HERE AND THERE

New Zealand Times, Volume LXXI, Issue 4301, 9 March 1901, Page 4 (Supplement)

HERE AND THERE

What is said, to be, the. first alterant that has ever been made to estimate the annual sale of books in. London, states the. Harare, between 10,000,000 and 12,uuaOOO, not counting sixpenny reprints or secondhand books. . .* * , * • *

Music hall “ turns ” are now to be seen at the smartest “functions,” and the professional musician feela the competition severely. A price list of a universal providing establishment admirably illustrates the market prices of Christmas entertainers. A humorous ventriloquist oomes first at £5 ss, a conjuror (with marionettes) next at £3 7s 6d, performing dogs, £3 3s, humorous sketches alaGrossnuth, £3 3s. A lady palmist, juggler, and conjuror, acrobat and comic singer are all quoted at two guineas. "Punch and Judy” varies with quality of dog and duration of performance between £1 5s and £2 12s 6d (note the'odd pence). Each performer .in string or vocal quartets is worth a guinea. Last of all comes the lady pianist, who for playing four hours extorts—l2a 6d! Subtracting cab fare and commission, dlasadoal musio thus works out at 3s 7d an hour. The income of the performing dog, as per prfoe list, is ju£et five times that of the interpreter- of Beethoven. i * • * • Some years ago there was a fire at St. John's, Newfoundland, which burnt 1572 buildings and made 11,000 persons homeless, and it came from neglecting a number of little things. The fire began in a shed whore 60 tons of hay were stored; it was believed that a man had lit his pipe and tossed the lighted match into the_ hay. The thermometer registered 87 in the shade, and yet the authorities had shut off the whole water supply of the town to mend a pipe. Close to the shed was a reservoir for* 25,000 gallons- of water, hut there had been a fire brigade practice a month before, when all the water was used and the reservoir had, not been refilled. The fire-hose leaked, so that the . water could not be sent, to the house-tops; the apparatus for pulling down - buildings was rotten; the brigade captain was away in the country, atul he had neglected to leave some one in his place. Truly, an accumulation of oairelessness! , i • ... i.. •Ji •

The machinery;' few ■ the enlargement of the Government cool stores, Minders street, Melbourne, is now on the ground, and when will greatly increase the capacity of the stores. The work will be completed in about three or four weeks'. After allowing for a moderate increase in the requirements of the butter and rabbit business, enough accommodation will be available next season for the treatment of 300,000 carcases of mutton , and lamb, against 100,000 last year. , . . •■■* • • • Charles Dickens has been dead for nearly thirty years, but there is a man still alive in Australia who remembers him when he was a young reporter on the, “Morning Chronicle,” knocking about London and collecting material for his first book, “Sketches by Boz.” This venerable Antipodean, now in his eighty-fifty year, is a Melbourne tobacconist,‘and still stands behind his counter; hale, ’ hearty, ruddy-cheeked and keen-eyed. It was in his little crib or station at St, Clement Danes, as a member of the fire brigade, that young Charles Dickens' occasionally paid him a visit, and oni one occasion the future novelist' was his iguest for' the whole night., .. ■ . . ... , •* »

A writer calling himself. “Ex fumo luqem” in the i “Contemporary” is allowed, to announce, that the incandescent gas-lights are .superceding .the electric arc in. street-illumination. Berlin- and Paris ' have ' rejected) the, are light and rtyertod 10, gjfa.and Welshach, Liverpool manufactures,,its own ; electricity, but. baS lifj its; streets with the incandescent gas/ . Ga® companies will donbtlesS'be‘ to the writer. ,A wider public : will at any rate ’ appreciate an opening paragraph of his:—Several attempts have - been made to fix upon the century 1 some peculiarly distinctive appellation; It' has been ‘styled 'the Age of ' Steel, the Ago of -Steam, and so forth; hut it might as'fdirly be called, also, the Age-of Light, inasmuch as it has witnessed' the birth and developmea£ of one of the boldest conceptions of human mechanical skill and power of organisation—tb® ■ systematic provision of artificial light in anw desired quantity, for any purpose, distributed through every town and available at any hour, for the mere , turning of a. tap or a button. The dreams of all the Utopians of past ages never compassed any such .impressive reality. They never .do. The dreams of dreamers remain dreams; while the workers continually endow the-race with -unexpected boons. '** • • •

Among the valued privileges of the married woman there is the comforting one .that she -canpot-he 'committed for failing to pay a court debt. She gained this , freedom by the Married Woman’s Property Act, but this knowledge of her true position has only slowly come to her. Nowadays the knowledge is becoming common, and if a woman have wisdom she gets married when there is judgment against her. At a Birmingham County: Court the other day a woman ' described as a widow and a press worker was summoned to be committed for ' failing ■to pay 6s 9d, instalments duo on a debt to a firm of drapers.: She-promptly set up the defence that she was a married woman. The solicitor : for the plaintiffs asked bar. When were yon married? Defendant: Twelve months'ago. Have you got your marriage certificate?. No. I haven’t got it ; with me.: Who: went with you when yon got married 1 ? A young girl. Was anybody else with you ? —No. Where was your husband ?—He was not there.; (Laughter.) Wasn’t your husband present when, you were married?—No.; (Laughter.) Then you got married by yourself? The judge signified- his-!appreciation of the ceremony by ordering the. defendant to be committed for-, seven days unless she paid the debt by instalments of Is 6d a month. * » -■ • ~ •

A gpod cat story is taken from the St. Augustine, Kilburn, “Parish Magazine”: —“I once had a oat which always sat up to the dinner table ‘ with' me, and had his. napkin round his neck, and his plate and some fish.- ‘Ho used his : paw of course; but he was very particular, l arid behaved with' extraordinary- decorum. "When he had' finished Ms -fish I sometimes gave him a piece of mine. On© day,?!)© was; not .to’ibe-fouind wheri the dinner, bell rang, -so ye-, began without him.; Just as the, plates were being put round for the entree, pttss cam© rushing upstairs and sprang into his chair, with two mice in his month. Before he;conld he stopped he dropped a mens© on to his own plat© and then one on to mine. He divided his dinner with me as X divided mine with him;” * • * • • •

The German Emperor was lately stated • from a; well’ informed • source to be “introducing to Court,* financiers, literary men, ©mitierit scientists” and others from the dregs of the populace. These are- even admitted to ’the Kaiser’s private 1 suppers—the most 1 exclusive entertainments at his Court. In aristocratic Vienna mere men of genius are of late tolerated in respectable society. But is this* wise ? - Wemnsthave a ‘standard of manners and fashion, *nd the Emperor or King is an expert in manners.

He is a professional, gentleman, as the archbishop is a professional saint,- and the inventor, poet or musician is a professional genius. He need not necessarily be "ooa (all the better if he is) or clever (this is rather a drawback). Assuming that fashionable society is a necessary evil, even the Socialist should E refer to see it composed of “sons of a undred kings” rather than that the Republican “Johnnie" should prevail, who after a few years’ reign “goes bust” in a too clever “corner” in pigs’ trotters, leaving a j'ourig tallow-chandler king to reign in his stead.

Sidney Smith cut the following from a newspaper and preserved it for himself: “When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one 1:o a fellow . creature. It is easily done; a left-off garment to the man who needs it, a kind word to the sorrowful and encouraging expression to the striving, trifles in themselves light as air, will do it at least for twentyfour hours. And if you are young, depend upon it, it will tell when you are old; and if you are old, rest assured it will send you gently and happily down the stream, of time to eternity. By the most simple arithmetical sum, look at the result. If you send one person, only one, happily through each day, there are 365 in the year. And supposing you live 40 years only after you commence that course of medicine, you have made 14,600 beings happy, at all events for a time.” .

» * * » » The profession, of nursing has now been thrown open to French girls. Hitherto nursing has been done by Sisters of Mercy, but devoted as these are they cannot possibly cope with the demand for muses. The first training school for nurses has just been opened in Paris, with a small.hospital attached! to it. The uniform is to be made in dark blue cloth, of sober out, with a knot of muslin at the throat, and ourj bonnet with floating veil is to .be replaced by a toque with choux of white | cloth. Their name is a great difficulty; I the temptation to translate “nurse” by “nourrice,” which, of course, means wetnurse or foster mother, is overwhelming, and leads to confusion. An English lady, who prides herself upon her knowledge of French, lives in a garrison town in Brittany. Her eldest daughter is a nurse, and on her return from the London hospital where she was trained, was introduced to a roomful of young officers by her proud mother mother as “My daughter who has been a nourrice in England.” There was one moment of utter duimuxoundment, but the daughter , being pretty and attractive, the officers rose to the occasion, and realised the error! * * * >• * *

The Italian people of the lower classes are among the most industrious in the world. In natural fertility their country is second only to France, the richest in Continental Europe, Still, the people are poor, deplorably , poor, and they remain so because everywhere the soil is taxed 33 per cent, of ..its net'product. This impost is so administered that it falls with crushing weight upon the shoulders of the very poor 1 , and works its devastation upward, tying the hands of the small land owners an'd manufacturers until they are unable to work their fields or factories at a profit. The net result of this oppressive system does not by; any means reach the national treasury. If it aid, there would be some slight recompense. But the whole administrative system is so corrupt, and the methods of applying the taxes offer conscienceless officials so many opportunities to steal, that scarcely more than one-third of the plunder is available to the Government. In the meantime, other public functionaries go without their salaries, and the school teachers subsist oiv charity.—“ Munsey’s Magazine.” • • * • •

New South Wales Congregational Union set to work t’other day to rend one of its members—Rev. Bennett—for marrying in one year for a Sydney matrimonial agency 531 couples. The offender, however, wasn’t as sorry as wag expected, and even, went so far as to say that he had thus done a lot of goodl in marrying people who otherwise might have done worse. It looks, anyhow, as if these matrimonial agencies supply a pressing want, otherwise one of ’em wouldn’t bring together nearly 4000 couples in six' years in Sydney alone.—“ Sydney Bulletin.” « * * - « *

During the next: few years, the .design, and erection of large, central nower stations for the generation and distribution of electric energy in bulk promise to be the most important and interesting problem with which, mechanical engineers in this country will have to deal. Central station work in this country, so far as magnitude of the undertakings is concerned, is undoubtedly behind when, compared with American and Continental practice;:!;but the future development promises to be on: an unparalleled scale: —“Engineering.” • * ... * »

_ The conscientious young man of fashion now 'brushes his hair differently when wearing a hat. Chancellor Tisdall, the acknowledged Beau Brummel of Dublin in his youth, had. inexpressibles variously cut for: walking and for sitting, and’ onoe sat down 5h the former with' disastrous results I Not long ago amilliner advertised' with a newly-in-vented' hat that it “necessitated the mouth worn slightly open.’’ What shall we come to next ?—“Vanity Fair.”

jockeys of tie first rank on either side of the ocean easily command incomes far larger than the salaries of the Justices of the Supreme Court or those of the members, of the Cabinet. They are petted. and flattered to a ridiculous extent. Many of these riders are mere boys, whose early training has taken place in unfortunate surroundings and under evil influences. Their tions are much greater than those which alltire the average lad. ;Is it astonishing then, that most of them sooner or later get into trouble'?—“Tribune," New York. ■* « * * «

A sensational article was published in a paper called “0 Portuguez” at Lorenzo Marquez, 1 Delagoa Bay. The article appeared in the' Portuguese ■ language, xmdor the heading of “General de Wet,” and is as follows:—“We affirm that the famous .Boer general—the ■ ‘Phantom General,’ as he is termed by the British soldiers, was actually in Lorenzo Marquez' on' Sunday and Moiiuay last. Wo do not know what this gallant Transvaal warrior came here for, but we presume it was to enter into important negotiations, because should his mission have been unimportant he Would have sent some delegate to see what was going on in I/orenzo Marquez. We make it known ; to the public that De Wet submitted to us for publication an agreement between himself and General TJnller, in which the latter declared upon his word of honour that* he’ would not on any future occasion• take up arras against the, Transvaal.' r -This --'agreement is partly confirmed by the* fact that General Boiler had' been previously taken prisoner by the Beers, who set him at liberty, after having given the agreement above referred to; arid in order to further prove the bona fidea of , this dooument General De Wet informed ns that he keeps * iii his_ 'possession all the medals -and' decorations belonging to General 1 BMler. ' We do not publish the Xeement because it might result in unisantness for the Government.” The

Portuguese Governor-General suppressed the paper. *****

No part of the English coast is so rich in native gems as that stretching between Tynemouth and Blyth, in Northumberland. The choicest specimens of amethyst, cornelian, agate, and crystals may be picked up by a careful observer. Many are well worth polishing and setting as jewellery. Not a few officers serving in Highland regiments have the hilts of their dirks, also their _sporra;is, encrusted with gems found in "this part of the coast. Another part of Britain rich in stones is the Grampian range of mountains in Scotland. Cairngorms of the finest quality are found there and are used in the manufacture of >ea!s, etc.

It is the desire of every Chinaman’s heart to possess a pair of magic bracelets. Arm rings or bracelets are thought a good deal of in the Celestial Empire, the custom of wearing them having been handed down from lime immemorial. Usually made of jade stone, the Chinese arm ring of to-day is of one invariable shape. The custom in Chinn is to place the bracelet on a young man’s arm just before the hand stops growing. A tight fit is usually secured, and once placed the amulet arm ring is worn throughout life. At death, if the bracelet has proved a lucky one, and if there is a son whom it will fit, the bracelet, is removed. Among ’other wonderful properties a good amulet is believed to act as a fairly t rust wo rt Ily ba ro met er. ***** A medical practitioner to a London hospital said: “While it is true that a man’s brain is larger and heavier than that of a woman, this is only the case when the comparison is made between the two brains. Putting the question on the basis of the weiedit of the brain in proportion to the weight of lie body, the case Is reversed, and woman is found to have the advantage over man. This arises from what may bo regarded a, a curious fact, namely, that in proportion to the body-weight the smaller animal has always the larger brain. Thus the brain of a baby is proportionately five times as large as that of.a grown mm, the brain of a cat six or seven .times as largo as that of a tiger, and so forth. These are interesting examples of Nature’s paradoxes, but they in no way show that intelligence turns upon he s&e of the brain. It is almost entirely a question of quality, although it has been observed that a large head generally goes with large mental capacity.' * * * * *

“In Germany,” observed a Teutonic visitor, apropos of a recent elopement, “a runaway marriage is unknown, for the reason that no marriage holds good without the consent of the parents.' Our marriage customs, indeed, differ widely from yours. A man must be at least eighteen years of age before he can make a proposal of marriage. If this is accepted, betrothal follows, a stage of the courtship which is marked by a dinner or supper given by the father of the bride (as the engaged yound lady is then called). The betrothal ring is a plain gold band like an ordinary wedding ring. Marrige may follow betrothal at any time, although sometimes for lack of means the betrothed couple remain bride and bridegroom for a number of years. In some places the guests at the wedding feast pay for all they eat and drink, a custom which enables the happy couple to tide over the wedding expenses and sometimes have a surplus over, for in some instances the wedding guests are numbered by the hundred.” ♦ * * # »

“Try to imagine the whole sky covered with full moons,” remarks an astronomer. “You would think that such a glare would, be intolerable, that we should be deluged with au overwhelming light. Yet it is perfectly true that wo could very well live under a sky whose, every part, wag just as bright as the moon itself. This is easily proved; for when we oomnare the brightness of the full moon with the brightness of the sun, we find that the sun is as bright as six hundred thousand full moons!”

: Yokohama and the neighbouring Tokio aro said to have about fifty earthquake shocks, a year. Most of them are insignificant, but now and then comes one of a different sort. Here is the experience of a man who had witnessed ope of the most terrible of its kind. He had just finished dressing when the first shock came. He crawled and dragged himself out of the house, for to walk Was all but impossible. Then, looking oyer his shoulder, he saw a great and ancient temple, which he had been admiring the previous day, leap into the air and fall in dreadfud ruin. Looking again to his front, he saw the whole town in an instant swept away before his eyes, and out of the great - cloud of dust oame a screaming, gesticulating, wildly frantic crowd of men,' women, and children, rushing hither and thithei’, they knew not. where, for refuge from the great destruction which had come upon them. t ♦ * * « »

i Rome was not built in a day, but then Rome was very much behind the times. Things are done more quickly now. On the outskirts of Chicago a feat was accomplished not long ago that would have astonished Rome. It may be a little astonishing even to present-day readers. A contract was signed on Friday for the building of a church. The document stipulated that the church should be ready for dedication on the following Sunday. Just on© clear day was left for the erection of the building, which was to accommodate three thousand persons. At four o’clock on ’ the morning of Saturday the work was begun, and at seven o’clock that evening the men wore putting in windows, _hanging doors, and getting in the electric lights, whioh were specially provided for in the contract. No floor was laid, and there was no time to gather up the shavings, but by twelve o’clock that night everything else was done, and the dedication services were held in the building on the following day. * » • . * ■»

A decidedly wonderful feat, and one in which haste 1 was justifiable, was the building of a field hospital and having it 1 ready for patients in exactly one hour from the time when it was begun. Doctor Hofgraeff, an- army surgeon, undertook to demonstrate to the Austrian military authorities that eight men could build a hospital measuring fifty by twenty feet in an hour. All materials were ready, and no tools were required. Sleepers, panels, bolts, rods, waterproof packing, all were prepared beforehand, every ping for its hole, and every groove for its setting. There was nothing to do but to put the building together. The value of a hospital that can be erected on the spot at such short notice needs no demonstration.

Folly and disgraceful extravagance in the fashionable world can hardly go farther than, in the case of a pet poodle owned by a wealthy lady. This favoured animal has'a whole wardrobe of costly garments, including nightdresses edged with lace, a tea gown, a set of silk hand-embroidered * coats, some of which have lace ruffs and are fastened with jewelled clasne-. When fully dressed 'the wretch ecf animal weans gold bracelets on each of its four paws and a collar of diamonds and other stones. It is also provided with a set of silk handkerchiefs, towels, table napkins and washing and feeding utensils of cat glass and Dresden. ohina 4 The foolish

mistress of another <Tog not only lavishes on her pet care and expense which.would be better bestowed on some little human waif, but actually leaves her dogs card with’ her own wneu paying calls. Even after death certain pet dogs have been the object of tiie wasteful fieaks of their mistresses, and there are stories of rosewood silk-lined coffins, with silver handles and plates. In one case a dog was buried wearing a solid gold collar. *****

A man after spending the first thirty years of his existence ns n deaf-mute crave a graphic account of his sensations when bv some spontaneous process he ivas enabled to hear. Sound to him at first, was a nameless something which filled him with terror. The new sense be»an to awaken while he was in the street -fa country town, and the noises round him fairly stunned and bewildered him. Fearing lest the strange sensations were the. precursors of madness, he uttered a erv, and was horrified to find that he was'himself producing the phenomenou which, startled him. He entered his home in a panic, hut was astonished to observe that instead of sharing his fears his friends were deih'hteiT. Gradually he became accustomed to the new thing called “sound," and in course of time began, as a child might do, to learn words, and to distinguish sounds. * , *

Many of the Chinese Boxers have a much better claim to be called farmers than the rifle-bearing, game-hunting agriculturists of the Transvaal. John’sfarm is usually a patch of land of an acre or two, cultivated to the last inch. Ho bestows upon it the minutest care, and from a single aero will raise sufficient to maintain himself and his family in comfort. With two acres he is well-to-do, with ten acres he is wealthy. His crops include wheat, rice, sugar-cane, potatoes, indigo, tobacco, and ginger. As a rule, no milk, butter, or. cheese is to As .3 obtained on his farm; and he does not favour the breeding of cattle. As an instance of the rigid economy that prevails, it may be added that a Chinaman often trains his Hens to follow the harvesters and pick up any grains dropped in the stubble.

‘‘There is no doubt,” said a medical electrician whose opinion was asked, “that the brain can derive very great benefit from electrical treatment. Here,” he continued, displaying a small box furnished with two handles and with which a metal hair brush was connected by means of a wire, “ here is a little apparatus for imparting strength to the brain. Overworked students or scholars who are about to enter on a severe course of study, have gained the greatest benefit from an application of electricity to their heads by this means. It has reinvigorated the exhausted worker and greatly increased the powbr of those entering on a spell of brain work. The apparatus is a patent, and is to some extent of a secret character. But there is no denying its results; and the knowledge that electricity is such an aid to the Drain opens up very great possibilities tor mental workers.” * * « * *

As showing the attachment of Germans to their native customs, it is said that amongst certain colonies of Germeans in the United States and elsewhere a curious little ceremony precedes a marriage. A few days before the wedding the elder brother, or some other male relative of the bride, starts out on horseback to summon the guests. He is called the “brautbeter,” which literally interpreted means the “bride inviter,” and his verbal invitation takes the place of the wedding invitation card of more conventional circles. At every house where the “brautbeter’’ calls to bid the inmates to the wedding feast, like some rider of old romance, he is presented with a gift—a ribbon, coin, trinket, or amongst the wealthier families of something of greater value. By the time the “brautbeter” has finished his rounds he is fairly loaded with gifts, which become his perquisites. It is needless to say, therefore, ’ that the office of “brautbeter” is a coveted one. * • * •

Most dogs have good memories; a few dogs have marvellous ones, and from these marvellous stories spring. “I once took my bull-teri-ier to Florence,” remarked. a globe-trotter, “and lost him at the station. I at onoe notified the police of my loss, and then sought out a hotel. What was my astonishment, on being shown upstairs to a room, to find my dog sleeping on the mat. It was then I remembered that some years back I had visited this very hotel, my dog being with me. I did not recollect having occupied this particular room; but on reference to the hotel register such was found to bo the case.”

One of the optimistic and most general expectations indulged in at the pre sent day is the realisation during the coming century of what is pronounced the greatest of prospective inventions, namely, a machine for storing the heat of the sun and transforming it into electricity or some other form which woul f be suitable for ready employment. It is believed' by many that such heat, though now permitted to go to waste, will, by means of the resources of invention, be applied to the running of mills, the warming of houses and every other purpose for which energy is utilised. The field for such a discovery and its worldwide importance are at once suggested by the ascertained fact that ©very square yard of the sun’s surface emits heat equal to that of a blast furnace consuming one ton of coal every ten minutes.

The feature of the St. Louis Exmoitibn in 1903 will be a watch as big as a house and an exact reproduction of the best Swiss movement, 16 jewels, balance action and compensatid. It wixl be on its back, will have a polished metal case, and will be so roomy inside that people will be able to walk about in it among the moving wheels and_ to watch them as they revolve. It will be nearly, 75 feet across and more than 40 feet high, with neat little stairways running all about in it, and all the wheels properly protected so that no one can he hurt. The balance wheel will weigh a ton. The part called the “hairspring” in an ordinary watch will be as big round as a man’s wrist. It will take about two minutes for the balance wheel to swing round and back again. It will he pivoted on two enormous agate blocks—substitutes for diamonds —and will be made of brass. One of the greatest difficulties will be in getting a balance spring of sufficient size and strength to stand the strain, and retain its elasticity. The mainspring will naturally be an enormous affair, something over 300 feet in lengtli and made of ten spring steel bands, two inches thick, bound together, as it would be impossible to roll so large a piece either in thickness or in length. • * ■» » * *

“Long life,” said a physician recently, ‘“is, of course, mainly a matter of constitution and heredity; any person of average health who aims at length of days may do much, to gain his ambition. The great point to study is what may be called economy of living; if people were as thrifty with, their vitality as they are with their money, they would add years to their lives. An enormous needless strain, for instance, is put on the digestive organs by the general tendency to bveir-aat. Strict naodferation in diet is one of the secrets of long life; all centenarians have been frugal livers. Deep, full, regular breathing is another requisite. Increase of oxygen in the

lungs assists in the elimination of effete and poisonous matter,; and thus the bodily apparatus works more freely. Hurry, bustle, anxiety, arid fretfulness are all enemies of long life. Nearly always the man who arrives at a ‘green old age’ has been notable for his tranquility and self-possession.”

“We are accustomed,” observes a recognised authority on China, “to laugh at some of the habits and customs of the Chinese. From my own personal observation of the Chinaman ‘on his native heath,’ so to speak, I should think he occasionally joins in the laughter—-in his sleeve. The fact is that the Chinese follow out many customs simply be cause their ancestors did so, and not from any affection or respect for the customs themselves. Take, for instance, the elaborate ceremonial to be gone through by the better classes when meeting in public. Over and over again I have known a Chinese gentleman to pass a friend in the street without recognition on either side, each desiring to avoid the tedious forms prescribed by the native etiquette. The mother-in-law question is a. joke amongst Britons—it is anything but a. joke to the Chinese. The regard for parents is carried to such extremes and the mother-in-law is given such absolute power, that she often becomes a family despot. So intolerable is her yoke at times that many of her victims'take to flight or even suicide to escape it. The moral is that a Chinese relishes some of his own customs quite as little -as a European, would do.”

American bridges are to be built on the Uganda Eailroad, thus supplying the central link of the chain of which this country has already constructec both ends. Ultimately, it will be “From Cape to Cairo, via road made in America.” —“Tribune,” New Yovk.^

Mr Joseph Chamberlain has demonstrated that even a man who wears a monocle may be hot stuff to handle. “Times-Herald,” Chicago.