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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVII, Issue 99, 28 April 1893, Page 2

lust year 3,000,000 bojks were issued to thu people of London from free libraries. Load prisoning is a fearful thiug. Young girl 3a; white lu.i<l works are seized with convulsions tvith^ut a moments warning, and die in a few hour's time ; or the lead works its way ia more gradually and insidiously, and some form of chroab paralysis is set up, or t-ie bodily functions are impaired the vitality is lowered, aud the white load worker fulls au iadirccb victim to lead, The children of the white lead work* rs enter the world, as a rule, only to die from tlie convu ! 3io-is of lead poi^oiUDg. Frost Lit ie of a more or Jess serious nature have been of extremely frequent occurrence in Russia during the recent intense frost. One among many cases at Warsaw was that of a young lady who remarked the symptoms of frost bite on the nose whilst skating. She returned home immediately, aud imprudently bathed her face in hot water, with the instant eflect that the whole of the ileshy part of the nose fell away from the cartilage. One of the least foreseen and most wide* reaching results of the reaction produced in Russia's relations towards France by the Panama scaidals is the revolt of Ruesian ladies of tho highest circles of society against the supremacy of Worth and bis government in matters of fashion. Heretofore the right of Paris to decree what should be and should not be worn wan unquestioned on the banks of the Neva, where no wedding, christening, court ball, or m?s-» querude ever yet passed off without the aeei.stauoe of that toilet king nnd his myr» iHidous. The Bpirit of rebellion has now aken possession of the fair ones of Sj Petersburg, who, at an informal meeting in one of the salons of the Northern Palmyra lately resolved to throw off all allegiance to Pariis ft'id create an independent government of their own in the shape of a specially lUis-hn Acidemy of Ladies' Fashion. The Graxchd'.inin, which is the accredited organ of Russian salons promulgates this resolution with a clearness aud solemnity whijli excludes all doubt as to the unshaken determination tlie fair Russians to realise their project, and gives interesting particulars as tv the scope and aim of tlie new institution. The name is the only detail upon wliifb no tletinite decision lias yet been taken, hut jndiuy by the vie w.s already expicked by the majority of the founders— or rather foundresses- -it will most probably run thus : " Pa.ri-R.uwia.ri Academy gf I'as.uion,"'