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Cromwell Argus, Volume XXXVII, Issue 1984, 16 April 1906, Page 2

Some remarkable figures of hammered silver, representing men, women, and animals, have been exhumed from a peat bog in Jutland, and lodged in the Danish National Museum. The eye holes of the figures, now empty, were once filled with glass or precious stones. One of the plates is 17in. long, and exhibits the forms of soldiers wearing helmets. Another shows the figure of a god with a wheel at his side, a third is that of a horned god, sitting cross-legged in Oriental fashion, a fourth has the forms of two elephants. The god with the wheel is identified as the Gallic sun-trod, and the work dates from before the Christian era. In these Autumn evenings the study of the stars may be facilitated by the following simple device of Mr. A. E. Beach, an American astronomer: —Taper stars are cut from a sheet of cardboard covered with luminous paint, and are fixed by means ot pins on a black board in the relative positions of the stars seen on the dark background of the night sky. The st;irs can there be readily identified indoors by means of a Proctor star map, or any good popular book treating of the Heavenly bodies. "Chromogem I." is the name of a new dye-stuff which is a reddish powder, and dissolves in alcohol or water to a colourless solution. When silk or wool is steeped in an aqajous solution of it to which Glauber's suit and sulphuric acid have been added they absorb the dye stuff, and if they are subsequently immersed in an acidulated bath ol bichromate of potash a fine fast reddish-brown colour is developed. Chromogen I. can be used with other dye stuff-;, such as alizarin yellow which should bo added to the chromogen bath, or cloth red, which should be added to the bichromate of potash bath. There are 1,074 church livings with an annual value of less than £IOO, 1,817 of a value from £IOO to £l5O, 2,274 between £l5O and £2OO, 4,355 between £2OO and £3OO, and 4,105 over £3OO in value. A London correspondent writes that he went into a newsagents' shop in the Eastend of London to buy an eveniug paper. He asked the owner of the shop if he had trold a. large number of papers on account of the death of Tennyson. " Oh, Lor*, no," was his reply : " the people hereabout are much more interested in Charlie Mitchell lhi*»TeonjsQß."