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ST. JOHN'S CATHEDRAL.

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a very ciclent organist for the trualens sald so nine years later when he applied for long leave, and half pay while on furlough. Thle Infter request is coldly refused though the leave was granted, There is not aven tho usual exprés- slon of regret that the depleted Estate of the Church funds unfer-

tunately do not permit, etc.) There is just the bleak statement} that the committee resolve that the request be not acceded to.] The trustees are not moved" by that fact that their organist his only had six weeks leave of ab- sence during those nine years;

Trip in Cutty Sark?

They sternly repress that common failing of being generous with other people's money. Nothing daunted however Mr. Sangster sug- gests that a local organist be ap- pointed in his absonco one who has volunteered to do the work for forty dollars per month. This proven acceptable to the committee which thereupon grants the .or- ganist the leave and the difference in the salary. History does not tell how he got back home whether he trekked across Siberia, went overland by camel to Alexandria again, or worked his passage home by that speedy clipper the Cuttyl Sark which the Newspapera daily remind us existed in those far off Limes. There is no mention of his return passage being paid. There

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days, when Hongkong was not the health resort it is now, going to the Secretary of State and asking) for some readjustment of his pen- alon. "I should not worry about

If I were you," said the Secre- tary, "the question of an actual penalon has never arisen in con- neellon with any of your predeces sors." Possibly a return passage was looked upon as in the highest degree unlikely, and therefore not] worth while including in any agreement.

L. F. in St. John's Cathedralį

Church Notes.

WILD ANIMALS.

Not Far Travellers.

Little seems to be known of the travels of wild animals, but] it is assumed that each creaturo has is definite spot regarded as home, and makes temporary homes or stopping places in its trips in irregular linas away from the home contro. Its rango is not great inloss hard prossed for food....

Inquiring into-the-distances covered by a fow wild inhabitants of the farm. H. Mortimer Betten, in the journal of the Ministry of Agriculture, notes that animals do not usually T6801 about aimlessly, but keep to lines of their own choosing, except that whon pursued they generally jcircle about their home, Hares

appear to live month after month within a mile or two of the homo entre.

During winter scarcity, how! over, thay wander farther and faster, and have been known to continue thirty miles in a singlo night. A baro kept under observation for a considerable. tima showed a winter range of sixteen miles along a stream, and a summer range less than half as great. Rabbits are oven loss] inclined to roam, ninety por cent. sponding their lives within two or three miles of their burrow.

The fox probably has a normal rango of twenty milles-ton miles oach way from the contro-but mountain foxes have been known lo

hunt pheasants seventeen miles from the cairns containing; their cube and to carry thoir kill that distance home. The badgor is the most stay-at home and secretive animal about English farms, seldom venturing out of donse woodlands. Hedgehogs, too, do not go far, but often lie close undor resting domestic animals,

and they feed on carrion.

BLEEPY SICKNESS. Apparently encephalitla letharg- lo, was greatly on the increase For in England last month. the first quarter of this year. there wore 753 caios with 229| deaths, but during the seven wooks following there were 1,715

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