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Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12538, 14 May 1909, Page 4

TO^. r A 3- .Henderson, aged 61, of I hiladelphia, has married Miss Harriet Wismer, aged'l9, whose sister is ™ 6 of tlie door's eldest son. Mrs Henderson is now the mother-in-law. of her elder sister, the stepmother of her own brother-in-law and the step-grandmother of her niece. Many trains are worth £30,000 (says a London paper), while the recently constructed "South Belle" which runs between Victoria and Brighton, is said to have cost over £40,000 to build. But take an ordinary train: The engine and tender are valued at £2100 ; ■■ the, luggage van, £200; the mail van, £400; two ordinary passenger coaches, £2000 each ; three firstrdass carriages £300 each : total, £15,700. „. . , "T£ c J ate Duke of Ar eyU stated that he liked persons in his service to have an opinion of their self-importance," says the "Penny Magazine." "It was not enough for them to look upon themselves as mere wage-earning creatures— they were men and women — and he. could not see how they could have self-respect without they recognised that, as men and women, they had.rights and duties. 'No man or woman ever makes the most of him or herself without he or she recognises'how important he or she may be,' declared Hugh Price Hughes. And every person is of importance not merely to himself, but to the world. A person, whether a man or a woman, only recognises, that by having a sense of what is owing, to the world and what may the world owes him or her."A curious law suit, in which the plaintiff, . Mme. Granville, obtained 2000 francs damages from a firm of Parisian undertakers, is renorted by the; "Journal." Mme. Granville's' husband, who died some months ago, was a well known singer, with a fine baritone voice, and, in order to honour his memory, Mme. Granville ordered the undertakers to place a ' phonograph, 'concealed by flowers, on the lid of the coffin. When the mourners arrived in church the gramaphone was set in motion, but instead of the. widow listening to the voice of the -deceased rendering a' solo from a well known oratorioi her ears were shocked by the opening lines from a particularly improper" comic song, ; which is now being sung in certain of the less reputable. Paris music halls: by a once-famous demi-mondairie, who has fallen on evil days. The undertakers /pleaded that the joke had been played on theni by an employee, who was ..under notice. But for all \ that they had to pay.