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TO-DAY'S MÍSCELLANY.

The "no breakfast" plan which has lately cropped up again in the Old Country, is not such a new thing as is often supposed. From a passage in William Har- rison's Description of England" it appears that our Elizabethan ancestors generally dispensad Heretofore," with breakfast.

writes Harrison, "there has been much more time spent in eating und drinking than commonly is in these days; for whereas of old we had breakfasts in the forenoon, beverages or nunchions aftor: [dinner, and thereto rear-suppers when it was time to go to rost, now these odd ropasts, thanked bo Gol, aro vory wall loft,

each. and fexcopt hare and there some young hungry stomach that cannot fast till dinner-time) con.i tentoth himself with dianer and supper only..

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the nobility, gentry, and students do ordinarily go to dinner at jeleven before noon, and to suppor at five... The morchants dine and sup seldom before twelve at noon and six at night, espe cially in London. The husband- mon dine also at high noon, asi they call it, and sup at seven or joight. As for the poorest sort, they generally dine and sup when they may, so that to talk of their repast it were but a needless matter."

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Toads and frogs, and snakes and snails, and such-like slithery things, are not supposed to lend very enviable lives. But when they sleep for the winter, who can doubt that they often have the best of it? The squirrel leads" a jolly life. He has very few fore to fear, and his food is abundant. Op in the fir-tree he has his greni nest of sticks, and here he dozes away the dark winter days. I the sun comes out cheerfully, even though there is snow, he wakes up to enjoy a scamper through the wood. The badger takes up snug bed of grass for him- selfin the earth, whereon to sleep On " through bitter weather, mild sunny day he will give his bed an airing. Then one may see a great pile of grass, enough to fila wheel barrow, spread out before his earth. A notable slog gurd is the tortoise, He digs a hole in the ground for his winter! hed. As he scrapes at the earth with his forefeet, his motions are like the movement of the hour- hand of a clock." The hedgehog.. on going to sleep for the winter, first rolls about in leafy ditches, until his spines have speared Jeaves enough to made him a warm blanket. Then he finds a snug retreat in the roots of an old tree, curls up, and forgets all his troubles till spring.

The list of new K.C.'s contains the name of one successful lawyer Mr. Robert Newton Crane-- whn, as regards his professional status, may claim a sort of dual nationality states a writer in a home journal. He was called to the Bar of the United States! Supreme Court in 1881 and to that! of the Middle Temple in 1894.) Perhaps the most notable instance of a legal migration of this kind was that of Judah Philip Ben- jamin, who WAH R United; Stateg Senator from 1853 to 1861, Attorney General of the Confederacy in 1801, Con- federate Secretary of War in 1861 and 1862, and Confederate Secretary of State from 1862 to 1865. On the defeat of the Confederate cause he came to

over England, and started all again at the English Bar at the Не наоп, age of fifty-four.. reached the head of the profession, making one year an income! many thousands of pounds bighor than that of any of his contem- porarios. His prosperity was reflected in his clork, who, after! because his wife was sick. When an early morning ride in Row. ho returned home next day bis was accustomed to drive down wife informed him that defendant to chambers in a neat brougham. bad left their service The die. covery of some of his (Me Murray's) revolver cartridges in defendant's

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A DISHONEST HOUSEBOY.

Wearing His Master's

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M. Gaston Dauville, a French

room aroused witness's suspicions, biologist, declares, as the outcome

| and in going through his own cloth of his experiments, that by a Mr R. D. Murray, sub-accounting be discovered $150 worth of freezing process, somewhat simi- ant of the Chartered Bank, charged effects missing. Defendant had lar to that used in conserving fish, his houseboy before Mr G.N. Orme no access to bis revolver cartridges the span of human life can be at the Magistracy yesterday after which were locked up in a box. indefinitely extender. M. Dau- noon with the theft of six pieces of

Mrs Murray contradicted deville points out that Professor

WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1921.

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Lord Carisbrooke as Insur- ance Director,

TORIC LENSES ARE GROUND

Better known as Prince Alex- ander of Battenberg the Marquis is the eldest son of the late Prince Henry of Battenberg. He served with the Grenadier Guards Queen Victoria's grandson, the during the war, Marquis of Carisbrooke, is ex- tending his business interests in the City,

For the last 18 months he has with a deep inner curve, which been a director of Messrs. Lam-conforms to every movement of port, and Holt, the steamship firm, the eye and makes the sight and he has now become a director equally clear in every portion of of the Eagle Star and British Do-the glass. Tories set closer The Marquis, will no doubt, lens thus doing away with the attend our Board meetings," said annoying relections from the the secretary of the company to edge of the glass. For those who Bat it wish the very best in leness, we a Press representative. is not expected that he will take a recommend torics. The Hong- more active part in the business." kong Optical Co., Successors to It is expected that the Mar-Clark & Co., Manufacturing & quis will take up his director's Refracting Opticians, located in duties in a few days. He has 53, Queen's Road Central, manu- been to Spain on a visit to the facture Tories on all prescriptione Koyal Family. Ho is brother to in White, Smoke, Ambar, Crookes

or Fieuzal the Queen of Spain.

alothing valued at $21, from his endurt's statement to the police Jacques Leob demonstrated that minions Insurance Company Ltd. to the eye than the ordinary flat

residete, Chic Villa, Taipo Rond: that she have given some of the be could prolong the life of sea Mr F.G. Vaux, defending, said

urchins 1,000 times and asserts bis client was prepared to plead clothing to him:

that by renewing the vital anb- guilty to unlawful possession its Sub-Inspector Pitt gava evidence) stance on which human life de- view of the fact that he was in connection with The recovery pende and then subjecting the actually wearing the clothing when of two shirts belonging to Mr living body to his special freezing the police arrested him.

Murray in the servants quarters of process it may be possible to The police, however, insisted on No. 50 Nathan Road, Kowloon, Mr eclipse the longevity record of pruceeding with the ebarge of Abenham's residence, where de- Methuselah-chemical treatment larceny. Mr Murray muid that on feudant was temporarily living." preventing the tissues from da- April Int. defendant applied for Defendant was sentenced to one generating with the passage of leave to go to Cunton. He refused month's hurd labour.

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