Flintshire Observer Mining Journal and General Advertiser for the Counties of Flint Denbigh

A BRITISH EMBASSY. Tho Ambassadors Extraordinary and Plenipoten- tiary from the Court of St. James's to the Sublime Porte have made Pera their principal residence from the year 1581, when Elizabeth sent Sir Edward Hare- bone to represent her on the Bosphorus. For two and half centuries their Excellencies occupied houses the site of which is, for the most part, unknown, as they were, in turn, consumed by fire, that being the ultimate fato of all con- structions, whether of wood or stone, in Con- stantinople — the mosques alone seeming to be exempt. Tbe situation of the present building, the first erected especially for the use of the ambas- sador, I one of the finest in the city. The palace is on the crest of a hill, standing higher than the resi- dences of the other foreign representatives, and looks across the Golden Horn over the roofs of the Arsenal, the Admiralty, and the powder magazine, which line its nearer side. Beyond the water, and in full view of the windows rise the most famous of the mosques of Stamboul, while between the Embassy and the Horn, the Chrysokera of Byzantine days, lies the district of Kassim Pasha, one of the principal scenes of the late Armenian riots. Still nearer, and immediately below the garden walls, are the stricken cypresses which mark out that desolate tract, the Turkish Cemetery of Pera. These trees are living witnesses of the great fire which reduced the Embassy to a mere shell a quarter of a century ago, as the current of hot air swept to fiercely through their branches that they have never re- covered. The Embassy is constructed on the same lines as the Pitti Palace in Florence. Rising severe and substantial from its terraces, a high wall shut- ting it off from the mean district beyond, and a magnificent Albanian on guard at the gates, it has the look of a feudal residence. This idea is carried out by the massive doors, barred and clasped with iron, which form the entrance, and by the iron gratings which pro- tect the whole of the lower windows. A huge square court, enclosed and glazed, forms the centre of the building. This has been filled with palms ar.d divana by Sir Philip Currie, the present ambassador, and it used for the receptions of the ambassadress. A flne staircase of variegated marbles leads to the private apartments of the ambassador, six of these opening into one another, and forming a fine vista when all the folding-doors are thrown back. A magnificent ball-room runs down one entire end of the building, while the billiard-room and the apartments of the secretary of the Embassy give on to the fourth side of the wide corridor which, paved with black and white tiles, encircles the inner court on the second tI

u.vuJ.. ACQUITTED ON A MURDER CHARGE. At Reading, on Saturday, before Mr. Justice Brantham, Alexander Rich, hawker, was indicted for the wilful murder of Caroline Wilson, at Windsor, on January 22. The learned judge took the somewhat onusual course of trying the prisoner on the coroner's inquisition, refusing an application OQtMM ov behalf of the Tiwwnr* 'r t" pone tbe > —tne next assizes, that the magjst^rial examination might be completed. Mr. 0. Kinloch Cooke (instructed by Mr. Frayling, of the Treasury) prosecuted; Mr. T. M. Snagge defended the prisoner at the judge's request. From the evidence given on behalf of the Crown it appeared that the prisoner and the deceased woman had cohabited for between 14 and 15 years, and, though said to be fond of each other, were often drunk and quarrelling. On January 22, after they had been out in pursuit of their calling as hawkers, an alterca- tion between them in their cottage was heard. There waa the aound of a fall, ana deceased was heard to exclaim, "I am on Are." Neighbours entered the house, and deceased's clothing was found in flames, and she was lying on the floor. In the prisoner's presence the woman said she waa dying, and that he had thrown a lamp at her. She was taken to the infirmary, where her burns were dressed. At first she seemed likely to recover, but she got worse and died, death, according to the medical evidence, being caused by shock to the system consequent on the injuries she received. When prisoner was arrested he said he had no wish to hurt the woman, but they had a few words, and in a scume she knocked the table over and upset the lamp. He added that deceased threw a kettle full of boiling water at him. At the close of the evidence for the Crown Mr. Justice Grantham pointed out that there was no evidence as to what really took place between prisoner and deceased during the quarrel, as they were alone, and the affair was as likely to have been an accident as not. The jury would therefore not be justified in convicting the pri- soner either ef murder or manslaughter. By hit lordship's direction the jury then acquitted the pri- soner, and he was discharged. Mr. Justice Grantham said that had he consented to the postponement of the trial until the next assizes the prisoner would have been in custody awaiting his trial for five or six months when there was really no case against him.

y .-t THE NEW PHOTOGRAPHY. In acientifio circles the new photographic process ta still arousing intense interest. Some of the latest results have been shown at the rooms of the Royal Photographic Society in London, and illustrated the rarying transparency or permeability of different lubstances when exposed to the influence of the Crookes radiant tube. Two negatives, in particular, were interesting. A negative of coins and other metal objects, by Mr. J. W. Gifford, showed distinct signs of sparking; and the same gentleman also sent for exhibition a photograph of a human foot, in which a malformation of the metatarsus was plainly visible. This, perhaps, is the first medical or surgical photo- graph that has been taken in this country by the new process.

FOUNDED BY LOTTERY, Professor Maunde Thompson narrates some I'll [in interesting facts about the founding of the British Museum in the Leisure Hour. In 1755, he says, an Act was passed, entitled An Act for the Purchase of the Museum or Collection of Sir Hans Sloane, and of the Harleian Collection of Manuscripts, aud for providing One General Repository for the Better Reception "and more Convenient Use of the said Collections and of the Cottonian Library and of the Additions thereto." The sum of £ 20,000 was to be paid for the Sloane collection, and £ 10*000 for the Harleian manuscripts. The Cottonian Library was already public property. A sum of E300,000 was to be raised by a public lottery, and 100,000 tickets were to be issued at £3 each. Out of the funds thus obtained, the sum of E200,000 was to be allotted as prizes and the remaining EIOO,000, after defraying the expenses of the lottery, was to be ap- plied to the purpose of the Act, the sum of £ 30,000 being set aside and invested for the payment of salaries of officers and servants, the custody of tbe collections, and the future repairs of the buildings.

FAILURE has recently overtaken a movement, which had its origin in New York to establish a monastic system under the auspices of the Episcopalian Church of America. The experiment was continued for a little more than a year. It was initiated in Septem- ber, 1894, when a wealthy Boston merchant, named Russell Whitcomb, took monastic vows in St. Cry'sostom's Church, New York, and became prior of a religious order known as the Brothers of the Church. The aim of the order was to provide a home where devout men might live the religious life of the com- munity and do practical mission work among children, < boys, and young men. By November last the order was reduced to two, and the experiment came to an I end.

NEWS NOTES. THIS has been a week of sad ceremonial. Wednesday was set apart for the funeral of his Royal Highness Prince Henry of Batten- berg at quiet Whippingham. On Monday the remains of Lord Leighton were conveyed to St. Paul's Cathedral from the Royal -Academy, attended by many of Britain's most cultured and representative men, and by the head functionaries of the City, and escorted by the Artists' Volunteer Corps, to which the dead painter formally belonged. And on Tuesday, the day of Sir Joseph Barnby's burial at Norwood, a funeral service was also held at St. Paul's Cathedral, in honour of the lamented musician. Truly the air is full of farewells to the dying, And moanings for the dead." IN connection with the arrest of the Johannes- burghers quite a pathetic incident has just been made public. It will be recollected that among the prisoners is John Hays Hammond, an American mining engineer, and one of the most prominent organisers of the National Reform Union. When the news of his arrast reached Visalia, California, where his brother, W. H. Hammond, lives, a family council was called with the idea of arranging for the safety of the prisoner. The family was naturally much alarmed, and the pros- pect was discussed in the presence of the younger branches. Among them was the nine- year-old son Willie, who was very much attached to his uncle, and who had listened te the dis- cussion apparently unconcerned. Without say- ing a word to anyone he procured ink, paper, and pen and wrote to President Cleveland at Washington. This was the letter he sent: Visalia, Cal., Jan. 19, 1896. Mr. Cleveland, President. Dear Sir,—Will you please make the men that have my uncle in gaol let him go ? I think you will, won't you ? If you will I should be so pleased. They might kill him. You may be a stem man, but I think you will be kind enough to set my Uncle Jack free. If you were a little boy like me you would not like your uncl-e in gaol, and if I were you I would set him free if it caused war. My Uncle Jack is a good man, so you will please get him out. Write soon. I am son of W. H. Hammond. My paper is the County Clerk in Visalia. Yours truly, Billy Hammond." The President, good naturedly, responded to the in- vitation to write soon, and his letter indicated that he had forwardod a copy of the boy's letter to President Kruger. THE question of the admission of women to degrees at Cambridge has oreated great inte- rest. The petition nas been presented to the authorities requesting the Council to nomi- nate a syndicate to consider on what con- ditions and with what restrictions (if any) women should be admitted to the degrees in the university. Over 2000 signatures have been received, and an analysis shows that about 230 of the names are on the electoral roll, and of these 23 are professors. The opponents of the change have lately pointed out that while some of the memorialists are in favour of abolishing sex," so far as the uni- versity is concerned, others would wish to grant to women no higher privileges than are con- ferred by the B.A. degree. Nevertheless, the fact that so large a number have joined in tho memorial is regarded as showing a remarkable consensus of opinion in the university that some reform is urgently needed. THE perusal of the report of the committee of the New York Yacht Club on the Defendbr- Valkyrie race leaves many British folk of exactly 4-v, J u^iuiuu oetore. ifottnng but I the immediate re-measurement of Defender, which Lord Dunraven asked for, could have set the question at rest, and as that was not done the present report is worth, as a smart commentator says, just the value of the paper upon which it is printed. There is certainly i. nothing in it to re-assure any one who may have suspected that there was something "queer" about the race. Somehow there always are those unpleasant suspicions in con- nection with every contest with America, and the best way, perhaps, to avoid them is to give up these contests altogether. "ÛUIDA," in one of the monthlies, says: Amongst even the most cultured classes few have really any sensibility to beauty. Not one in a thousand pauses in the hurried excitements of social life to note beauty in Nature; to art there is accorded a passing attention, because it is considered chic to do so; but all true sense of art must be lacking in a generation whose women wear the spoils of tropical birds, slain for them, on their heads and skirts, and whose men find their principal joy for nearly half the year in the slaughter of tame creatures and bespattered with blood the white hellebore of their winter woods." MANY people nowadays consider a knowledge of shorthand as a necessary equipment for busi- ness life, and not as distinguishing accomplish- ment. But it has been decided to be a legal luxury by the judge of the Westminster County- court. The Metropolitan School of Short- hand sued a lad who is under 21 to recover payment of fees for tuition in shorthand and typewriting. The youthful stenographer pleaded infancy, and the judge held that the defence was good. A man, he said, might as well take lessons on the piano or cornet for the purpose of playing in a German band; but it could not.be oalled a necessity. There could be no doubt that tuition in shorthand and type- writing is a luxury; therefore he gave judg- ment for the infant.

A FALSE HALL-MARK MAKER. "False hall-marks for gold and silver plate and for jewellery of all kinds are made every day," said one of the headmen of the deteetive staff at Bow- street., "and although we have for several years been on the track of one very clever workman in London, who supplies these things, we have never caught him napping. Unless a ring, say, answered other tests, 1 should place no reliance whatever on the fact of its being hall-marked, and that is the view pawnbrokers take nowadays. Bven in the case of cheap jewel- lery sold at shops openly, something like a hall-mark, and yet not the exact thing, is sold; but most of the false stamps made, by the man I refer to are exact reproductions of the real thing, and they are chiefly used for rings and other articles meant for swindling purposes. I am sorry to say that a few inferior jewellers themselves mark inferior gold as 18-carat, but an immense number of personal ornaments are traded in public-house saloon' bare, and at the bars of places of entertainment, and the larger proportion of these are falsely marked."

THE bronze plate on the monument over the grave of President Monroe, in Hollywood Cemetery, Rich- mond, U.SA., was stolen the other night, probably by some relic hunter. THB story goes that when the late Sir Henry Ponsonby's wardrobe was cleared out there were a good many stray half-sovereigns found in the pockets of his old clothes. Even in his early cricket ing days Sir Henry was noted for a certain promisciioiisness of dress, for he not infrequentlv appeared in the fifcld with bits of string utilised in the absence of buttons. This habit remained with him, for he has been known, when hurriedly dressing for a Court dinner, to fasten his wiistbands with indiarubber rings in substitution for some buttons that had placed him false. Nor did experiences of this kind teach him the prudence of employing the more reliable wrist studs for fleeting buttons. CoFFiiE was first used in Abyssinia, where it waa known A.D. 875. In the middle of the 16th cen- tury coffee-houses were started in Constantinople, and in 1652 it made its first appearande in Great Britain. Bacon wrote of it: They have in Turkej7 a drink called coffee, which comforteth the brain and heart, and helpeth digestion." i

WHAT THE MILKMAN SAID. AN IDYLr. OF EAST LONDON. WHAT THE MILKMAN SAID. ALF IDYLL. OF BAST LONDON. "Can it be the same girl?"—even the milkman asked the question of a lady in Silvertown, at the East-end of London, whose daughter, in less than a month, had undergone so marked a ohange in per- sonal appearance as to be barely recognisable. ies, said the mother, "this is my daughter. You would not think she had been at death's door, would you? But it is so. Like most of my chil- dren, she was strong enough and healthy up to a year ago, when s-he began to droop and loll about, and couldn't work, and- didn't eat, and hadnt any inclination to do anything. Her father and I got in a fine way about it. We had lost one daughter, a fine young woman, and, as I said, seeing this one going the same way, we were dreadfully upset. We sent her to the sea-side, but .he came back as bad as she went the same lassi- tude, and loth to move. Then. she began to get worse, and we had the best doctor we knew cf. You can't see anybody die before your eyes without doing something to save them. He came, and came, and kept coming, and she took medicine, but with all his skill and care she did not appear to be any better, and we got tired of it. Anaemia, or blood- lessness, he said, was the disorder that was killing her." And then what did you do r We didn't know what to do. We were ready in our despair to try anything, when I came across a piece of newspaper which described something exactly like my daughter's symptoms and a cure of the person who was suffering them by Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. So we laid our heads together, and her father said try it.' We did, and you see what she's like now." "She does not look like an invalid now I" "No, indeed. It is the result of this won- derful medicine." Mrs. Peacock (whose address is 4, Randolph- road, Silvertown) went on to say that a fort- night after commencing the new treatment her daughter was better, and in less than a month everybody was remarking the improvement, so mar- vellous was the change. I only wish I had known of Dr. Williams' Pills when my other daughter was bad," she added, "and then we might have saved her." The young man at the drug stores where Mrs. Peacock purchased the Pills said he had served her with several boxes of Pills, and witnessed the grati- tude of her heart when she told him of the wonders they were working in her daughter's condition. All he knew about Dr. William's Pills was that they were selling, and that people had a box or two, got better of the ailment for which they took them, and then left off buying, from which he inferred they were cured of their troubles. Dr. Williams'Pink Pills directly enrich and purify the blood, and thus it is that they are so famous for the cure of rheumatism, scrofula, chronic erysipelas, and restore pale and sallow complexions to the glow of health. They are also a splendid nerve and spinal tonic, and thus have cured many cases of paralysis, locomott-r ataxy, neuralgia, St. Vitus' dance, and nervous head- ache. They are now obtainable of all chemists, and from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Holborn- viaduct, London, at 2s. 9d. a box, or six for 13s. 9d., but are genuine only with full name, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People. A specific for all the troubles of the female, and in men cure all cases arising from worry, overwork, or excesses.

LATEST AT THE ZOO. The rectiut, o.aaiu—- u tho gardens of the Roval Zoological Society in London are two West African love birds, two king penguins, one crowned darker bok, one yellow-fronFea Amazon, one Persian gazelle, one Mozambique monkey, one puff adder, twogoMou- crowned conures, one pig-tailed monkey, two black- headed caiques, one green-cheeked Amazon, one salt- water terrapin, two Indian jerboas, one Himalayan bear, one slow loris, seven Gallot's lizards, one Dela- lande's gecko.

A CHECK IN POPULATION. Leroy Beaulieu declares that so far the only hope of augmenting the French population lips in the decrease of deaths. The causes of the falling off lie in the structure of French society, legally and morally. The postponement of marriages until late in life, the restrictions put upon child labour in the poorer classes, and even the feminist movement which, by providing women with work, niake3 marriage no longer their only settlement in life, all help, according to the noted political economist, to cause a dwindling of births, which will eventually make itself felt all over the world.

LILIUOKALANI COMING TO LONDON. Ex-Queen Liliuokalani, of Hawaii, and her niece, the Princess Victoria Kaiulani, propose, it is said, to pass the spring in London, and to go to Austria next autumn. The Prince of Kailua, who was entrusted with the selection of a place of abode for the ex-Queen in Austria, gave up the idea of choosing Vienna, and purchased a site on Lake Gardti, Austria, between Torbole and Malcesine, upon which a villa will be erected. For a summer residence he bought the Castle Di Pianell, near Conegliano, in the Udine province. The castle henceforth is to bear the name Wai-Kea." If this be true, it means, of course, that the Queen is to be liberated soon.

A PAMPERED PET. The extravagant care lavished by society ladies in Paris upon their dogs was strikingly examplifled a few days ago. A lady walking in one of the fashionable squares found a stray toy terrier clothed in a coat lined with silk and heavily trimmed with costly furs. There was a tiny pocket in the coat, containing a handkerchief made of the flnet, cambric and bordered I i,rit,h delicately-worked Valenciennes lace. In the I jorner was a marquis's coronet. A yellow silk ri bbon formed the dog's collar, whioh was held together by a jold brooch set with beautiful pearls ana brilliants. Up to the present this canine aristocrat has not been claimed, and the police have sent it to the refuge just tike an ordinary dog.

LOOKING AFTER "POOR JACK." British seamen discharged at Rotterdam have jecurcd the services of Mr. C. E. Tritton, M.P., to present for them to the President of the Board of frade a petition praying that sailors and their wages may have similar safeguards when paid off at Ham- Durg, Antwerp, and Rotterdam, as they would have if paid off in home ports, or at Dunkirk. The Mer- chant Shipping Act, Section 186, forbids seamen being left abroad, yet in 1892, the last year with regard m which statistics are available, 27,000 British sailors were paid off in the seven Continental ports :)f discharge between Brest-and the Elbe. £ 322,000 were thus paid to those men in foreign ports. At a ost of F-1262 to themselves, 6000 of these sailors forwarded to their homes one-third of this large sum, but the other two-thirds of their accumulated wages offered golden opportunities for that cheating and iwindling which goes by the name of crimping. The sailors in their petition to Mr. Ritchie ask that a subordinate Board of Trade official may be attached to each of the three ports named above, and that the money of the sailors may be remitted to their homes from abroad as it would be from an English port of discharge, viz., free of charge. This system has worked wonderfully well at Dunkirk for the past year and a half, to the great benefit of large numbers of merchant sailors and their families, and they are therefore anxious for its extension to other ports of discharge on the Continent.

WHATEVER may be the faults of the London cab- men, they are, as a rule, honest men. The property that has been left in cabs and restored to the owners during the past five years is shown by police sta- tistics to represent a value of not less than £ 100,0(J0. IT is announced that the Archbishop of Canter- bury, on behalf of the Episcopal Bench, has requested the Prime Minister to appoint a Parliamentary Com- mittee to inquire into the whole question of licensing reform. L

THE PASTOR CO-RESPONDENT. The hearing of thé" divorce suit Cantillo v. Cantillo and Crosby was concluded on Saturday, on which day the cross-examination was continued of the co-respondent, William Crosby, pastor of the Langham Chapel, near Colchester, and formerly pastor of the church in Queen's-road, Battersea, which petitioner attended. Mr. Priestly began his cross-examination by asking the co-respondent if he was fond of Kate Gieen, to which the reply was that he was fond of her like one of his own children. Were you attached to her?—Yes. Sometimes I gat up with her doing some book-keeping. She did not let me see she was attached to me. Continuing, Crosby said that he was not the father of Kate Sreen's child. He knew she was enceinte, and spoke to her on the subject. She told him that the father was a commercial traveller, but did not mention his name. He was very much shocked, but he allowed the matter to rest there. Did you go through a mock ceremony of marriage with her?—Never. If she said you did it is a lie?-It is a lie. What reason can you suggest that she should tell such a lie ?-I cannot give any. Sir F. Jeune She has said you were the father of the child ?—It is a wicked falsehood. Can you suggest any reason why she should say so ? —Only that Miss Waller had a great influence over her. Answering further questions, witness denied that he ever wrote to Kate Green promising to be faithful to her so long as she kept his secret. It was a lie to say that he ever wrote such a letter. Why did you receive her in your house ?—I had been forgiven, and I thought she ought to be forgiven. What had you been forgiven for 1-God knows! I was accused of what was not true. What do you mean 1-1 mean that God bad for- given me as a sinner. Cross-examination continued: When he told the petitioner that Kate Green would make a good wife, he did not think it his duty to inform him that she had had a child. He thought the petitioner knew. Witness was next questioned as to whether he knew that the petitioner was, on one occasion, waiting out- Bide to thrash him, and he answered he was told so. He was busy upstairs at the time. (Laughter.) He thought it was the wisest course not to intervene when her husband had come to the house for her. He thought the husband was waiting to thrash both him and her. She came to his house unknown to him. He did not try to induce the wife to go back to her husband, because if he had gone out there would have been a scene, and he thought it the wisest thing to stay inside. (Laughter.) The next day she went to her mother's. There was an inquiry made at the church in his absence. Dr. Cronin, the treasurer, wrote to him to go, bat he did not go. Mrs. Marian Crosby, co-respondent's 'wife, was called. She said that she spoke to Kate Green about her child, and ultimately, after refusing at first to give the name of the father, the name of Tremaine was mentioned. She never saw any familiarities between her husband and Miss Green. They sat up at night doing the books after witness went to bed but it was with her sanction. In cross-ex- amination, witness admitted that she had heard her husband's and Miss Green's name associated, but she always trusted him, always had, and always should trust him. She never quarrelled with her husband over the respondent, and as for the scandal she did not care twopence for it, as it was untrue. This concluded the evidence. Counsel then ad- dressed the jury, after which his lordship summed up the evidence. At a quarter to five the jury retired to consider their verdict. After an absence of 25 minutes they found that the respondent and the co-respondent bad misconducted themselves, and assessed the damages at one farthing. His lordship granted a decree nisi, with costs.

MR. JUSTIN M'CARTHyS RETIREMENT. Mr. Justin M'Carthy has written to the Freeman contradicting a statement that a meeting of the Irish Parliamentary party to elect a chairman and whips would be held in Committee Room No. 15 imme- diately after the delinir nf flmtea'a Speech. He that the meeting which he had called by circular to be held in Dublin on the 8th inst. would be for that purpose. The Freeman says that the statement was forwarded by Mr. D. Sullivan, M.P., the official secretary of the party.

NEW Q.C.'S Her Majesty has been pleased to approve, on tho recommendation of the Lord Chancellor, of the names of the following gentlemen for appointment to the rank of Queen's Counsel: William Donaldson Rawlins, John Donohoe Fitzgerald, George Mallows Freeman, Alexander Macmorran, Miles Walker Mattinson, Roger William Wallace, and Paul Ogdea Lawrence, Esqrs.

DOUBLE FATALITY AT A BLAST FURNACE. An accident resulting in the death of two men and serious injury to a third occurred late on Friday night of last week at the blast furnaces of Messrs. Round, Brothers, Rowley, near Oldbury. The un- fortunate men were repairing a furnace when the scaffolding on which they were working collapsed, and they fell a distance of 60ft. Isah Gething and Peter Thompson expired shortly afterwards, as the result of injuries sustained, and the third man, John Round, was, when this report was dispatched, lying in a critical condition.

CO-OPERATION IN AGRICULTURE. The Earl of Winchilsea attended the annual festival of the Lincoln Co-operative Society on Saturday night, and, speaking on the propositions he is now advocating for the better collection and distribution of British agriculture produced by co-operatire methods, his lordship remarked that we imported foreign, produce to something like the value of E147,000,000, the greater part of which might be produced at home. From the national standpoint it was necessary to be safe in case of war, and they ought to bo able to produce all they wanted, and distribute it in such a way that it should reach the consumer without the intervention of an interminaUe series of middlemen. At present t they had this extraordinary state of things prevail- ing, that whereas tho consumer was charged ex- tremely high prices, the producer did not get stiffl- cient to pay his way. It would be nothing less than a national danger if we allowed the land to go out of cultivation.

THE KILLING OF WILD ANIMALS. In England there is no wild beast question we got rid of our bears and wolves and sundries of that sort a good many years ago. But this happy state of things does not exist everywhere. India, for instance, has always an open account, which runs into large amounts in a year, regarding snakes and crocodiles, besides the tigers and other earnivores that are notoriously of unpleasant proclivities, and in Australasia the State has taken to paying 8d. a head on dead kangaroos, besides the ner-headage on the superfluous rabbit. To come much nearer home than this, we have France rewarding the wild-beast exterminator by payment on results, and we have Norway doing the dame thing on a much larger scale. The Norwegian accounts show that this business is unexpectedly extensive. For instance, payment was made in 1891 en- 57 bears, 37 wolves, 44 lynxes, 46 glut- tonsi and, 8646 foxes I The year before claims were allowed on 72 bears, 50 wolves, 56 lynxes, 40 gluttons, and 11,400 foxes. In Norway in 1893 rewards were paid for shooting 969 eagles, and last year for shooting 1081 of them. Hawks, too, the ordinary Englishman treats with scant ceremony, but in Norway they are getting cleared out a ne rate of close on 5000 a year. The hawk-shooter and the engle-shooter'do not.lhowever, make muc i a ieir trade; all they get is two kroner-say about 2s.-a headj while the fox-slayer gets four kroner. A bear, a wolf, a lynx, or a glutton is a much more serious fellow to tackle, and they are all worth the 20 kroner per-bead. Altogether Norway pays over P-2360 a vear in this head-money on wild beasts removed.

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ADDITION Ti) THE NAVY. The new 27-knot torpedo-boat destroyer Sunfish completed her gun trials at sea on Saturday, and will be added to the effective strength of the Royal Navy as ready for active service. The Sunfish has • been equipped with one 12-pounder and five six- pounder quick-firing guns, and three torpedo tubes. She will commission shortly to complete the strength of the torpedo-boat destroyer flotilla at Sheerness, which now consist* of the Dragon, oanus, and Contest.

SENATOR WOLCOTT, whose recent friendly words for England in the Washington Senate aroused so much enthusiasm, comes from Colorado. He and his brother, who for many years kept bachelor house together in Denver, are lawyers and the Senator is noted for having the finest library and being the greatest bibliophile out West. Hs is an intimate friend of many famous English authors, and a con- stant correspondent of more. Many transient calleri from the Old Country have good reason to remember the genial manner and polished wit of the conrtly Senator. TnE returns of the total quantity of fish landed on the English, Welsh, and Scotch coasts during 1895 have been issued. The value of the fish landed in Scotland was £.1,829,638, an increase of E194,822 as compared with 1894; and the figures for England and Wales are £ 5,435,202, or an increase of £ 144,167. PRINCE BISMARCK derives an annual income of £43,750 from varioua industries in which he is in- terested.

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MISS CATHMIINB HOHSLHY is a rural postwoman, whose beat is from Longniddry to Seton Castle, in Scotland. She holds an established appointment. dated February 1, 1884, and has two good conduct stripes. The postmaster of Haddington, under whom she serves, informs "St. Martin's-le-Grand" that she gets through all the duties Required of her with care, and with the confidence of her chief. She performs two rural deliveries, together with apparatus and station services. SIR WILLIAM AGNBW has jUflt presented a beautiful altar-piece to St. Philip's Church, Salford, Man- chester. It is a copy in oils of Leonardo da Vinji's "Last Supper," and was painted by Alvardi, a Milanese artist, in the earlier part of the century. Titim links at Harlech are claimed to be the finest in the United Kingdom, not excepting even the linko at St. Andrews, the birthplace of 'the royal and ancient game. Barmouth, Towyn, Ynyolas and lborth also have good links. SIR EDWARD BLOUNT has organised acoDJmittee to collect subscriptions among the British residents in tans for the purpose of presenting the Marquis or Uufferin and Ava with a work of art on the Occasion ■>f his 70th birthdav next June. NORWAY is the best telephoned country m o world, in spite of the fact that 70 per cent, of its area is uncultivable, and another.24 per oen is forest. It has one exchange for feants, and one telephone to eaoh 40 inhabitants sight and a half times the number m this country.

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