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Hot Lakes Chronicle, Volume 3, Issue 149, 9 October 1895, Page 4

On returning home the other day a lady was presented by the coni.irge with a bonnet box, which had just been delivered. The lady, much excited, anticipating some agreeable present, begged the concierge to open the box -without delay. This was immediate'y done, and with horror and indignation they saw a cardboard skull appear, on the top of which was written, ! To you! my sweetest smiles!' The recipiont of this melancholy offering, enraged at having been the victim of such a joke, carried off the box to the nearest police station, where she communicated to the officials her suspicions of its having been the work of her son-in-law. In the Biitish Army one soldier is seven is now under twenty years of age. This, of course, includes all recruits and banddays. The newest puncture proof band for use on cycles is made of strips of whalebone inserted between the air tube and the Prince Francis of Teck, a brotherin law of the Prince of Wales, lost £IO,OOO on tho Carragh racos recently Lord Ardilaun offered to pay his debts, Prince Francis being well nigh a pauper, but the Queen interposed, and paid them, and then ordered him to India. "fiouon on lUts."—Clear out rats, mice roaches, flics, ants, bed-buss, infects, skunk eocck-ralnts, sparrows, gophers. Alchemist