GENERAL NEWS.

MARRIAGE LOTTERY.,

: Mr J. W. Miller, a widower ana a farmer living at Secaucus, New Jersey, lias got up an extraordinary ioutery, of which he himself is the first prize. He has sold 771 raffle tickets for Is each. He will marry the winner. live negresses have purchased tickets, and each states that she will marry the white man should she prove tte winner. The townspeople are preparing to ride Miller out «.-! the place on a rail if he should attempt to marry one of the black women. " BLOOMING GLOBE-TROTTER." When Lord Kitchener arrived at Delhi early last December he entered a hackney carriage, and drove unobserved to his camp. He was in civilian attire. Walking round the camp he met a highly important non-com-missioned officer, to whom he applied for a direction., It was curtly giv,en, the non-cpm. observing that he had no time "to answer the blooming foolish questions of every blooming globe-trotter.Vf "k. of K." is said to havte smilejd. The non-com.'s expression when he discovered his mistake is not recorded. A LIFE OF VICISSITUDE. Agnes Cox, widow of Lieut.-Colo-nel W. F. Cox, formerly of the R. H.A., was remanded by the Maidenhead Magistrate on a charge of concealment of birth. Mrs Cox's life has been touched by romance. She was formerly in service at the Colonel's house, Northtown, near Maidenhead. Her name was Agnes Cannon and slite was the daughter of, poor parents living in Maidenhead. Colonel Cox fell in love with his servant and they were married. The union was a happy one, but. after eleven years the Colonel died and his pension, of course, died with him. He left his young wife and a little boy with nothing but a few debts. The house was broken up, and the widow returned to service. For some time she assisted her widowed mother in mangling and charing, and for the past six months she has earned half-a-crown a week by looking after an invalid woman in Reform-lane. THIRTY-THREE IN THE CASE. Mrs! Thomas Robb, jun., has instituted divorce proceedings against her husband who is a young man well known in the fashionable world at Philadelphia, and a member of the Rittenhouse Club/ Mrs Ro.bb,i who is one of the most popular and handsomi members of Philadelphia smart society, cites three women as co-res-pondents, 6 and mentions " thirty others to the deponent hnknown. BISHOP'S NEW YEAR'S WARNING. | In a New Year's letter issued to his clergy the Bishop of London says judging from what he saw in his vi-. sits to 150 parishes in 1902, the clergy are doing, magnificent work. In a few parishes, however, he regrets to say, that Romish doctrines and practices are in v.ogue. He has admonished onep arish priest not to use the rosary, the benediction of the reserved sacranitut, the cult of the Sacred Heart, the invocation of the Saints, and devotions to the blessed Virgin ''Mary. His lordship trusts that this clergyman will submit, or he will personally near the case in his own court.