Sevenoaks Chronicle from Sevenoaks, Kent, England • 7

NOTES ON NEWS. Like his Is to revered mother, the Kinp has genuine love of the Highlands, and the few weeks which ho spends there every autumn are thoroughly enjoyed by him. On Monday, after spending a week with Lord Burton at Glonquoich. ho drove in a motor-car to Jnvergarry, and, after a long cross-country journey over no fewer than four railway systems, arrived at Balmoral in the evening. His Majesty was attired in the Highland costume that suits him so well, and it was the subject of general remark that he looked in the best of health and spirits.

He is expected to remain at his Highland seat until about October The Gibraltar of the East is the title that will be generally applied hereafter to Singapore. The increased importance of that colony is duo to the fact that the balance of power in the Far East has shifted since tho beginning of the Russo-Japanese War, and its strategic value lias consequently grown. The acquisitioo of tho docks of the Tanjong Pagar Company by the Government will ensure a plentiful supply of coal for the British Fleet, and it would absurd to regard it as a menaces to any other nation. This little island, twenty-seven miles in length and fourteen in breadth, is the key of the Far East, and it is from this centre that British naval supremacy in Eastern seas must be maintained. Tho three great British squadrons belonging toChinose, East Australian waters will in future meet once a year here for joint roanceuvres, a fact which must greatly enhance the importance of the port as a naval base.

Nearly one hundred petitions against the ratification of the Peace Treaty have been presented to the Emperor of Japan. It would appear that though the outward manifestation of hostility to the treaty has subsided, there is a deep-seated opposition to the termination of the war under the conditions which have been imposed. Bat the loyalty of the Japanese people to the person of the Emperor is so thorough that in a short time these hostile feelings will disappear, and the national spirit of Japan return to ita normal state. A terrible occurrence, reminding one of the Lefroy murder of nearly a quarter of a century ago. has taken place in the Merstham Tunnel on the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway.

The body of a woman fearfully mutilated was discovered in the tunnel, but nothing that would lead to her Immediate identity was found upon her. The opinion of the police and the medical men is that she was gagged and thrown from a passing train. Up to the time of writing no solution of the mystery had been found. The death of M. Cavaignac, formerly the French Minister of War, removes a conspicuous figure from Parisian political life.

In England he is chiefly remembered for the part he played in the famous Dreyfus affair. Ho took up a strong attitude against the revision of the case and firmly believed in the guilt of the prisoner until, we suppose, proof was forthcoming that the documents incriminating Captain Dreyfus were shown to be forgeries. The Electrical Exhibition, which was opened by the Lord Mayor of London at Olympia on Monday, is the most important exhibition of ita kind which has over been held in thia country. Every branch of this growing power, and domestic shown. Nearly the whole of the exhibits are of British manufacture, although some of the best firms of the Continent and America are also represented.

The possibilities of electricity as a cooking medium are exemplified, and prizes are offered for the best completely fitted kitchen. The Institution of Electrical Engineera ia taking an interest on the educational side, and has arranged for a series of popular scientific lectures and demonstrations by leading members. The exhibition is a demonstration of the enormous strides made by this science during the last few years, and as such is full of interest and instruction. The women inspectors of the Board of Education have sent in some valuable reports regarding children under five years of age in public elementary schools. There is complete unanimity among the inspectors that children between the ages of three and five get practically no intellectual advantage from school instruction, and that the mechanical teaching in many infant schools seems to dull rather than awaken the little power of imagination and independent observation which these infants possess.

Children say what they think the teacher would like them to say if asked to draw anything they like, they attempt the reproduction of some school copy previously set; the wearisome iteration of the same work makes them all of one pattern; they become apathetic the actual knowledge acquired is not beneficial. The children admitted later can in six months or a year reach the same standard of attainment as those who have been in the school for two years previously. This is only what might be expected. A brain takes seven years to develop, and positive harm is done by trying to cram too much into it before that time. The evil is caused by indolent mothers who are glad to got their children taken off their hands for the greater part of the day.

The survivors of the siege of Lucknow grow fewer and fewer each year. Only ten sat down to the annual dinner held last Monday in commemoration of the relief of Lucknow by Generals Havelock and Outram, three being representative of the garrison and seven of the relieving force. General Sir Digby Barker, who occupied the chair, was an ensign in the 78th Highlanders in the Mutiny. He referred with gratification to the speech delivered by the Duko of Connaught in connection with the great Volunteer review recently held by the King in Edinburgh, when, addressing the Indian Mutiny and Crimean veterans then paraded, and congratulating them on the long and honourable record of service, he added that army of to-day is striving worthily to uphold the traditions which you have handed down to Such a tribute, said Sir Digby, seemed to justify, if justification wore needed, their continuing to keep alive the memory of one part, and a not unimportant part, of those traditions. Their numbers yearly dwindled, and it was sad to read the many notifications ho received of inability to be present owing to age and infirmity, but all sending kindly greetings and showing continued interest in the com- The Czar has at last wakened to the fact thst the only hope for future lies in a wellconsidered scheme of constitutional government.

The first step towards that end was taken on the 25th September, when the first political congress representing the whole of Russia assembled in Moscow. The tone and self-restraint of the Assembly is a good omen for the future. It was resolved to actively participate in the elections to the national Duma, which is shortly to be convoked, and to utilise the Government scheme in order to win civic rights and personal liberty. When the Russians see that the)r can win their own freedom in a constitutional manner it is certain that they will no longer resort to the bombs and daggers of the assassin. A serious defect in the Unemployed Act has been discovered by a lady member of the West Ham Hoard of Guardians.

It is that no provision of any kind is made for unemployed women, its benefits being entirely confined to men. In various localities a considerable number of widows and spinsters have recorded their distressed condition owing to want of work, and many more are suffering silently without making their needs known. It is to he hoped that the Act will be so amended as to include women within its scope, as it obviously was not tho intention of Parliap ment to exclude them from its benefits. Knocked down by the Yarmouth express as he was crossing the Midland line at Syston, near Leicester, on Tuesday. Mr.

Burrow, of Rempstone, Loughborough, was instantly killed. An objection to the vote of Peter Marsh was withdrawn at Rotherhithe when it woe stated he took part in the Balaclava Charge. STRANGE AND WONDERFUL The Origin of There has been much curiosity to the origin of the name At last someone has come forward with an answer to this question which may be pure invention or truth, but at any rate sounds plausible, in the early days, wlien doctors used strenuous methods and medicines in the cure of disease, there was a habit among them of treating certain diseases of the throat with a pleasant liquid, which was applied by the tip of a long featlier plucked from a tail. In course of time this remedy came to be used ns a gargle, still retaining its old name. During the course of its evolution the gargle gained most of the present sugar, bitters, and so it became the highly esteemed beverage of to-day.

Ancient Cuniform. Whether it the humblest piece of domeetic cars lien ware or the highest artistic effort of die porcelain it still clay that forms the which the potter works. enjoyed a etill wit ancient Awtyriaiuj of clay of paper or ekin ol vellum. Line upon line of arrowheaded writing was impressed upon tlie clay and the tablet thus inscribed baa come down to us aa an almost imporiahablo monument of literary and hurtoitoal iiutereet. White Cross on Russian Standards.

There is a pretty story of tho reason why the croaa on a blue field is the Ruesian naval standard. When Peter the Groat woe at a ahip yard near Amsterdam, where he spent some months gaining a practical knowledge of shipbuilding, bo became very intimate with a clever workman named Cruys. Before leaving be revealed his name and station to his comrade, and prevailed upon him to return with him to Russia. The plane for the firet ships for the Russian navy were drawn by Cruys, and Peter, to show his appreciation of this'act, made him an admiral, and ordered that the navy should thenceforth carry a special flag with a white cross upon it. to perpetuate the memory of hie humble friend.

Cruye is the old Dutch word for eroea. Milkweed Blossoms. One of the jurat sin in the world. not generally known, in the familiar milkweed blossom. The bloom attracts the flics -'V' fn great numbers from a great distance, to imprison them.

The peculiar gluey HT-ture ot the flowers quickly entangles the and from its embrace there is no escape. One these fly traps, with a number of its is shown in the accompanying illustration. New Drink Cure. The authorities in Norway have discovered a novel way of curing drunkenness. The is placed under lock qud key.

and hw nourishment coneisto in great part cl bread soaked in port wine. The first day the drunkard oats his food with pleasure, and even on the second day he enjoys it. On the third day he finds that it is very monotonous, on the fourth day he becomes impatient, r.nd at the end of eight days he receives the wine with horror. It seems that the diegust increased, and that this cure gives good results. The Rear Ead Collision.

The accident which the cf railroads are especially anxious over is the end collision. Several railroadu recently have adopted a new device which is intended to protect passengers against of injury in the event of such an accident. The device consifite of steel frame some four in length and the height of an ordinary car. The frame, which is nothing more than an exceedingly powerful spring, is fastened on to the buffers of the rear end car, projecting nhrut three feet beyond it. It is estimated that if engine running at the rate of fifty miles nn hour came against this frame the for of the impact would bo sufficiently broken to prolo.

the rear end of the car from being telescoped and the would suffer no greater inconvenience than a severe shaking. Novel Advertising Method. Not oven the deserts of the Orient escape (he commercial eye of the clever advertiser. Novelty is. of course, the foundation of success in this Une'of busings, and one of the most enter, prising members of the proftesion is shown in the photograph herewith.

He is a commercial traveller whoee business takes him across ihe African desert and over some of the routes followed by tourists. Of course the journey niurit be made on a camel, so tihe wide-awake drummer hit upon the scheme of hanging largo advertisements cm his of the Why Heat Reddens the Face. The effect of radiated heat on the nerces which control tho small blood vessels of the skin makes the fnco flush. Those tiny verselu, which are normally in a state of moderate contraction, under exposure to the heat'relax ard become distended with blood. In regard In exposure to direct Heat the reddenin'' of skin, together with tho uncomfortably warm feeling accompanying it.

may be looked unon as one of tho useful "dancer signals" by which wo are surrounded. When from ary cause a person has lost this susceptibilly, as in forms of paralysis, he may expose a limb to heat until serious injury results. The face flushes when near tho fire because it is dire-lly exposed to the rays of heat, while most of tbo body is protected by tho clothing. the nerves of the face are particularly sensitive, and tho skin there is most abundantly supplied with blood vessels. never argue with silly when they agree with me I feel sorry for them, and when they do agree I feel sorry for myself.

Do you believe it is true that men of geniim never make good husbands, Mr. it not quite for me to say. Better lU able to tell Meddler: say, it extraordinary bow much the know about the Peddler Grimlej bought parrot! CURRENT SPORT. Moron Racing. According to telegram from Miueola.

Long Island, the start in the elimination trials for the Vanderbilt Cup Rato look plate at half past five on Saturday morning in the prceeuce of thousands of spectators. The couiuo was uue of 113 miles. A. L. CO hone-power 11..

by B. Dingey, wae first away, amid the cheers of the crowd. The lirwt mishap occurred to R. 11. 40 horse-power car.

driven by Waiter While, which was forced to stop twice by a breakdown in machinery, and afterwards left the course. 40 horse-power car turned turtle at a dangerous turn, where cinders and sand had been spread to prevent skidding. Jardine, who watt steering, approached the short turn at full speed. The machinist jumped, and Jardine was able to shut off the power before lie was pitched out. Neither man was injured, and with the assistance of the bystanders the machine was righted, and the steering gear straightened.

The car then resumed the race. The accident caused only Sinin. delay. 00 horse-power car finished first, but hie 90 horse-power car broke ilrt frame, and wae withdrawn. PalmerVi Matlieson car, and Franklin car did not finish.

The following five cars have qualified to take part in the race for the Vanderbilt Cup; Pope-Toledo (2hr. Omin. Dr. Locomobile (2hr. Imin.

Ed. (2hr. 19min. Haynes (2hr. 23min.

and (2hr. 29mio. SEVENOAKS CHKONICLE AND BEPTEMBER 29 1905. Angling. The principal rivers on Saturday were low and clear, and greatly in need of heavy rain from an angling point of view.

In spite of the bright water, however, the Thames continues to yield sport, and in the Old Windsor district four anglers between them have caught 114)lb. of barbel. Excellent roach have been basketed at a number of stations in the Thames Angling Preservation waters, including two at Richmond, scaling lib. 9oz. and 11b.

Boz. A golden carp of 4ilb. has been caught in this part of the Thames. As many ns one hundred gudgeon have been secured in a few fishing nt Marlow. Satisfactory baskets have been made on the tributary Colne at Wravsbury, Uxbridge, and Rickmansworth, a fly fisherman getting some chub up to 41b.

at the last-named station. Roach heavy as IJlb. have been caught in the Stour at Grove Ferry, Kent, and these fch and pike and bream have been landed by anglers visiting the Sussex Ouse. Arun. and Cuckmere.

A bream of 51b. has been taken in an upper reach of the Yare (Norfolk). A fine pike of 231b. hae been captured in the Herefordshire Wye. United States Golf.

For the third year in succession, and the fourth time in all, the open golf championship of the United States has been won by Willie Anderson, a North Berwick player, who settled down in America some five or six years ago. and who is now professional to the Apawamis Club, of Rye. New York. This, the eleventh annual competition for the championship, took place on the links of the Myopia Hunt Club, at Hamilton score for 72 holes was 314 strokes. W.

J. Travers, of New York, the British amateur es-champion. played well, and totalled 325 only eleven strokes worse than Anderson on the four rounds. Cycling. Twenty thousand spectators witnessed the meeting held by the London Centro of the National Union at the Crystal Palace on Saturday.

The final heat of the Turner Cup contest resulted in the Putney A.C. defeating the holders, Paddington C.C., by points to 25J. The Ten Miles London Centre Championship was won by A. E. Wills, Putney A.C.; a Quarter-mile Handicap by H.

T. Johnson, Putney A.C. (42 yards start); and a Half-Mile Handicap by Morisctti. Italian C.C. (60 yarde).

Football. There were several surprises in tlw? League matches on Saturday, chief of which wtus the vie. torv of Derby County at Newcastle by Munchenter City won at Bury, and Sheffield Wedne-clay brought back two points from Preston. had to concede one of the points to Blackburn Rovers, but in every other caeo victory rested with the home team. Aston Villa and Sheffield United both showed fine form, and it ui quite evident that struggle for premier honours will prove close and exciting.

Woolwich Arsenal were unfortunate in having three of their players injured at Stoke. In the Second Division, Bristol City stored a victory and the two London clubs escaped defeat, Chelsea beating West Bromwich Albion, and Clapton Orient making a draw with Chesterfield. In the Boutuern League, Miliwall, Plymouth Argyle, end Bristol Rovers share the top petition. Yachting. The season finished both at Burnham and Pori Victoria on Saturday.

At the former place a Handicap under five tons was sailed over the Roach-Crecksea course, and for this Mimosa 111., at scratch, Tulip, Lona, and Edith went in a. hard, easterly wind. Mimosa had the beet of the send-off, and really led all round, but she failed to take the prize, as Lona w-ns only lOmin. astern of her at the finish, and thus won by a minute. Edith gave np near the end.

The R.C.Y.C. one-designers. Nora, Malista, Jolexah, and Ohi, went twice round the Stoke Shoal and Stone Bank bu at Port Victoria in a strong easterly breoza. Very shortly after a good start Nora ami Malista the race to themeelvee. Nora beating her opponent by just under half a minute Dotterell w.s third, Jolexob fourth, and Olu gave up.

For once in a way Rugby overshadowed Association football in Biiatol; and tlwit wae on Saturday, when the New Zealanders were the lions. Bui it was ordinary football that won witnessed. It was not a match, in the ordinary acceptation of tlfe term it was rather a display often exeHtoig, intereating tHroughout, but one-sided. Bristol had out their team available, but minus Lamond on the three-quarter line, and with a couple of striplings at half. They were not expected to hold their own against tactics, against the irresistible rushes of the impetuous Colonials; nor did they.

They had spells of aggressive work, it is true, but they were outplayed, outroaiKeuvrcd and their downfall was decisive. The scores the finish standing New Zealanders 41 points, Bristol 0. A 36 holes match has just been decided on the Seoford Club's links, between James Braid of Walton-heath, the open champion, and Tom Yeoman, of Seaford. After Yeoman had stood 5 up at the end of the first round and 4 up with 6to piny, an exerting contest was halved. Braid bad not seen the course for seven yeans, mid his lack of knowledge til the links doubtless affected his play.

Football. In the Western League Fulham beat Portsmouth by 1 goal to 0, and by the same score Bristol Hovers overcame the at Tottenham, while Mill wall defeated Headiug by 2 to 0. Stao Hunt Disbanded. At a general meeting of suljscribers of the East Surrey Stag Hunt, held at Epsom on Monday evening, the recommendation of a meeting held a few weeks ago that hunt should bo wound up was unanimously confirmed. Among tho reasons which have contributed to the disbanding of the hunt has been the manner in which the country hunted over has been invaded by the builder.

The bunt has existed for about a quarter of a century. Newcastle after Rowlandson. The Newcastle United F.C. directors have given Ihe usual forty-eight notice to the signature of T. S.

Rowlandson, one of the present Sunderland goalkeepers. As Rowlandson in an amateur, Sunderland will have no other alternative than to let him go to Newcastle should be prefer to do eo. In Sunderland. however, it is hoped that the connection between the well-known amateur and Sunderland will remain unbroken. Should Rowlandson accept the invitation to assist Newcastle ho is certain of a permanent place in the team, and this Sunderland could not guarantee.

between persons who have previously been divorced can no longer be solemnised in toe Anglican in Canada. This definite decision was arrived at on Heptember 9 at Anglican General Synod at Quebec. From January 1 to August 31 3525 men applied for work at the St. iTuu-ras labour and employment was fouod for 1007. EPITOME OF NEWS.

The New South Wales Parliament haa approved a contract with the Clyde Engineering Company fur the construction of enty locomotives at £7l 13e. per ton, delivery to be made within seveu-aud-a-half years. The value of the exports from the Orange River Colouy, during me year ended Juno luot, amounted to 1.2,2tt3,u25, au increase oi £858,395. The imports amounted to a decrease of £590,323. Clay pipes are still in great demand, no fewer than being turned out of the Wyndhamcrescent factory at Cardiff the other week.

Several large timber piles, the remains apparently of an old coffer-dam, which were exposed under Loudon Bridge hy recent low tiues, have been removed, being regarded as a menace to navigation. 'lhe rector vf Uggeshall, Suffolk, on some Loweetoit going there lor church parade, elated that there was no record of any soldiers having visited the village since Cromwell's dragoons stabled their horses in tho place. in a matrimonial case heard at Preston, Lilian May kales, a teacher of swimming, told tne magistrates that since marrying her husband in 189U she hod been separated irum him five tunes. Au unemployed ex-commercial traveller from West ilam has gone to Liphook, Hums, to act as a domestic servant. As a goods train was paosing through Kent House railway bunion (b.E.

and c.R.), a tmrtv-six gallon beer barrel fell off a truck and up the platform at a great rate. It eventually stopped at the refreshment-room, doing a little damage to the wall. Goodt rams have talleo over the greater part of the coast and tableluud of bouth Wales, promising a good spring, and a good butter export. lu Java there is au orchid all the flu were which open at once, as if by the stroke of a wand, and they also all wither together. For every persons, England has 150 medical men, Germany 48, Switzerland 4-, and Russia In.

received by ibe Inland Revenue uutborilies for Uie year i904-o ciuounted to iUi. Id. Great heat has prevailed in Houmania for more tnau a muulu, and no rain has lallen. 'lhe maize crop prodpecm have now gieaiiy IcsteseiKii, and tire Government has extended tUe prohibition of the export of maize from October without fixing a date for its withdrawal. A staircase taken from a sixteenth century house at Oogethurpe, in process ot demolition, wan bold at urowood price to a I'elerborougn dealer, who has renovated it and resold it at a handsome proht to an American for erection in bis mansion.

An Aberystwyth porter on the Cambrian Railway put some pigs in a truck containing lime. On arrival at Birmingham they were frightfully burnt, and many were blind, lie won sentenced to three hard labour. Japan has given contract for 7,400 tuna of bridge bteei to the American Bridge Company for me Imperial Railways and the Keifu Hallway. Committed for trial on a charge of bigamy, Arthur Howe, aged- forty, at -North Loudon, pleaded that it was hie urst offence. Four gigantic movable tips, nearly twenty yards higu, are being erected to facilitate the work on new dock, wuicii will probably be opened next March.

It is understood that November 3 is the day fixed lor the hearing of the application for the diocharge from bankruptcy oi kirb. Brown- Potter, the well-known actress. Five hundred fewer labourers than in September, 1904, are now employed in one department alone at Chatham Dockyard. passed without a single funeral, and now August has left us, and we have had onlyone funeral during that says the Edward Husband, in reference to the healthiness of Folkestone, in Michaels parish Book-publishing and magazine-printing are to bo carried on in tho interests of the blind at Asylum, Manchester, where a printing prebs on the Braillo system being experiment in introducing billiards at local institute of Uhe Young Christian Association nab been a great success, and other towns are following its example. So ill became a Leeds boy who fell into the River Airo and swallowed some of me inky water that he had to be given an emetic.

In six hours the four members of the crew of a Hytlne lugger lauded 9000 mackerel, muh they sold for 12s. in Folkestone market. Ncgoliatjona are in says an Exchange Perwi telegram, for the amalganiMion of tno UlghLami and Great Jsortu ol ftcotlaud Railway Companies. Bearing the name of the gunboat Bother, a Wmieneud torpeOo, wuJa tue calcium light wae wabtlied at Heme Bay. New of the recently-formed Dickeaa Fellowauip Dramatic Ciuiu include Mr.

Arthur Bouncer, Mr. Hare, Mr. Seymour Hi els, and Mr. H. Beerbohm Tree.

Prabably unbeaten in poor-law annals is the record of Mary Arm 1 na-urher, who entered tuo Tonbridge Workhouse in 1836, and the ratepayers £lOO2 during 24,123 days, bhe has just died. A determined attempt at suicide in front of an electric tramcar at Worcester was frustrated by the cow-catcher, which automatically shut down and pushed him aside. Never since tomatoes were first cultivated have they been sold so cheaply as now. smooth-grown have been sold as low as twopence per pound, and hundreds of baskets from the Omanuel Islands and France have only fetcued Ud. per pound.

For carrying, last Bank Holiday, 131 passengers in excess of the 1369 permitted by Jus certificate, the master of the Steam Navigation steamer Eagle has been fined £lO at the Mansion House. Holme Cullnun (Cumberland) parishioners having oujcoted to the churchyard being turned into a sheep run, the practice of grazing there is to be discontinued, and Uie revenue therefrom is to bo met by aunual subscriptions. All the legal papers in support of the appeal for a reduction of sentence passed on Miss Florence Doughty for eiiiooliug at Mr. Swan, a West-end sokc.tor, and ills sou, have now been sent to Uie Home Secretary, and an early reply is expected. Out of fifteen jurors called for St.

Pan eras Court, unrew sent medical ccrwucates and four wrote stating they were out of town. The twelve had to be mads up from gentlemen passing outside the court. Failure of the brakes to act during the descent of Kirkstone Pats, in the Lake district, resulted in a motor-car. containing a gentleman and three ladies, being wrecked against a wa-i ml the foot of the Ambieisido elope. None of tihe party was hunt.

Id a teet caao Uic slipendiary decided ihiu. of tlie crew of Oioliaxnia, destroyed by tlio Hufaian fleet off Formosa on May 18, was entitled to I rum that date to Ins arrival in England on Sopterobor 14, but not to furuner there wan no affirmative that the owners of were carrying contraJlrand of war. King of Spain will probably go to Vienna in November. Eight hundred houaes have been destroyed at Kaahihir. during a great con ling ration.

For robbing nine emuid-buye, a man named LlcweUvn was at West London ordered labour. man would a boy to an add rinsed boaring a monogram to a and wwudxl induc'd the lad to leave das wmdi or money for bid faonedty until he returned. A clerk, named Ooldslein, employed by Woolf Perks, an iron manufacturer in province of Lok'uoff, Rusdia, alleged to have absconded to England with JCnh. master personally tracked him to London, and finally ran him down in Brick-lane, Hpitwffields, and gave him into custody. Goldstein wae remanded at Worshipstreet.

A Saxony of 1851 was sold at the auction rooms, Argyll-street, for JCoti. Fortyseven paid for ned-and-oiue owiny Britirti Central African stamp, and £3B for an 1861 Cape of Good penny blue The anniversary of the bottle of the Alma was celebrated at Aldershot with great ceremony by the Notts and Derby Regiment (tlie old 95in Regiment), who formed part of brigade in the on the POPULAR SCIENCE. Rfmarkable Railway. An uphill railway, perhaps the mo rematkable in the world, the Croyo in IVru. runs Iroai Calao to the cf L'eno tie Pasco.

From Calltfo it aseei-ds the narrow valley of the Rimac, rising marly 5.000 ft. in the fiivu lifty-six miks. Theme it goes through toe intricate gorges of tlie sierras nit it tun.v is the Auden at an altitude of 15,645 the highoet point in the world where a pinion-rod is moved by Mean). The wonder is increased by mbering that this elevation uach-d eight inilea. A New Soldering Bit.

An electrically heated soldering I t. to be? the equivalent of a Jib. copper bit, i- taehed for use to the ordinary clcvtuc light ewstem, and is said to be ready in minute point to be heated is very email, and host is concentrated at the tip. Ihe tool will maintain a uniform heat, as long it tonuocied with the source of current, without its tinned surface, llie expense of lining hem corwiderably Icee. say the manufacturers, th.

the usual cost of operating gas furnac lii slamlard voltages required for tho niatlr.nes range from 100 to 230. and tools are wound suit all voltages betwr-eo thepe s. Ihe shell of the heater Jin. in diamcier, and the copper ripe are readily renewable. Photographing in the Air Our illustration, taken from Mr.

R. hook depicts the r. ks that have to be undertaken in securing photographs of wild fowl. Few people have any idea of the amount of pari on oe and physical enduranca necessary for eueh a task. It reqtrircH an emhu biaum which hide defiance to danger, and a paeeion of such intensity an to be insensible to sufTeriiig of the meet acute character.

The Polarity of Magnets. An electro-magnet in its commercial sense is a bar of soft iron which may bo straight, but ta more commonly bent in the shape of a horse shoe and rendered temporarily magnetic by having wound around it a coil of wire through which an electric current is flowing. The wire composing the coil must be wound in opposite directions around the limbs or straight portions of a horseshoe magnet, to produce poles of opposite polarity at the ends. Owing to a definite existing between the directional flow of the current around the magnet and the resultieg polarity, the latter is readily ascertained if the former be known. When the current trace's around the core or limbs of a magnet in the direction taken normally by the hands of a clock, the north pole will at the further from the observer, leaving tlie south pole at the nearer end.

Governing a Gab Enoinr, A method of governing a engine automatically by varying the relative proportions of and air to suit the particular calorific value of the gas ie to cause the flame of the gas to heat a metal rod. The expansion of the rod vnriew according to the intensity of the flame, and it effects the regulation of the and air butterfly valves by means of laiytongs and multiplying lever arrangement. Bv an alternative method tlie flame is made to affect the electrical resistance of a wire, the chance of accomplishing the same purpose'by electrical means. In about Two Hons. In how ehort a time a tree can be converted into a newspaper waa tried recently.

At 7.35 a.in. three were felled and taken to a local paper factory. By 9.34 the first sheet pf pajer issued from the machines. The printing works of the nearest newspaper were about two mil distant. The paper was carried there in a motorcar at 41 speeo, the presses to work, and exactly at 10 a.m.

the neweuaper was ready printed. The whoio process from the forest to the reader thus only occupied the space of two hours and twenty-five minutes. A Hailstone In the year 1899 ravaged large nortion of tW western districts of France. The shattered the roofs as well as the windows of the houses, knocked off the branches of the trees, devastated the cultivated fields, wounded and killed living animals feeding on ths pastures. Capt.

Delcrcse bad sections cut of some of the remarkable and characteristic of the stones that fell, and lie found that they consisted of of compact white and opaque ice enclosed within eases of clear crystals. A New Train Stopper. A new train-stopping device provided on the cars of the Brooklyn elevated electric radwav. Two valves are inserted in tho train line of the air-brake system, one at each end of the car. and cords of a bright blue colour extend from each valve along the opposite of the car beneath the ventilator, windows, and out under the hood.

By the pulling of one of these cords the brakes will bring the train to stop within two train lengths, this action being facilitated by the arrangement of multipleunit control system, which automatically shuts off current to the motors when the brakes are applied. The system of r-afety-brake cords permits a passenger to stop the train in of impending danger without waiting to com in uni cate with the guard or motor-man, and it says much for Ihe intelligence of the Americnu public that the Traction Company have gone to the trouble to install this system. The Affinity of Inflammables Gaol, petroleum, and illuminating ore related to one another much an are u-e. water, and For thin rraeon, perfect combustion of liquid fuel is already advanced a long otep vaporisation, ice is advanced towards steam when turned into water. Tin- volatile elements of coal are looked up in the so.in form or virtually frozen solid.

The Moon in Action. In an article recently published in Mr. W. 11. Pickering affirms his conviction that physical changes occur in the moon, notwilhstanding that are of opinion that the planet in a cinder on which nothing Mr.

Pickering points out that surveys taken in IH7O. IHBI. IWfcf, ami I1K)I have all shown about forty cratwleis. but on each occasion the appearance of new ones and disappearance of others previously known to exist have had to be noted. to erosion taking place, fairly conspicuous evidences of it exist on the central peaks of 'Hieophilua and but the eroded valleys are small, and it good atmospheric to observe The only strong evidence that water ever existed of moon lio- in dry river-beds, of which the writer men.icc© CHASE AT TEE Z.KJ.

Apollo. ihe new orangoutang at the Zcological OurtkrKd, has given his keepers a had quarter ui an hour by taking au unuuthorihed stroll. lie was shut up in the basement, in his sleeping compartment, but discovering that tho slidaig door could be mauipulaud item msiue, bo opened and escaped. He was subsequently found under the roof on tiie wire top tu the cages in the House, having climbed a ladder to get there. A keeper walked gingerly the wire netting, and after euurt secured the runaway.

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At a public auction sale in Swindon, a house off one of the main streets, now occupied, was sold for £lO. The properly is leasehold, and is held for a term of ninety-nine years expiring in 1961. MEASURING TURBINE POWER. A method of measuring turbine power hat been invented by Mr. Johnson, of Messrs.

Denny and Brothars, Dumbarton. All that cau yebe done is to specify power equivalent to so much horse power as developed by reciprocity machinery, though the horse power of the turbine is nut capable of exact measurement in the same way. The new instrument measures by electrical means the torsion of the shaft over a certain length. The Admiralty have been recently trying the instrument on a turbine destroyer, and if the results promise well, it may be tried on the Amethyst, the turbine third-clast cruiser. MOTORING POSSIBILITIES.

Mr. R. L. Jefferson started from Coventry recently on his journey by motor-car to Cou stantiuopie, special permission having been obtained to drive an automobile in the Ottoman Empire, lie re motoring has hitherto beer banned. The object of the journey is to obtain infer mation upon the conditions affecting motoring or the possibilities of motoring in Boutherr Europe.

The car ig of atandard type with ar engine. The body only ie of special cou and fitted with a folding canopy. REMARKABLE CELEBRATION. A wedding has been celebrated at St. Augua tine's Church, Highbury New Park, uudet very interesting circumstances.

The bride was Miss Ethel Mizen, the daughtei of Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Mizen, of Aberdeenroad, who were married on September 21, just twenty-five years ago. Mrs.

parents were also married or the same date fifty years ago. All three were present at the church among a host ol friends, and after the wedding ceremony a recep tion was held. SPECTACLES. Indignation at the methods pursued at Marylebone Workhouse in connection with the treatment of defective eyesight is increasing, and already there are signs ol coming reform in the matter. Spectacles no longer appear iu the contract, but they will still continue to be bought from an ironmongery firm in East London.

Alderman Thomas, the Chairman of the Committee, thinks, however, that both system and supply need radical alteration, and he will heartily support reform. 2,000,000 LIBRARY. BIG FRENCH SCHEME. Some time ago many artists and of produced a scheme for building an open-air amphitheatre on the site formerly occupied by the Palace of the Tuileriea. The plane were shown at the late Salon.

They received a considerable measure of public approbation. But there is a rival scheme in the field. It has strong support. And, quite possibly, it may be successful. It is to build a new National Library on the site.

The existing buildings in the Rue Richelieu, vast as they are, are filling up. The architect in charge says he is within measurable distance of the day when there will be no room for another book, print, or MS. The French National Library is much larger than that of the British design of which seems to have suggested the plan recommended by M. Bouchot, keeper of the department of prints and drawings in the Bibliothcque Nationale. This plan comprises a central dome, from the walls of which two wings would be constructed, to meet, at right angles, the two wings of tba Lcuvre.

The old Louvre, its wings, and ths new Bibliothcque would thus form a vast oblong enclosing the Place du Carrousel and its adjoining gardens. Beneath the dome there would be a central circular reading-room, resembling the magnificent room of the British Museum, but five times larger! The circular part of the new buildings would contain the printed The wings would be reserved for prints, and drawings. With the Museum and Galleries of the Louvre, the Bibliothfcqoo would unite, on one site, the literary and the artistic treasures of France. M. Bouchot estimates that the new library would cost two millions sterling.

AN UNKNIOHTLY MOVE. A proposal was made at the annual meeting of the Southport Chess Club, that ladies be admitted to membership. Mr. Davies feared that ladies would suggest chess dances In winter and chess picnics iu summer. Another member, Mr.

Knowlson. sakl that men were a chicken-hearted lot if the presence of ladies drove them from chess. Mr. Davies asked whether the expression was in order. it said the chairman.

was onlv meant in the Pickwickian proposal was rejected by the casting vote of the chairman. AN EXTRAORDINARY SIGHT. could imagine no more extraordinary sight than waa presented the other evening by Park Row, tho Fleet-street of New York, when a excited sea of faces gazed up feverishly at two queer dummy figures actuated by a wire 3.000 miles in length, mid reaching to the shores of the Pacific, where a great prize-fight wae in progress with a fortune of depending on a knockout blow. It was held at Colma, a suburb of Ban Francisco. Outside the New York building in Park Row a big man shouted a record of the fight, round by round, using a monstrous megaphone for the purpose, and in the office behind him professional pugilists were peeing for photograpta in the next paper.

Picture postcardn of the chief features at the Zoological Gardens have becu in cousiderauiC demaud recently, iu August postcarua were sold in the Zoo aloue. The Princess of Wales baa sent a box of heather to be sold at ft sale of work to be held at BU Club, Peckbam Rye, iu aid of the cricket section of the club. Captain Tryon, eon of the late Admiral Tryon, who was on tbe Victoria when she sank iu the Mediterranean, bae been adopted as the Unionist candidate for Brighton. Colonel Bir C. Leslie, C.8., who served with distinction in the Chin-Looshui, Manipur, and Cbitral expeditions, is about to retire on an Indian pension under tbe age regulation.

CYCLISTS BODY FOUND. The bod jof Mr. Paisley, who haa bees BUMiog aiocc the end of July, baa been discovered near Heidelberg, aaya a Berlin message. Tbn marks of wounds on the body pointed to murder, and the proprietor of tba Bierheldcr Hof, an inn, and the) boota at the Hotel Kheingold, where' Mr. Heid had been staying before his disappearance, bare been arrested on suspicion of Ueiog earned in the crime.

COURT AS DRESSING ROOM. A defendant in the Maidcdoue Counly-i out 4, who disputed liability for a suit of clothes by a local tailor to hie order, on the ground that il was a mistiit, wad ordered by Judge Emdeu to put the duit ou, so that he might see for Defendant obeyed the order without leaving and htd honour, nronoumu aim a bad fit, tire claim. TOUTING FOR FUNERALS Preston and District Funeral Furnislu.m* Association, foremd with the object of vatiug ihe trade to a higher standard, and dwcouraging, amongst other things, tooting for funerals, has arranged a scries of id social gatherings. Only eight persons, however, atteuded the inaugural lecture, entitled In the Libraries of in which Mr. Rigbye described the graves of notabilities mid gave a selection of epitaphs divided mlo sentimental and humorous sections.

ROMANTIC POET. A new scftDdti is much talked about at Romo, the boro of which is famous and monti brilliant poet, Gabriele Ho.po uiouths ago it was said that he to mairy Higoora Carlotti, the widowed daughter of great ex-MinisUr, Rudiui. The couple spent such great sums of money that the relations oC Signora dead demanded a declaration by law of her irresponsibility, and had her fortune put under an administrator. It is now stated that Signor has gone to Switzerland and adopted Swits nationality, as lie desires to divorce his wife, which no cannot do as qb Italian. Roman society is much excited ever the romance and anxious toaeo how it will end.

ROUMANIA IN TROUBLE. The strained relations which have for aomo time cxixtod between Greece and Roumania bare resulted in the rupture of diplomatic relations. The Greek Minister has left Bucharest, and the Roumanian Minister has left Athena. For some time there has been a strong popular feeling in Roumaaia against Greece, and this culminated in the burning of the Greek flag at Ghirgero by a Roumanian mob. Moreover, an attack was recently made on shops kept hr Greeks in Bucharest, and in the riot several Greeks were injured.

No satisfaction could bn obtained for these outrages from the Roumanian Government. Henry Collins, a farmer, of Elmley Lovett, Worcestershire, accounted to tht official receiver at the Worcester Bankruptcy-court for an item of £B5 for beer and spirits by explaining that he gave whisky to a sick cow as medicine and gin to a calf for fattening purposes. H.R.H. the Duke of Connaught left Devooport on the cruiser Monmouth for the Sully Isles. Charged with having detained sixty postal packets.

George Light, an ex-rural postman, was remanded at Chepstow. Rev. R. J. Campbell, of the City Temple, will retire from the editorship of the at the end of the year.

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