LONDON GOSSIP.

Auckland Star, Volume XXVI, Issue 184, 3 August 1895, Page 4 (Supplement)

LONDON GOSSIP.

, (JEOM OVS, OWN CORRESPONDENT.)

.! ■ ' London, June 7. ,-,■ WsrrSTTNTIDE.-fTHE SHAHZADA AT THE ZOO. The ' Whitsuntide^ holidays were for a wpnder superbly fine, and the exoddsfrom town was tremendous, most folks rushing off,on Friday directly the mail closed, and forgetting to return till yesterday. Your correspondent and the Shahzada were nob amongab these lucky mortals; The former had to etay here and slice himself in two in orSer'to bid farewell to Bishop Harmer and the Hon. J;G. Ward, who left us on the came day and the.same hour, but by different stations. The"latter remained at DorChester House in the hope of obtaining a litble r resb. 1 am rather sorry for this :, ~''f light brown gentleman, who seems 7 in a fair way to be killed with kindness. ,Tp the .Occidental mind, / ■the amount of sigbtseeinghe gets through does nob appear -much, bub any Oriental ' •would find ib distinctly overpowering;. Wna'b the Shahzada thinks of us nobody knows. His suite allege be has, really Enjoyed himself on' ono occasion since/he lftbde^, vizi, ab^ the Zoological Garden? on .Sunday afternoon. •He brightened/ up materially in the monkey-house, smiling the v grave smile which is his nearest approach itd a laugh ab the apish antics, and clipping hjs hands at the seals' clever perfomiances. ; Ihia a positive faeb, and nob a joka/of Geo. R. Sims, that our dietinguishetf visitor backed the horses of both the Prince of •• Wales and • Lord Rosebery at Epsom, because, as he eriid, they irere bound' to winw Before/Courtier's race, the Prince of Wales took pains to explain thab his horee bad no advantage over the others.1 'Bubit will,win,' said the Shahzada, quietly. ' Well, ,- we'll hope so, :bu't my horsea don't often get home,'sighed Hia Royal-Highness. However, on this occasion,- as you know, the Royal colours were for the first time triumphant at Epsom. ■flihe' Shahzada smiled. \TbV- idea" of these Europeans trying to ,deceive him. ?OI c6urse, the Prince's horse had won, and so would the Grand Vizier's. It would be very uncomfortable in' Afghanistan for any one who defeated aroyalor ministerial candidate. And, of course, it was the same here. •Look here, friend of my soul, take my tip and back Laveno.'iaid the Duke of York. - •iAndeave on Le Var,' said Lord Alington. ''.With a bib on Raconteur for a place,' added, Mr McCa'lmonb.' '«I place 50 gold .pieces on the hovee of the Grand Vizier, 1 •said His Highness.' And ten minutes later, when Lord Rosebery was sprinting '•down the stairs and through the rings (and a tempest of smacks on the back) to greeb and lead in his returning equine hero, the leasb surprised man on the coarse was the Shahzada. ' Allah is great,' he murmured piously. ; * A; Royal Visit. 'The Shahzada visited the CJty yesterday, and we had another good look at His High.neaa'as he passed beneath our office windoWfl ab Ludgate Circus. Allowing for Oriental passivity, I should say he was decidedly'wooden and unintelligent, and fchab tte story which credits him with, saying .thab a Punch and Judy show which be /accidentally' [witnessed outside Dorchester / House, bad been his most enjoyable ex- / perience in this country, was probably true. ./' Anyhow, the Shahzada made the'fortune of ■the lucky, street showmafl/ who .received a £5 note for his performance of the historic tragedy; and is to be conveyed to Cabul to /repeab it before the Ameer. : Of the Ameer's suite the Kotwal of Cabul impresses one ■tqosfc. He is noti very well ab present, owing to an excess'of combined politeness and Brown Wifldsor. Ib seems, mistaking ;the intention of his host's in providing soap - Dorchester House,, the. • iKobwol felti bounded"•eaf^ti~;and: / ":aftern ja gbllantl effo'fb udispoßed of ;;an entirV, cake. llEusI?;comments on .the tastes of ' iGnglish were forcible, till the nature of his error was explained. He then became in-, djeposed. • Oscar's Health.; ' A very, pretty story, to the effect thab when Oscar Wilde was transferred to the ipenal prison at Pentonville, and his. 'Dyacinthine locks, were shorn, he went mad, and had become practically;imbecile, is authoribabively denied. Those , who ,know the man best are, however, afraid of •something of this sort happening. On the other, hand, it is jusb possible he may courageously 'buck-up,' and resolve to recove? a position and a. good name, as Valentine Baker did. The man has such unique talents —almost) genius—thab an attempt of the kind would be far from hopeless. Besides, ib should appeal to his »jioetic side. 'The Atonemenb of Oscar Wilde' has already quite a familiar sound. 1 Vice Chancellor Bacon. Vice • Chancellor Bacon, who died the other day at the age of nearly one hundred, was a remarkable character, and till he retired nine years ago, held a unique position on the judicial bench. He was then v;ell into the eighties and decidedly deaf, .yeb so acute, so caustic, bo vigorous in his judgment, and so felicitous in his language, ' that no one oven suggested he should give -up work till he voluntarily abandoned it. 'Twas a legend at the Courts that his lunch consisted of bread. and milk and strong tobacco, and that his memory was such ■a marvellous ono thab nobody had over seen Jhim take a note. One fine old crusted • * fahesnub ' about him was to the effect thab on the hearing of an appeal from one of his judgments the lords, justices sent for his notes, .which proved to consist of a •sheet of paper decorated with a caricature .of the appellant. Underneath was written, '• This man is a liar.' - ~ .Tlie writer of some interesting personal reminiscences of Sir,, James Bacon in the fSb. James's Gazette,' says:—\ The Vice' Chancellor jiad his averaionp. He hated a fool, he hated a bore, ancl perhaps above all ;*O- Ttt|!e^''^iJ?ltff^vwi*eß!itiO''iißi;acheß. "I) cannot near you," he said to one of the trib^ Wjlfose upper lip bore the accursed thing/; "and dp you knpvvu;%,i,cannothear you'?" ■ •'sNq,■■■« my iord,v';heßitatingly .replied ihe learned gentleman,. feelingseure thab the Vice-Cnanceitqr,was about to apologize for his deafnessi bub. not 7 daring to anticipate the apology. The answer came in tones that rang/through the'court; "It is because, Birr you wear''an db3taclo—aa impediment —befpreyouruibuth.' Tl^> old man had a very pretty wit; and ib i^usb be confessed bhab, now and then ho uwd ib without a strict rbgard for the feelingj/of those who appeared before, him. It was'nofc often thab he spoke unkindly,-, but/wheheyir the irascibility of .vigorous ,o?<i ag<a overcame him for a momenb the th|flg he/said was so neat and' pointed thabAt wajs nob easily forgotten by thefrienas or enemies of the vicbiin. On one. occasion he was being addressed byVa ver/ deaf member of the Bar, to whom all^e judge/s questions or observations were/ quite iriaudible. The eolicitor insbructftig the man ; endeavoured to mend [mabtirs by sboutmg the judge's wor/is into hW ear in a strident voice which cpuld be heard in the.corridors, apd; it is needless to aidd that the English of tKe sentences was- nob improved i^ the process. His was muih, irritated; at hearing his observations repeated^ in this way, and, in,the |iope of^rendewng the services of;the irjterpfQter unnecesgary, ha addrepged the advocate with the full strength of his lungs; bub though this Btrength was considerable, , thtf,. diecordanb ypU of the- solicitor , con- ■ tfnued to follow/ every observation, and , the proceedings/ began to assume the ( y complexion of a shouting match between / the Bench and I the.'." well." At lasb the ';"../■. patience of thovGench gave way., " Whois / conducting this case?" said the Vice'^tft'pcsllfr": in/ plaintive tones — !,' tbe ■■■•^■■':i ■'.-. ■■';'■.'." ; v':" /'■ ■-';■""'"'■';"' •";■■•■■■■■■"■-',. ■;-. :■"■:■:■ :■.■■■

gentleman; whom /I cannob hear or the gentleman] who cannob hear ;me ?" To make clear to the non-legal reader the wit of the description, •• the gentleman whom I cannot bVear,!1 as applied to•., the shouting solicitor, ''one may be pardoned for explaining that/in the superior courts.solicitors have nojrighb of audience—or, to use the phrase in common use, " cannot be heard.' On another occasion the Vice-Chancellor .let/.fall/ a sentence which for years was qubted/againsb the unfortunate man who provok!ed fo A certain member of the ! Junior^ Ear, a very learned conveyancer | whosfi work lay chiefly in his own chambera, I and y'/h6,likemosb of his mystic brotherhood, was/far > more at ease in those chambers thaji in court, was arguing a case, and "one of .the documents in ib was banded up to th/j judge, who began very deliberately to re;ad it. The learned counsel, seeing how h/j was employed, opened a whispered conversation with "a man beside him. The '^ice-Chancellor read as much of the docu/menl as he thought material, and, looking up, invited counsel to proceed: Unfortunately be did not observe this and continued hie conversation. Bub nob for long, for the judge, elevating his voice to its '.highest, pitch, delivered himself" as follows : — IGo on, Mr X ! You can talk bo thab gentleman any day; bub you do nob ofoen geb an opportunity of talking to me." There, was one member of the Inner Bar practising before the Vice-Chancellbr for whom he was supposed to have no greab liking. This gentleman's services were nob much in demand ; for although his ability and knowledge of law were undoubted, he whs apt to look at a case from an impracticable standpoint and not to tnftke the mosb of its besb points. Ib was commonly said of him thab he bad a twisb in his mind. When this gentleman was about sixty some ono remarked to the judge that he was clever. " Yes;" Baid the old man slowly and judicially, "he is a clever young, man ;" and after a pause he added,'.' If he swallowed a nail he would vomib a screw."' ■; ' 'Mr Baker' or Johore. The, Sultan of Johore, who died ab Bailey's Hotel, South Kensington, of Bright's disease, last Tuesday, was one of those Oriental potentates who, having been, brought, up beneath the blessings of British rule, and having atudiod civilisation aided by an English tutor, combined in a marked degree the tastes and weaknesses, not to say vices, of both races. He was specially fond of squeezing every ponny out of the inhabitants of Johore Bahru, arid coming home to spend the money on more or less harmless sprees in London and Paris. One of his delusions was that no one could tell him from a sunburnt Englishman. He called himself * Mr Baker,' and cultivated an extensive acquaintance with the ornaments of the "Variety stage. They all knew perfectly who he was, bub found it profitable to call him 'Papa Baker.' and pretend to believe him English. His Highness, on one occasion, sued Miss Mitchell for breach of promise. The caße was, however, dismissed, the law courts holding thab us the Sultan was an independent potentate, he could not bo sued. In this connection it may be mentioned thab His Highnes? was already a much-married man. Behind the Botanical Gardens in his beautiful little capital, the visitor is charmed to find a fairy-like structure, which is the palace of the Sultan's wives. Here live a hundred and fifty of Mr Baker's domestic ladies, under bhe rule of his chief consort—the beautiful Circassian, Inche Eitega. , , < | The progress, of Johore during the/ reign' of .the . late Sultan; has beeu prodigious. With the single exception 'if Siam, Johore is now the only independent kingdom remaining in Southern Asia. In 1819, when Sir Sbamford.Ra'ffles purchased Singapore from the father. of the late Sultan, the royal palace was a /palmthatched bungalow, the country ara unbroken jungle, and tha inhabitants .'pirates!.. - and fishermen by turna. -' The' Sbraitß ;of Malacca were infested with swiff) pirate praus, and the snake-liko kris menaced the merchant marine of the world. Now the Attap Istana or palace has given place to a series of palaces that rival ttfose of many a much better known country; the jungle is transformed into plantations of gam bier, tea, coffee, and pepper; the few elephant tracks and forest paths, into a network of macadamised roads and projected railways ; and the native praus, to English-built) barques and deeply-laden cargo steameva. Two hundred thousand hard - working, money-making Chinese have been addod to the 35,000 Malay aborigines, and the revenue of this remnant of an empire is far greater than was the revenue of the original .State. The Sultanate of Johore, as it now is, has an area of about 15,000 sqiwe miles, and a population of between 2aQ,000 and 300,000 souls. The capital, Joljore Bahru, half Chinese, half Malay in architecture, with its attap-roofed bali or had, its Mohammedan mosque, Chinese jo;js-houpe, and Buddhisb temple, its publi/e buildings of brick, spacious gambling/farms, and its well-paved streets filled w'/bh the representatives of all the races of Ohe Far East, is a eight to gladden the intelligent tourist. M. Alphonse Daudeb would/ nob complain of ib as a 'silent city,' for/the din of running rikishas, rattling gharries, and the confused babble of by/erity thousand voices in a dozen different languages, perpetually salute the ears, f The persona/, appearance of the late Sultan was dignified and pleasing. He was five feeb eigh/j in height, well built, with clean cut, kindly features. His colour was nearer the Spanish type than the Indian. His hands/and feeb were small, forehead high and full, lips thin, and nose aquiline. His 'hair/and moustache were white. He spoke good English, and was able to converge in French and German. In everyday dress he affected the frock coat/ to which he added a narrow silk sarong and a ' brimless black cap. Ab'unoffici^l dinners he wprje a tuxedo js^keb, 'a white low-cub vesb all with diamond buttons, black pantaloons, and grey sarong. In the front of hia cap was a plume ot diamonds, and in his button-hole a diamond orchid. On his wrists were heavy gold bracelets of Malayan workmanship, and his fingers were cramped with almost priceless rings. In official dress, including' his crown, His Highness wore £2,000,000 worth of diamonds. His collar, epaulets, belt, cuffs, and Orders of all,the monarchies ,of Christendom, blazed with diamonds. The handle and scabbard of his sword were a solid mass of precious stones. '. ■ ■. : \ , ' • '.' "■'"' ■' ■ /'..'

Besides being a lover of jewels, he was a connoisseur of horseflesh and a lover of yachts. His Btud comprised 200 horees, and twice a year he Offered a cup at the Singapore jockey races, and entered half-a--dozen of his own horses. His yachts were builb on the Clyde, and are the finest procurable of their size. He had also very pronounced artistic tastes,* and his v palacee, which ' are lighted by electricity, are ; full of interesting curios. A recent visitor to his homo thus describes the reception hall. 'In the centre,' he cays, 'is a massive table ornamented with a golden urn, filled with maidenhair ferns and dragon orchids, that requires two men to lift. The table is set with a service of gold and silver, one course of which is the famous Ellenborough plate, which the late Sultana purchased in Scotland for £40.000 as a present for His Highness. A little Arabic characber on the edge of each stands for her initials. Across the reception court b marble flight of-etep's leads up to the corridor that eurrounds the grand salon and the throne room. Heroic-sized paintings of Mr Gladstone and Lord Beacorisfield Btand against the wails at the first landing. Abod; the corridors are Malay krises and limbines, Dyak spears and shields, Japanese kafcanas and suitß of armour, Indian daggers and weapons of war and'the chase.' •. '. ■ "Tbo late Sultan is eucceeded en the

throne of Johore by his son Ibrahim, who was born in 1877; ;■ v ; . -■>.■•, \ The £1,000 Reward for Orton. I Apropos oi the'VO'r tori' confessions now i 1 proceeding from week to week in a Sunday [ paper, it is; interesting to recall that the : late Governor of New Zealand'Bcoußinj Mr Ouildford OnslowVwas the chief supporter of the Claimant in the days of his fame,and squandered a goodly forbune in Ticbborne bonds. "'After the incarceration of bhe '. unfortunate nobleman ' (as some idiob . of the period felicitously christened him)in " Dartmoor, Mr; Onslow and the Sir Roger's credulous friends," who were still fairly numerous, offered. £1,000 for the disco very and production of Arthur Orton. Very soon after ib was pub about the man had been found in several placea,' a specially circumstantial story coming'from New Zea-j land. In this connection I saw last week an autograph letter from John Bright written in July,11876, to a friend,; which I obtained leave to copy. He remarked : ' You may rely upon ib thab Arbhur Orton will nob come from New Zealand. During the trial and since £1,000 was offered for 'him, and nobody .could produce him. Ib was a large bribe, and I- only^wonder ib hasn'b brought over a score of Ortpns. The real Arthur Ortcu is in Dartmoor, and no body, I; suspect, knows this better, than some of those who are pretending bo exploit him from New Zealand. I; have before me now the handwriting! of the real Roger Tichborne, of the real Arbhur.Ortbn, and of the convict, and this alone'is suffi.cienb to convince any, man of commonsense and observation what,is the truth in the case.' TiOHBORNE Dates. ;If the Orbon contessiona are 5 credible, which there are many reasons for doubting, they show how wondertully'accurate and near the truth the conclusions formed by the prosecution were all bbrougb. I prefer, howevor, to believe that the Claimant is making up his precious narrative less from memory than from reports of his two trials. People, by the. way, are always quarrelling over! the dates of the Tichborne trials, etc. It may, therefore, be of interest to set down a few of the leading ones for reference. Roeor.Charles Tichborno (tbe real man) was born 1829 and losb ab Bea in the Bella in 1854. In 1865 Lady Tichborne, persuaded her son was alive, advertised for him. In 1866 Orton becamei Sir Roger ab Wagga Wagga, and the following year was recognised by Lady Tichborne as. her son, in Paris. Chancery proceedings culminated on May 11th, 1871, in the trial of Tichborne v. Luahington.y before Chief-Justice Boyill, in the Courb cf Common Pleas. Sergeanb Ballantine lect for the Claimant, and 'Sir John Coleridge'for the guardians of the present Tichborne baroneb, then an infant. The Claimant's examination and cross-ex-amination occapiod 22 days, and Sir J. Coloridsre's speech 16 days. On March 6th, 1872, which was the 103 rd day of the trial, the Claimant was non-suited. These law proceedings cost £90,000 j •On thK, following day Orbon was arrested, bub on April,23rd, 1872, gob bail. 'On the same day his trial for perjury commenced befo/e Lord; Chief-Justico Cockburn, and ■ Justices Mellor and bueh. Ib lasted till. February 28, 1874, when Orton was sentenced to 14 years' penal servitude. This criminal tr;al is the longest known in EnglisJb anndlßi Mr Hawkins, Q.C., conducted blie Urown case, and Dr. Kenealy the dofence. / v La Diva. Madame Adelina Patti, despite all her virtuous resolutions not to 'lagsuperfluous' on the lyric stage, is, like most of her kind, unable to'bring heraelf-to retire.- Nor: can certain folks, see why she should do bo whilst impreaarios like Druriolanus can be found willing to give her £500 a night. Apart, howpver, .from financial considerations, wUich Pat'ti is wealthy enough to ignore, it Beemsasad pity that the once unequalled q»p9P of;! 86ng^:shduid - -wjUine) jrcontrast her wornout voice with Melba's superb organ now ab its best. They ire!to sing togethernexbweek in 'Don Giovanni,' Patti ot course playing Zerlina to Edouard de Reske's Don and the Ottavio oi Alvarez. A Codrt of Criminal Appeal. The idea that there should be some tribunal to which a person convicted and sentenced at the ordinary criminal courts could appeal, has gained a very firm hold upon the public mind in the Old Country. A Bill is even now before Parliament', the c-bjocb of which is the creation of a Court ot. Criminal Appeal. It is, however, not likely thab such a measure will become law, for Her Majesty's judges are unanimous in opposition thereto. Their opinion, as voiced by Mr Justice Grantham at the Kent Abs'izes, is that, the formation of such a courb is wholly unnecessary and would be productive of.much harm. Appeals of the most trivial character would, they aver, be taken before the new tribunal, and the rehearing of such caßes would involve enormous coßt and v/aste of time. Mr prantham referred to the fact that^the Home Secretary was petitioned to s auaendßontoncesafc the rate of about 4,000 per annum, but only interfered with about 10 percent, of the decisions. He rogarded this mode of appeal as" far preferable to the one the Bill sought to establish, and opined thab such a great change in the law of the land as the Bill would bring aboutwould rendfer the trials in the ordinary criminal courts much less careful and solemn. The objections to a Criminal Court of Appeal are doubtless very strong ; but so are the arguments in favour of a revising courb. Mr Grantham provided one himself by giving a man convicted of obtaining three pounds of meat) under false prebsnees the ferocious sentence of three years'imprisonment. •, ' The' Cost of Peace. General Turr, a veteran soldier, who has served in many a hard campaign, has been giving a Greek newspaper his views on the burden imposed on Europe by the armed peace. The article in which they are embpdied in the ' Messager d'Athenoa' is entitled ' What- Prince Bismarck Cosb Us' -^ which is giving 'phe Devil something, more than- his due. According to the General's calculations the maintenance of peace :in Europe —or, as he prefers to term ib ' armed terrbrism ■'—has involved an outlay of five thousand million pounds during the. past five and twenty years. ; This enormous sum may not be.deemed too, much to pay for tbe blessing it has secured to us, bub in spite of it we cannot bo sure of peace for a single month. r' A clumsy telegram 'may, as the General pubs it, ignite the vast mass, of explosive material which lies ready to be fired, and bring about the dreaded explosion, i The war, ibis agreed, would not be long, but supposing it to last six months Europe would; be called upon to spend £1,200,000,000 more, and every soldier killed would have cost £62,000.-So says General Turr, and even if his figures are .■.;, considerably exaggerated, ib remains true" thab the European nations are groaning under a, military load such as never oppreseed the' civilised world, before. And there seerris no immediate prospects of a. lighteningfof the burden. Universal disarmament eeftms the only way oub of the peril, bub tbe/nian is nob yet born who will see the acconiiplishmenb of that. . . ' A Woman Who Worker. The news of the death of Misa Emily Faitb/ull will be received with, regret all the world over. She jvas a charapion of the right of her.sex to work in the/days when a woman required more than ordinary courage to venture out of the beaten track, bub she differed widely from bnose creatures who have won for their claera the unenviable title of ' the shrieking Cjisterhobd.' Mies Faithful! was a worker,, not a' talker, and she had no desire to ga?n personal notoriety when she took up her mission. Convinced (hat in the various, branches of labour in

which women could compete with men, none • i::offered"' i:.;'TiiOTe\-''';favourablßr.':.-'';'oppor-T tunibies; ; than ; the: k, gen tie *\ : ,, ar b, ,of [ printing, Miss Faithfull set up ;a prinbing office- iv which .the • work of typ- ; setting wasv'dbne ? entirely -% 'Womeni -Here, for many;a year, practical proof was • given that women's work was;fully equal tothabofsmen.; the work: burned : outab r ihis printing house, and1 bhe'argu- ; ments -of■•'its';: founder disseminated^ in the 'Victorias Magazine,' unquestionably did imore to advance woman's cause tha^ all the platform perfprmahces of the exponents: of women's rights; ;. Mies Faithfull lived to see the employment of women in a great number of epheres deemed' impossible to them not- very many years ago". And sho also lived,long enough to, discover that in | some situations in which wometi wouldraaBonably haveVbeen'expected to besuperior to men, women fail—more or less. In shops for example, the eervicos of women would seem vastly more appropriate than those of men,; but,, as a matter of fact, men ;are preferred? by many customers. - In EngUsh posti offices,: men are also again supplanting tho membersi of the gentler sex who had taken their places. Women all the world over owe a deep debt of gratitude to- Miss Faithfull,- and ib is to be hoped thab they will contrive some fitting memorial to her lasting memory— withoub man's aid '; though many men, myself amongst them, would be glad to add ttieir mite." . • ■■. ■ TAb Way to* Walk Dpstaiks. ; A terrible panic-monger is the'latter-day, medicine/, man-~bhe more so tb'ab he is usually afflicted with* the grievous disease known aß'cacocthes.scribendi, and loves to see himself.in print. His desire, of course, is "'to impress the public, and to advertise himself in a manh|r^ which is not;disapproved of (in '.bla'dlr and white) by the R.C.P.S. To do this hVi^» continually discoveringpew dangers fcp humanity, such as, for instance, bhab the consbanb use of steel ' pens conduces ;to chronic aphasia, or tbab ! 600 frequent indulgence in semolina pudr \ diug tends to, produce—well any disease you like so long as ib haß an awerihspiring appellation % containing nob less than four , six-syllabled words'. Also he is tor ever ! telling us that we don't yawn scientifically, ~ and thab 'our sneezes/are not performed in a manner consistent wich the principles of hygiene, or thab our method Pf getting in . and bub. of bed is opposed to the principal j upon which pur liver acts.' The latest and J nob the least amusing of our literary medi-. cine - man's pronouncements is ■ that we [ don'b. walk upstairs scientifically. As the result of • exhaustive observations' he has , come to the conclusion thab the great majoriby bake off from, the ball of the foot. I This, of course, is entirely wrong, mas,- , much as ib throws undue strain on the muscle of the legs and feet., What we [ should do is to place the whole^ foot—heel ; and ball—squarely down on the Btept and so allow each muscle to do its duty in a 1 proper manner. By attention to these con- ', cisc ioßbructions anyone may learp, with practice, to mount upstairs scientifically, bub I defy anyone bo attain to gracefulness \ by the Dew method. Try it! [ Pasteur, the-Patriot. , I The high priest of preventive medicines ' has made hia nazne more honoured (tern■ porarily) in France by refusing to accepb J bhe German Emperor's offer ot the Prussian ■ Order Pour Ze/Merite than he could have ' done by loog' years of scientific research.. • M. Paeteur refused the distinction on the ground: that 'if science had no fatherland he had,' and since this utterance a certain : class of Frenchmen have been lauding the ' renowned scientisb to" the skies/ For the , presenb he is •' Pasbeur, the Pabriob,' and i though the slight effervescence awakened > by the offer made him and his refusal of the j, same will subside quickly as the: head on a glass of champagne, it shows how raw the • wounds of '7i.are still. The lapse of five and » twenty years hos nob enabled the majority ■ of frenchmen to Itvf. jipwn . the greab^ '■ :humi|iatipn;"''an"d*/ey'bry;- frbshj.oj&fcempVyori i "Ge'rtnWy'p jiart at conciliabion only' shows i the hopelessness of efforbs in this direction. ' France is determined nob to forget the paab, . and though a small section of rationalminded patriots have long worked to bring about good-will between the nation, the Chaurmistic spirib is too rampant for their 1 efforts to produce good effect. Indeed, as ' the Pasteur incident shows, Germany, hold? ' ing out the olivo branch has much theeame effect on the French mind as the red cloak the bullfighter has upon a black Andalu- • sian. The German press is. beginning to 1 recognise this fact, and is asking those in ; power to drop the policy of reconciliation. An Infants' Hotel. . v,, I A now style of cr&che hos beeni discovered ,in Paris. A lady committed the unpardon- ' able offence (in the eyes of Jeamea and ] Mary) of returning from a soiree three hours , before ehe was due. On reaching home she , discovered three importanb members of her household missing—to wit, her baby, the , housemaid and the nurse. From the concierge the irate mistress and trembling '. mother elicited the fact that the missing , domestics had gone to the Moulin Rouge, and that the baby had associated itself with the little excursion. Madame was speedily . on her way to join the party, and at bhe , Moulin Rouge found housemaid and nurses ;in the cafe keeping of casual milibary friends. Bub there was no sign of the , depraved baby. The servants assumed' , the 'agressive whbn tackled, and bade Madame kindly nob mar the harmony ' of'the evening. Baby was in a safe place , and in excellent keeping. The mother atj this juncture noticed that the nurse was wea/- '■■ ing one of her own evening dresses; and her .. hand thus strengthened, with/a definite , charge, she called a police a^enb. The sight of this geraonab once'reduced the nurse from impertinence bo tearful terror, and-she consented to discloße the place of i excellent keeping, which burned out to be a , email public house adjacent bo the Moulin i Rouge. Here the child was found sleeping .peacefully in ay-cot; but nofc alone. There were in the same room eigbb other ' children, all of the upper classes, and all deserted by their bonnes, who were a H at , the 'Palace of Much Wickedne/jf?.'1 Tbe owner of th'a *ipub' cpnfesSed thab he did'a : fine business ,all the year round by receiving infants at the rate of If 50c per head. Ho had christened Ins hotel 'Au Rendezvous deß Btjbea. ,