BURIED CITY DISCOVERED. I One by one the buried cities of pre-historio America are coming to light. One of these cities, hidden in the mountains of the south-west and containing & thousand stone houses, has lust been found by Mr. B. E. Bond in the neigh- bourhood of the Coachella Valley and the San Jacinto Mountains. The houses are 16ft. by 12ft. in size, and each contains only one room. The discovery is described as the most im- portant ever made in South-West America. The origin of the city is unknown, and its existence had never previously been reported.
CUR LONDON LETTER. [Frm Our Special Ccrre<potK<Mt<.j Members of both Houses of Parliament art very glad of the few days leisure afforded them by the Easter vacation. They wil] have an opportunity of reflecting over what they have done during the past two months, and what they are going to do in the months which are to come. Many of them, no doubt, will have nightmares in which Dreadnoughts will lie heavy upon their chests, and others will be dreaming of Budgets, the taxation oi land, extra income-tax, and what not, while yet a few others will put all cares of State on one side and think more about taking an enjoyable holiday than of anything else. These are strenuous times, for members of the House of Commons, at any rate, and though good progress has been made with the legislative programme, there yet remains a good deal of work to be done after Parlia- ment re-assembles next week. There ia, to begin with, the Budget, which will not be introduced, at the earliest, until some time in the second week after legis- lators get back to business. By that time one of the principal measures of the Session, the Welsh Disestablishment and Disendow. ment Bill, will have been introduced. Then there are to come the Labour Exchanges (Co- ordination Scheme), Old Age Pensions Act Amendments, a Bill dealing with Fishing in Prohibited Areas (Scotland), Inebriate Acts Amendment, and other measures dealing with Milk and Shop Hours. None of these have been touched as yet, and the passage of some will be by no means plain sailing. There are a number of other Bills with which some progress has been made, but which are nothing like done with, and it is quite evident that the Government will have all its work cut out to get out of Parliament all it wants without another autumn Session, which is to be avoided if possible. Few men have been in and out of Parlia- ment more times than Lord Charles Bcres- ford, and now that his services are once more available it is stated that no fewer than nineteen constituencies are desirous of hav- ing him as a candidate, while several mem- bers have offered to resign immediately in order to give the popular Admiral an oppor- tunity to enter the House of Commons. It is not often that a possible candidate has such a wide neld of choice, and Lord Charles can- not help but be gratified at these acknow- ledgments of his desirability as a member. For the present, however, it is said that he has no intention of seeking Parliamentary honours, though he may accept an invitation to stand at the next general election. A new note will be added to street har- mony when the new police regulation cornea into force requiring all public motor vehicles to be ntted with an automatic device to give audible warning of excess of speed. This de- vice is to be so constructed that it can be sealed and cannot be tampered with, and it is to begin its song when the motor reaches the statutory speed, and continue until the pace is slackened. The Police Commissioner has decided to take this drastic course in consequence of the many complaints of ex- cessive speeds of motor-omnibuses and motor- cabs. It is the latter against which the regulation is chiefly directed, and anybody who is familiar with the Embankment and some other fairly open parts of London may imagine what the noise would be like if the device were already fixed to the vehicles which dash backwards and forwards. Though I am not an expert in judging speed, I fancy that twenty miles an hour is frequently ex- ceeded by the taxis on the Embankment. Owners of private cars are naturally rather fearful that if the automatic hooter proves practicable it may be made compulsory for them also. If that should be the case, the police will not require stop-watches and measured miles; the cars will be condemned out of the mouths of their own hooters. Ownera of motor-cars find the ten-mile an hour limit in the royal parks irksome, and they have asked Mr. Harcourt, the First Commissioner of Works, that it should be extended to fifteen, and also that the regulation which during May, June, and July prohibits the use of petrol-driven cars in Eyde-park during three hours of the after- noon should be withdrawn. Mr. Harcourt, however, has declined to accede to either re- quest. Most people will agree that 10 miles an hour is fast enough for any kind of vehicle to travel in places which are devoted to the use of the public as the parks are. With regard to the other restriction, however, there is something to be said for the owners of the cars. At present the only cars allowed during the time mentioned are those which are elec- trically-propelled, the rule having been made when those driven by petrol were both noisy and smelly. These nuisances have nearly disappeared in cars of the newest pattern, and electric cars are not so popular as they were a year or two ago. British composers of opera have small chance of getting their works produced in this country. At Covent Garden the manage- ment light shy of novelties, and the same works appear in the programmes year after year. If, for a wonder, anything new is given, it is generally by a Continental com- poser, or else, as in the last seaspn, an opera which has had the excellent advertisement of winning a big prize in a competition. To be judged and performed on their own merits British composers have to take their work abroad, where producers of opera are more enterprising than in this country. "Tbe Wreckers," for instance. Miss Ethel Smyth's highly interesting work, was produced in Leipzig in 1906, it has been given at Prague, and accepted for performance in Vienna. It has now been decided to produce it in London by the Afternoon Theatre at His Majesty's. Four matinee performances will be given on June 22, 24, 29, and July 1. The story of the opera is English, the events taking place in a Cornish village in the middle of the 18th century. The music has decided individuality and strength. Musical circles in London are keenly interested in the forthcoming produc- tion. The White City is being re-whitened. There was an idea at one time of painting each section of the new Exhibition a diSerent colour, and if that proposal bad come to fruition, there would have been the terrible problem of finding a new popular name for it. Much to the general relief, however, it was decided to keep to the style of last year, and when the Imperial International Exhibi- tion opens in the second week in May, London will still have its White City. But though the City will be the same, many of its attractions will be new. The Flip-Flap and the Scenic Railway are nrmly established amongst the side-shows, but there is to be a Wigf,lc Waggle, which will attempt to rival them in popularity. It promises a number of remarkable sensations, all quite new. There are to be, besides these, Scenic Aeroplanes, a Submarine Railway, a Water Whirl, and goodness knows what besides. Instead of the Irish Village there will be this year a Scotch ViHag'e, exhibiting life in a Highland crofter community, with Scotch tweeds, Scotch reels, H;crhl..nd nis?s, and Scotch accents.. A. E. M.
The Queen has sent ten guineas to the fund in aid of the famine-stricken people of Armenia. Over 100,000 people have booked passages from the United States to Europe for the sum- mer season. Serious damage was caused at a nre at a saw- mili in Bianca-road, Peckham. Three teapots of old English pottery were sold for .,8105 at Chrietie'a.
I NEW COUNTY COURTS. I The report of the committee appointed by the Lord Chancellor to consider the relations be- tween the High Court and the county eourta has just been issued. In the result the c-om- mittee, with sundry modifications by several of the members, build their recommendations on the following sweeping suggestion "That the circuit system should he re- modelled so as to concentrate the civil works in centres, and that more time should be allowed and more convenient arrangements made for the Disposal of business." One of the immediate results of the adoption of the scheme, which is elaborated at consider- able length, would be the appointment of more King's Bench judges. Another important proposal is that county courts should be given a limited jurisdiction in matrimonial cases, and, within defined limits, should have power to proceed on the same grounds as the High Court. The other proposals include the abolition of certain smaller courts, and the general reduc- tion of expenses.
I ARE WE GROWING SMALLER? I The height of European nations which have great congested cities is, on the average, show- ing a decline, according to Mr. John Gray, secretary of the Anthropometrieal Committee of the British Association. Speaking apropos of the report published from America that college students there have been found to oe taller than their fathers and grandfathers, Mr. Gray said: The aristocracy, landed gentry, and the cultured professional class are improving in stature but diminishing in numbers. The artisan class is holding its own in height and numbers. The labouring' class-the term includes the unskilled million.s, the people in the slums, even the vagrants-is perceptibly declining in stature, while it increases more rapidly in num- bers than either of the other two. "These conditions apply not only to this country, but practically to all Europe," he I added.
DEATH AND DIVORCE DAMAGES. I Thre waa an echo in the Court of Appeal of the divorce case of Brydges v. Brydges, in which the petitioner was awarded .El,500 damagea against the co-reapondent, William Cecil Wood. The latter committed suicide, without having paid the money into court. Sir John Bigham subsequently made an order directing Mr. Walter F. Wood, executor of the co-respondent, to pay the damages out of the deceased's estate. Against this the executor now' appealed, con- tending that the cauae of the action in respect of which the claim for damages arose was per- sonal, and, therefore, that the liability to pay ceaaed with the co-respondent's death. Lord Justice FarweII read the judgment of the court allowing the appeal, holding that the executor waa not a party to the suit.
I "THE LEAST SAID——" I Hostess: "I hope you slept well last night, Mr. Jones." Jones: "Oh yea, thank you; but I alwaya do, no matter how bad the accommodation. The bedclothes may be damp, the room not properly ventilated, or the bed hard as bricks. It doesn't matter to me, I sleep thiough it all."
I TRAWLER'S CREW RESCUED. I Upon the arrival at Grimsby of the trawler Tokio it was reported that the vessel had res- cued the crew of the Shields trawler St. Louis, which foundered off the Scottish coast about forty miles south of Rattray. When the Tokio sighted the St. Louis the Shields craft was in a sinking condition and her crew well-uigh ex- hausted by having had to work all night at the pumpa in the vain endeavour to overcome a leakage. An attempt to tow the St. Louis proved un- successful, and her crew were taken on board the Tokio. Ten minutes after being abandoned the St. Louis sank.
——————————— TRANS-ANDES RAILWAY, I A railway across the gigantic heights of the Andes L? to be built by a British firm at a cost of C3,000,000. The railway is to cross the wild canons and gorges of the great range at a point between Aria, in Chile, to La. Paz, in Bolivia. It will have to pass over heights of 12,000ft., and its total length will be over 300 miles. The difficulties which will be encountered in engineering a. passage for the rails over such heights and across such chasms as are met with in the Andes must be stupendous, and the work will, it is estimated, occupy the contractors four years. The £3,000,000 for the scheme has, it is understood, been already voted.
JUDGE AND "WON'T WORKS." I Mr. Justice Urantham, speaking at Lewes, said that vagrants would have to be dealt with differently from what they were at the present tirc*e, so far as London was concerned. Va.gra.nta were now called unemployed. A few nights ago he took a walk along the Victoria Embankment, and was surprised to see how well the unem- ployed looked. He questioned a constable, and was informed that most of them were provided with three good mea.ls of soup a day. They were nearly all smoking. No doubt there were genuine cases, but mauy of them were "won't works."
FATAL CAGE ACCIDENT. I An alarming cage winding accident occurred at the Ocean Coal Company's Moundy Fit at Rhondda Valley. The cage, containing twelve men, was descending, when it tilted over, and two men, John Hnghes and William Evanston, were precipitated 660 feet to the bottom of the shaft, and killed instantaneously. The other occupants had a very narrow escape, clinging to the swaying cage, in the momentary danger of being hurled to the bot- tom.
RESCUES IN A WELL. A plucky act was performed by a workman who was engaged on some work at the Savoy Hotel. A "deep well" for water is being aunk under the hotel, and several men are employed in carrying out the work. Three men named Jackson, Ralph, and Quarrington were engaged in "caulking up the joints" in the iron cylinder which forma the side of the well. In the special mixture which is used for this purpose there is a small proportion of sulphur. Apparently the mixture was used a little too soon after the making, for the fumes overcame the three men, who were at the bottom of the well, which is about 180ft. deep, with a diameter of between 5ft. and 6ft. Cries were heard, and presently Ralph arrived up partly overcome in the "boat- swain's chair," which carries the men to and from the bottom. A workman named John Perrin and two others were working at the top, and without a moment's hesitation Perrin let himself down the well, and after a considerable amount of trouble managed to send up Jackson and Quarrington. The latter was in a semi-conscious condition; Jackson was quite unconscious. Perrin, who followed shortly afterwards, was partly over- come himself. I
DEATH OF A GREAT POET. Algernon Charles Swinburne, the last great poet of the Victorian age, died at hia residence, the Pines, Putney, at ten o'clock on Saturday morning. His ill'ness was a very brief one. Mr. Swinburne, who was the eon of the late Admiral Charles Henry Swinburne and Lady Jane Henrietta, daughter of the third Earl of Ashburnham, was born in 1837, and spent part of hia childhood in the Isle of Wight and part in the wilds of Northum'ber- land. He was educated at Eton and Oxford. In 1866 he published the nrst seriea of "Poems and Ballads." After this he came to London, and was associated with the Pre- Raphaelite movement. In addition to his prolific verse, the great poet published critical esaays on Shakes- peare, Charlotte Bronte, a.nd the Eliza- bethan writers; and in 1905 he published Love's Cross-Currents," a novel written in early life. Latterly Mr. Swinburne had been engrossed in the preparation of the "Age of Shakespeare," and was hoping to devote his time to essay writing and to the completion of his triology on the Italian Renaissance. In 1907 he was awarded the Nobel prize.
FATAL ROADSIDE STRUGGLE. Two men cyclings in the neighbourhood of Kirkby Moorside, Yorkshire, on Saturday night were obstructed by a hawker and his wife, hailing from Doncaster. In a struggle which took place as the result of the hawker's attack, he fell to the ground, but thinking he was not hurt the cyclists left him by the roadside. He was discovered in a state of collapse, and died later at a farm. The North Riding coroner held an in- quiry into the death of the hawker. Henry Clancey, at Sinnington, near Malton, on Monday night. The evidence showed that the cyclists, William Ranson and Isaac Wilson, were accused by Clancey of insulting his wife. He then made a desperate attack on Ranson, who, in return, struck him down. Clancey was left on the roadside, as the cyclist thought he was shamming, but hearing of his death they communicated with the police. The medical evidence- showed that death resulted from the rupture of a blood-vessel caused probably by excitement. The jury returned a verdict in accordance with the medical testimony, and exonerated Ranson and Wilson.
GERMAN TENDER REJECTED. I The question of English against German contracts created a scene at a meeting of the Spalding Urban District Council. A com- mittee reported in favour of paving in the town being done with German material under the direction of German foremen, on the ground that it was cheaper than English work. In the course of an animated discussion Mr. Watson Marshall expressed surprise at opposition coming from a member who used foreign materials in hia business. A demand was made for the withdrawal of this state- ment, but this was refused. Several members left the Council Chamber, and Mr. Marshall himself left rather than withdraw what he had said. The remaining members of the Council then agreed that the work should be done by British workmen with British materials, the German proposal being rejected.
A passenger train on the North British Rail- way was in collision during a thick fog with a light engine at Cowlairs, near Glasgow. No one was seriously injured. A subsidence at St. Ives has revealed an ancient shaft, which is supposed to have been excavated by Romans or Phoenicians when they came to Cornwall for tin many centuries ago. George Pierce, who waa wrongfully deported from Canada after he had been emigrated on the recommendation of the Woolwich Diatresa Committee, has been awarded R140 compensa- tion.
I THIEF AS BILLIARD PLAYER. Some amusement was cauaed at the London Sessions by a potman named Edwards, who was charged with stealing four stamps, four far- things, ten boxes of cigars, a bottle of brandy, and a bottle of Benedictine from the Windsor Castle public-house in Harrow-road. It was said that the accused was a customer at the house on the night of March 18, and that on the following morning he was found asleep on a settee in the saloon bar. Edwards, in evidence, said it waa not his fault that he was on the premises. He found himself locked in. "The novelty of the situa- tion was rather funny to me," he said, "being locked in with all that stuff, and I played billiards by myself in my stockinged feet for hours." He was found guilty, and the judge postponed sentence so that the prison doctor might report as to his metal condition.
I DESTROYER SUNK. I COLLISION OFF DUNGENESS. A collision, resulting in the sinking of the de- stroyer Blackw&ter, occurrad off Dungeness. The following omcial account was issued by the Admiralty: The Secretary of the Admiralty regrets to state that H.M. destroyer BIackwater has been in collision with ea. Hero, of Bristol, off Dunge. ness. The BIackwater sank, but no lives were lost. At the time of the accident the BIackwater was steaming in line with other shipa of the second notilla, under the orders of the command- ing omcer of the cruiser Sapphire. The Black-j water was struck amidships, and it ia believed that she was cut nearly in half. She remained anoat for an hour, and then went down stern first in twenty-seven fathoms of water. The accident caused no panic. The scout Forward, which rescued the crew, was cruising with the second destroyer notilla when the acci- dent occurred. One member of the crew of the Blackwater was asleep when the collision occurred, and only just managed to reach the deck before the compartment in which he was sleeping was nooded. The Hero avoided wllision with another de- stroyer before colliding with the BIackwater. The latter's crew were transferred by the For- ward to a Home Fleet communication vessel, which took them to Chatham, where they were accommodated at quarters in the naval depot pending instructions from the Admiralty. OAK BRANCH SURVIVORS. The captain and twenty of the crew of the Sunderland steamer Oak Branch, who were re- ported missing after the steamer sank in the Straits of Magellan, were picked up by the Pacinc mail steamer Esmer&ldaa, bound from the Clyde to Callao. The Oak Branch foun- dered soon after striking a sunken derelict. The bo&t conta,inmg the mate <md eighteen other persons managed to get ashore, but the cap- tain's boat waa lost sight of.
I FATAL MOONLIGHT RIDE. A moonlight motor ride ended disastrously just outaide Harrow, a car turning a somer- sault, the driver being killed and another man injured. The car, which belongs to Miss Rennie, of Hyde Park-place, was being driven by her chauffeur, Daniel George Kerwood, of Lucian- road, Tooting. The chauneur's companiona were George Evans, of Leighton-gardens, Ken- sal-rise; James Arthur, a chauffeur, of Brooka- mewa, North Paddington, and his wife, Mar- garet Arthur. The party passed through Harrow, and the mishap occurred at a spot where the Kenton-road and the Sheepcote-road converge to cross a railway bridge. Kenton-road rises and turns suddenly to the 7eft on to the bridge, and where a stranger would think it continued clear an iron fence stops iurther progress. It is believed that Ker- wocd did not see the fence till close to it, and then jammed on the brakes so suddenly that the car overturned. No one witnessed the accident, but some men on the railway heard a woman's screams, and went to the apot. "Mr. and Mrs. Arthur were unhurt, but the chauffeur, Kerwood, was pinned beneath the car and killed. Evans was suffer- ing from a contused face and head, but hia injuries are not serious.
THE NEW DICTATOR. i. "Funny how things come back on a man, isn't it?" "How do you mean?" Wel1. Simpkins married hia typist. He used to dictate to her, and now she dictates to him."
I SHIPS IN BUILDING. There were 399 vessels (excluding warships) of 912,272 tons gross under construction in the United Kingdom at the close of the quarter ended March 31st. This is an increase of 148,000 tons on the previous quarter. Of the vessels now under construction 289 of 543,342 tons are under the supervision of the Surveyors of Lloyds Register, with a view to classification by that society. In addition, nfty-nine vessels of 152,902 tons are building abroad with a view to classification. There are at present sixty-seven war vessels under construction in the United Kingdom, with a tonnage of 247,765. Of these eleven are being built in the Royal dockyards, forty-three in private yards for British service, and thir- I teen in private yards for foreign service or destinations not stated.
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I DEATH AFTER FISH SUPPER. I Amelia Welch, forty-eight years old, the wife of & boiler maker, at Stro-A, near Rochester, purchased some fried nsh for her supper, and shortly after eating it was seized with illness, which terminated fataUy. At the inquest the fishmonger declared that the fish was perfectly fresh. He had received it "that day from' Grimsby. The jjry returned a verdict of "Death from mis&d venture," and absolved the fishmonger frorc blame.
EASTER TRAGEDIES. A large number of Easter tragedies, in- cluding several suicides, were reported on Monday. Miss Amy Badcock, a nurse, was found dead in her room in lodgings i in Canning- atreet, Liverpool. She had just returned from church, and a housemaid who found her with her throat cut heard her singing merrily a few minutes before. Alfred Triune, a soldier in the Northamp- tonshire Regiment, who had been invalided home, was drowned at Weybridge on Sun-* day. Two young mea and two young women who had hired a punt found themselves un- able to manage it, and invited Trinne on board. He was poling when he fell over- heard. A boy named Evan Jones, son of Mr. Ernest Jones, of the Bay Horse Hotel, Poulton, near Blackpool, fell into a pond while playing on Monday and was drowned. A baby eighteen months old was drowned in the River Lea at Hackney on Sunday night. A woman was heard shouting "Save my baby!" near Stannard's boathouse, and some men who wont to the place found Jessie Wright, thirty-one years old, struggling in the water. No trace of the child could be found at the time, but its body was after- wards recovered. Mr. C. E. Peebles, a motor cyclist, of Mort- Jake, was killed on Monday at Egham in a collision with a motor-car belonging to Mr. Herbert Cory, of Bristol, and driven by his chauffeur. Mr. Cory at once jumped out of the car, and seeing that the man was seriously injured, took him to 'the Egham Cottage Hospital, where he died soon after hi-4 admission. Mr. Roger Sharkey, a car proprietor, of Leamington, was killed in a driving accident on Sunday night. He was returning with his daughter and son-in-law from a drive when his pony shi4d at a motor-car and bolted. The -trap came into collision with a tree, and Mr. Sharkey was thrown out and impaled on some railings. He died three hours later in a hospital. George Webb was killed at Worthing on Sunday night. He was riding on the step of It motor omnibus on his way home, and in alighting he fell under the wheel, which passed over his head.
A GRANDFATHER'S WILL. I The will has been proved of Mr. Thomas Pratt Ling, of Bracondale, Dorking, Surrey, aged seventy-four, tea merchant, who died in February. He left .212,000 upon trust for his granddaughter, Marie Nora Emily Edith Fornario, "Provided that she shall remain under the guardianship of his son George or other person approved by his trustees and shall not for- sake the English Protestant Faith, or marry a person not of that Faith, or marry a nrat cousin on either her father's or her mother's side, under penalty of losing one-half of her interest in this sum, and he also provided that the income should be paid to her in the United Kingdom, unless for a cause to be certined by medical certificate, or other cause to be approved by his trustees, she shall not be in the United Kingdom."
TROUBLE ON TROUBLE. I First Rheum&tism, then Eczema, developed from a ChiH. Both disorders promptly yielded to I)r. Willi&ms' Pink Pills. There is a striking illustration of the old proverb that troubles never come singly in the misfortunes of health that befel Mrs. Catherine Burgess, of 36, Furnace-hill, ChesterSeld. A simple chill led to a disordered state of the Blood, and this gave rise to the rapid development of two most aggra- vating and painful disorders, Rheumatism and Eczema. At length, Mr&. Burgess took Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and through the rich, red blood these pills supplied she was completely cured. Describing her case to e reporter Mra. Burgess said:— J Tired and Overheated: Caught a Chill: Rheumatism with Eczema: Dr. Wil.liams' Pink Pills Cured her. I had taken a long. walk one trying day ang returned home tired and overheated. Foolishly I sat-in a draught and thus caught a chill. My head felt Qizzy, my eyee burned, and cold shivers ran down my spine. Then followed sharp agonising pains in my shoulders and back, and at length my arms and legs were tortured with acute stinging pains. In a few days I was racked with Rheumatism from my shoulders to my feet. Later, I became aware that I was ansemic. The chill had affected my blood and this was weakening my constitution. I was languid, nervous, and very pale. The weak- ness with the tortures of Rheumatism made almost any exertion impossible, and I had the greaust 'difficulty in looking after the household. fhen eruptions formed on my akin, and an ex- tremely irritating inflammation spread over me. It proved to be Eczema, and made me most un- sightly. "I had tried remedies for the Rheumatism without relief, but knowing that Eczema was a blood disease, and being thoroughly run down and nervous, I made up my mind to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pitts, for I had read of most obstinate casea being cured by these puts. 1 got a supply and took them regularly. After a few days' treatment my nerves were calmed, and the pains in my legs, shoulders and arms dimi. niahed considerably. As I continued Dr. Williams* Pink Pills my veins were fed with new Mood, and I lost the sickly pallor on my face. Then the pains of Rhematism left me; the innammation of the skin and Eczema were also rapidly disappearing. I persevered with the treatment, and my general health improved wonderfully. In a remarkably short time all traces of Rheumatism, Eczema and Anmrnia vanished and I was completely cured. Here is positive proof of the great value, for internal and external disorders, of the Rich, Red Blood that only Dr. Williams' Pink Pills can make. Through this new blood these pills supply over- flowing strength, sound nerves, and a clear, healthy skin. Besides Anaemia, Rheumatism, and Eczema, they have also cured Debility, Indigestion, Ner- vous Disorders, St. Vitus* Dance and Paralysis invaluable also for the aches and ilia that amiet women. 2s. 9d. a box, or 13s. 9d. for six, post free, from Dr. Wiiliams' Medicine Co., 46, Holborn Viaduct, London. Alao of all dealers: but substi- tutes will not cure you, ao alwaya Mk for Dr. Williams'.
ROUGH TIME FOR BACHELORS. "Irreclaimable bachelors" are now having a bad time in the State of Maine. A bill has been introduced, framed on a basis that men who make no reasonable attempt to marry by the time they are thirty years old should help to support the spinsters who have never received a proposal on reaching the age of forty years. It is proposed to mulct every unmarried man of thirty or over at the rate of V.2 a year. The law has some relief measures for bachelors or widowers who can show that they have made a reasonable effort to get a wife by proposing three times, either to three different women or to one woman.
SAVING VALUABLE TIN The waste in making tin cans is so large that the saving of the metals contained is a matter of importance, the iron separated from the scrap being now in great demand aa well as the more valuable tin. In the new process the scrap is packed tightly into baskets, and these are placed mechanically in closed vessels, into which, after cooling, chlorine is pumped at a pressure of four atmospheres. Chlorine and stannic chloride are afterwards drawn off by suction. Used cans are now cleansed and treated with ordi- nary scrap, and in all 75,000 tons of the tin plate waste are now detiuned yearly in Ger- many.
WINDOW OF STONE. A window which is made entirely of stone has been presented to a certain cathedral. It is a yard and a quarter in height and three- quarters of a yard in width, and a fourteenth of an inch thick. The stone is known as nephrite, and is so beautifully transparent that when placed as it is it catches the sun's rays and reflects them into the interior of the cathedral in exquisitely varied colours.
FINEST CLIFF SCENERY. The finest cliff scenery in the United King- dom is on the coast of Donegal, in Ireland, where the variety and grandeur of the cliffs are most thrilling and impressive. Slieve League, south of Glen Columbkille, is a superb introduction to Donegal's coast sptehdours. In less than half a mile from the eea the mountain rises to & height of nearly 2,000 feet. In the Island of Achill, off the west coast of Ireland, the cliffs of Croghan, at Aehill Head, rise to 3,000 feet.
NOVEL! HORSE SHOES. In Iceland horses are shod with shoep'a horn, while in the Soudan they are shod with socks made of camel's skin. A German not long ago invented a horseshoe of paper, pro- pared by saturating with oil, turpentine, and other ingredients. Thin layers of such paper are glued to the hoof tiil tha requisite thick-, ness is attained. The shoes thus made are durable and impenetrable by moisture.
A WAY THEY HAVE IN RUSSIA. In Russia, when a. weapon of any hind is purchased, a permit must be secured from the local authorities. The name of the man who makes the purchase, with the number of the weapon, is recorded. If the purchaser ever wants to dispose of the weapon he must notify the authorities.
Major Pringle, on behalf of the Board of Trade, inspected the new electric tramway line from Southgate to Finchley. Inspector-General J. Porter, C.B., M.D., Director-General of the Medical Department of the Navy, has been appointed hoa. physician to the King.
SEQUEL TO WHARF FIRE. I The youth Henry Davey, who confessed to causing the £70,000 fire at Timothy's Wharf, MilhvaH, was, at the Thames Police-court, charged with arson. Mr. Rayner Goddard. who appeared to prosecute for Mcssra. G. and H. Green, the owners of the wharf, said that Davey apparently in a spirit of pure mischief struck a match and set fire to the jute. Thomas Pascoe, an omce boy, who said he warned Davey not to smoke, described how- the prisoner "sniggered," and put a match to the bale. Pascoe put hia cap over the place tc- put the fire out, but the stuff flared up and he rang the fire alarm. The prisoner, in Mars, said )f he had meant to do it he should not have done it in front of the boy. The magistrate committed the prisoner for trial for both felony and misdemeanour, saying that the prosecution could indict him for one or both.
SMOKE ROOM CRITICISM. I Found guilty by court-martial, at Devonport, of making use, on March 30, of a disparaging expression about Commander Pratt, in com- mand of the barracks. Lieutenant Daniel McDowell, of the Royal Naval Barracks, was sentenced to be reprimanded and ordered to be dismissed his ship. According to the evidence for the prosecution, the commander and Lieutenant McDow<lI, on the day in question, had a discussion with regard to a tug-of-war which was to be con- tested at the barracks in connection with the divisional tournaments. In the course of the evening, it was alleged, the lieutenant was in the smoking-room of the omcers' mess, chatting with another omcer, when he was heard to make use, about the commander, of the remark which was the sub- ject of the charge.
11 I DEATH OF LADY HERTFORD. The death took place at Marseilles of the Marchioness of Hertford. The cause of death as acute tonsilitis following an attack of innuenza, which commenced at Athens while on a voyage to the Holy Land. Lady Hertford was the Hon. Mary Hood, a daughter of the nrst Viscount Bridport, and married Lord Hertford (then Captain Seymour in he Grenadier Guards) in 1868.
At the London Sessions Arthur Gilbey was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment for snatching a purse from a woman on an omni- bus. While hunting with the Norwich sta.ghounda at Melton Mr. K. H. Millnrd wa.3 thrown and fell on his head. His condition is critical.
A number of King's and Queen's South African war medals and clasps for non-commis- sioned omcers and men are still awaiting claim- ants. While the child of Ernest Shaw, of Leeds, was sitting by the fireside something in the grate exploded, and the child was fatally injured. The body of a well-dressed man, aged about sixty, was found at the foot of a hill near Baw- burgh, Norfolk. A bicycle lay near the body. Samuel King, who is alleged to have nred three shots at policemen who were arresting another man, was committed for trial at Bir- mingham.