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Use for Dead Locusts, Locuste $78 plentiful in Uruguay, and the farmers of that zapublic are compelled to keep up a constant war against them. Millions of these destructive in- eects are killed every year, Recently it was learned that sosp fertiliser and lubricating oil may be obtained from the dead locaste, and in the fatrus they will be atilised forthat purpose.
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A Domestic Tragedy. Niagara Falls, Hay 92-Pral Pizzoli, a business man, shortly after noon to-day found his son Silvio, twenty-one years old, sitting with Lattie Kingalay. twenty, who lived at the Pizzoli bome. Without word the " father drew a revolver and shot! the woman dead. Pzzoli then fired three bota at his eon, twe jast missing the heart and the third pseeing through the abdomen. While the father was ebooting; the son drew a revolver and fred one shot that strack Pizzoli jast below the beart. The so pro- bably will die. The father may
recover.
Death of a Kamakura Hotel Aladager.
The death occurred recently of Mr. Auguste Vernon, for the past two years manager of the Kaihia - Hotel at Kamakare. Mr. Vernon. was born in France in 1851, and was thas sixty-seven years of age. Mr. Vernon came to Japan from Shanghai, where he had resided *Bome years, says the Japan Oazette, and was for a consider- able time manager of the Hotel de France. About two years ago be became manager of the Kibia' Hotel at Kamekure, and by his professional ability and geniality did much to popularies this hostelry. He had been in failing health for ecme week?.
If the Clergy wers Taken. The Bishop of Chelmsford, speaking in the Upper House of Conroestion of Canterbury, esid that if all the clergy had been taken under the Military Service Act he would have been left in a London sabarb of 260 people with only one eminent theologian and two cemetery ohaplains. The Archbishop reported that the namber of Church of England chaplains now serving or who had served was 2,552, Fifty-1 eight bad died on service, 20 were missing, and considerably over! 100 had been seriously woanded. apart from any casualties in recent battles.
Neutrals and Northcliffe. A committee of the Swedish Editora Club. representing 160 papers, are publishing an energetic protest against the proposal to start
a Pro-Allied Telegram Agency at Brookl olm sa s branch By of Reater's and Haves. this plab the Svenska Telegram Byran would be excluded from news from the great agencies. Foreign initiative is, they say, incompatible with the indepen- dence of the Swedish Press. The Swedish papers are giving much attention to the matter, one article being beaded, "Shall Lord North- cbfs Bond Rdle the Swedish Press?" The Danish Pres express fear of a similar attempt in Denmark.-Exchange.
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