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GENERAL NEWS.

London's Trumpeters.

It is contemplated to terminate the services of the City of London trumpeters, and in future, when Occasion arises, to employ trum- peters of the Household Cavalry in oivil functions and processions. Tho Jity is had its own trumpet- ers since 1514. At present they consist of four individuals, ex- soldiers, who have a small retain- ing fee and aro paid when their Bervices are required which happens four or five times in the your. Thoir robes are somewhat- picturesque, and hayo frequently been portrayed in records and illustrations of historical events in the past.

An Old Borough."

On May 9, 1611, Jamos I granted its charter of incorpora- tion to Penzance. Until the Municipal Act of 1835 the Cor- poration was snowhat peculiarly constituted. It was composed of the mayor, who was to be "ose of the mare choice and discreet | inhabitants," eight, aldermen, likewia discreet

inen," and twelve others, whose standing! was summed up in the term the other men." The name of Penzance is said to bea corruption of the old Cornish ecuivalent of Holyhead, and the pirates who gave their mune to a Wilburt and Sullivan opera were at one time actually a thorn in the flesh of tho inhabitants.

Telephone Improvement. The engines in the General Post Office have invented and are using aderim For a superimposed current which doubles tho

capneity of the telephons and telegraph cables and enables four persone in London to sponk simultaneously from tour separate telephones to four in Paris, using only two lines.

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Pathetic Story of the Final Scene.

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give the following incidents in-DRAGON CYCLE Co, the loss of the Empress of Ireland.-

Mr. Laurence Irving died while trying to save his wife. Ta'king But-and it is a very big the boat going down?" His to's pussenger, Mr. Irving said, Bat"-out of the rapid growth wife began to ery. The ves el in the popularity of this most excelloat pastime for the com

lurched and Irving was thrown pletely healthy and sound has against the cabin door. His face arisen a really grave danger for wife becams frantic, but Mr. was seen to be bleeding. His hundreds of thousands of run- Irving exhorted her to be calm down, cut-of sorte men and wo- Unveiling Ceremony, le connection with the London men who are in many case School of Tropical Medicine, the unthinkingly led to take up golf, Right Hon. Louis court, as a cure for their poor health M.I', Secret uy of State for the conditions.

and forced a life bolt on her and carried her upstairs. He was last seen on the deck kissing his wife, and they went down clasped in l'each other's arma.

Colonies, will unveil the tablet in I am convinced that golf is Captain Kendall states that honour of the Right Hon. Joseph actually becoming a source of Chamberlain, M.P, and the Right danger and a real menace, not Hon. Austep Chamberlain, M.P., I repeat, to the sound, healthy, in the hospital to which the open air living man or woman, school is attached, on Tuesday, but to that larger, public which may be described as the "aeden- tary," whether in good or bad

June 23.

Facts Which Tell.

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arms and legs and are in a most pitiable condition, but the morn ing dawned warm, the Apparently most of the first-class shining on a pond-like sea.

passengers have perished.

Lotices.

N. LAZARUS,

Ophibales Opcia

Sir Thomas Shaughnessy, Pre sident of the Canadian Pacific Company, in a statement, says that the catastrophe 18 the mos serious in the history of the St. Lawrence route. Be explains the As expert opticians, is our busines delay in the giving of official to detect complicated defoots of vision. details as due to the remoteness Our wathode are simple, but are founded of the telegraph stations, fon the soundast acientito principles.

WE OD NOT ADVISE GLASSES the UNLESS ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL.

to Night tuated under the

supervision of H. Tobias F. I. O., F. B. M. (C. (Lond).

Survivors relate that officers had not sufficient tims arouse the passengers.

when the ship foundered he was shot by the sea from the bridge and anoked down. Ele asized a grating and heard the men in the lifeboat shout "There's the Captain. Let's save him." There were thirty people in the boat, and they picked up twenty-five more. There were slao ten bang- ating to the sides by ropes round

their wrists. They put them appointed a committee, under the aboard the Storstadt and returned chairmanship of Lord Sydenham, to seek others, but all were gone, to inquire into and report upon The Storstadt did not answer all the oircumstances under

„Golfing Language, Mr. Joseph Davies, the Cardiff bealth. Docks statistician, told a good golf story at the opening of the On looking over the recent new links of the Dinas Powie records Golf Club, says the Western Mail my Institute of Curative Physi- It concerned an ambitious player, cal Culture, says Sandow, I find who, anxious to break n had that it is almost becoming an

ot inquirere

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habit, resolved to pince a stue in exception to be told that the all the megaphone shouts of "Back which the Canard Company have THE QUEEN OF his pocket for every swear word person has nut tried gull as a water, and subsequently con-discontinued the call of their he used. ilo. returned to the remody. One after another comes tinued ahead. A (good?) seaman liners at Queenstown Harbour, club-house at the end of a very to me and says, "I have tried should have done the latter after and to consider whether, by bad round with packets bulging everything. A few months ag the collision. All those rescued means of improvements to that THE out with stones. "You must have took up golf nad I like it Leon having very high times," immensely. I play every week were saved by the boats of the harbour, such calls could safely was a friend's salutation. "Ob, oud, but it is no grot. I seem to shocking."

the reply become loss and les fit. Indeed, "These stones only represent the my nerves have now gone all to damns. The rest are coming up pieces, and my indigestion and

in a cart."

CHIG

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besdaobes seem worse than ever before What shall I do ? ** London will shortly see some There are, of course, exceptions, thing new in the way of papore, but in, bay, nine cases out of ten a serio-comic journal, which will the ultimate result to the out- ha blond of Punch and the well-of-condition individual is an kuown Jugend of Munich, with increase of his trouble.

*Denmark's Independence. The Novac Vremya published

Eleven be resumed.

Empress of Ireland. were killed by the wreckage.

A hundred bluejackets of His Majesty's cruiser Esser will assist in the recovery of bodies from the Empress of Ireland.

Further Detalls.

The following additional de- tails are taken froza Reuter's service to the Indisa papera:-

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Captain Kendall's wireless to colour work of the kind made i It is the very fascination f this the Canadian Pacific Company, Ship gone," epitomises the famous by the latter journal, all-conquering sport which is the The price proposed is threepence. undoing of those of is devotees guddenness of the disaster.

The Empress of Ireland was a who have taken it up in the search for health. The business orack liner and carried all the most modern improvemente, in- mun who exhausts the energies clading boats for all on board. A significant series of articles, of his system's vitality during The collier struck her a slanting jaspired by the visit of the King five and a half days of close nad Queen of Denmark to this arduous brain work is tilting blow amidships, tearing of her country, on the vital interest which dreat Britain and Russia against the laws of nature when plates sternward, almost to the he spends the remaining one screwe. The Empress of Ireland liated to port, which impeded the

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have in common in maintaining and a half days of the week in launching of the bosts, and sank Uie i dependence of Denmark, tackling a game which subjecta before many could collect their It righly remarks that no written him to a prolonged physical strain, wits. Considering this and the treaty is required to secure ogree accompanied by mental strain darkness and fog, the number of 31, Quoou'a ment on this matter. Rugeja

which is inseparable from any cannot submit to the establish- meat of a new Dardanelles at the competitive" game. This strainees is little short of mira- ogress from the Baltic.

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often the champion players of gull suffer from "nerves."

the survivors were picked up in the water, having jumped from the sinking liner.

Water in the engine-room

The Rev. F.B. Meyer is giving

* Uses of Rest. up his pastorate at Regent's Park

Nature has decreed that the caused an explosion and compell- to devote himself to Tree Church

useof all mental or physical oner- Council work, Mr. Meyer was minister at Regent's Park Chapel y must be recuperated by reated many people to jump into the so long ago as 1888. He left it Religion has decreed a day's restines.

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