THE WORLD'S PRESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXII, Issue 205, 4 October 1900, Page 4

THE WORLD'S PRESS.

r-r+ : INFAMOUS "REOOKD BRJAKING." Feaodoleht solicitors exceed in aumber at present any other olass of criminals, It would not be too much to say that they also exceed any other olass in turpitude. Many of the case* that have oome before the Courts during the last few weeks betray depths of villainy which ordinaay thieves have ao opportunity even if they had the inclination, to achieve.— Review of the Week, '

- PRAOTIOAL CRCSADB AGAINST CIGARETTES. Cigarette smoking is henceforth to he a bar to employment on the Ohiosgo Book Island and Pacific Railway. At the foott>f every application form there Is printed the guestion, " Do yon smoke cigarettes ?"!..The answer afieots the person's-chance of employment, as the general superintendent of the line considers that cigarette smoking vitiates a man's 'capacity, enervates him, and renders him listless and occasionally reckless.— Railway Times. MAN'S GREATEST BLUNDER. If woman were of a revengeful disposition she might easily console herself by reflecting on the price that man has bad to pay for his exclusiveness. He has, she might reflect, assumed the right to legislate for the Churob, to define its doctrine, to build up its whole system of thought, and a pretty mess he has made of it. Nothing has been made dearer than that the attempt to build religion out of elements pure!j masculine is a blunder for which th< Outraged nature of things will alwayt bake a full revenge.— Christian World

A WHISTLE IN HIS MIDST. i Jacob Bestwick, aged six, living in this city, is tre.eovy.of all the youngsters. He caa whistle with his stomaoh, and while other boya think this a great feat Jacob does not like it. Several days ,ago he was making unearthly noises with a round tin whittle about tie size of a silver half dollar. In a moment) of abstraction he accidentally swallowed the toy, and it is now lodged in his stomach, Several doctors have failed to relieve the little fellow, who occasionally feels pains during which he coughs, With every cough comes a abrill whistle from his stomach.— Philadelphia Times, THB PRETORIA PLOT. Lord Roberts may, we think, with aaftty be left to determine the degree of severity with whioh tha persons convicted of participation in the conspiracy should be punished. That several of the ringleaders most be adjudged to suffer the sternest rigoms of mirtiftl law seems necessary. Individuals who organise a plot) against the person of a general with whom i hey have, a few days or weeks before, contracted by osth to abstain from further resistance cannot expeot clem* enoy. The occasion, indeed, seems to be one in which the most lenient of commanders cannot but feel that the most merciful course is that of exemplary punishment.- Observer. ADOPT THE BOER STANDARD. He i», in shore, a s mi-savage, who simply co a not uaderstand, and cmnot be ixp e'ed to undentind, thn distinction oe ween honourable warfare and mere aiHvasiuation. Such if the Bo* as we hive gradual y learnt to know him, In his dealings with such an enemy the Briton has made, from the very cutset, a fundamental mistake. It is creditable to us that we have applied to our enemies the dame moral standard which we recognised ourselves. Bat the mistake, though honourable, is none tha lejs a mistake for that, and the time han came when we must revise our methods if we would not Bee the preens war indffhit'ly prolonged, Pall MaU Gazette. A FRENCH PLAN OF INVASION. The invasion would be at the mouth of the Thames, we landing cur troops simultaneously at Heme Bay and Southend. Early the same morriog * number of torpedoes nil hive quietly been guided undei London Bridge, and a Prenoh fl jet would enBure communications between the banks of the river, while two armies wcu'd march on London, one in-taking Chatham on the way, aod the other proceeding by Tilbury and B rkiog. A few d< z n torpedoes skilfully sut.k in front if Shoeburyness would bar the ett-aoce to the Thames of the British fl et, end the (He would cocthe rest of thi French troops on lighters (chalandt) to the heart of the O-tiy.— la Patrie.