TRIFLES FROM "TRUTH."

Marlborough Express, Volume XXVII, Issue 116, 30 May 1891, Page 2

TRIFLES FROM "TRUTH."

(March 26th.) ; V Her Majesty's tenancy of the Grand. Hotel at Grasse commenced on Sunday last, and -will continue until Monday, April 20, the rent of the building, stables, and grounds being at the rate of £120 per day.

I see it is stated that the Queen haß nothing sent to Grasse from England, . except silver and" linen and her bed. As a matter of fact, nearly all the furniture of her Majesty's sitting-room, bedroomj and dressing-room has been despatched from' Windsor, and all the glass and china and the batterie de cuisine have been forwarded from.England.

About tso months ago, the War Office published a little book on the subject of the Martini-Henri rifle and carbine, the contents of which are to be substituted for the corresponding paragraphs m the Musketry Regulations. This book is enriched with a series of drawings, showing the soldier how his weapon is to be held m the various positions described m the text. —The descriptions may be excellent, but it strikes me aa odd that m the accompanying illustrations the soldier should be shown as holding, not the weapon to which the book is devoted, but a magazine rifle. Admiral Mayne asked questions last week about the Brennan torpedo, and it would certainly be interesting to learn something about that invention, and especially as to how many of the torpedoes have been constructed, and what is to be done with them.. The payment by Government 'of so profligate a sum as £110,000 for this invention was censured at the time by all competent critics; and it is now known that the Brennan has at least one very grave defect, inasmuch as its course can be traced by those on board the vessel which it is about to attack, so that, by means of torpedo booms and nets, its attack can easily be repulsed, It is high time that the law which allows " The Peculiar People" to calmly watch the dying agonies of relatives or friends without making a single rational effort to save life or alleviate suffering, should be altered. Last week a poor woman, the wife of a labourer at Eavenhall, East Essex, died m labour after forty-eight hours of most; intense suffering, the only efforts made foj her relief being the offering up of prayers and the anointing of her body with oil. The medical witness at the inquest stated most distinctly that, had she received proper attention there was no reason why her life should not have been saved. The coroner, however, explained to the jury that the husband was not responsible. There is a popular idea, I believe, that slavery is extinct m Morocoo. The Moors, like the Turks, do their best to encourage this idea, m deference to European preju. dices. In a recent number of the Times of Morocco, however, an article appears which shows, on the evidence of an eye-witness, that the traffic is still carried on without any disguise m some parts of the kingdom. The slaves, says the writer, " are mostly captured m feudal warfare between the Soudan tribes, and are brought to the borders of the Morocco Empire, where they are sold to Moors, who again re-sell them m the various towns of Morocco."

All this shrieking about woman's suffrage is much cry and little wool. It is got up by a few ladies who happen to be possessed of masculine minds m female bodies, and who use the suffrage question as a stepping-stone to an attempt to invade Parliament. At the doors of this Paradise tbe Peris sit disconsolate. They are the exceptions, not the rule. There are men who have female minds m masculine bodies, They would like to stay at home, make puddings, and dress the babies, whilst their wives take an active part m the business of existence. It would, however, be as absurd to pass a law reversing the duties of the sexes for the sake of these men-women, as it would be to do so for the women-men, who fancy that the world will be altered if only they are allowed to unsex themselves.

The licensed victuallers— or, rather, the brewers, whose slaves they are— have had a bad week. A Bill establishing Local Option m Wales has passed the second reading; and the House of Lords has judicially and unanimously affirmed that a person who has a licence for one year has no more right to a renewal than if he had never been granted a licence. The knowledge that this was the law probably led the Tory Government to endeavour last year to pass an Act creating a freehold m licences. If the Bill had passed, its effect would have been tq make a present of above a hundred millions to their brewing friendß.

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