CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8717, 13 February 1894, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

Bjornson and Ibsen,, a Christiania Correspondent says, have nob published auy new ' work this yeai ; but Bjornson, who is now in Borne, is said to have completed the , second play of a, aeries entitled " Beyond j the Reach." The first of these has not yet been performed in Norway, but it is in preparation at the. Tne&tre Libre in Paris, under the title.of " L'CEuvre." For the lasc ' two and a-half years Ibsen has not been outside Christiania. General Gourko is thinking of introducing & novelty iuto the sham fight as practised in Russia. He proposes that a certain percentage of ball cartridges shall be served out to the soldiers.- - •"■ It would," says the General, teach skirmishers, to make the roost of'cover." Probably - spectators will be equally ready to learn. There- will scarcely be a dull motneut at the Russian manoeuvres of the future. Judging from tbe experience in Japan of Mr A. Milnesjof the Personal Rights Association (says the Melbourne Argus), protection is piactised in that country with a thoroughness that even MrTrenwith might envy. " When I arrived," says Mr Milnes, "on the premises of the Naval College at Tokio I found there a fire engine. It was an admirable sample ot Messrs Merry weather's work. Remembering that all the houses are of wood, I said, " You send this put when there, is a fire ? " " Oh, no !- we did once.". "Oh!" said I, "wouldn't it work?" . "Yes," was the reply, "it worked splendidly. When it came to a fire it put it out. But that would bave thrown all the native firemen out of work, and so it .has not been allowed to go outside the College ever Bince." Evidently, in Japan they understand and practice the art of •' giv|og employment." Apropos of H.M.S. Resolution's narrow escape from foundering, Mc C R- Low, Elsham road, .Kensington, writes:—No fewer than four Resolutions have come to an untimely end by battle, fire, or wreck. Tbe first bore tbe flag of Blake in his great victory off the North Foreland, over Van Tromp, ou the 25th September, 1652, and in Monk's equally great success off the same headland on the 25th of July, 1666; Bhe was burnt by ft fireship, tbe only one 105t,.; as against twenty Bail taken or sunk. Forty years later the.Resolution engaged a squadron'of six ships off the Spanish coast, and was run ashore and burnt by Captain Mordadnt, son of the famous Earl of Peterborough,- to say from falling into the hands of the enemy. Only four years after- j wards (1710), near the same spot, off Bar- | celona, a third, ship of the name was driven ashore by a storm, and became a total wreck. Finally, in Hawke'a great victory off Qaiberon, when the French lost four i ships of the line destroyed, and two taken, - tbe Resolution and Essex ran upon a sandbank and were lost, together with a portion > of their crews. We should, however, pat to the credit' of the- name tho success that attended her under Captain Cook's command on his second voyage, when be explored the Antarctic Continent and New Zeuland, aud discovered -New Caledonia, Georgia, and other wl&adfs. ' A. -wxxfceir in.. the ■ _E*x<rf<w-£<xZ "«_a.-y__. -;——« is certAialx xtot too jr_r_.*u=lx : '{£oo<l**vrxi.l. -fco/waaArcLa/ men anil voxneiii aisplaj-cO. &tf *I?K9 seasonr or :.{:■ FH ; j :: : tbfe ya»r, -while present banting ih in progress. It always seems to mc as if everybody gets shockingly short tempered and

disagreeable and exacting, and what' - they do not make any effort to m !_*• feelings. When one is not enm Ke J» " 6lr " in the brain confusing occupation of selections from the fascinating ww__ »♦ 7. B » time displayed, it is vastly S__J tl,1 » watch the little comedies in p7 0 S lo some of the big shops just now. A A ttl> two ago, for instance, two ladies wK,. 0 . evidently done several hours' present T d ing, and who had como to • stock of patience and politene.,, s]™* i final rush at some lengths of velvet. NW v 1 having laid down her selection mS" tarily, number 2 made a grab at it Th upon it was violently snatched hand. With a withering glance «? n other, she instantly exclaimed, »Ah ! i cutton, 1 Bee ; I require silk velvet ]"' * The same writer thinks that sociaU • undoubtedly gettiug both vulgar m< * ot IJ». sivo in many ways. To his mind the m I painful feature of modern life ia the artS disbelief in the possibility of Miybodtf b__, g actuated by decent, not to say honourahU 8 motives iv anything they may do TV beat proof of this is that people arepr' e n_r j to believe anything of anybody— p ro V[llJ it is something to their discredit Tr tittle-tattle of to-day leaves B«itW "Lancelot brave nor Oa'ahad pure » k„! happily, it is chiefly amongst the'peofilV wlio only flatter themselves they are • society that this disgusting cynicism _t£ vails. Amongst the best people, aud in tka large upper middle class, wholesome livin! and some faith in human nature still «u P vive. It is in " smart" society that thi« poor estimate of meu and women outsC and, fortunately, "smart" society ia hi* minority. *