MEWS AND NOTES.

Evening Post, Volume LVI, Issue 74, 24 September 1898, Page 2 (Supplement)

MEWS AND NOTES.

The Austrian kreutzer is to be withdrawn from ch dilution. The now theatre regulations for Paris empower managers to compel the removal of obaU-uotieo hats. A Birmingham paper has been mulcted in £40 damages for publishing an adverse criticism of a play. A woman of twenty was fined £5, on sth August, for ' making a book ' in a Batteraea (London) thoroughfare. A Glamorganshire alderman was sent to prison for intimidation in connection with a Welsh mining dispute. The next Foresters' High Court will discuss the question of ' mixed ' courts— i.e., courta composed of male and female members. A feature of the recent Klondyke finds has been the unsuspeoted riohness^of the hillsides, which in many places surpasses, that of the creek bottoms. ££A. conference of London vestries held on the sth Auguat .agreed to a proposal that v2Ov 20 metropolitan areas should be incorporated as municipal boroughs. The cablegram we received on the 2nd of Auguat, announcing the death of ' Professor ' Caird, should have read Ex-Princi-pal John Oaird, of Glasgow University. About 2000 carrier-pigeons, belonging to German military and other societies, were liberated at Dover on Bth August, for races to Dusseldorf and other towns iv Germany. The Foresters' High Court at Chester on ■Hh Auguat decided, by 380 votes to 123, against ballotiug the members of the Order upon the question of State-aided pensions. At the beginning 1 of August both the Hadda Mullah (who fomented the Mohmand rising last year) and the ' Mad Fakir ' (who roused the Swat Valley tribesmen) were reported to be ill. Dr. Welldon, head master of Harrow School, and formerly headmaster of Dulwich College, has been appointed Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan Bishop in India and Ceylon. The Welsh Eisteddfod held at Newport in 1897 was a financial failure. The expenditure amounted to £0630, and to meet the deficit of £1415 the guarantors have had to pay 11s in the £. King Theebaw's golden state-chariot, which wae seized when the British troops entered Mandalay, is said to have been purchased by a firm, who will use it to parade London streets to advertise some trade specialty. Mr. Ira D. Sankeyjgot up a hymn-book especially for the American soldiers duringthe recent war, and 25,000 copies were seat to the camps. At one meeting, 16,000 Testaments were given to the soldiers who applied for them. The Times correspondent at St. John's (Newfoundland) telegraphed recently that the Admiralty had decided to enrol 600 Newfoundland fishermen in the Naval Reserve, this being the only colony where the experiment was at present to bo tried. The Rev. J. L. Lyne, commonly known as Father Ignatius, who was ordained a deacon by the Bishop of Bath and Well* 38 years ago, was recently raised to the priesthood at Llanthony Abbey by Archbishop Mar Timotheus of the Patriarchate of Antioch. Measures were suddenly taken, a few •weeks ago by the Danish Government to place the defences of Copenhagen in a state of efiiciency. It is rumoured to have been due to a fear that the relations between. Great Britain and Russia might end in events of a serious character. The Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland wrote a letter to the promoters stating that in consequence of a lottery for a £100 prize being arranged to take place at a fete in Kingstown, which Countess Cadogan waß to hare opened on 17th Augußt, they would be unable to patronise or be present at the fete. At the 74th annual meeting of the British Society for Preventing Cruelty to Animals, the Treasurer referred to the decrease in revenue, and declared that the work must -suffer unless more subscriptions carae in. During 1897 between 7000 and 8000 persons were punished for cruelty to animals. The Duke' of Argyll's autobiography threatens to assume voluminous proportions. Literature reports that the firat parD will soon be ready for publication. Enough manuscript has been completed to fill two volumes. This brings the narrative down to 1848, when the Duke succeeded to his father's title. Professor Georg Ebars, the Egyptologist, died at Tutzing, in Bavaria, on Sunday, the 7th August. He is boat known for his work, 'An Egyptian King's Daughter. 1 He also wrote heavier works on Egypt, the widest known being ' Memnon and the Memnon Legend,' for which he obtained his doctorate at Jena. The Sketch tells of a miracle of diplomacy in the person of a Chinese editor who returned a contribution on the ground that, if he printed it, the Emperor of China would in&ist on everything iv the paper beingmaintained at the same high standard. This being manifestly impossible, in the present low state of literary ability — and so on. The Llandudno District Council recently obtained an injunction to prevent a clergyman from delivering anti-Ritualistic addresses on the beach. It was alleged that the reverend gentleman inveighed violently against Ritualists and Roman Catholics iii addresses that usually euded in free fights, and that, though offered a field for the purpose, he persisted in holding his meetings on the beach. The State of Connecticut is about to try a curious experiment in social legislation, having passed a law forbidding- any man or | woman, imbecile or feeble-mindedj to marry under 45 years of age, the penalty being imprisonment for not less than three years ; and persons aiding and abetting are also liable. The hope of the Legislature is to keep down degenerato families. First-aid training now has very wide vogue. At Edwinatowe lately a young woman was knocked down by a swerviug horse, her ankle being injured. A lady and gentleman at once alighted from an adjacent carriage, and most kindly proffered every assistance. They proved to be the Duke and Duchess of Portland. The Duchess deftly bandaged up the injured ankle. ' An extraordinary scene took place recently at the Bey 'a military hospital, Algiers. An army surgeon, with two students, visited the deadhouse to dissect a Zouave who was ! reported to have died, and had been conveyed | thither. The surgeon was about to plunge his scalpel into the man's breast, when the supposed corpse sat up. He had only a cata- ! leptic fit, and is now all right, but both surgeon and students received a severe shock. The Royal CollegeofPhy siciaus has formulated a solemn declaration to the effect that the College authorities, having learnt that certain changes are likely to be made in the laws relating to vaccination, thiuk it their duty to reiterate their conviction that vaccination, properly performed and duly repeated, is the only known preventive of smallpox, and this opinion they consider to be fully confirmed by the report of the recent Commission. Lloyd's News has followed up its revelations of prison life at Wormwood Scrubbs by a remarkable series of statements relative to Broadmoor. MonoyeAis declared to be an ' open sesame ' to privileges and luxuries that the non-paying cannot obtain. The following is an extract from the article published on 7th August: — ' Five years ago a manufacturer was sontenced to fifteen years' penal servitude for fraud. Ho was soon after Bent to Broadmoor as a lunatic. After a medical examination some two years since he was declared to be hopelessly insane aud incurable. His friends thereupon agreed to take him out of the country, and he left a free man. This ' hopeless lunatic ' proceeded to South Africa, where he is a partner in a thriving business. Moreover, he has since visited this country perfeotly sane.'

man, starting up suddenly, not remembering what it was all about. ' What do you want for lunch, sir?' the waiter asked again. ' Oh ! yea,' said the absent-minded man, tryicg to collect his wits. 'Bring me a cup of coffee and a ham sandwich.' The waiter supplied the order and put a large pasteboard ticket for it down on the table, the absent-minded man continuing to read his paper. The waiter went away to attend to the wants of other people, and about 15 minutes later came back. ' Do you wish anything more ?' he asked politely. ' Tes !' snapped the absent-minded man, somewhat viciously. 'Go and get me a fresh ham sandwich. The one you brought me was as dry as a bone !' ' Why, here is the sandwich I brought, sir,' said the waitei', pushing the plate towards him. ' You've eaten the ticket !'