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Gossip. For long-distance swimming the shark may be said to hold the record, as he can outstrip the swiftest ships apparently without effort, swimming and playing around them, and ever on the look-out for prey. Any human being falling over- board in shark-frequented waters has very little chance of escape, so rapid is the of the shark, the monster of the deep. Besides giving his attention to busi- ness, Mr. Horniman, the well-known tea merchant, has found time to, indulge his hobby of collecting curios. These are so numerous that they fill quite a ————— museum, which he has most generously given, together with a library and fifteen acres of freehold land, to the public. It is situated at Forest Hill, a southern suburb of London, and well repays a, visit. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain, in one of his speeches recently, said We seem to be in this modern time between two dangers —in the first place, of gaining a smatter- ing of everything and a knowledge of nothing; and, in the second place, of getting a, knowledge of one thing and being -C.. with regard to all the others." It will shock many to know that well within living memory, sailors were con- demned to death for assaulting superior officers. For the comparatively small offence of dislodging a young officer's front tooth by a blow with his fist, a sailor was sentenced to be hanged at the yard-arm of his ship, then at one of our dockyard ports about fifty years ago. But in this particular instance a reprieve came at a late hour, the sen- tence being reduced to imprisonment for life. We are glad to find from a London paper that Miss Blodwen Thomas, Tre- alaw, is on a, fair way to be a distin- guished contralto. She has been singing in the South of England, and has estab- lished herself an unqualified success.

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