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New Zealand Mail, Issue 850, 15 June 1888, Page 31

Walter Savage Landor was a man of violent temper, and once threw his cook out ;>f a window of his villa. After lie had performed this summary act of justice, Mrs Landor remonstrated with a “Thero, Walter ! I always told you 'that one day you would do something to bo sorry for in these furies of yours.” "Few men can be serene under an least of all msn could Landor. But he saw that hero was aii occasion where calm is more effective than tempest, and replied mildly : “Well, my dear. I am so r rv, if that will do you any good. Xf X had remembered.that our best tulip bed was under that window, I'd have flung the dog out of t’other.” By the recent census the population of Madrid is shown to be 4751300, which is an increase of 77,500 inhabitants in ten years. M. Gervais, a French authority, says there are men capable of bearing arms : —. In Germany, 5,000,000; in . France, 4,500,000 ; in Austria-Hungary, 1,800,000 ; in Italy, 2,000,000 ; in Englaud, 800,000 ; in Russia, 6,000,000 ; and in all the other European States, 4,000,000. That gives a total of 25,000,000. Of that number 10,Q00.000 are trained soldiers,