GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS

Press, Volume XLVIII, Issue 7880, 3 June 1891, Page 6

GOSSIP AND NEWS ITEMS

The London correspondent of the Leeds SSercvry understands that the fee Lord Randolph Churchill is to receive from the Doily Graphic for the fifteen or twenty letters he is going to write from Africa is £000 guineas. The first Mahommedan marriage ever celebrated in England took place at the Moslem Institute, Liverpool, where the followers of Mahomet in that city regularly assemble. The bride was Miss Charlotte Fitch, eldest daughter of Mr Charles -Fitch, J.P., of London: and the bridegroom was a Mahommedan barrister, practising in London, whose father is Revenue Secretary to the Nizam of Hyderabad. A correspondent of the Standard writes: —A poor boy bas been bad up before the Folkestone Magistrate for using bad language in the .street. The Magistrate <C_T. De Crespigny) told the lad he ought to be •' devlish well flogged," and fined him 19s, or six days* imprisonment I At the instigation of the Charity Organisation Society, Miss Annie Chamberlain, a bliud girl, has been trained by a medical man as a masseuse. Everyone knows how sensitive is the touch of a blind person, and it is found that certain nervous patients prefer the services of a rubber who cannot see. If this step widi-u-} tho field of employment tor those dep-ived of sitfht, it will be an excellent thiirß. The destruction of alligators for their hides iv the Southern States of America has bioucht about a veritable plague of musk* rats in some districts. The alligators feed on these rats, and when they aro exterminated the rats flourish un-i-hu<-kvd. The authorities of Plagumines Pari lis have forbidden the killing of alligators under a fine of £3), or a month* intpn-ionment. - It is reported from New York that the Kl>i_-4i>:< Exhibition, opened three months *&o by Prince George of Wales, Is proving * liiiauciai failure of the most dismal character. The attendance of visitors has not come up to expectations. It bas averaged but little over 8000 a day, which la not sufficient to pay expenses. It is now realised that the enterprise will result in a heavy loss, and the question as tci. by whom it will be borne Is being acrimoniously discussed in the Jamaica and' West Indian newspapers.