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Otautau Standard and Wallace County Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 168, 21 July 1908, Page 7

HERE AND THERE.

I Sir Genille Cave-Browne-Cave, the cow- • boy baronet, on going to his ancestral 1 home, Stretton Hall, on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire for the. first time after his return from Ajnerica, was everywhere warmly welcomed by old friends. After inspecting the old hall, ..which is m a sad state of disrepair and decay, he visited the vicarage. On his return journey to Ashby de la Zouch he had to pass through the mining village of Donisthorpe. Here all the inhabitants turned out of doors to welcome him. He threw several hancl fuls of coppers among the children, who, promptly scrambled ioi the coins, and his departure was to. the . lustily-sung strains of ' Fdr he's a jolly good fellow.' Sir Genille proposes lo leave England as soon as possible to claim his bride, whom he Still marry at Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.A., m August. He will return to England m December. | He has already arranged to have all that is necessary done to the Hall, and intends to make it his permanent home. He tells me that his bride* is one of the best cross-country "riders m America, and that she will enter largely into the hunting engagements of Leicestershire and Derbyshire. Refused compensation for a cut finger, an II ford domestic servant left her situaV tion and wrote to her mistress as follows : — " Madam,-T-The cut is worst. The v doctor says I have cut the spinal cord of my little finger. If yoii do not im- ' mediately send me five shillings a week, I shall insult my solicitor." Mrs Hetty Green, the owner of many millions, who for years lived in/the most frugal manner m NeW York, hais now, the London ' Telegraph says, thrown economy to the winds with a vengeance, and means to come out from her shell for her daughter's , sake. She has given a dinner to twenty guests m the state apartments of the Hotel Plaza, like any other multimillionaire, with palms, flowers, fountains, the choicest viands, vintages, and plates, of gold. News that the widow was entertaining for the first time on record leaked out, and before midnight reporters from all the newspapers oaJled to secure a list of the guests and a copy of the menu. .. The widow's recent advice, printed m the biggest type, to American heiresses: "Don't marry . some useless European title, but rather a good, respectable, sober young American workman,^ has endeared the eccentric lady to the gre.at American democracy^ A German doctor lays it down as a well- - established fact, based on close observation, that women who do not marry until thirty-five or thereabouts invariably achieve matrimonial success. When a woman marries between thirty and forty '■ she either does so,for companionship', choosing her mate accordingly, or from need, m which case she also chooses with a certain amount of care. She has no wild dreams of unalloyed bliss. A short time ago an English schoolmaster successfully vindicated m the courts his right to regulate the behaviour of his boys out of school hours. A similar question has just been decided by the Supreme Court of Wisconsin (U.S.A.). Two high school girls, sisters, wrote some verses lampooning the severity of the school discipline, and the editor . of a local paper was* thoughtless enough' to publish the squib m his columns as a. joke. Tlie girls were thereupon expelled. Their father instituted legal proceedings, . maintaining that the expulsion was illegal as the offence had been committed outside the school. The lower / courts decided, against him, and the Supreme Court 'has now upheld their decision. " School .authorities," say the Judges, "have the power to suspend pupils for an offence committed outside of school hours tvhich. has a direct tendency to influence the conduct of the other pupils while m the schoolroom, to set at naught proper discipline of the school, to impair the authority of the teachers, and to bring them, into ridicule and contempt.- Such power is essential to the preservation of order,, decency, decorum, and good government within the public school." . ; The young and serious-minded Duke of Westminster is" one of the most deter- •■ mined opponents of the English Educa- .: tion Bill, and his dislike to that measure , has taken a rather curious form. He threatens that if it becomes law he will j resume possession of ten schools owned by j hi*m m the county of Cheshire. His con- I tention is that, while he has always been

willing to permit facilities for children to receive the religious instruction desired by their parents, he cannot allow edifices which his predecessors m the title built as Church of England schools to be appropriated by the State under the conditions* laid down m the Bill. A cruel and bare-faced deception was practised, on Miss Julia Churchouse, residing at Bournenfouth (England), whose lover (Thomas Owen)-, giving her to understand that she was signing a marriage (Settlement by which she' would have £150 a year, obtained from her a deed of , -conveyance of her property, by means of which he obtained advances from the Alliance Credit Bank of London, and eventually mortgaged the property. TheBank afterwards brought an aotion against Miss Churchouse and Owen. She counter-: claimed that the deed of conveyance should be set aside and the mortgage cancelled, and her evidence brought to light the cruel deception ,of which she had been the * victim. .Mr Justice Eve said that Miss Churchouse had failed to prove her contention, and that she could hardly have been ignorant of the fact that her -signature to the conveyance gave Owen control over her title deeds. He therefore gave** judgment for the -Bank, and the young woman must suffer for her lover's, wrong-doing and deception. To be wigged by Royalty, says the. club gossip of the ' Liverpool 'Post,' is terrible. Exactly what the King 1 said to a certain peeress is not known. , But, m the language of the United States., it must have been " hair-curling," 'for she has lain very low ever since. His Majesty thought she had let out the secret of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman's retirement. As it is not etiquette' to contradict the King when he says guilty, the innocent lady can only bow her head 'before the storm of his guttural wrafch. She also fears it may be long before she is again invited to - play bridge with her Royal Master. - The Queen of Norway is one of the . busiest women m Europe, and she has so many interests that ! she cttn never be lonely. Not only is she a loving wife and a devoted mother, but she is an expert of many handicrafts which involve much practice and entail long study' She writes excellent prose and pretty verse ; she speaks fluently five languages; she knits stockiiiigs for her fourteen-year-old soh, Prince Olaf , and other children, and she- spins with ah old-fashioned wheel. She is fond of wood-carving and bookbinding, and is skilful with the camera. She is a good chess player, her billiards - are skilful, and she plays a good .enough game of whist to .be a partner of her, father, King Edward. y On May 26, at Pottsville, Pennsylvania, a man named Felix Radzius was to have been hanged for the murder of a comrade m a brawl. The murder was of a particularly brutal character, and m order to inculcate self-restraint among the foreign ' workers m the coalfields and to teach them respect for the law .the .authorities aatt t Pottsville issued tickets to some five hundred foreign workmen* to be present at the execution. Pottsville is the centre of the great anthracite coal region, and some seven or eight thousand Hungarians, Poles, and Slays yare employed m the' coal mines m and about the place. The authorities believe that by admitting so large * a number of these men to see the hanging, of one of their fellows t»heir recital of the scene to the, others will act as a deterrent to lawlessness. A sensational incident is reported from Glasgow, where on June 2 Superintendent Glumes M'lhtyre arrived - from Oban mi . charge of ,a prisoner, intending to hand him . over to the authorities of the Duke Street Gaol. On reaching the city the inspector hailed a cab, and put his charge into it. When passing through^ Townhead the officer fell forward on the, knees of the prisoner, and the latter, thinking that he had merely fainted, called to the cab-driver to procure some water. The cabman, however, drove straight to the gaol, where it was found that the superintendent was dead, death being due to heart failure. The deceased officer was , sixty-eight years of age, and a yridower. * The site of the old Horse Guards m Pall Mall has been acquired by the Royal .' Automobile Club, who intend to erect on it an up-to-date clubhouse, features of * which are to be a winter garden and j bedrooms oni the Continental plan.

( Treaty of Berlin signed July 13, .1878.' Bully Hayes captured Jidy 15, 1872.