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. - .'A writer ia tho "Daily Newa" at-atea ■;: I sec that, according to tho "Figaro,' .v v Madamo Cune is to bo.one of the soctiona r. presidents' T.t" the international" Chemistr; -••'i vongress which is .to be' hold this year ii '-London.. Madame Curie's' lato 'husband i sometimes^-.credited ; with tho• discovery o radium, but, as a matter of fact, that dis . i . . ®°yory was. entirely due to the unaided re rv, searches of Madamo Curio'herself, and tfc : i , .-Dayy, Medal of tho Hoyal Society, Tfbicl . vvas in 1903 awarded .to Professor* an< -Madame Curie was a recognition 0 -their, combined investigations into tho mar vk . veilous properties of» tho element subsequcn • V;• •• Jo • • its y discovery. in pitchblende by Madami l ,j efossor Curie's lamented dcatl . hiß widow. received the unique honour o . berng • olected to succeed him' as Pfofesso* .-■•■.P* Physics at the. University, of Paris, anc ; «iio has since carried out many 'Temarkabli ; / ; : experiments which. have added to our know Jedgo of radium, particularly with rogart • r to more accurately determining its atomii , weight ;irad. tho still undecided question a: . . -to wh&thtjr. it has-tno power of transmutim ■the elements. With the work of Madanu - <Jwk and Mrs. Ayr ton before them;'no sci eniaho society can -much longer refuse t< • womon eguaUty of membership with men.' : Mr. Runclman's Hope. ■ i ■ !y vMr. llunciman,, president of the Englisl - , Jipard of ;£<lucai>.ion, was tho principal gues' , .at tho annual dinner of tho Borough lloa( ; v . : pinb. ; implying to the toast o Education," Mr. Rnncjman said that las autumn,- in a luckless moment, hothoughi ho .would. try. his hand at legislation, am , persuado -religious people not to qnarrel- . one of the most hojWess of arts. (Laugh i • t°r•) Ha found ho had taken up more thar ne had bargained for.-ifln his.own rehgioui .j .. : denomination there, was-'a 'whoftj: section ; o' tho hymn book Which was headed "For bi> liorers fightmg." (laughter.) Those hymn' , . tad been very keenly appreciated by hin ,v. .during ,tho last twelve- months. Ho be y t ue7cd bo really had tho whole of this teach ;:' Mg /profession with him: m- his desiro to gel Tid .of the religions quarrel. They, had no' : . j:succeeded,--but he did not think they hac come to the end of tho task. He still hai i 'hopes that tho future might oontain withii . . . « somertoro , a better solntion ■ than thej • . . . 'had hoped for even last autumn. Mr. Runci ■- , : 'inan fioidthattho.tnido of: the..teacher ww • »■' Mppy aB it would anpear tc "■ ■ ■ j - 't'ho toaihing,.' professioi . ' ■ i?, ? nd <*' so -.fa duties,:.and h< : ..:i .thore was'any "section- of. tin .. : MYJ 1 ' Semes vthat did its duty better ant :v; greater punctuality, industoyi aM zea ~ than that they represented. - —v >■.-•' . Motor Mobilisation. * Tho experiment m motoi mobilisation hai , been not merely a success, but a tnumpl the /''Daily Nows").,. Thero ,wero:.n( ■■ accidents, hardly any mishapß beyond a fev .punctured tyres, and, contrary to expecta - jtions, the cars arrived in Hastings at thi ';.BCheduled time—one o'clock. The featiiro o' jthe experiment which will probably eseit< ithe. keeneat.iinterest among expgrts will bi the complcto prpof afforded of the relia jbuity ; of motor-cars for : military purposes ... ..: jip .is one more ..example of the fact ! tkacwmaaditics which begin by being merel™^S" e , 3 , and caprices of a few are graduallj' ,- to,tho goneraLuses of the community c f lumn ' reaching to sevoi « ' wa as it passed through ever - leh ! Cf Jt have bewi t , ? f picturesqneness, whose dew .. ~ ,;in ; raodera life as ,bo often lajmented;. onh . t,' 0 Ki ni -4. - S m ? r v° r 'i?' loa PP oar in, a new form ' i l3 £ n - S 'P lm g) whose name by : 1 chain of associations seems to 'con "l£L ,6 k Wlth t( ?- da y s, mobilisation itomance bringsi up tho nine-fifteen.". Wc . winder how the Guards liked tho day's pro •rs l . a1 ?4)-whether ;tjie outing;came >m • ,'-.ln:evory' way botl pnttfi 3 '' aut , tor ' tl « s and the public ' - ' OWDe i r3 w^° ''^ n t their, cats -for tlu cess 3 of n the°doy. coneraiulated oa No Dissolution. - „ Hor (°S G j adston o recently attendoc •i : ' :; ''tioh^f I whWv^® 9UOeS^ r ' Libfe r(» tion, ot which he ls.presidcnt. He said ihni ji ß^!^Mofe^N6,iho")-that ' had • ftaast passed. .Ho did not. (Cheers;) j While he was against a premature disSolu ' off™ LS n V nUa T of Government ip ™® liberal Govomment to hold on tc ? lot its: bdwj' , 'Bfter''its , 'w6rli nfeq n'V ti cs ! its orlportu • .wties, n ould . bo ;a ■ blunder'. left that .kind of action tc th.ii opponents 7, «ho mi '■ ■' rnl 8 ? tfle , las t election, ;.Tho:Libe.ral party need • not go to the .cdimtrr'sc sSvSv be v <1 ? I ?^ b y administration<ll ■— powers .wcro latent! in u J )re 1 sen .t which.were not evoked i'-irid v iv;, ; .might.fbe'put,. to.; the, good 'of. ihe'pebpieb's :.S a 5 administration.;. They couf cnutltZd" ICh th ° H0U?0 of , School antl Workshop. tion were Lord Stanley of Alderloy, Mi'.-'G ... .._ 6Mrewnr. of tho : association; Mr. M. M : - OhiimWin yea ? (Miss Adler told Mr! ' Tmi i ptoed 900 chiidreii S' " • sktS 17 ?i as : improvers and as- - oters receivtd adTico. A f ?' howover, was th<s want 01 v J ■' ; ■ [u if employers. r Mr. Oimrchill aS t^e 9- was l a^ .education . ployment became fairly remunerative tc - x was fall ■of -.-.danger: Health ■ educat'On and often characbr itself Were as' between ' ; age 'without anj v v il? S casing, or oven ■ of: oohtinuouf • *®P%roe n !i: in any trade. That washt • ™nrr reSU i t; of . an imperfectly: organ: iscd condition of society. In the near fu- ' turo, when tho system of-labour excHanßCi .-had-been brpught into being,"it woukl be. the s endeavcilr of the Board of Trade to esiablisl- -- -' with tho schools ofthe coiiriand be'would look to«.tho voluntary of. ' Em P l(> }'nieiit and othei assist^-.-m'; that .'connection. "1 ' fe' - added,, "for-.soma tim< -??' rammunication -ivith- Mr. Rur.cimir . - pomt -This aspcct of the problom i.' not being ncg ected, and when our plans ar< tW nflWr« W6 f ho to confe: ■ • possible, this' mqrning.^;'^ Tho German Army. ■ . V ' -%V dehato.-on-.tho: Army ■Estimatefi THn«m m J Eolchsta g> 'General voi a , stl ™ n g J 6P«eoh, said:—"l shouV ' ■ ' • ■ think that the reason why no one . either on tho Bmht or Loft, wants to mak< . .war, is that tho German Empiro has made tit Md - has .ranged • itself, on the: sid! °f : .its ally, and ; that a strong German arm' '... stands behind; that poitical intentr-' I bolievl .fwt in this month it is just the strench 0 our army to which we owe peaoo Of roms. ifefefW, -a;way thnt :? realh bettei rolationa with Endand, perhaps ovei ~ an entente cordiale with Franco, should com . to pass, ono might perhaps thmlj of reducim the army, of disarming. I do not knoi either how it will turn out." IWing to oh of the.Tolarfcions between Aray am . people, General von Einem : said"Every iwly woiud bo sorry were a brcaoh to occu botween tho Army and the people; If thcr b a breach, it ib tho fault of tho Socio Domocraoy. (Mnrnrais and langJrtcr on th Socialist bancbes.) Referring to .the part: cipowoii. of. officers not on active service L . .. politics, the. Minister- doolarod -that : flue] .. onjoors mnsfc have entir© freedom, sis-regard Jj 161 ?/ hut thero miiit thai waA Social -"DeniocraGy. "No fldaoa ;: Jx

flu officer for thb benefit of Social Democracy can or may occur, because Social Democracy domes .the significance of the oath." (Interruptions by tho Socialists.). The Bast of Settlors. \ . "In tho past forty years 60,000 British, children havo been sent to Canada, and of ; these' over 16,000- have arrived during tho past eight years,'? says "Canada." "It is a simiheant fact that only two of these child-emigrants were charged with offonces during tho past year. r e should hear less of that somewhat depressing controversy that has bf late occupied publicists so persis'tecily —on tho Englishman in Canada—if tho British pettier was raoro often caught young. Dr.. Baxuardo's boys are always welcomed, and fowy if:ajiy,: turnout failures'."-' Boy Kills of Uganda. j • "Tho most .interesting of all my visits was to. the Court .of the King,!' writes tho lafco | Bishop ; of . Zamzibar, an the "Treasury," of his visit to Uganda. "Ho had a reception , — a 'baranza,' as wo should say in ; Zanzibar —and I had the honour of being presented to him. Ho is an intelligent boy of about elevenyears of.; age, ._ son' of, the late King Mwanga. Ho is being carefully ieducatea . during his minority., by an English tutor. - Ho said a few: words of English to mo, sitting in his. State chair, surrounded by the officials of the. Court. Ono cannot but wonder how far horedjtv will'play apart in the charactor of this'little ting, : for' such an' ancestry as he • has is indeed a terrible heritage.Tho fact 1 that he is a keen football player, is iteelf a good sigh that ho has bc<in trained <xn right lines."

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.... London, March 19. .England, is .a^very, good placo to live on of .in March, fortho third month of 'the yea shout the most:uncertain and. treacherou of-tho: whole dozon.-.This year in particulo she- is behaving with 'very tad ; grace, on winter is {showing .an extremely unpleasar : " Hnger in v tho lap of spring.' Both in turn and-, also simultaneously, biiov »«eV ? n 4 rain hare visited these islands, t tho boisterous and nipping accompaniment c north-east winds. V: One result of this is see in the -richi harvest which: tho. doctors ;ar reaping. Illness is .rife/ amongst -rich'. an poor alike. In church" coughing drowns th parson s saw"; whilst the theatres are 1)( ing denuded of players and: audience bv th formidable "flu. s '. v' 1 r4 1 [ ,1 ? ,lgh ,' there aro : nearly threo montls left before,the church pageant opens at Fuj jam Palace, =•; they necessary • arrangement nave already : begun-to crystallise.'; A larg amount, of tho various dresses, trnd propertte iave been prepared by-now,.and it is hope c It. y ' ■ May,: somo 6000 garment of. the - most ■ :varfe.d. character- will be 'ready of,the costumes has been, designs with the,mos6 scrupulous;accuracy, and at reception, held' recently at the pageant head quarters, in ,thQ Fulham : Road, there: mieh be; seen already, made every, type of dres tronr the. mail of ■ the Norman knights'- dowj to the hoods and stoics of. tho, Englis] Unurch; running from Woman down to Tudo times. v ;,■ \. .;: , ; .:, _Tho extravagance-ofthepoor in the buria of their dead is one 9f tlo most patheti features of, these: modern days. ' It ' was apt! this week when a poor widow' toll Judge at Smithwark County Court that she had Spent, on the funeral of he husband. =.-." It's too much," said his Hon our.. "I believo in your paying respect fc the memory of those you love, but 1 thin] - would have 'been adequate;" ; J solicitor) representing a trades union, thoi jmghly agreed, and,remarked that 'this ex waVagance oi poor people in burial- expense: Was the;groatet; difliculty/.tlieVsociety liad t contend -with: . It/ rthat .we- have ■ ad ranced, since. :th6 'days" of Dickens,' when -th provision of funeral; bakemeats " -and ;ex pensive "mutes',' was.considered as anes of tho obsequies, but the notioi that a funeral, is a high festival dies hard. .iv^t; ; .;Edibition . opens • aex habits. wiU|ie the ; ;Welftnan r 'airship, which ii starting .-shortly on; af journey . to. tho. Norti - water-.has-.flowed 'under -th< bridges since the luckless Andree vonture( upon a similar voyage.' But ho started wlici Me. scienco of - aviation' .was yet in its em bwms.;stoß6.;r vit is very different and jhe Wellman airship represents tho veri Jatest developments iin: air' navigation; ; It. carries threo .tons, of petrol, ant the,.- sbp .; itself ;i 3 capablo of carrying t ton aßd a half °f ; not. to. mentioi : EsqQimaujj v dogs'and ;tnree. sledges.; . - Dr. Danson . Burns has , contnbuted ' hi: J?" 1 " 31 giving .the'figure's 'of: the national -m th'o United Kingdoih: foi tho year . M together with his own comhave more than, a /tinge/of partiithty, - which is only" tc bo expected, for 'Dr. Dawson Burns is "■■' a stalwart-warrior. among-the militant teetotalers. Consequently, tho -circumstance 'thai crrashers .-spent; less/money by six millions °n_,strong; dnnt lastjear fiHs his heart with satisfaction.',-He-thinks -itVis -not only' due to. tho depression in" trade; though that.' oi coursor has had 'a. good ideal to do witii 'it. art /.from this, our people" are beginnine to greater control-over their tastes and. which' renders those drastic; restrictions with which Dr.''Burns is so enamoured' quite. superfluous. -; . 1 . The "wearing of tho green" was, as usual, feature -of . the celebrations' of St; ratriek ? Day,in- London. 1 ; .Every one;..with tho necessary . copper- to:'spare .purchased -a sprigy shainrof. -<;The-Irish b!om wen,; found-.its .way; into the Law % an' ;action ;,whioli is now boine heard Sir Edward Carson, tho counsel, 'foi defendants-Lord Mayo;, an Irish representative, peer---wore : the leaf oil his gown, and the junior counsel, Xord W!, solicitors,, and:, two ■/of .the jurymen Irish Guards celobrated tho. day,with great festivities. The battalion paraded in tho morning, and Colonel . Migent,: the; commanding 1 officer, distributed; the: sprigs, of shamrock' sent over from - Ireland by, order .of ;the" Queen, even the drums and tho regimental/pet doit beine decorated. , : . ? Professor Sir J. J. Thomson made some reaarkaWo statements about the energy developed by_, radium, while lecturing' at the .Institution. /'Sodium:' gave out about a -muhon time's as, much energy," ho said as was: given: by -an' equal ,'woight. of '.oxygen when .it combined-\rith hydrogen. It was doyoloped by"-rarndly; moving atoms of holiiim Shot out with; incredible velocity approaching one-tenth that of light.'.:: If they unaginod ,a town exposed to .1 bombardment of shots as large as houses'aiid;moving a. thousand times moro quickly',than any shot eve fired from a. cannon,,they.would have some idea of the condition of a gas exposed to the battn*nnn E ? r y, hel >™ Particle left 30,000 wrecks, of- molecdes. of the gas it- was bsmbarding. .' . ' ' • ..- f-- ■ T . newlyrcreatod authority, of tho Port of jUBt held ife inaugural meeting in the board-room of tho London' and India DocKs Oompany, every member beine nreTho chaiman, Sir-Hudson Kearloy MiP:,' m tas opening: speech, dwelt /on the vaatness of. the interests entrusted to' .the authoiity, and expressed a belief that thoy would succeed; m. lijirig.;'the. foundation of an enduring prosperity;;. -The'.appointment a .vice-chairman' ,WBS>pbstponed,' .but a strong committee of; organisation was chosen; A piece of land near tho Aero Club's grounds, at , Shell Beach, on tho Islo of °hcppey, has boon; securcd by Messrs. Short Brothers for the purpose of building a fac;tory v for tli° matmfacturo of aeroplanes. "Hie buiidmgs aro v to be erected so as to ensure ;absolute secrecy,;',and the only entrancd to tho will bo by means of a draw°™ge. _ ,Ono of the first contracts secured iby the firai is from Messrs.' Orvilld and.AVil,bur Wright for tho production of eix Wright nfiropi.raes, at an cost of £8400. lljight other'maohincs liavo been ordered bv inventors. In regard to military ayiaiion,- th©. folJowing •: figures of ' the amounts expended by various countries,arc somewhat significant:— - V,' Franco ' ; : <17,000 ' Gormany ... ... ... 133,751 urcat Britain ... ... iy.ooo a'meeting of tho Royal Institute, Mr. "■ It- Brown described and demonstrated the .modern- improvements in instruments used ,in;submanuo- -telegraphy. Of special interest ffas tho .' lecturer's own invention, by

means of which 1 ho had been able to' sem over the Eastern Telegraph Company 1 ! B ®bio from l Port Curhow to Gibraltar, o: which the nor.nal rato was 170 letters pe; minute, messages at the rate of 240 let tors per minute. ;As tho restilt of a snowballing affray, s serious clUpnto aroso between the professor: atld students at Galway College. Over ! hundred of, the latter left in a body, anc the following day; armed with sticks ant hurdles, thoy ranged themselves round tin college, and forcibly refused admittanco t< some half a dozen of their number wh( n J to .attend the lectures. The arriva or the however, caused them to dis perse. It .is understood that for some tim< past tho relations botween the students anc the collegiatc-authorities have been of ! somewhat . strained character. v Nowadays... tho kinematograph is - a mosi popular form of entertainment, which pro vides the reason why its perils should be em phasised.'i ;'This latest development of:, th( showman: industry being in its; infancy, thore 1 is much yet to learn as to tho .mean! of lessening the dangers to tho public safety. The inflammability of tho film nia : terial constitutes the greatest menace, anc it is of. the,-utmost importance that onlj skilled operators should be in ohargo of suet shows. It is not unlikely that a Bill maj be passed during tho present : session to cn sure that all due precautions are taken The measure'has the backing of the Londor County Council, and—what is more impor tant still—that of tho kinematograph operalow themselves.,' • The , real need for.. precaution is sKown by the panic which; toot place it a firo which broke ont at a kinematograph entertainment at 'Darlington. Immediately the . flames shot up, the audience rushed yrilclly ' for /-the.- doors, 1 and; it • was only; through .the efforts of tho police that ao oiio' >as seriously injured. A memorable speech ■ was < made by • the Prince of .Wales at the annual .prize distribution of the Ist'. Cadet '■ Battalion, King's Royal. Rifld Corps.; After' 'alluding to the valuable service performed in 7 South Africa by tho detachment of 96 cadets from this battalion,; his RoyaJ Highness" proceeded to enlarge, upon . the moral and disciplinary ralue, of : the cadet', movement as a whole. '.'During my voyage round the world, eight years ago," he . said; "I , was' , especially struck; with, the .way ; in.. which tho cadet corps movement had- taken-. root in ,' the King's dominions'boydnd the seas. Since then it- has ' grown:-,rapidly." . -It'may 1 be iddcd that tho' Princo of Wales takes a strong personal'.interest' in this movement, md.-tnat ho is.colonel-in-chief of the, King's Royal Rifle Corps. 1' . , ' - • . A, free fight characterised a - meeting /at Wandsworth Town Hall, presided over by the Mayor of Wandsworth, held in support of the rerritorial Army Bchome. The' usual resolutions having been proposed and seconded, an amendment was proposed « by a Socialist: "That"this vmeeting of- citizens of Wands-worth,-knowing that they have no country to protect,; as it belongs' to ,the landlords .and capitalists, and also having no homes worth tho name, 1 refusjto support militarism in any shape or form." This was the signal for an immediate'. Uproar, and, later, when a SooiahstS interrupted proceedings, ' cries of "Come on 23rdsl Put him 'out!" arose; and i free fight eiisued between the ' Socialists and "their supportera and the Territorials, ivhich did hot -terminate uhtil the Socialist ringleader had been , ejccted. v ! .. The Duke of Sutherland presided at th^-in-augural meeting of the Forth and Clyde Canal National; Association, at 'tho Royal United. Service " Institution.: ' 'Admiral Sir Charlea\Campbell,:, the'jh'on.'V,secretary).'.-ex-plained the'objects of the association,' the first. of which is to collect evidence for;, an jndeavour to impress:, upon tho Royal• Comnission on CanalS. the 'desirability."of-national construction.;As; the ..canal would. pass through tho southern ; end ! of ,'Looh Lomond, it would open up the possibility of a Government .or private shipbuilding and'.repairing yard; at 20 miles from any-, possible gun--sre. ..With .regard .to its' commercial. advantages, he had no .hesitation: in predicting' that this, route jWould be; generally used'by, all nations on":the-shores of , tho. North Sea,' and that 'end would become tho ' departure .-'station .for ocean-going, .steamers bound ;for' ! tliej. Atlantic. ..Tho estimated cost of,, the scheme was £17,000,000.—' 'Tho Standard of Empire.