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Northern Advocate, 13 March 1913, Page 2

A twelve-months-old torn cat in Mil-] waukee, Wisconsin, should be rough on rats when he is quite grown up. He has twenty-six toes and claws, all larger than the average, and new toes and claws are still growing. There are seven toes on each forefoot, and six on each hind foot, and some of his toes are more than three-eights of an inch in width.

Supporting the story that General Wolfe when drifting down the St. Lawrence in 1759 recited Gray's "Elegy" and added: "I would rather be the author of that poem than take Quebec," a bound copy of the poem, dated 1754, has been found in Paris with the Duke of Bolton's bookplate and an inscription showing that it had been presented by the duchess as having belonged to "the celebrated General Wolfe."

.Sergeants past and present of the Hampshire Regiment are attempting to raise £125 to redeem from a firm of dealers in London a Victoria Cross, a Chinese medal with two bars—Pekin and Taku forts—and a photograph. The decorations were awarded to the late Lieutenant-colonel Lenon, of the old 67th (now Hampshire) Regiment, the Victoria Cross for bravery in the storming of the Taku Forts in 1860. The sergeants regard the present ownership of the cross as a blot on the fame of the regiment, and if they ob tain possession- will place it in the sergeants' mess at Winchester, and display it to recruits on Taku Forts Day.