4 & a DIS NOW Took Over Zanzibar "Pemb in Return for the 'Island. d, the Kaiser's special yy, has recently been sit. from his Imper- accompanied, as usual, suite. It is solely due ror's far-sightedness strategist, say the Ger- t they, instead of Great| Heligolond. ® so proud of the island ry poet and patriot and | person has showered pet. it. They have called it Jewel of the Kaiser's rmany's North Sea Sen- Gem of the North Sea, 'tionary Warship, the Red the North Sea, and Ger- Gibraltar. Others, more have likened it to a grand mutton chop, and "a:tri- ostage stamp for the sea A GREAT] G }| and a half), torpedo craft. can now ride safely at anchor and take in coaland other supplies. _ A similar sum has been spent on fortifications. In the old garden of overnment House a great powder magazine has been built, and under id ug to form a refuge for the inhab- tants in case the island should be shelled by an enemy's fleet. _ A dancing house has been turned Into a barracks for marines, and the cliffs of the Oberland are crown- ed with big gun batteries and ar- mored turrets. Even the namcs of the streets have been Germanized. Only one--Barkly Street--has been allowed to remain British as a com- pliment to the last. British govern sor, Mr. A. @. Barkly. ONE HUNDRED CORONETS, Needed for King tieorge's Corona- tion--Gorgeous Mantles. _ There'is great activity in England just now in the workshops of the firms making the robes, coronets, etc., for the people who will figure at the coronation in Westminster Abbey. Over 100 coronets for new- ly created peers and peeresses have to be made, to say nothing of the coronets which have to be freshen- island is about a mile long in two distinct parts; the d and the Oberland, and he Unterland and separ- a strip of sea is the Dune, island used as a bathing) the summer visitors. JSED TO BE BRITISH. Resse ig Beligcind dinem:| m the Unterland, which is re than a sea beach, stuck he end of the island, principal buildings, the _ the museum and the ho- s flight of steps goes up to rt of the little town that o be built on the Oberland, h plateau that forms the y of the island. This Ob- is planted chiefly with pota- md cabbages, and along it footpath somewhat splendid- own officially as the High but more often referred to potato walk. here are any Heligolanders than a hundred years they ave lived to change their na- ty twice. They were Danes 1807, Britons until 1890, and mans since then. y may also remember the hey- £ Heligoland's prosperity. lorious time was inaugurated he arrival on September 5th, , of H.M.S. Majestic, with Ad- ral Russel in command, when a! ty of marines were landed to ist the Union Jack as an _ out- 1d visible sign that Danish as at-an end. -- sat Napoleon was then bul bpe and trying to keep out | ods, and somebody had discovered that Heligo- | s an admirable "jumping-} for smuggling goods into | at trading city of Hamburg. | ellaneous crowd of mer-'| id smugglers poured into md until, as somebody said, | vith kegs, cases, and human} there was hardly room to! and all the building room in} r town was exhausted."' this excitement had died} igoland returned to its! nd-aliveness, and the in-| to their primitive respect- Gaming tables were estab- in 1830, however, but they pressed some years later. | ED AT SIGHT OF HORSE. next general excitement was} ival of a horse, and one old nted from emotion. With ion ot a wheelbarrow and ional perambulator there wheeled vehicles on the is-| There were a goodly number | p and goats, but no cows in nt residence. Every sum- ouple of cows were brought om Cuxhaven, and their) retailed at the apothe-' shop to invalid visitors. At! of the sea-bathing season | Byfavored pair returned. 1 nland. } ye, in 1890, the by which we took over, and Pemba, and' gave' oland in return, to be expected, there} ople in both countries who | the bargain was unfair. . good deal of grumb- 'country, and on the oth- German Colonial party 'that no. territory had | pur rhich any large f immigrants could live. en, however, the Ger- have come to the can- from their point of ain was a very good have, more or less illions of pounds it into an advanced tor- ty years they have 30,000,000 on coast ous inroads, and nd melting away ad to be heavily with cement, to ace together. Inside the It at a cost of a million + | blue and they ed up with new velvet and ermine. | Though at first glance the coro- |nets all seem alike there is really 'much difference in them. For in- | stance, the duke's coronet lacks the ivelvet and ermine, while those of e marquis, the viscount, the earl ame the baron are arranged differ- ently as regards the fur, velvet and | jewels. The mantles of the peers are very | Sorgeous affairs, especially those of {the various orders, such as the | Thistle, the Garter, St. Patrick, the | Bath, the Star of India, St. Mich- |ael and St. George and the Empire of India. At the last coronation }only four knights of ; wore their robes, but at this coro- | nation it is likely the King will al- \low the knights of these orders to | Wear their robes instead of their /peer's mantles, which would add 'enormously to the color effect of |the grand procession as well as to | the scene in the Abbey. The mantle iof the Garter, for instance, is of ) dark blue velvet lined with taffeta. | With this there is worn a crimson surcoat lined like the mantle and jadorned hke it with an eight point- ed silver star within which is the red cross of St. George, the whole encircled by a miniature blue gar- } ter. | The mantle of the Thistle is of vivid green velvet and that, of St. | Patrick is of sky blue tabbinet | lined with white silk. The mantle 'of the Bath is red and the mantle | of the Star of India is of light blue | satin lined with white adorned with | blue and silver tassels with a repre- sentation of the Star. The mantle of St. Michael and St. George is of satin lined with searlet silk and that of the Empire of India is ;of purple satin lined with white and | one. fastened with purple and gold tas- sels, Should the mantles of the various orders not be worn the peers and peeresses will don their usual crim: son velvet cloaks trimmed with er- ine. King George is to wear the coro- nation robes that King Edward wore in 1902, while Queen Mary is} having her robes made in England, vy promise to be quite as beautiful as those worn by Queen Alexandra. 5a REL-BOWL CRIMINAL, jdap Who Makes Sham Confession to be Jailed. In Japan there are people who make sham confessions in order to obtain a period of the comparative | warmth and comfort of a Japanese prison. The Japan Mail says :-- "The police slang of the capital has words to describe and distinguish these persons. 'Meshikul,' or the rice criminal, will steal some small article from a shop front in such a way as to be seen doing it. He then makes a bolt of it, pursued by the master of the shop or some faithful kozo, but presently ailows himself to be caught and handed to the po- lice. He has to 'do time' for his famous! pretended theft, but his rice is se- ; thought the exertion was too great | between ourselves and the! cured for a period, and when that | for his comfort; he required some- period has elapsed he will allow himself to be caught again. "The 'unandon' or 'eel-bow! erim- inal,' is wilier than the one' just mentioned. He does not actually commit a crime, such as will put him into th convict side of the pri- son, but allows himself to be found looking in suspicious | places, un- derneath the board verandahs of a temple, or in the garden of a pri- vate house. He gets into prison all right, but he secures the more gen- erous treatment of the house. of de- tention, which is to the fare of the convict jail what a dish of eels is to a bowl of plain rice. "The 'kuruma' is a criminal who makes a sham confession in order to sneak a free railway ride. The Asasi tells of a case connected with a murder, known as the 'decapitat- ed corpse case,' which took place last year. A man gave himself up to the police in Sendal as the per- etrator of the crime. He was rought to Tokio and his story was investigated. It was found to be a pure fabrication.' ae the garden, earthworks have been] -- ob the Garter | 'chant Napoleon began by making NEW ACCOUNT. OF THE EX- ILE'S LIFE AT ELBA. -- How the Great Corsican Spent His Time as a Prisoner of the British, A newly discovered account of N for the first time in Harper's Mag- azine. It was written by an Eng- lish merchant and was recently left. 'According to General Count Bertrand," says the account, "Na- poleon was generally in the better humor with those around him that he used to be in Paris; the Count's words were, that he did not give way so much to moods, and he add- ed: 'You will see none, be sure. He is very gracious to strangers, and especially to Englishmen. His own secretary says that he is some- times very angry and speaks cross- ly, and like an absent man forgets himself. "He walks up and down the room dictating quickly. The -- seribe writes after him as fast as he can, supplying such words as he does not hear distinctly. He never makes an observation upon this, taking it for granted, apparently at as he uttered them. 'He dips his pen to the bottom of the inkstand, be it full or empty, and blots the tabhe very much in bringing it to the paper. When he is indisposed, his remedy is a warm bath, in which he will stay for hours, and close confinement to his room, admitting no one. HE INDULGES MUCH, enjoys his bed like a child, covering himself up almost entirely. "Mme. Vantini told us that he Napoleon's life at' Elba is printed] found mong some papers he had} least, that the -words are written} called his own residence 'mon | Tuileries,' and his country house: 'mon Fontainebleau,' with great! naivete. She said he took no care) | of himself, going frequently about} | his grounds without hat in the rain, standing in the cold half dressed, regardless of currents of air. They} 'upbraid him for such carelessness, | but he does not pay the least atten- | tion to them. "She said that in August last she went. to his hermitage near Mar-| ¢ciana with other ladies to spend the | | day with him. In the course of it, | | the weather being very hot, he step-_ | ped into a stream of limpid water' 'above his knees, and leaning for-' | ward, he amused himself for some | | time in opposing the current with | 'his hands and beating the water ab-_ 'out. He seemed absorbed in) i thought, laid himself on the bank! land slept for two hours. | "When he awoke, he seemed dull and uneasy in his mind, noticing no They urged him to change |his dress but he refused. At six | o'clock the evening air was cool and | induced him to put on a dry suit. |. "Mme. Vantini spoke of him as |being very affable and desirous -to see his visitors amused. He pre- | vailed upon them to dance one ev-| ening at the Princess Pauline's, | which GREATLY DELIGHTED HIM. He dined with his mother every Thursday. He called on Gen. Ber-' trand daily, and was desirous to condole with him and his lady on the loss of a child which died just before we arrived; Napoleon was! the only person admitted for some days. "He frequently conversed with! Englishmen whom he met in _ his! 'morning rides and asked them to see what: was doing in his garden. | | If they had travelled much, he con-| | trived to detain them for a long! | time in conversation. He. always! lenjoyed the society of those who 'had been in Egypt. He did not'! ; take wholesome exericse voluntar-! lily while I was in Elba. ~ His friends | (complained of it. The carriage | {went for him every day at noon, 'and he usually drove out for four | or five hours. i ; | "TIT never saw him on horseback ; ihe was not fond of riding. It was ;one to assist him to mount, from 'weakness in the loins. His walk |was heavy and labored, almost a | waddle. Horses were placed in his | Way to tempt him to ride, but _ without success. "He frequently forgot or neglect- ed to sign papers left with him for that purpose, and had sometimes fits of apparent indifference to all ped short in dictating upon a par- ticular subject, and never returned to it. -His secretary said that in such cases he did not attempt to re- call his memory so that he might CONTINUE THE SUBJECT. It was said that he wrote and read a great deal in the summer at his country residence. He did not ap- pear to have any particular pursuit while T was in Elba."' The Englishman had an interview with Napoleon at the time of his visit and appears to have written out a verbatim report of the con- versation. As his visitor was a mer- around him He occasionally stop- |. conditions. Finally he asked if the "You had had some splendid buildings constructed,' was the re- 'ply, "with bridges and several oth-| er very useful things. I must par- ticularly praise the Simplon route, which I passed through in a single! day, while thirteen years before I traversed it in an English carriage, and it took me four days and cost me 25 louis for transportation."' "You found it pleasant then. And how about the Ment Cenis route ?" "T have not traversed it; I shall return that way."' "Good; you will find that pleas- ant also. Were you received favor- ably in France?' "Very favorably and amicably. It was enough to be an Englishman to pass anywhere." ; ' "HOW ABOUT THE SOLDIERS?' 'At first we thought that they looked upon us with disdain and coldness, but we found that this was only the military' air, which gave them an aspect of unsociabil- ity." : "T have always been well satis- fied with them. And did the people seem to you dejected afte> the re- cent episodes?' "Not at all; I found them lively and animated." "And the popular ?" "T think so--at least I heard no remarks against them. They try to please everybody. "You think, then, that this is the case because nobody speaks evil of them. But do you believe that af- fairs will actually remain in this condition 1' The account continues: "There was much of interest in this question. We had moved to- ward a cabinet, he holding my but- ton. I was rather puzzled, and said : "Ves, I think so. They are try- ing to retain as far as possible the military spirit that you left in the country, and the goodness of the Duchess of Angouleme will contri- bute much.' "He asked news from the Con- gress at Vienna. At this time I was somewhat tired of so much ques- tioning, and in hopes to produce a change | mentioned my sister. Bourbons--are 'they specting HIS IRON MINES, wishing to establish furnaces for melting the ore, for which purpose he would require coal "He asked me whether it would pay to bring coal in ballast and ex- | He said our | change it for iron ore. iron was not so apt to convert into | steel as that made from the Elba'| ore; and he gave ready for the difficulties I stated relative to the landing of coal and the ship- | ment of ore, adding that if it could not be managed well on his own coast, he would send the the same lighters. He said repeat- edly the ore must not go to France. He conversed much abou: the ex- tent and produce of his mines. mentioned my sister again, was waiting in the anteroom. "He 'said: 'Very well, let come in.' "TI went to the door and brought her in. She has made a memoran- dum of his conversation with her, which was upon the subjects of books, theatres, music, travelling and such like. who She was ;much delighted with his courtesy | 'and attention.' ? * GERMAN INGENUITY. Eggs Shipped Through Neck of Bet- tle-and Then Boiled. Five claret bottles are on exhib- ition in Germany which are full, but not with wine, and the manner of their filling was a triumph of mechanical skill and patience. One contains five good-sized hard boiled eggs, another two chairs and a eouch, of the doll's house size; a third one, lying on its side, shows in the glass inclosure a full-rigged | three-master ; another one contains @ miniature reproduction of the big cask at Heidelberg and the fifth one an altar, in front of which a priest in full vestments is rising the host. The eggs were made pli- able by a chemical process and then slipped through the narrow neck of the bottle, and were boiled after they had resumed their orig- inal form, but the objects in the other bottles were. pui together by means of queer tools in the hands of skilled mechanics, manipulated through the narrow bottle. necks, "i QUEEN ALEXANDRA'S PHOTOS Queen Alexandra is nowadays rarely seen abroad with -her cam- era. For many years past she has snapshotted with avidity, the re- sult being that she now possesses quite a valuable pictorial record of her extensive travels. Among her "victims" are hundreds of Europ- ean royalties and celebrities, many of them in delightful unconsequen- tial poses and attitudes. The col- lection fills a score of big albums, while numbers of the photographs have been transferred by the Queen herself to porcelain. -- : Esai NEW NAPOLEON DOCUMENT 'Englishman ad found Paris 'defin- eee. erocmeret jintely changed for the better. He, continued, however, to converse re- | remedies | ore to! Leghorn and take back the coal in| 1 her | dresses, | ANTIQUITIES Historie Anstrian Castle Will Be Preserved to Posterity. The well-known mediaeval castle AS HEIRLOOMS. "at eae family of its owner, Count Hans Wilczek, and its contents have been made heirlooms, writes the Vienna cerrespondent of the London Stan- dard. This is news which should gladden the hearts of all antiquar- lans, as it means that the unexam- pled collections of antique furni- ture, weapons, and objects of art in the Middle Ages will be kept to- gether in their present setting for all time. Kreutzenstein is, no doubt, the most complete genuine specimen of a mediaeval castle in existence. When the present owner inherited it as a young man it was a ruin, but Count Wilezek has devoted a large fortune to restoring the build- ings and furnishing them through- out down to the minutest detail with furniture and household -- ar- ticles of the Middle Ages, which he has spent a lifetime in collect- ing. The castle lies on a hill over- looking the Danube, wituin a drive of Vienna, and is one of the first sights which all distinguished visit- ors to the capital, such as in recent years, King Edward, Emperor Wil- liam, g@nd ex-President Roosevelt have been taken to see. A "fideikommis"' is stricter than its English equivalent as it cannot be cut off like an entail. An estate can, however, now be tied up in this way only by a special act of the Austrian Parliament, which thé lower house is nowadays very un- willing to pass; none has been created for fifteen years. This dif- ficulty was got over in this case by the legal advice of a. so-called ex- change. Part of Count Wilezek's estates is already subject to "fidei- kommis,"? and he was permitted by the judicial authorities to bring Kreutzenstein under the entail in the place of land in Silesia, which was thereby released. cAncrnaite. Stake A CAT'S DATLY SWIM. That Crosses the Every Day. A cat that swims across the Thames River every evening and Swims back again next morning is something in the nature of a novel- ty, but the people of Deptford Feline River of Kreutzenstein has been made a| "'fidelkommis," i.e., entailed in the} | Ocean-Going Steam Yacht Took a claims that they possess such an an- }imal. The feline to which such re- | |markable feats are attributed be-| longs to the ferryboatman who us- ed to ply between the landings of! the shipyards of Messrs Robert) | Thompson, on the Southwick side, | ;and Messrs, Laing on the Deptford | This man had up to about a fortnight ago ferried a small boat| (across the river and on many oc-| casions the cat, which had appar- | ently discovered "pastures new" at | Southwick, accompanied him in his | boat each evening, and returned by the first ferry the next morning. Sometimes, however, the cat would | travel so far in the boat, and then jof its free will would leap over- board and finish the journey with a beautiful paw-over-paw stroke. | On the cessation of the ferry ser- vice people thought that the cat would check its roving disposition and remain on its own side of the river, but evidently pussy found that the rats and mice on the Dept- | 'ford side were not to be compared | with those at Southwick, for every | 'night, with a beautifully graceful | jump it takes the water and swims! 'across the river, returning ~ first! thing in the morning with a con- tented and self-satisfied smirk. | But Deptford is not the only place on the Thames that can boast of a clever cat. Harry Milham, one | of the most popular boating men on the river, has a cat at his well- iknown boat-house at Strawberry | Vale, between Twickenham and | Teddington, which is a feline mar-| ivel. In the summer it may fre- | quently be seen perched on the bow) | of a boat gazing into the water. All| | at once it will make a dive into the | | river and, swift as lightning, bring | 'to the surface a small fish, which it | proceeds to devour with evident | satisfaction. Milham has had this | cat from the days of its kittenhood, | and believes it is the cleverest cat on the Thames. << eee BRITAIN'S AIR | side. t SEOUT. New Naval Monster of the Skies Nearing Completion. Britain's naval airship - No. 1, which has been under construction for more than twelve months at Cavendish dock, is now approach- ing completion, but nobody can say when the huge vessel will be launched. The construction of the first nav- al Dreadnought of the air has been veiled in the same profound official secrecy as was that of the first Dreadnought of the sea. = ~ Nobody, unless he be a nava 'man directly connected' with the work, is allowed to approach with- in twenty yards of the enormous shed in which the airship is being built. -\Her length is 510 feet, her diam- eter 48 feet, her gas capacity 706,- 000 cubic feet, and her eight cylin- der motors and three specially con- structed propellers will drive her | of $1,000,000, whereas his brother he reported upon the proposed re- through the air at 50 miles an hour. EXTRAVAGANT HONEYMOONS GREAT BRITAIN'S SUPREMACY IN THE INDUSTRY. Leads World in Construction of Vessels and Trade Shows Increase. Couple for a Tour Round the World. Seventy-five thousand dollars for a wedding trip--the price of a fair- sized mansion, and a sum which, at an average bank rate of 3 per cent., would provide a pats couple with the comfortable income of ov- er forty dollars a week for life. To! during three years; spend such a sum on a honeymoon | 399g See ae may seem reckless extravagance. When it is mentioned, however, that the honeymoon took the form of a Polar trip in a specially-char- tered vessel, with a crew of nine- teen, there is some excuse for the expenditure. : And when Mr. Max Fleischman, the American millionaire, and his wife returned from this nevel hon- eymoon a short time ago, they can- didly confessed that they had had full value for their money. They certainly had some fine sport, and eame back with thirty head of rein- deer, one hundred seals, and. thirty- two Polar bears. REGARDLESS OF COST. The tendency amongst the wealthy to-day is to indulge in un- conventional honeymoons quite re- gardless of cost. There seems to be a craze for world tours and explor- ation. Nothing would satisfy a society couple but a tour round the world for a honeymoon trip in a special ocean-going steam yacht... -Some $100,000 was spent on the construction of the vessel, while in- cidental expenses ran away with another $150,000. Altogether this couple spent $250,000 on a honey- moon which lasted twelve months. Sometimes these novel honeymoons are prolonged for several years, as in the case of Count de Lesdain and his wife, who, shortly before Mr. and Mrs. Fleischman set out on their Polar trip, returned from Tibet, after the most romantic honeymoon trip of modern times. They had started seventeen months previously from Peking, and travelled towards the myster- ious Lhassa land, being lest to all outside communication for quite a Jong time. Altogether they travel- led nearly five thousand miles, and the many dangers and exciting ex- periences they encountered _ pro- vided the Count with ample mater- ial for an absorbing book. Alto- gether this trip is estimated to have cost the Count over $50,000. COST $200,000 A DAY. Travelling in princely style, Mr. and Mrs. Penfield returned from a honeymoon tour up the Nile a few months ago, which ran away with close on $100,000. Mrs. Penfield was formerly Mrs. Annie Weight- | man Walker, whose father, the famous Philadelphia chemist, died a few years ago and left her his sole heiress. She soon retired from busi- ness, and ultimately married Mr. Penfield, the well-known artist. Perhaps the most expensive hon- eymoon on record, however, 'was that of a son of Mr. Charles Tif- fany, who died a few years ago and left an estate exceeding $10,000,000 in value. He emphasized his dis- approval of his son Burnett'e mar- riage with a poor girl by leaving him only the income of a trust fund Lloyd's Register of 81 % Shipbuilding in 1910 gives the lowing interesting figures: -- 'Tonnage of merchant ships promo 1910 ae Countries for whose use the 60 vessels (1,143,169 tons) launched in the United ingdom to 1910 were destined : Britain 351 ships, Brit'h C'l'n's 29 ships, Norway 12 .ships, Germany .... 5 ships, Sweden 5 ships, and smaller tonnages for othor countries, Warships launched im the United: Kingdom during 1910: : British 43 ships, 133,525 tons Foreign 2 ships, 1,120 tona Countries for whose use are in- tended the 122 warships in all the shipbuilding ports in the world: British 43 ships, 138,525 tons German 21 ships, 49,024 toma 'iy eB ctor 13 ships, 30,287 tons French ...12 ships, 24,063 ton .... 3 ships, 23,100 tons no other country having added so much as 20,000 to its naval ton- nage. Combining mercantile and naval shipbuilding in United Kingdom ports and abroad, we have these remarkable figures concerning this "ruined industry" : Launched in #910 in the United Kingdom, 545 ships, 1,277,814 tons launched in 1910 in all the rest the world, 854 ships, only 990,803 tons. Of the last named the United States built 361,000 tons; Germany, 210,000; France, 105,000 tons; Hol- land 71,000 tons; no othex country turning out so much as 60,000 ton- nage. The United Kingdom gain in out- put as compared with figures ab- road is shown by comparing our first table with the aisiatnea Tonnage of merchant ships launched in all the world except the United Kingdom, during three years: 919,706 tons 31,038 tons 26,507 tons . 814,684 Thus the rest of the world has de- creased its output almost half as much as the United Kingdom has increased its output. Even the gain on balance as af- fected by vessels being lost as sea or bréken up, the United Kingdom has an advantage over the rest of the world. Tonnage of merchant ships lost or broken wp, thus reducing the total tonnage of the mercantile marine: Foreign and Colonial. Ships. Tons. 602 518,000 666 578,000 587 516,000 British Isles. Ships. Tons. 198 291,000 201 361,000 202 358,000 pais, Deceit er ieee OSMAN DIGNA STILL Dervish Leader Now at Wady Halfa is Eighty Years of Age. The Emir Osman Abu Bakr Dig- na, once notorious in the Soudan as Osman Digna, who since Decem- ber, 1908 has been interned at Wa dy Halfa is now an old man of eighty years of age. Lieutenant- Governor Wingate (Sirdar of the Egyptian army) contributes some facts relating to '"'Osman the Ug- ly,"? who in the troublous times in the Soudan 'had as many reported deaths as the Mad Mullah. Osman, prior to Mahdism, was a suecessivt slave-trader between the Soudaa and the Arabian coasts. Owing to his persecution by the old Egyptian Government for carrying on _ this trade, he seized the opportunity of the Dervish revolt to join the Mahdi in 1888, and proved to be his most zealous adherent and capable lieu- tenant. He was entrusted with the propagation of Mahdism in the Eastern Soudan, and this region he 1909 cas ALIVE, got the fortune outright. As Bur- nett and his wife separated on the eleventh day after marriage his honeymoon cost him $200,000 per day. ba ee DEADLY FOG IN GLASGOW. 1,063 Deaths Due te It in 1909--Fine | Paintings Ruined. The queer superstition still ex- ists that somehow smoke is good | for the health. Perhaps it is- the Londoner's way of consoling him- self for having black instead of pink lungs. But Glasgow runs London very closely in the matter of opaque atmosphere. Statistics show that during the autumn fogs in Glasgow in 1909, 1,- 063 people died trom fog, From being thirteen in the thousand the Glasgow death rate went up to twenty in the thousand during the fog season. When the nation lost about the Same number of men dur- ing the "black week" in the Boer war Britain was panic stricken, but not much notice 1s taken of the commonplace smochering of 1,000 people in the Glasgow "black weeks," Sir William Richmond, an expert in fog facts, has recently had some- thing to say about the way sulphur- ic acid bites into pictures, a fact first discovered by Faraday when man was present at the battle of Omdurman and at the Khalifa': de: feat and death of Gedid in 1899. He escaped after the conflict, and after a long march on foot was cap- tured in the Warriba Hills, ninety miles west of Suakim, by Captain Burges, at the head of a civil pat- rol, in January, 1900. Osman was to join the other Dervish prisoners, and remained there to the end of 1902, when he was transferred to the Damietta prison, and in Dee- ember, 1908, wae sent in turn to Wady Halfa, where he now is. ES ernieee: ; He--"Ah, Miss waura, and what have you been doing to-day?' She "Oh, Dve been reading Tenny- son." nyson ?"' She--"Fond of him! Why, I simply devour him!' He -- "Ah, moval of the Naticual Gallery. The | Elgin marbles appear to be suffer- ing too. The bits of color have gone and the surface has lost its old transparent look. Sir William Richmond compared the present surface to "opaque putty." Smoke costs London twenty-five million dollars a year. R. Russell, another authority, says that if London were only smokeless it would be sunny enough to be a health resort for the rheumatic and aged. { so often heard him spoken of as a poet Laura ate.' _ Pn Ciee Shee The annual report published by. He--"Are you fond of Ten- SHIPPING AMD SHIPBUILDING launched in the United Kingdom satis 5 « «sos Ws 20,247 tone rapidly overran and conquered, Os--- theu deported to Rosetta, in Egypt, -- well, that accounts for it; I have