CLIPPINGS.

Press, Volume LI, Issue 8729, 27 February 1894, Page 4

CLIPPINGS.

For the first time in hia life bhe Prince of Wales has been for a ride on the Underground Railway—a piece of intelligence which illustrates at a glunce the difference between Priuoes aud ordinary men.. Has his Royal Highness, I wonder (says a home writer), ever cliihbed to the gai-deu-3eat of au omnibus 1 Ha_ lie still a first visit to Madame Tussaud's or a first day ab the Zoo to look forward to '! Has he still to taste the delights of the tramcar and the penny steamboat ? We humbler folk have drained these pleasures to the dregs, and are sated with th_em. Oh Itobe a simple, innocent Prince !

As a two-horse 'bus was proceeding along Meydrick road," Bournemouth, recenbly one horse suddenly fell down dead, and the other commenced to quiver violently. The driver jumped off, aud help arriving, those present soon felt the existence of un electric current. Two doga passing suddenly rolled over like, a ball, and.yeiied furiously, i bub got away. The presence of eiecbrioity waa felt for aome distance on the road, and ib is supposed that a leakage occurred from the electric light wires underneath the road, and that the horae was probably killed by an electric shock. All the traffic was atopped.

There was a pleasant exchange of courtesies between the. leader of,the Opposition iv the House of Commons and the Premier on the occasion 6f the anniversary of the latter's birthday, So far aa Mr Gladstone is cond'erneil. the incident' is without a parallel in his career, for the simple reason that it hivS i>hly happened once or twice during hia long public life that the House has been sitting when he has been celebrating his natal day. One of these occasions was the memorable uigiit, forty-one years ago, when be made his famous speech ou Mr Disraelis budget, and, as may well be imagined, party leaders then were more seriously engaged than in exchanging pretty compliments across the table.

Mr Mouson; the chief figure in the recent Ardjamont trial, protested against his figure constituting one of the advertised attractions of the exhibition iv the Winter Gardens, Birmingham, by, Louis Tusaaud and Co., the waxwork modellers. The manager replied that no indignity had been cast upon him. He had hoc been placed in hia chamber of horrors, but in the chief room with the Queen on one side and Pope Leo on the other. They had raised no objection to being put on view, and Mr Tomachitz failed -to ccc what grievance Mr Monson had. The grievance apparently was tbat the original Madame Tuesaud Company bad offered him a sum for the privilege of exhibiting a wax figure of him, and he wanted to know whether Louis Tusaaud was prepared to offer him a -hnilar inducement.

The old theory that lighted fires in the streets had power to drive away a pestilence has long been exploded, but the Mayor of Bordeaux evidently believes there are occasions when public fires of this kind may be used with advantage. It appears that there is much poverty just now in Bordeaux, aa, alas, elsewhere, and the Mayor, being seized with pity for the condition of the unemployed, has had huge coal fires placed in certain parts of the city during the recent severe weather. The fires, which were placed, of courae, only in the poorer quarters, gave : much satisfaction, and thouaands availed themselves of tbem to warm themselves, while some people even did their cookrug: by them.

The ordinary snake known in France as the "oouleuvre" waa shown (saysthe Daily

N.«- Paris correspondent} by Fontan* to U proof act mat the poison of the viper's _„ ft *k Why tasked Mil. Phisalix anuV,fc2d* They have answered their own -.ueatiott in 1 paper sent to tho Academy of S_iou.cs, _a based ou experiments nude at the Muaeuin of Natural History. Ihere are p o Uo_ glands in tho jaw of tho -couteuvre, *_d _\ the roots of the fangs, but there is not in the latter a poison duct. The venom, after being secreted, is taken back into the blood which thus becomes poisonous and proof against poison of a similar kind. Jju Phisalix aud Bcrtraud call this a case of auto-vaccination. This snake is eaten by the peasants iv many p-irts of Franco* but may ho, if nob properly prop-red for the atewpan, as daugiious as bai mushrooms.

Is skim milk or eheoso brain food? A paper by M. Bocamp. which M. Fieiilal has just read to the Paris Academy of Medicine gives au affirmative auswer. M. lllcauin has for some time been devoting himself to the study of caseine. He has found that, it chemically differs from all other albuminoids with which he is acquainted. One of its properties is, when burnt pure, to make uo ashes. He experimented on burnt caseine, not with the view of coming to the conclusion he now enunciates, but to an opposite one/nauiely that there is not phosphorus iv caseine. In a number of experiments he found that absolutely pure caseins contains 753 parts out of 1000 of organic phosphorus. He has also demonstrated the presence in caseine of sulphur, aad therefore that this substauce. ia made up oi carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, phosplioem, sulphur aud oxygen. Milk aud cheese at. accordingly brain restorer-.