IN THE PAPERS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 12 April 1909, Page 4

IN THE PAPERS.

So far as in him lies, Lord lennyson has been preparing for- the defence of the nation by sending his eldest son into the Cambridgeshire Yeomanry and his youngest to the Naval College. The ficrlin municipality proposes to commemorate the Koyal visit by naming five now streets in the city after London, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dublin, and TiiVerpoc-l 1 A despatch from Evansville. Indiana, to the "New York Tribune" states that the funeral of a prominent minister of that city was marked by a novel and striking feature. In accordance with the minister's dying request, the funeral oration delivered at the graveside was one wliich he himself had composed, and had spoken into a gramophone. The large crowd which had gathered round the grave listened with the deep attention to the gramoplion • oration delivered in the wellknown voice of their dead pastor. Another impressive feature of the graveside service was a gramophone recital of a special prayer, also composed by the deceased minister. A well-known American actress, who has filed a petition for divorce from hi: husband, whom she married in 1905, (!"i-ciibc-s her husband, says a correspondent, as being "too terribly handsome," her life being made miserable by the attentions and admiration of other women. Miss Georgia Jeffrey, formerly a clerk in the otlice of the auditor for the Post Office department, Washington, and recently transferred to the Philippine service .is now a princess. While riding in a rickshaw in Hankow, China, her vehicle was struck by the carriage of Prinoe Alfred Ahreiiheim-Gngarin a Russian, and the romance begun wtih the accident resulted in their marrige. Mir« Jeffrey was severely injured fn the accident, receiveing several cuts about the head. After touring the Orient, the couple will live in St. Petersburg. Some time ago Cardinal Gibbon gave an interview to John L. Sullivan, the famous pugilist, and the latter told the prelate an amusing story concerning two Irishmen. One asked the other what of all the things in the world he would rathei see. "Well," said the second Irishman, "of ali things in the world I'd rather see two men — John L. Sullivan or the Pope ; but if I have to take a choice I'd rather see Sullivan, because they only make a Sullivan once a while, and they make Popes all the time." This strange tale is given on the high authority of the "British Medical Journal" : — A medical practitioner who was attending a licensed victualler, and had brought a physician to see him, said in an undertone lo the wife as they were going upstairs that the fee would be "three guineas." After the con-uitiition, as the money did not seem forthcoming, he again mentioned the fee. which v. as promptly paid. The ilwto>a then prepared to depart, but the lauy of the house interposed and asked what was to be done with the threo glosses of stout, which they now saw with surprise on the table, and which she averred hei- doctor had ordered ns they were going upstairs. She thought "three Guinness' was the fee— ' perhaps a not unnatural mistake for a publican's wife. It was a "stout," if not exactly a fat, fee. lhe new Turkish Ambassador at Washington has a monkey which when the bell rines in the morning, at on.c opens the steam heater, blackens his master's shoes, fills li is Turkish pipe, tnd turns on the water in the bathroom. Probably the oldest soldier in the world. Andrei Nikolaievitsch Schmidt, who is aged 120, and fought in the Russian army during the Napoleonic wars, recently arrived in St. Petersburg with the object of seeing the CV.ar. He

was introduced into the Czar.* study, j and his Majesty received tho veteran I with .extreme kindness. Schmidt answered several questions, but finally, overwhelmed with emotion, he broke down, mid burst iuto tears. At C-'hslon-sui'-Saone n new radioautomatic torpedo, rs it is described, invented by .VI. Gustavo linbet,_ a French engineer, has just been tried in thfi presence of General de la Rocque, and given great satisfaction. The new torpedo weighs, with the motor and ful! Jinrges, no lean than four tons, mid ran be steered to any point by wireless electricity. It can be kept moving for hems and has « wide range. The steering-gear is so ar- j ranged that, according to the claims ■ of the inventor, every possible movement can be executed nt a big distant f by means of a wireless installation. The torpedo can be sent back or forwards, and made to move round in a circle at a great speed. The difficulty, of course, is for the distant observer to see precisely where it is going, but this objection, it is said, has also been overcome. The steady coast erosion in the province of Barcelona (Spain), which has continued since the recent earthquake shocks, is causing the gravest anxiety. ; It is announced officially that the flour- ; ishing seaport town of Mataro is sen- , ously menaced, and unless measures are •: taken to check the advance of the sea . the greater portion will be 6wept away. Mataro has 20,000 inhabitants, many of .vhom obtain their living by fishing, and the town also contains a number of important industrial establishments. M I.egitimus, the black deputy for Guadaloque, made a fensationa! entry into the Chamber of Deputies, Paris, ou February . 15. To everybody's amusement ho took his seat next to M. Blanc (Mr White). M. Lenoir (Mr Black) was sitting just behind him, and M. Ducarouge (Mr Red Duke) sat in front of him. M. Legitimus has been a member of tiie Chamber tor three years, but this is his first appearance. Honolulu rei-entlv had a "Tau Day." .As a result of the gentle holds-up of some 500 of the city'ii fairest daughters nearly 3500 dollars were collected for providing pure milk for the children of the poor of the community. This cause has been very generally commended, as it is declared that the" abnormally high mortality among ipfants is due entirely to lack "of proper milk . If Raymond Howard, of Baltimore, a negvo boy nine years old. survives the skin-mal'tiiV_' operations to •■ inch he , has been subjected, he will havo a valietv -it -«kiiis upon lii.' body. The boy v as" b;'dly burned by a gasolene-stove explosion." three-fourt? of his skin being burned away. The surgeons began by t;ratfi'i;; skin from pnpj ies, then used some from a a foot nmputale.l from a white man. an J finally ■tome from a foot taken f.-oin a negro. They look whatever happened along, ;.nd' say the boy is making excellent progress.