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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXVII, Issue 1361, 21 May 1895, Page 3

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After peeling onions, rub the hands with celery or mustard, and the odor will be entirely removed. The last American mail (says a Sydney telegram) brought a large number of applications from American sportsmen and speculators for shares in the St. Albans stud lottery. The (Simplon tunnel, which is to be constructed under the Alps, will be nearly sixteen miles in length—longer than either the Mont Cenis or St. Gothard tunnels. In one Tice there will be over 7,000 ft ot solid rock above the tunnel. At a sale in London recently a pair of small bottles in blue and white Nankin china fetched £125, a vase and cover 20in high £199, a pair of vases 17iu high realising £357. A story about Mr and Mrs Gladstone, at Cannes, which roaches the Lhernry World from a private source : “ They were sitting near the pulpit, but when the sermon began Mr Gladstone turned to his wife and said, irritably, ‘ I can’t hear ! ’ ‘ Never mind, my dear,’ she replied in a whisper loud enough to reach the pulpit, ‘ never mind j go to sleep—it will do you much more good,’”