi the eighteenth century, was known as the Gentleman Highwayman. It was his affecta- tion of manner and his extravagance in dress, as well as his mode of living, which earned him the nickname. The lines of no human hands are exactly alike. When a. traveller in China desires a passport, the palm of the hand i's covered with fine oil paiint, and an impression is taken on thin damp paper. This paper, officially signed, is his passport. "The Great Unknown" in literature was the title given to the author of the Waverly novels while as yet only suspicion pointed to Walter Scott as the new literary genius whose works had so suddenly acquired such an extraor- dinary degree of popularity. The parish of St. Olave, Hart-street, in London, has an endowment of £600 per annum fcr the poor, and having none, a pauper from without was at one time engaged to live con. stantly in the parish and receive the money. This farce, however, has now ceastd. There is no difficulty about tiaching a goat to climb stairs. It will walk up a perpen- dicular ladder, and is quite at home on the roof—especially where the tiles are loose. A goat will follow its master like a dog. and re- spond at once when its name is called. England haa several parishes that are with- out paupers. Among them may be men- tioned the parish of Hargham, in the county of Norfolk the parish cf Manningford Abbots, in Wiltshire; besides Baverstock, Gravely Woods, and others in t'he same county. Tassinari in Italy has proved by elaborate experiments that tobacco kills microbes, and he strongly recommenda smoking as a. protec- tion against cholera. "Visa.Tli, during the in- fluenza epidemic of 1889, noticed that workers in tobacco factories almost entirely escaped. "For one's wits to go wool gathering" is an allusion to a pitiful industry sometimes seen in older countries. In parts) of France, Ger- many, and Spain very old people are some- times employed in gathering wool from bushes in sheep pastures where it has been plucked from the fleeces as the anima-ls pass too close to the branches. purchase has just been completed by Sir John Arnott, Bart.. of the Duke of Devonshire's fine estate m the west of County Cork, beautifully situated on the Bandon River. The estate, which includes the town of Banaon, extends to over 32,000 statute acres, and the purchase price is said to be p.bout a quarter of a million. Epsom Downs 1,000 years ago was the ren- dezvous for all kinds of sports. It was the meeting place of the Surrey Bowmen, who were among the most skilful archers of tihe kingdom at that- period. Most public schools and .universities had their meetings for dis- playing their skill at archery, and the first prize in most. instances was a. silver arrow. "To take him down a peg or two" rc-ca]ls the Saxon tankards or wassail bowls, gradua- ted by lines running around the "interior. Small holea were nade partly through the sides of the vessels, and in these were placed pegs to regulate the amount, drank by each participant in the feast. To drink a greater poition than another was to take him down a pég. It is clear that tobacco and tobacco smoke are antiseptics and germicides of considerable power, and that their action on the pulmonary circulation is useful in relieving or preventing aaiy tendency to chronic congestion of the lungs. Many doctors in various countries have remarked the comparative immunity from puimonaay disease enjoyed by workers ■in tobacco factories. Fencing is becoming a favourite form of exercise among women. Amonp its aceoni- plished adepts are the young Princesses of Waits, Mrs. Langtry, and several of the most graceful a.ebreises of the English stage. Though the earlier lessens are. supposed to be fatiguing, when once the knowledge has been acquired learners are always enthusiastic followers of this vigorous, healthy exercise. Mr. W. Canton thus describes "The Child Raider": — HeY" happy, wondering eyes had n'er Till ,no. ranged summer meadows o'er r She would keep stepping .everywhere To fill with flowers her pinafore. But when t*he saw how green a.nd wide Field followed field, and each was gay With endless flowers, tihe laughed—then sighed, "No use!" and threw her spoils away.

In connection witlh the anniversary services a.t the Tabernacle Sunday School, Cardiff, which take place to-morrow (Sunday), at the afternoon service Mrs. James (who is engaged, together with her husband, in the mission field) will take part. <'N'B OF THE WOrOKRo OK THE AGE i. Spencer's New High Ann Hand Sewing }1a.c111':> w2tl¡ W9JUUt cover ,?nd full set 01 appliances, ;ef £2 IBs. 6;)., eaah. Money returned if not approy-d. Beit value in Sewing 1få<>hines.-Spen()\!IJ5 Donwtic Mt'chiiio Depot. St. ,TohIÙHUIuII.re, Cardiff. efi32g Thousands of children die annually frr-m that terrible diseaoe, CROUP. All may be saved by g-i':ing them Mortimer's Croup Mixture in time. May be obtained of ail chemists at b. lid. per bottle. Wonderful Medicine.—Kernjck's Veg^taMe PiUs; cure hradaches, mdigss^ n, nervoiw debility, fir- 7i.d.. 13. lid., a.nd 2a. Sd. per box.—Sold every- where. e5806 Try: one of Spencer's :S1 9s lid." Wi-Jiger and Mangle combined; very grer-t a.&1Et.'I.ncc in I!f,nn;; cleaning.—Spencer's Douiowtc'; Machine Depot, St. John's Church-square, Cardiff. eó338

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CYCMNG. TEACHING A LADY TO RIDE A BICYCLE. The following directions are given in the June number of Work—Take the pupil out on to a quiet road or lane—one having a gentle decline, preferably, at first. Atter assisting her to mount irom the left side, let her have full control of the steering from the very first, the teacher balancing the machine from the back of the saddle or by a band round the vider'd waist, but on no account should the machine and rider be held up forcibly by the handles and saddle, or the operation of ttaching will be a lengthy one. impress on the learner'd mind that when she feels the machine has an inclination to fall to the left, she should turn the steering-wheel slightly in the same direction, and not in the opposite direction, as a learner at first gene- rally does. As the pupil progresses, gradually lesson the support given to the machine until it is running unsupported without her knowing it, but run behind the machine to be in readiness to give support if necessary. The machine, at the first tew attempts, should be adjusted with the saddle rather low—this wi'll give confidence to the rider—but when able to mount, dismount, and ride unaided, the saddle should be raised to its proper height. To mount, have the machine so that the right pedal is junt about to descend, hold the handles, place the right foot on the right pedal, put your weight on it, and raise your- self into the saddle. To dismount, wait till the left pedal is just about to descend, put your weight en it, and bring the right foot over to the left side.

M 0 I)KLI MIT8 IC IAN S. HOW DR. TUBPIN GIVES AN j ORGAN RECITAL. In the series of articles, "Moments with Modern Musicians," which are now appearing in the "Windsor Magazine," F. Klickmann j gives a sketch of Dr. E. H. Turpin, the famous organist. With a most pre-occupied expres- sion the doctor will arrive at the organ when he id to give a recital usually only just in time. He looks around and at his music with an air of "Let me see, what did I come here for?—Oh, yes, 1 remember now,' and forthwith he takes his seat and dives into his pocket trying to find a programme. The guest who id in the organ loft has anticipated this, how- ever, and, programme in hand, reads out the first item. 'U11, thank you very much,' says the doctor in the most courteous way. 'I had a programme somewhere, 1 know; but things do disappear so.' Then in an unconcerned manner a few stops are touched, hie hands go on the keys, his feet seem to drop quite acci- dentally on to the pedals, and you find the recital has commenced; and the surprising part of it- is, it all locks so easy. To play rapid scales with the feet appears to be the simplest tiling in the world when one watches the doctor doing it; and when one looks at his hands and observes the way he plays one manual with his left hand, and a second manual with his right thumb, and a third manual with the remaining four fingers of his right hand, it seems the most natural proceed- ing imaginable. The collection of music Dr. Turpin takes to a recital in curiously interest- ing. 1 remember on one occasion at the Crystal Palace he played a Beethoven move- ment from a full score, something flee from a pianoforte duet copy, a. Handel concerto from an antique edition that consisted of little but a figureu bais, and finally one item on the pro- gramme couldn't be found. '1 know I had it somewhere,' he said, turning out the contents of his coat pockets, where at last he unearthed a much doubled-up half sheet of manuscript music paper, on which a very indistinct bass part was written. All, here it is. This is the only copy 1 have; but it is sufficient to refresh n1Y memory.' Å-

womYJx'mWoN. THOSE WHO WILL AND THOSE WHO WON'T. In "Cassell's Magazine" for June there appears a descriptive article, illustrated from photographs, of "Women in Prison," by Tighe Hopkins. He remarks that once the situation is understood—that steady industry means a rather easier life, and (in penal servitude) a certainty of remission of sentence—it is generally found that both men and women work moderately well in prison. But there is this difference—as regards the relative posi- tion of the Stxes-that, whereas in the long run the men can be compelled to work, there are no physical means of compelling the women. In the last resort, you can all but starve a male prisoner into submission, or—on the fht ofa visiting jUFtice--yol1 can tie him up and flog him. But the bread-and-water diet is now alwlinlied' for women; and it i's, happily, beyond anybody's power to condemn them to tho lash. In these circumstances the women keep a certain power in their hands; and, within limits, they may almost be said to have, the last word on the subject of labour. Of course, it is not often that the coercive .powers of the prison are strained to breaking- point. As a rule The Female Prisoner Gives in as tho male prisoner does, and works just hard enough to si-cure the proper number of marks per diem. In many cases with women, as with men, the work is done with zest to make'the time pass, to ease the :tch of remorse, or to get the rare best berths, with their attendant bonuses, which are open to competition in prison. The best workers, 01; whithevef side of the prison, are al-,va_ s to ibe classed in two divisions!. They comprise (1) those "first offenders," who are genuinely peni- tent, and who want to forget their c'i'gry^c, r as far as hard wcrk may make them forget it: and (2) a certain number of the "old hands," who have learned by previous experience that industry, or the show of it, "comes cheaper" than skulking. But on the woman's side of the prison, .even more than on the men's, there is always a considerable class of prisoners to whom serious and steady work of any indus- trial kind is not only repulsive, but more or lesw impossible. The expert female sharper, shop-lifter, thief, or swindler, who has never condescended to use her ha.nds like the rest of her sex, and who has a weakness for playintC the fine lady in prison, spares neither trick nor talc in her ceaseless efforts to escape the drudgeries of her lot. The disgrace of prison she does not feel, but she bitterly resents the iudignity of having to Go Down on Her Knees and scrub the floor in her cell and the corri- dor in front of it. Anything in the nature of II an industrial task is abhorrent to her. She petitions thg matron, upbraids the governor, wheedles the chaplain, and tells the doctor he is killing her by inches. Sometimes, when every other device ha., failed, she hurts her- self with o. needle, scissors, or fragment of glass, in th.e hope of being removed to the infirmary. She feigns sickness, insanity, qpilepsy—anything that is likely to "come oif" and a.n old hand at the art of malingering often puts to the severest test the skill of the most experienced prison doctor. Occasionally, with- out any pretence whatever, she flatly refuses to work, in which case the governor has to pre- scribe few days' low diet, with solitary con- finement. Again, a prisoner of this class will work with exemplary patience for weeks together, and then on a budden break lese. The deadly monotony of things becomes too much for her. The adventuress whose free life is a T'erpetuul, varied, excitement, and who can faes almost anything but a changeless round of common duties, is mentally unable to endure for long the hard. dull, routine of prison. To almost every prisoner, indeed, this is one of the sorest trials of a long senl.enee. As a rule, the most hardened female prisoners, equally with the novitiates in crime, are mors or lesj amenable to gentle treatment, and this is the more successful in proportion as it is unofficial in character. Tlw chaplain's ministrations are not invariably taken in good part and where they m'e resented, or coldly acquiesced in, it is not on the very reasonable ground that the good man is "paid to talk religion." Many of them, however, find the chaplain a very pradictll friend, whose useful- ness -is not confined to quoting texts from memory. But the unaid and unofficial visitorr from the outer world—kind-hsarted and sympat hetic women, above all—are those who win their way most effectually into the hearts of the female prisoners. Ons of the illustra-. tions .show a party of women at exercise, of whom r3 mie are carrying babies. The prison baby plays qaite an important part rt; a peace-maker and moral ag;-nt. With the consent of the mother, Qther prisoners on their good be- haviour are allowed to nurse it for a. while during be exercise hour; and a similar in- dulgence often calms ths passion or relieves tJie melanvholy of a truculent or d'spairing convict.

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I METEOR BEATS BRITANNIA BY TWO MILES AT GRAVESEND. In the Royal London Yacht Club matches, sailed ab Gravesend on Thursday, a race for yachts, eneeding b5ft. rating waff contested by Britannia, Ailea, Satanita, Hesfctr, and the German Emperor's new yachi, Meteor, which sailed in a style justifying the opinion that she is the fastest large racing cutter ever seen in British waters. She came in first with a long lead, beating Britannia. by about two miles, while the other yachts were left far astern.

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