NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 146, 14 March 1908, Page 11

NEWS IN BRIEF.

■ r~" —— J. ' At the annual meeting of shareholders of \ . .. tho. Letchworth Garden' City, it was .'announced that the place now has a population of 5000 of whom 900 are employed in model ; /. factories.: •' ■ ■, The Harmch Education Committee has de- ! cidod to give the boys at one of its schools a •' : wider and better selection of good books, so that they may prepare their work by-them- > selves, instead, of depending too much upon tho teacher. 1 ■ • ..: ' The council of the British' Academy has received a memorial suggesting that the Academy should take steps for the commemoration of tho tercentenary of Milton's birth, which will fall on December 9 nest. It was deoi'dod t-6 , appoint a spccial committee, to '.• confer with the signatories of the memorial. Tho express from Scarborough to Hull crashed into a horse and cart at a level •• crossing near. Bridlington, .killing, the driver, David Dixon and the animal.' The expresshad a marvellous escape, one of the" carnages leaving tho rails,, but regaining them after' 100 yds. : ... . There was a moment 'of intense emotion in the Paris Law Courts, "recently, when a barrister rose and said:—"ln tho name of my cliont, Mmo. Fallieros, I am hore to ask you ~ for a divorce'against.'her husband,. Armando Falliorcs, who- " ■ All" the. reportersin tho ■ court were rushing to tho . telephone, when ' the barrister cdntinued"Arma'nde Fal.Jieres, who does not occupy the position .'of : 'President, of-the Republic. My client is a scullorymaid." . " . ■■' .• / r "With all its faults and with all its pains, I regard the House of Commons as the finest profession a man can undertako," said Mr.' L.' V. Harcourt at the National Liberal Club, where Lord Carrington and he were entertained at a . banquet . . 1 ; ' A gooso: belonging, to, Mr,'.,J. Hocking, of . the Stag Hotel, St. Clefer, Cornwall, has died at the ago of '53 years;in consetpjncoof. an accidont. It reared eight' goslings last year. '' j •• Mr. Hopicin Jones, a former , mayor l , of ' . : Neath, died recently in consequence of cut-;.; ting a toenail to the quick.. Amputation: of the toe had to be performed, arid the opera- , ; ; tion proved fatal. " i =' • . i At an inquest" held at Cleeve on Mrs. Honor Colemau, who died at the age of 107, in consequence of a. fall out of bed,' it was , stated that but for the accident she might have . , . lived many moro years. ; ' ' Mr. J. E. Raphael, Liberal candidate for , Croydon, Rugby football international,', excaptain of tho Surrey County Cricket Club,, and a former doublo blue of Oxford, has been called to the Bar. A case which has dragged through the Courts of Massachusetts for. 122 years has at • length been closed in tho Probate Court. 'It concerned the estates of creditors of a'Boston merchant who died in 1786. Mrs. G. R. Ray, of York Factory, Hudson . Bay,, arrived at Winnipeg in January, with her three children, having made the journey from the far north by dog sleigh. The ob- . ... ject of the trip was to place the children in a school. • . : The three-masted British steel sailing ship King George. covered- 325 knots in. one. day during a voyage from Hongkong to New York, while she averaged 295 knots on seven consecutive, days. This speed equals that of . sovoral Atlantic liners. ' . , . i>. ' Tho chief Criminal Court in Vienna pat until 4 a.m. ; on < a recent Saturday' Morning in order to finish a case. Ono 'juryman asked the judgo ,for a certificate that the trial had l • lasW until' that hour; "Otherwise," ho said, "my. wife will never'believe me.". The , judge granted tho certificate. Paul, a.two-year-old leopard in a Paris . menagerie, ate ..a; piece of his own tail tho othor day, while ho was ■ lunching off a quarter of horse. The rest of the tail becamo ■■ diseased, and a veterinary surgeon was sent, . for to. cat .it. off. Tho operation was successful, but six. men were required .to hold down • the leopard. , .... >~ •. At a meet of tho. Crpome hounds a fox which had escaped on two previous occasions was put . up. Ho was hard pressed, when suddenly tho scent was lost. It was found .that the fox had entered'a.market garden in which soot had been strowu, and had rolled himself in ' tho'. soot in ordor to destroy tho ' v •scent.-;'" ■ ■" ■ • A New York coalman, mistaking a sewer manhole for the. coaF shoot of ' a house, emptied two 4011s of coal into it. Ho was. or- '■ rested for violating a corporation by-law. : The pioneer of tho Grimsby fishing trade, • - Thomas Campbell, died at Grimsby, recently, • aged 90 years. Ho started life as a, whelk . seller, and owned the' most smacks sailing *•- out of tho port. • , fr..'-. At tho'funeral at Nunliend'Cemetery, of' Mrs. Morrison, the wife of a member of tho Social Democratic Federation, tho coffin was draped- in- vivid red, ; emblazoned-irith the words:: "Soutbwark Branch of tho Social Democratic Federation.,'' Soveral of;the mourners wore red tie's, arid'\ihero was no roli"ious ' ceromony. — • - . , •