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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 196, 13 May 1908, Page 3

Tho Marquis of . Queonsberry is ano of tho full-blooded-opponents of the motor-car; He says ho has- been waiting patiently, for-legis-lation •to result' from tho report made, by tho Royal Commission on Motor Traffic.?' Ho has a list of twenty friends maimed by motors, and another list of twenty acquaintances who have killed their fellow-creatures by driving over them. " Should "fatal injury result to any member of. my family, I will, take the law into my own, hands," dcclarcd Lord' Queonsbern'.

Botanists .seem now agreed that i the original "shamrock associated with. St. Patrick was not; tho thrcorleaved clovor' generally, worn to-day; but tho wood sorrel which was held in mystic veneration by tho Druids, and, as 'lluskin points out, has always '.boon'' .1 favourite emblem in Christian art,..both for sculptors and painters. Tho white, purple-, stainod dowers aro believed by . Welsh peasants to be the ."fairy bells" whose merry peals ring the . elves, to. their moonlight r'ovolr;?..-'Tho wood sorrel strongly supports ail " eight-hour; day " for flowers) arid opens her delicate petals only.. between 9iu 'tlio morning and 5 m the afternoon. '*