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THE CORNING BATH. Nothing is more health-giving if indulged it by thoee whoc-e reaction is good, says Health. The cold or tepid 8t,0!e bath, taken in the morning before breakfast, with friction to m.-i;o the skin red. i:, one of the most .J actions we know. It promotes the healthy circu- lation ro the skin aixi all the ori*:vns of tho body, ¿¡wi keeps them in JSL ood -1udition and Ivalthv in appearance. So inn poroons cannot indulge 11 a morning t by reason of some peculiarity of their constitution, or from liver aliVetions, and are unabl.. to take tl10 b;lth q1Jit,: c,>!d. It should, in this ca.-e. have j;wt the chill tak-en off, but the skin should, in ail instanoos. imme- diately after the bath, bo thoroughly dried and rubbed with a. coarse towel. The brain w in-- vitrorated by the bath from the healthful stimu- lation 0f the nerv-3. If the peiv-on is not very strong. a:Ki the reactioti is not perfect. a itlass of hot water, taken after tho bath, will proTec?i a chill.

CAN A WOMAN BE TOO AFFECTIONATE? Can a woman be too affectionate? There is no virtue which may not be carried to excess, I-ad even love which is too evident woarios OrIn. Th,CI woman who makes her love too apparent hss .intly been compared to a book which one knows Ly heart. She may be all that is !,()(Xi and sweet and dear, but she has ceascd to enchain, to en- chant. There are no thrills in her society, and tho average iii;tii ;il love, as lie insists upon salt with his meat. It is just the j old story, the way of human iiac-,tro-ive aec!nt as a matter of course that which is soeuroly ours and hold tight to .that which we fear may oscapo us.

GOOD MANNERS FOR GIRLS. The g'irf whose manners are pleasing knows "the value of little things. She is not satisfied with omitting glaring rudeness; she is polite in •trilKs. She answers an invitation the d^y it is re- ceived. ai;d does not change her mind later wlI cn something mor) attractive turns up. She never forgets to write her appreciation of a visit, and always calls with hor mother soon after being entertained at a ball or dinner. She does not take attention as a matter of course, but expresses her gratitude of CHi smallest kir.dll(os bv an appreciative word. Sh" does not think that the telephone or wait- irig untii she rrwwts her hostess is a polite bub- stitute for r. ietter of thanks. She does not consider it good manners to bi pleasant with trie special friend and indifferent to the other members of the family. ;lw i,; thoughtful of the fe(!li!lts üf old peop:e an.1 inferiors. and full of sweot uttii? atioiitiona to .the sick and £ eeblc.

DEEP BREATHING. Payattention to the great importance of deep breathing—that is, of inflating the lungs to their ft lIest capacity. Shallow breathing is the rule, deep breathing the exception that is why consumption finds Mich a fertile field in a largo proportion of people. In the majority of caoe, consumption commences just belo.v tho clavicle (or collar bone), for here is the portion of the lungs that is least u;icd in ordinary breathing. The individual a pair of healtliv lunpa might inhale millions of tubcreule bacilli daily with impunity. Like every other organ in the body, the lungs become v.* irous with use; dis- use means decay, therefore, to develop tho lungs, they must be exercised by deep breathing. Even live minutes of lung exercise daily will work wonders.

FoR'IV,- FTOOPING COT-'GTT. A specific for that troublesome and ofttrn dangerous complaint, tho whooping-coug'h, is as follows: Mix well ono drachm each of tincture oi eucalyptus and glycerine. For a child of one year of give six drops in a bttL; water in a te:i. pooii every four hours. Add two drops for additional year of age--for a child of two years eight drops, and no on. Should a paroxysm occur between the'interval of the doses givo half a dose. Keep (Ie child warm. the system well nourished, and the bowels open, mid with car3 in these respects and the early application of the above remedy thr> disease will not last over three weekc. Besides this, the debilitating illnoao is avoided.

.SPRING-CLEANING BEDS AND REDDING. The beds should taken to pieces and tho frames or woodwork washed and carefully dried. All the eider-down quilta should be hung out of doors to be well airsil. Stains on mattresses may be removed by mak- ing a paste of Fuller's earth and water, to which ammonia in the proportion of .one terspooriful to halfaa, pint has been added. Lay this over the stains, rub slightly :ia with fingers, and leave till it is dry. A second application may W neoesoary if the.stain has not been removed. To-improve the appearances of a shabby black iron -bedstead, rub it with a cloth dipped in kerosene, then polish with a soft, clean duster. Spai>> blankets shoukl be washed, well dried, folded, ;.nd wrapped In anti-moth sheets. Moths are very destructive, but drynctis and cleanliness are two .,great antagonists to them. All hangings, such at; curtains ai;d draperies, must be well shaken wiaen they ar» taken down to free them from dust. The most delicate fabric can be successfully washed at homo by using soap jelly with a littlo ammonia and rain water. A clear day must bo chosen for tthis operation, and coloured articles must be dried in the shade to prevent fading. It will generally be found advisable to remove trimmings awl treat them separately. The great improvement .in appearand will amply iepay the .extra. iaboux-

THE NLVv PALACE OF ART, AT KENSINGTON. THE VICTORIA & ALBERT MUSEUM, OPENING BY KING & QUEEN. A MILE OF NEW GALLERIES. The Kip-g, accompanied by the Queen, the Prince alld Princess of Wales, a-id several other members of the Royal Family, on Saturday formally opened the new buildings of the Victoria and Albeit Museum at South Kensington. c3 Avenue.* of Venetian masts and festoons of greenery decorated the route from Bucking- ham P::h;9 along Knightsbridge and Bromp- ton-road, and, in spite of the dull and threat- ening weather, yas," crowds had congregated do honour to their Majesties, and inci- dentally to witness a Royal cavalcade of ex- ¡ ceptional spleudonr. The foi.r .State landaus started from Buck- ingham Palaea about 11.45, accompanied by a lield o&lcer'a escort furnished by the '2nd Life Guards. Each carriag-3 was drawn by four bay horses, State p:)st:llions. The King, accompanied by the ql!hÍ1 and the Princess Victoria, looked the embodiment of good health as he held his band to the salute in Of the loud and continued ploudirs of the public. The Mistress of the Robes, the Lsdies-in- Waiting, the Master of tho Ilorse, the Lord Steward, the Lord Chamberlain, and other Court officials followed in the succeeding car- riages. The Hon. J. H. Ward and Lieuten- ant-Colonel F. E. G. I'onsonby wero in attendance oil horseback. Preceding th-2 King's procession there had passed along, also in State carriages, the Prince and Princess of Vt"a.le« and little Prin- ce-ss Mary tho Duke and Duchess of Con- naught, with Prince Arthur and Princess Patricia; tho Duchess of Argyll, the Duchess of Albany, and other members of tha Itoyal Family. On arriving at the Museum, where thore was a large and brilliant gathering, their Majesties were presented with an address of welcome by the Mayor and Corporation of Kensington. When the Royal party had taken tlnair places in the Octagon Court. Mr. Runeiman, President of the Board of Education, read an address explainiug the objects of the Museum. In reply, his Majesty expressed the interest which the Queen and himself took in 'the Museum, and referred with approbation to the measures of rearrangement and re- organisation which hav-T been adopted in the trehnusimr of its treas'^s. 't tlie conclusion of the King s speech the Archbishop of Canterbury pronounced a short pravor, followed by the Benediction. The King then resumed his seat, and the First Commissioner of Works (Mr. Harcourt) approached, bearing the key on a velvet cushion. His Majesty smiled, accepted the key, handed it to the Minister for Education, Mid announced I have the utmost pleasure in declaring the Victoria and Albert Museum now open. A loud fanfare from the trumpeters in the galleries announced to the waiting crowds outside that the official ceremony had been July performed. The loyal procession then •re-formed, and the King, taking the Queen by the hand, passed through several of the halls to inspect the possessions of the building. In the West Ilall there was a cry for Mr. Cecil Smith, the Director and Secretary, who, com- ing forward, knelt to his Majesty and re- ing forward, knelt to his Majesty and re- ceived the honour of knighthood. In another hall several gentlemen -who have had part in the erection of the new i Museum were presented to their Majesties, who received also a body of skilled crafts- uiea. PRINCIPAL FEATURES OF THE NEW MUSEUM. The new buildings at South Kensington known as the Victoria and Albort Museum, ,\vhich were opened by the King and Queen on Saturday, are in every sense a notable addi- tion to the metropolis. A London contem- porary thus describes the principal features of the museum The vestibule, which opens into the handsome, columned central hall, is tanked on both sides with wide stairways of awurble., relieved by large columns of the more highly-figured Brescia. The central hall be- vond the vestibule is crowned with a fine dome, the upper part of glass and the lower portion panelled and handsomely enriched. The eighteen columns of Brescia marble around the central hall serve to carry the short, wide eorridotrs which join the courts of the first floor. These corridors are used for the display of COSTUMES AND WOVKN FABRICS, and their treatment by the architect consti- tutes oae of the chief charms of the new building. Passing, as they do, over courts which rise to a great keight, they are thrown open on their sides by great arches, through which nearly all the great courts of the ground floor can be sece-a vista which is at once, imposimi iuid a relief to the tedium OT me ordinary wans ana corridors of tno museum. Visitors to the museum will, as a rule, no doubt, go straight through to the Central Hall, and from there to the two GltEA T ARCHITECTURAL IIAIXS, which stretch away for nearly 100 yards on each f;ide of that hall. That oil the right, the East Hall, is dsroted mainly to Italian, Flemish, Spanish, and French architecture and sculpture. Here is to be found the famous Cupid (or Apollo) of Michael Angelo, together with many other magnificent ex- amples of the work of famous Continental sculptors. A feature of the architectural courts is the manner in which, wherever pos- sible, various exhibits, such as chimney- pieces, &-e., have been built into t.he walls, so that the visitor actually 3-ees them in positions such as the designer intended. The West Hail has been given over to Eng- lish, French, Italian, and Near Eastern i.rchi- tectural exhibits, mainl." in wood. Behind these two great halls will be found four smaller courts filled with woodwork, the walla being used for shewing the GREA T TAPESTKIK8 AND CAttPETS of the museum. At one end of these courts is the great Octagon Hall, Goft. high, where the opening ceremony took place, and immedi- ately adjoining the courts wharo the collec- tions of Mr. Pierpont Morgan, Ir. David M. Currie, and others are stored. At the other end of the building on this floor is the great square court, which is filled with plaster replicas of famous works, the whole dominated by the huge section of the Trajan column, reaching almost to the ceil- ing, which is over 40ft. high. The long corri- dor which runs between tliere galleries and the East and West Halls it used for displaying architectural prip.ts and drawings, and this corridor is almost the only part of the build- ing for which the architect has been unable to provide adequate lighting. There are ten courts of varying size in the basement, and of these, seven are filled with examples of the various < PEEIOD8 AND STYLES Of WOODWORK (making this collection one of the most com- prehensive in tht whole world), whilst the other three complete the space devoted to sculpture. Almost the entire space on the first floor of the new buildings is occupied by textiles, con- sisting of woven, embroiderod, and printed fabrics, linen damasks, tapestries, carpets, sostumes, lace, and fans-the tapestries shewn on this floor including the wonderful repro- duction of the Bayeux tapestry." The 1,000ft. of galleries on the second floor are also given ovar in their entirety to cera- mics, the courts being filled with earthenware and porcelain. Aa in other departments of the new museum, the Oriental and European collections are shewn together, according to materials, whereas the Oriental collection was formerly kept distinct from any other. Some idea of the amount of extra space now available can be gathered from the fact that the new galleries are altogether one mile in length, whilst the great top-lighted courts alone have a superficial area of 6,500 square yards, or nearly 1\ acres. The additional space thus provided should enable the authorities to find room for the recaption of Dew exhibits for many jeara to come.

DEATH CAUSED BY BROKEN JUG The circumstances of a curious Accident- with a fatal result wore described at Westminster Coroner's Court on Saturday, when an inquest was hold on Lily Murphy, ajod forty six, of Bcs^borough-plftot?, Pimiico. It appeared that on Wednesday afternoon the woman stumbled over a log of wood and broke a u4 which sho was carrying. A piece of the illr inflicted a wound over four and a-half inches long in her right arm. The wound bled copiously, nnd she was removed in a state of :ollap*f: to St. George's Hospital, where she died early the next morning from shock, following exeervive liernorrhago. A verdict of accidental death was recordcxL

A RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. An exciting ooe-an race from New York to the English Channel occurred between tho Red Star liner, Lapland, and the Hamburg American liner. Amerika. In company with seven other liners they loft New York on Saturday week, all being bound for Europe. The Amerika left hor pier exactly one hour aheud of the Lapland, nrd when 3.C00 miles had been steamed the ships were "till in sight. Each day the vessels have been in full view of one another, and on Saturday night they passed Eddystone light- houte within an hour and a-half of one another.

LORD BROOKE AND HIS BUTLER. The case of tho alleged assault by Lord Brooke on his butler Reynolds, who obtained a sum- KIOJIS on Friday at Westminster Police court, w,v the subject of an application made by oom- plainant- personally on Saturday 110 withdraw e summons. The application was acceded to. an arrangement, it wa, understood, haviajf been arrived at betwaon the parties.

An elderly nurse. Miss Hitchcock, died in the County Hospital, Guildford, on Monday from extensive burns, caused, it is thought, from the upsetting of a lighted lamp. After the accident, Miss Hitchcock, who lived alone, jumped from her bedroom window with her clothes ablaze. s

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VARIETIES OF LIGHTNING. Lightning is of three kinds:, zigzag, and sharply defined at the edges; in sheets of light, illuminating a whole cloud, which seems to open and reveal the light within it; and in the form of fire-balls. The duration of the first two kinds scarcely continues the thousandth part of a second but the globular lightning moves much more slowly, remain- ing visible for several seconds.

A NEEDLE IN A BAY. In his book on Nautical Charts," Mr. G. R. Putnam mentions the discovery in Blue Hill Bav, Maine, of a pinnacle rock, only 6ft. in diameter at its top, and projecting within 7ft. of the surface of the water, which rises nearly perpendicularly out of a depth of 78ft. The rock was discovered by means of a wire drag. Its existence is mentioned as an ex- ample of the difficulty, even in well-known waters, of making certain that no isolated rocks are lying in wait for heedless victims.

FAIRY FLIES. The eo-ealled "Foiry-flies" which form such beautiful microscopic objects are really minute hymenoptera, and do not belong to the true flies, or diptera. Tllcv have the four wings, characteristic of bece, waBp\, &c., and not only two, which is one of tho marks of the tru'J flies. The fairy flies are parooites in a very curious way. They lay their eggs in the eggs of other insects. Tho eggs of the fairy fly" are hatched and the larvae partly developed in the eggs of the host. One species chooses the eggs of the demoiselle dragon-fly as a nest and source of food supply for its young. Mr. Enock, the well-known entomo- logist, has shewn that the fairy fly" is able to distinguish the eggs of its proper host when these are mixed with the eggs of other insects.

COLD STORAGE AND PTOMAINES. In the matter of cold storage poultry and its alleged harmful effects upon the health, Dr. Boos, of the Massachusetts General Hos- pital, who has carefully investigated the mat- ter, sets at rest the fear that ptomaine poison- ing may result fom the mere fact of the cold storage. He shews conclusively that the cause of ptomaine poisoning rests solely with the marketman, who thaws out his cold storage poultry and allows it to remain in the open air until it gets into such a condition that no one will buy it, and to avoid loss again freezes it while in this condition. From such re- frozen poultry ptomaine poisoning is very likely to result. According to Dr. Boos, it makes practically no difference if a bird is drawn before being frozen, but they must be perfectly fresh when frozen."

THE EQUATORIAL CLOUD-RING. In crossing the equatorial doldrums, the voyager passes a ring of clouds that encircles the earth, and is stretched around our planet to regulate the quantity of precipitation in the rain-belt beneath it; to preserve the due quantum of heat on the face of the earth to adjust the winds, and send out for distribu- tion to the four corners vapours in proper quantities, to make up to each river-basin, climate and season its quota of sunshine, cloud, and moisture. Like the balance-wheel of a well-constructed chronometer, this cloud- ring, says Professor Maury, affords the grand atmospherical machine the most exquisitely arranged self-compensation. Nature herself has hung a thermometer under this cloud-belt that is more perfect than any that man can construct, and its indications are not to be mistaken.

EARTH'S REVOLUTION PERIOD. The astronomers of antiquity knew how to predict eclipses of the moon, which follow one another in regular succession and are visible at one time to all the inhabitants of one hemisphere. Solar eclipses also occur in regular order; in 223 lunar months there are in general twenty-nine eclipses of the moon and forty-one of the sun. But the latter are in each case risible only over a restricted portion of the globe, and their occurrence at any particular point is subject to somewhat complicated laws, with which the ancients weiw not familiar. From a study of eclipses w hich occurred in past ages P. H. Cowell has reached the conclusion that the period of revolution of the earth-in other words, the length of the year-has de- creoaed withia kUtorical times.

ARMOUR-PLATED WHALES. The remarkable fact that the earliest- known ancestor or primitive type of the modern whale bore heavy armour on its back, in the form of strong, bony plates, has been set forth by the German palaeon- tologist Dr. Abel. The plates occasionally found associated with the remains of the primeval form of whale have generally been regarded as having belonged to gigantic turtles, but the German investigations shew that they were part of the skeleton itself. They resemble in their character the impene- trable bony shells of the huge glyptodonts that formerly inhabited South America. The suggestion is made that at the time when they carried armour plates whales were am- phibious creatures, living on the coasts and needing spocial protection from breakers and from sharks.

BEAUTY OF THE DEW-DROP. The dew-drop is familiar to everyone from earliest infancy. Resting in luminous beads on the down of leaves, or pendent from the finest blades of grass, or threaded upon the floating li-iieis of the gossamer, its orient pearl" varies in size from the diameter of a small pea to the most minute atom that can be imagined to exist. Each of these, like the rnin-drops, has the properties of reflecting and refracting light; hence, from so many, minute prisms, the unfolded rays of the sun are sent up to the eye in colours of brilliancy similar to those of the rainbow. When the sunbeams traverse horizontally a very thickly- bedewed grass-plot, these colours arrange themselves so as to form an iris, or dew-bow, end if we select any one of these drops for observation, and steadily regard it while we gradually change our position, we shall find the prismatic colours follow each other in their regular order.

AN IMPENETRABLE AIR CURRENT. A curious experiment has been made at Buc, near Versailles, by an aeroplanist, M. Robert Esnault-Pelterie, who shewed that under certain conditions the air may be as impenetrable to shots as a plate of armour. The object of the experiment was to demon- strate the resistance of the air and the power of support which it may have under certain conditions. M. Esnault-Pelterie stood some distance behind his aeroplane whilst the pro- peller was going at full speed and fired a number of shots at the centre. Not one of the bullets was able to penetrate the column of air, and when the propeller was stopped it was shewn that not only had the bullets taken no effect on the centre, but that they had not even touched the blades. Persons who wit- nessed the experiment thought that the bullets might have been flattened and stopped short by the air, as if they had been fired into water; but the better explanation was that the column of air shot back spirally from the propeller merely caused the bullets to deviate from their path.

TRANSPARENT GOLD AND SILVER. It has been known since Faraday's day that thin sheets of gold and silver, mounted on glass, may be made transparent by heat. Professor Thomas Turner has studied the conditions under which transparency is pro- duced. A sheet of gold one three hundred thousandth of an inch thick becomes trans- parent when heated to 550deg. Centigrade. The transparency is ascribed to the gold ag- gregating and allowing white light to pass through the interstices. With silver one one hundred and twenty thousandth of an inch thick no transparency is produced so long as the atmosphere is a reducing one-such as hydrogen or coal-gas. But in the air the transparency begins at 240deg. and is remarkably complete at 390deg. Copper one seventy-five thousandth of an inch thick does not become transparent in a reducing atmos- phere, but in air it is transparent between about 200deg. and 400deg. At the lower temperatures the light is brilliant green, but as the temperature rises oxidation takes place, and the colour changes through olive and dark red to blask. 1

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A LCIÏC AIJ V 1UJ2JSM LIRGT. SHACKLETON'S STOBYCW HIS TRIUMPH. PEIXCE'S GLOWING TIUn I Even an Arctic explorer, one vriw SatT many a time walked over a crevasse, nudL looking over his shoulder ceon tlKi 1W, <af £ snow collapse into the yawning c-A,M have been cxcu-sed a feeling of t-rcpidsfika afc being called upon to lecture to an -au.feBSQJS such as crowded the Albert Hall, Lop-'ioa.sast Monday evening, says one who WM fiv-p-r- Ten thomnnd of the foremost pecpht ut land, Ambassadors in glittering orders^ ak5- tary men with rows of medals si breasts, men of science who have :)p-&arc bowed and grev with long years of and research, "and ladies' glittering asm jewels crowded the Albert Hall. The silent rising of the great sxreEBia&r marked the entrv of the Princess of IV.-gawo who, with those in attendance on her, sz& iiL the gilt chairs placed a little an front -of liMS I1.ren seats immediately facing the plaifavm. A mument later a cheer heralded the of the members of tlie expedition, wh* 0:1 to the platform, and then, greeted iy » loud cheer, tho Prince of Wales walkedtor- the platform with the hero of the asse-xafchp— the bronzed-featurad, sturdily-set leaf3iz aE* the expedition. LIEUTENANT SIIACKLETON'S STOKX, After a brief spoceh by the president lias- tenant Shaekleton tracoil the course <3f ftar expedition from tho moment of leaviaj N-am. Zealand. The first incident of note occurred "ft:-n. landing ,tores on going into winter quAirterat- A blizzard arose, and the stores, on the edge of the ice, were buried waAar six feet of frozen sea-spray, for though it wam summer time the temperature was likte- £ ha- low zero. All were recovered with tu ex- ception of some volumes of the Challenger rap- ports and a case of bottled bear. There was always a question as to whir,k vm should dig for. In the end we recovere.,Ltkw Challenger reports." (Renewed laugiiltsr4: The expedition led by Sir Philip Bfw'iSp- hurst up Mount Erabus was briefly reexiuotiwiU and wonderful photograph," of the great craiflc were shewn. On the return journey tb-paog slid down 5,COOft. on their backs From April 22nd to August 2:2nd they TSCTBST saw the sun, though beautiful displays cit 68 aurora borealis lit up the snowscape. FfcaJam were taken by moonlight or by the ligbA atm couple of candles. The democratio life of the party in t'hr fcftaft was amusingly described, and theu. wan plenty of humour in the picture of a ppJcwaaac of geology, a member of the Royal Soewfcj^, tackling the task of washing up fur.tbe Aist, time. The struggle of the trio—Professors DxviAL Mansor, and Mackay-who started for UlÆ South Magnetic Pole, was a fine record cf. emL-- durance. No ponies could be spared and the three men had to drag the iMxigbm; with their provisions and equipment by m- lays. "They would drag one sleigh » then go back for the second, and ireturuko. third time for the remaining saaE Lieutenant Shackleton. They teaveBarJ Hr more than two and a-half months over &K sea ice in this fashion, doing their jaarwajt three times over, as it were. The; the South Magnetic Pole by January WAik,, and took possession of the land for Khf; Edward. THERE IS THE SOUTH POLE A slide of the Antarctic regions wiih Sm South Pole marked with a ex-oss was sud&talff switched on to the screen- There is aw. South Pole," remarked the lectuwr, I cally; you see as much of it as anjibody.eisK has ever seen." There you see us going into the m»C** Lieutenant Shackleton pointed to a pit-,Awm of the quartette-iiimself among tlwm-xwlihm set out for the Pole itself, starting oft 31 teeth of a blizzard of snow into the the unknown, untrodden land they vsatiaftKfcS for three months, at intervals killing pang for food and leaving a trail of depots of SaodB in their wake. They pushed o.u .across &<? snow to the south, and on Janrrawr S&JB, sm latitude 83'23 south, they planted the lag, saluted, and turned northwards, anA lnn-, acme. PRINCE'S GLOWING TRIBUTX. At the close of the address the -Primp off Wales presented medals from rfda-e. iSiTyafi Geographical Society to the LlIN xpedition. His Royal Highness saidtwraw only remains for me as patron of the IUAJU Geographical Society to present t* far. Shackleton the special gold medal SOME been struck by the society in recogainwif "if his great and unique achievement kviassjj reached a point within 100 miles of tin* SsBfiki Pole. He not only traversed acr degrees of absolutely unknown ground the results attained by him and his aMe'isfesdE will be most valuable to scientific kno«i*<f$! I have listened with the deepest i-nakjea the graphic descriptions of his wam,&rW.. journey, illustrated, as they have been, SwHiflaa beautiful photographs which he has shewanae. At the same time we can realise perlis-pr 6* as. certain extent the terrible hardships -,viar-k-%m and his brave comrades successfully overt-aac;. It is now just two years since 1 took Saw. of Mr. Shackleton and his comrades on Inearf the Nimrod in Cowes Roads. I am, iiwfcewii, happy that at this moment I can congratnLdw him and his comrades most heartily zqpam their safe return home (applatise)-a& *rAL brother sailor I am very prond iD,h&nd.lim this medal."

z LABOUR PARTY & CZAR'S VLSM PROTEST BY THE DUMA PRESDLIXKPE. M. Homiakoff, President of the RmsEsse Duma, has sent the following letter to (SHP Press Sir,—In the midst of the cord"-&tr with which we have been honoured LE land, it is witli great mortification that owe read in the English newspapers a mansSessfcp by the Labour Party which, whilst welocomix us as representatives of the Russian pesglkv at the same time protests against the visil&- our Sovereign to England. Whilst we IK«- joying the hospitality of England we sitsw" not allow ourselves to give public expr&wraen to our view of any action of any paEiaictB party if we were not bound to do so im, LXn present case by the inappropriate contrast wrtfc up between us as representatives « £ rJlle Russian people and the Sovereign of lbøiL As commissioned by my colleagues, I tfeiakife my duty to protest resolutely against fclhf. Sw-. suit to ourselves conveyed in this eoafeawt. We are happy to feel that the cordial wekmuao which we are receiving everywhere enfcijQf.»a»' to be sure that the manifesto of the LsSwsar Party does not express the opinion of the Eng- lish people.—Your faithfully, A. Homialwit.

THE USE OF INCENSE IN CHUSCS_ The Vicar of St. John's, Stockton (L]w nov- F. S. Willoughby), announced from the pwifiSB on Sunday that he had received a peJS from some of the most influential memWfrjrtfT his church asking him to revive the lIIWi A incense at their services. He said he wwaZbE welcome the restoration of what h* m<&- sidered was wanting at their church Lo com- plete the ritual ordered by the Pray-er IBat-St. but he felt in common fairness that he TSSWC give every opportunity to any member iAk- congregation to state any difficulty. the course of his sermon the Vicar out how God gave instructions for the mskiuj; of incense, which had been used in wari^biiifi through all ages, how it was symbolical <35 their acknowledgment of the Godhead of Jesus, and how it pictured their jsxjem' ascending to heaven.

It may not be generally known ix future every dealer or maker of petrci wEfsSi have to take out an Inland Revenue liœmM- a dealer at 5s. per annum, and a maker rít- Notices are being issued to known deaiera., 'tag* others will need to learn of the new abac- tion imposed upon them.

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