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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12401, 17 November 1908, Page 4

The "fastest railway run" of a' •Wked. train in 'the' summer of 1908 ) .has ; been onvt*ke North-Eastern, . at a '■speed, of 61.7 miles per hour. The icst is on the Caledonian, at 60.9 i miles per hour. . . i A species of albatross found on I bho island of Laysan/ in the Hawaiian group, affords visitors much ! imusement. These birds sometimes Perform, in pairs, a kind of. dance. I Two will approach one another, nad- t ling and making profound baws, | jross their bills, produce snapping md groaning .sounds, rise on their toes,, pnff out their breasts, and in ally part with more nodding and lowing, only to come together" again .uid ..repeat the performance. At a recent Congress on Moral education lield in London, Lord Vvebury pleaded that education as fc is now is too narrow, and quoted io.foptls of Dr Creighton ; "A man •nay got a degree without knowing ho difference between a planet and \ star," "That reminds me," said Lord Avebury, "of how one beautiul moonlit night I was walking Kerne from the House of Commons vit-h a friend. He. looked up at ■ho moon and said, 'My dear Lublock, I often wonder how it is the -noon changes its shape so often. I '■sunuose it is one of those things we shall never find out.' "

Mr Lloyd-Gaorgo hits norar spoken with more religious i'ervou than ht th 9 opanmg of the Carnarvon bazaar. His remarks on the abandonment of the churches by man in (,'ontineatal cauntriea were in no way exaggeratfcd. ." Wo go to tho ohurohdS io practically ev^xy (J ntineatal eouncry," said Mr Lloyii George, "to tind them thronged witb women and hardly any m.>n tUore at all. Tha women, tiu9 to their old and noblo traditioa in the past, still linger around the Uros3 wDon others have left it ; but the men have gone. " Is there not an exception to sorne extent, in certain lioman (Jattiolic districts in Germany? While visiting Cologne recently I attended a, service at the famous Oereonskicatiß. where more men were present than women,- and at two otter services on the same Sunday I found the oatbeciral literally throngedby ooiigregxtfona wliicu" included a lavgo proportion of earnest, intal-ligent-looKing worshipful man. On tlae ether hand, I fouc.d the celebrated Towu Oburati of (Lutht oran) very poorly attended. The number of men in most of the French I'rotSstaDh churches is also very disappointing. „