,IN THE OTHER BERTH.
“This will be your berth. Sir, No. 31,”
said the berth steward. ushering-me
into a cozy little cabin. “Your friend can
have 33; the lower berths le not be cc-
cupied.”
“So much the better,”said my “friend,”
whom I had met for the first time at
Liverpool street station that evening.
He seemed a gentlemanly fellow, and
had an endless stock Of good stories at
his command, so that I was not sorry to
hear that we were to 7 3 companions
for the rest of the journey, and flung
my baggage down on one of the lower
berths with alacrity.
“We’re lucky,” he said, as we made
our way up on deck; “the boats are
usually crowded at this time of year,
and it’s difficult to secure a cabin to
oneself. Have a cigar? There’s plenty-
to see up here, isn’t there? I’ve been
across some dozens of times.”
I took the portly cigar that he Of-
;-_ fered me, and for a. time we wandered
up and down the decks, watching the
crowd of passengers, Dutch, English,
Hebrew and German, who had just
come on board. It was not until the
lights of Harwich were mere pinheads
in the distance that we decided to turn
in. .
“We shall be half way up the Maas
when we wake .tO-morrow,” he re-
marked, wishing me good night.
“Good night,” I answered, turning
over on my side. I recollect thinking
for a few minutes of the jolly holiday
before me ; of Mynheer Van der Denn,
the wealthy diamond merchant, and
his pretty daughter, whom I hoped soon
to make my wife; of skating and sleigh-
ing galore in her company at Amster-
dam; of the chance of my host being as
ready to give his only child to a compar-
atively poor young Englishman as he
was to invite me to his house; of a
dozen other things connected with my
Visit, and with past days, when the
branch in Hatton Garden was being
started, and the Van der Denns lived in
London. And then, suddenly the roll-
ing of the vessel, the throbbing of the
engines and the fumes of the. strong
cigar I had smoked on deck nus; have
overpowered me, for the 139321 moment
I seemed to hear the gruff voice of the
berth steward:
“Now, sir, it’s time to get 1gp, please.
I called you some time ago, 31d thought
you were dressed. We’re just outside
Rotterdam.” .
I rubbed my eyes drowsily, an
darted up, knocking my head suddenly
against the white ceiling of the cabin;
and the berth steward, having at length
succeeded in rousing me, hurried out
to attend to his numerous duties. How
on earth had I managed to oversleep
myself so shockingly? A glance at the
tumbled bedclothes opposite showed
me that my companion of the night
before was already up. I could feel
that the engines were beginning to slow
down; while, through the port hole,
trees and houses on the bank of the
river were to be seen. On the deck
above I could hear the shuffling of many
feet, the excited jabbering of Dutch and
Englisthews, the guttural tones of
Germans, the shouts of the sailors to
those on the quay,the plumping down of
bags and boxes ready for landing.
and boxes ready for landing.
resist the temptation to lie down again,
and began to fish about for my clothes
on the berth below me. I was annoyed
with myself for losing the early morn-
ing trip up the river, and the sight of
the snow-covered windmills, the quaint
wooden houses, the low marsh lands
and the curious little craft that general-
ly dot the Maas; I was equally annoyed
with my roommate for his kindly con-
sideration in not rousing me from my
' slumbers; and I struggled into my gar-
ments rather viciously. And then, sud-
denly, it began to dawn upon me that
something was wrong.
What on earth was I to do? The
clothes that I had fished up from below
were not the ones that I threw on the
berth overnight—they had been
changed for others! By mistake or by
design—yes, it must have been by de-
sign, for no such mistake could possi-
bly have been made; the man in the
other berth had substituted his clothes
for mine.
I flew to the electric bell, and rang
vigorously for the steward. But by
this time he was busy on deck, handing
departing passengers their luggage and
pocketing tips in return, and no one
heard or heeded my summons. It was
impossible for me, half clad as I was, to
rush up above among the crowd; and
as hastily as possible I slipped into the
other man’s clothes. I had game off
much worse over the bargain, for there
was not a sou in the pockets of the sub-
stituted garments, while my watch and
chain, money and jewelry were all
missing. . .
When I finally was in a condition to
rush up the gangway—I need hardly
say without finishing my toilet, for I
was in my (or the other man’s) shirt-
sleeves—I found that most of the pas-
sengers had left the deck, though a
small group of Officers were standing
on the shore side of the vessel, engaged
in earnest consultation. The heads of
a couple of Dutch policemen, distin-
guished from the others by their curi-
us, low-crowned helmets, towered
above the group; and I at Once rushed
toward them, thanking the lucky
chance that had brought them on the
spot.
. “Have you got him?” I shouted, ex-
citedly, no doubt cutting a curious
enough figure in the blue shirt and
short trousers that my friend of the
night before had been considerate
enough to lend me.
;.. “It looks rather as if we have,” said
one of the ship’s officers, glancing at me
with a singular expression that I could
not at all understand, in his eyes. “Blue
shirt and light . trousers—dark mus-
tache—that’s all right, isn’t it, officer ?”
he said in Dutch, to one of the police-
men. .
“But where is he?” I asked, in sur- .
prise, looking from one to the other.
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“The fellow’S‘taken practically every-
thing—watch, chainxmoney, clothes.”
“Let’s have a lodls at the other
things,” said one of the“policcmen, ig-
noring my question altogether, and
turning to meet the steward, who was,
stumbling up the gangvxay under the
weight of the clothes that I had left in
the cabin. “Blue shirt, light trousers,
dark mustache, astrachan overcoat,
soft felt hat,” he muttered, checking
off the items with a cablegram he held
in his hand. “And he speaks Dutch
pretty well, but ‘with a foreign accent.
Yes, my friend, I’m afraid we shall have
to take charge of you for the present,
in spite of your clever little ruse. Just
put the rest of your things on, please,
and come along quietly." '
“But what’s the meaning of all this?”
I asked in bewilderment, as the hand-
cuffs were clicked on directly I had fin-
ished dressing. “A man steals my
clothes and'my money, and you lock
me up for it, and allow him to escape.
‘Is that the way things are usually man-
aged in Holland?”
“You’ll see how things are managed
in Holland where diamond thieves are
concerned, quite soo‘ii enough, sir,” said
the man, curtly, evidently annoyed at
my tone. “Any explanations or ex-
cuses you can give later on; in the
meantime, perhaps you will acc0m-
pany us quietly.”
“Yes, and in the meantime this gen-
tleman is hurrying off as fast as trains
can carry him to some cut-of—the-way
corner of Europe,” I grumbled; but
resistance was worse than useless, and,
followed by a small crowd of stolid
urchins, we made our way along the
tree-lined Bompjes to the police station.
Here a short interview with a fiery-
faced and fiery-mustached Officer told
me the nature of my supposed offense,
but did not in any way improve my
prospects of release. The object of
my cabin companion was now quite
clear to me, though all my exclamations
with regard to the change of clothes
were smiled. at by the Officers, who evi-
dently thought them very clumsy
excuses. I was accused of being con-
cerned in a large diamond robbery, and
was supposed to have been traveling
in Amsterdam in order to make use Of
my knowledge of precious stones in
disposing of the spoils among the
“fences” in the Jewish quarter of the
town.
The actual thief was confidential
clerk to a large firm of diamond mer-
chants in London; his escape with the
booty had been noticed a few hours
after his departure from town, and full
particulars Of his clothing and general
appearance had been cabled to Rotter-
dam, with instructions to detain him
on the arrival of the boat. But my
“friend” had foreseen some difficulty
of this kind, and had laid his plans ac-
cordingly.
Selecting me as a man Of about his
own height and appearance, he had man-
aged easily enbugh to change the
clothes in the cabin, the drugged cigar
aiding him in his scheme. Clad in my
brown ulster and traveling cap, he had
passed off the deck with the other pas-
sengers wlthout attracting any special
attention, and was probably in the act
of negotiating with Amsterdam traders
at the moment of my examination by
the officers at the station.
The fact that I had no diamonds in
my possession at the time of my arrest
meant nothing; they might have been
concealed anywhere in the vessel, or
even have been thrown overboard. The
steward, to whom I appealed for sup-
port Of my story, could only assert that
he had found me asleep, or feigning
sleep, while the other passengers were
all preparing to land—and, of course,
this told against me. There was only
one man in Holland who could help me
out of my scrape, and at the name of
Van der Denn, diamond merchant, of
Amsterdam and Hatton Garden, the
officers looked even more suspicious,
though they promised that he should
be communicated with “in due course.”
I was compelled to content myself with
this, and resigned myself to my fate.
I suppose I must have spent four or
five hours in confinement, and was be-
ginning to wonder whether I was fated
to pass the night in like fashion, when
the key suddenly turned in the lock,
and a warder entered, closely followed
by my friend Van der Denn.
“My dear fellow,” said the old boy,
effusively, rushing toward me and grip-
ping me by the hands, “What an adven-
ture to have had, to be sure! But all’s
well that ends well, and when you have
changed your clothes we will start for
Amsterdam at once. Chris is getting
quite anxious about you.
“Why, certainly. We’ve got the
clothes and the jewelry, and the dia-
monds, and, what’s quite as important,
the man himself. It’s the most curious
thing I ever knew in my llfe. Christina
and I were expecting you hours back,
and I was going to the station to see
what had become Of you, when I sud-
denly caught a back view Of your coun-
terpart—traveling cap, and that brown
ulster of yours, English every inch of
it; why, I should know it a mile Off in
Holland—hurrying across the dam. I
caught up to him in a moment, and
laid my hand heavily on his shoulder—-
and instead of your face, Holt & Mark-
'son’s confidential clerk turned to meet
me, with terror in his eyes. I had the
police up in half a minute; the dia-
monds and your watch and chain were
discovered; he confessed the whole plot;
and beyond that there is nothing else
to tell, save that your things are wait-
mg for you to slip into them as quick-
ly as possible, down below.”
I have little more to tell than Myn-
heer Van der Denn had; save that I
spent a jolly winter holiday, not in the
whitewashed cell; that I asked Chris-
tina to be my wife, and met with very
little de'mur from her or from her is.-
ther, who seemed to think that my ad-
venture deserved some compensation;
and, finally, that the handsome wedding
present we received from Holt & Mark-
son, out of gratitude for the recovery
of the diamonds, has made me none" the
less cautious now of men “in the other
berth.”——Tit-Bits.
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.
——Perfumes are now extensively man-
ufactured in the United States, and the
native articles are said by experts to
compare favorably with foreign manu-
factures. '
“England manufactures perfumes
on a very large scale,importing many of
the materials from other countries,
but also making large use of home-
grown herbs and flowers. _
-—Many woods have sugar and gum in
their composition, and the presence of
these elements is generally shown by
the attraction the wood seems to have
for many kinds of insects.
-—The wheat yield in the Genesee
valley, Idaho, this season is immense. W.
N. Gibb thrashed 9,000 bushels off of 200
acres, averaging about 45 bushels tothe
acre. Dan Healy cut and thrashed 14
acres of wheat that went 52 bushels to
the acre.
-—-A Missouri rattlesnake at the mu-
seum of comparative zoology at Cam-
bridge has been observed to lose his
skin twice a year and to add a rattle
for every skin. Instead of losing the
rattles as he does the skin, they are re-
tained by the closing of the inner end
of the old rattle over the knob of the
new one, and accidents accepted, the
snake bears with him this record of his
age.
——The trade in California sweet wines
is showing a gratifying increase. The
total estimated product for this year is
3,000,000 gallons, which is 25 per cent.
more than was marketed last year.
Heretofore there has been little profit
in the vintages because of the fierce com~
petition of growers, but the producers
have now made arrangements with a
sweet-wine syndicate which will con-
trol the entire product of the state and
give all concerned some share in the
profit.
—In America it has been observed
that bees often bore tubular corollas in
order to get at the nectar Of flowers, in-
stead of entering by the mouth, as
humblebees do in Europe. In essays on
the crossfertilization of flowers, this
supposed anomaly has been the subject
Of much comment. It now appears that
the humblebees of Europe and America
have identical habits in regard to the
manner in which visits to flowers are
made, and that it is the class of insects
known as the,carpenter bee, or the
borer, which works in the outside man-
ner indicated. .
-—-'I‘he question of the influence of the
size of seeds upon germination and up-
on thesize of the plants that spring
therefrom has recently been studied
anew by Mr. B. R. Galloway, a summary
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Gardeners’ Chronicle. The weight and
size Of the seed are of great importance.
A large seed germinates better and more
quickly, and with it one can count upon‘
having at the same moment from 85 to
00 per cent. of the total crop,while with
small seeds the crop reaches maturity
only in successive periods of time, so
that at no moment in gathering the
crop in toto could we have the same
proportion Of the' whole. Besides,
where with small seeds four successive
crops are obtained, we have six with
large seeds, their evolution occurring
with greater rapidity.
A Curious Funeral Rite Which Obtained
in Wales.
The pringipality of Wales has within
living memory possessed 3n official
known as the “sin-eater.” It was the
practice for a relative—usually a wom-
an—to put on the breast of a deceased
person a quantity of bread and cheese
and beer, and the sin-eater was sent for
to consume them and to pronounce the
everlasting rest of the departed. It was
believed that in doing this he absolutely
ate and appropriated to himself the sins
symbolized by the viands, and thereby
prevented their disturbing the repose of
the sinner who had committed them.
Such an arrangement would obviously
THE SIN-EATER.
side, but how it worked on the other we
are not told. What was supposed to be
the condition of this spiritual under-
taker after the ceremony was con-
cluded ? Did his “appropriation” of the
dead man’s sins imply a sort of moral as-
similation of them, answering to his
physical assimilation Of the bread and
cheese? The question would obviously
be one of some importance to a Sin-eater
in large practice. If the responsibili—
ties of his profesion were as great as
ties Of his profession were as great as
hypothesis, he would need to retire
from it early, and to devote a consider-
able portion of his closing years to re-
pentance and good works.
Again, it is natural to ask what hap-
pened at the decease of a popular or
“fashionable” sin-eater. Would any-
one among his professional brethren
undertake to eat his sins, even in the
first flush of satisfaction produced by
stepping into his shoes? If so, then,
indeed, has the epithet of “gallant”
been rightly bestowed upon little Wales.
It is as though one doctor succeeding to
another’s practice should consent to as-
sume the moral responsibility for his
late colleague’s treatment of all his de-
ceased patients, in addition to his own
similar burdens.
We yield tO none in admiration of the
quiet and homely heroism of the medi-
cal profession, but we doubt whether it
would enable them to face such an or-
deal as this. As to the Welsh practi-
tioners to whom ’we have compared
them, we shrink from pursuing the an-
alysis further. It is evident that, as in
the schoolboy game of “conquerors,”
where a stone which can smash the
smasher, of, say, 43 other stones takes
over all its conquests, and becomes it-
self a “forty~fourer,” so the responsibil-
ities of these unhappy men might ac-
cumulate at an alarming rate. One
hardly dares to contemplate the inter-
nal condition of the Sin-eater who had in
life attended a long series of other sin-
eaters. The cheese would‘be almost
converted into Welsh rabbit before he
had got it down—London Times.
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leave nothing to be desired on the one‘
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, SCIENCE AND moosvav. '
-—Strcet railway rails in Memphis,
Tenn., are being welded together with
molten steel.
——German- coal from Westphalia is
now being shipped at a profit frOm
the Rhine towns to London.
—-The value of Maryland’s farm lands
increased $5,500,000 between 1880 and
1890, making a total of $175,058,550.
—There are 19,146,420 acres of tim-
ber lands in the southern states, and the
average yield of these forests is 3,000
feet per acre.
——An examination of the. eyes of white
and colored children in the Washington
schools show that the latter are much
less liable to shortsightedness and as-
tigmatism.
‘ ——What is looked upon as a most im-
portant discovery is a solder for glass.
This is composed Of 95 parts Of tin and
five parts of zinc. It has a beautiful
metallic lustre, is not subject to change,
adheres firmly to glass and melts at
200 degrees. '
—Philadelphia merchants propose to
send a steamer carrying samples of the
manufacturing products of the city to
certain foreign ports in order to stimu-
late trade, after the manner of the rail-
road exhibition cars known as “Cali-
fornia on Wheels,” etc.
——The loss of stock in New South
Wales during the recent drought is es-
timated at 10,000,000 sheep, valued at
four shillings each; 303,000 cattle, val-
ued at 40 shillings, and 20,000 horses,
valued at 60 shillings, amounting in the
aggregate to a total value of £2,666,-
000.
—Reports received in Savannah on the
watermelon acreage in Georgia this
year show a decrease in most sections
of from 40 to 60 per cent. The chief
reason for the decrease is the price of
cotton last fall, which was such that
fruit growers could make a handsome
profit by planting cotton on their acre-
age, and cotton being a staple product,
they could obtain spot cash for the
crop.
—In Germany a new process of color-
ing leather is being exploited. Here,
again, electricity is utilized. The
leather is placed upon a zinc table,
which forms the positive pole. The dye-
ing material is poured over this and
the negative pole connected with the
leather. Under the action of the cur-
rent the coloring matter penetrates the
leather and patterns may be designed
upon the surface by covering it with
a pattern plate connected to the nega-
tive pole.
BY A ROUNDABOUT ROUTE.
Course or a Mlsslonary's Letter from
Pitcalrn to Tahiti.
In the possession of one of the mis-
sionary party recently arrived from the
south seas on the Adventist vessel Pit-
cairn, is a letter which has an inter-
esting and unique history. It traveled
about 25,000 miles, while the distance
between the mailing point and its desti-
nation is but 1,200 miles, and it went
the most direct route possible and did
not miscarry at any stage of its jour-
ney. The travels of the letter sent
from Pitcairn island to Tahiti show,
as nothing else can, the complete iso-
lation of the little Pacific paradise
founded by John Adams. Tahiti is only
about six days’ sailfrom Pitcairn, and
is the source whence lovesick Pitcairn-
ers take their wives. Butletter-writing,
although it. forms an important part
of the courtship, is generally confined
to one letter, as when the answer is
received it is generally the arrival of
the bride. Except a small vessel or a
man-of-war consents tO'carry letters
between the two points, which oppor-
tunity rarely occurs, the only, remain-
ing hope is from a passing ship, bound
from San Francisco or Portland to Eu-
rope. A gentleman now residing in
Oakland was once deputed to carry the
Pitcairn mail from Tahiti, and he told
the story of how it was done:
“We left San Francisco in the ship
City of Hankow, and were'off Pitcairn
island on Christmas day. Only about
one ship makes the island, and as we
should lose no ground by waiting a
few hours we hove to and signaled to
Adams point. Then the two boats
Queen Victoria and Admiral Drew came
Of’C with two loads of vegetables. Gov.
McCoy also came off and asked us to
carry some letters to Tahiti. We rather
smiled at first, but when he produced
seven letters and told us that there
was no other way to send them we
consented, and after paying for our
fruit and vegetables we started on our
trip. Those letters were the cause of
a good deal of inconvenience. When
the captain landed at England he took
the letters ashore and went to the post-
master. Then he was informed that he
must make an affidavit and must apply
to the postmaster-general for 14 cents,
the tariff for carrying letters from
countries not in the postal union.
Eventually the letters were landed in
the Falmouth post. Office, after we had
carried them about 13,000 miles. From
Falmouth they went Southampton, and
were sent in the usual course of events
to New York, another 3,000 miles. Then
they crossed to San Francisco and
were put on board one of the Australian
steamers and put Off at the nearest
point to Tahiti, their destination. The
remainder of the journey was covered
with a small boat. In all, the letters
traveled a distance Of over 25,000 miles
and occupied four months and a half
en route.”—San Francisco Call.
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FOREIGI»
CHRISTINE NILSSON has just revisited
Sweden, after an absence of ‘eight
PERScA‘AL (ac-sale?"
years, to attend her nephew’s wedding. '
MR. STEAD wants to establish a baby
exchange, where those who have too
many children may dispose of them to
those who have too few.
M. DE PARIS, DIEBLER, the execution-
er, was recently before a Paris police ’
judge for libeling the wine sold by one
of his neighbors.
MR. ONSLOW Fonnf'the ‘sculptor, and
Mr. W. B. Richmond, the painter, have
just been elected to the Royal academy.
They were made associates in the same |
year. ‘I‘e‘g‘ '
MRS. LESTER, who recently shot her
husband in India, and was condemned
to ten years’ imprisonment, is a grand-
daughter of John Braham, the tenor,
and a niece of the famous countess of
Waldegrave. .
CARDINAL LEDOCHOWSKI, who bore
the brunt of the government persecu-
tion during the period of the Kultur-
kampf, is to celebrate his sacredotal
jubilee in a few days. The celebration
will be general throughout Germany
and Poland.
Two TWIN brothers in Paris, MM.
Jerome and Isidore Franck, recently
celebrated their eightieth birthday to-
gether. One of them wrote verses for
the occasion. They are brothers of the
late Adolphe Franck, the philosopher
and member of the Institute Of France.
THE list of lady knights of the Le-
gion of Honor has been swelled by the
name of Mme. Henry, the superin-
ten dent of the Paris Maternity hospital,
who owes the honor to the excellent
service she has done in the manage-
ment of that institution.
THREE persons were recently saved
from drowning at Hythe, England, by
the courage and skill of Miss Evans, a
girl of twently—one. A man, woman
and child were capsized in a boat near
the shore, and if Miss Evans had not
plunged into the water, clothed as she
was, they would not have been saved.
As THE English law officers are no
longer permitted to retain their private
practice, Sir Edward Clarke, who was
solicitor general in Lord Salisbury’s
last ministry, has refused to again take
the Office, though the salary is $30,000
and fees, averaging 812,000 a year, and
it is a sure step toward the lord chan-
cellorship.
SOLDIERS ON LAND AND SEA.
Tm: huge guns of modern Davies can
be fired only seventy-five times, when
they become worn out.
GOGGLES are now- supplied by the
British admiralty to the officers and
sailors serving on fast torpedo boats, as
the high speed has been found to be in-
jurious to the eyes. _ -:
TWENTY more thirty-knot torpedo
boat destroyers have been ordered by
the British admiralty. This. will give
England a flotilla of sixty-two destroy-
ers, with a minimum speed of twenty-
seven knots.
RETIRED colonels and majors were
among the more than a thousand appli-
cants for the place of hallkeeper to the
Armourers’ and Braziers’ company in
London, which was recently vacant.
The salary is $1,000 and $250 for extra
services.
HOLLAND is building three fast cruis-
ers [of nine thousand horse-power, in
which the boilers will be in part of the
ordinary tubular type, for cruising at
slow speeds, and in part Yarrow water-
tube boilers, to be used when excep-
tional speed is required.
PRESIDENT FAURE proposes to review
the troops on horseback at the Septem-
ber maneuvers, which no president
since MacMahon has done, Grevy, Car-
...not and Casimir-Perier having ridden
by in carriages. The chief of the pro-
tocol is trying to find out whether there
is any authority for a civilian presi-
dent’s so doing. 5 . . ”.1
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, ABOUT EU ROPE’S ARISTOCRACY.
l WITH the exception of the king of
. Denmark, Queen Victoria is the oldest
5 reigning sovereign of Europe. .
PRINCESS FEODORA of Saxe—Meinin-
ger, the oldest of Queen Victoria’s
great-grandchildren, is sixteen, and
[has just been confirmed. The queen
1 may be a. great-great-grandmother yet.
PRINCE OSCAR of Prussia, the young
son of the emperor, had his first tooth
. pulled the other day. It was the birth-
day of his English governess, and
among other presents he sent the tooth
to the lady as a gift.
WHILE a train was going at full speed
near Mollersdorf in Austria, a gust of
wind blew open a carriage door, and
the three-year-Old son Of Prince Alex—
ander of Solms fell out. The train was
stopped and the people who ran back
met the little thing running along the
track without a scratch.
COUNT DE Gosz, a great grandson
of Marshal Clarke, duke of Feltre, has
just passed, at the age of fifty, his ex-
amination as doctor of medicine. He
was formerly a. deputy, but on her
deathbed, five years ago, his wife
begged him to devote himself to the
care of the poor, and he at once began
to study medicine.
WHEN the empress of Austria takes
her daily walk of four or five
miles, she wears a short black dress
that does not reach the ankles. She
walks straight on wherever she'wishes
and her Greek teacher follows close
behind talking Greek or reading to
her. She has to get a. new teacher
every year. .
THE ISLAND KINGDOM.
THE royal plate at Windsor is valued
at over $10,000,000.
I PRINCESS has come to be commonly
pronounced with the accent on the sec-
ond syllable in England.
IN London now there are eleven dis-
trict post Offices, 101 branch offices and
877 town subofiices.
ANOTHER American word has been
appropriated by England. Truth prints
8. doggerel: ‘ can of the Mugwump.”
MOUNT COOK, the highest peak in
New Zealand, 13,632 feet high, has’just
been climbed for the first time.
A NEW order of members called
craftsmen is to be established by the
Royal Institute of British Architects,
to be selected from the artistic trades
closely connected with architecture.
SIR JOSEPH RENALS is the eighth lord
mayor of London to receive a baronetcy
in the last twenty years. The others
were all knighted except Lord Mayor
N ottage, who died early in his year of
office.
TECHNICALLY, any inhabitant of the
united kingdom is liable" to be called
upon to undertake the uncongenial
task of hangman. The salary. is one
, pound sterling a week as a retaining fee
and two pounds sterling after an exe-
cution. -
A MEMORIAL tablet has been placed
in the Church of St. Giles, Cripplegate,
commemorating the marriage of Oliver
Cromwell and the daughter of Sir
James Bourchier, which took place in
this church in 1620. It was here, too,
that John Milton wrs buried.
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