... THIE COLUMBIA FISH MARKET IT is an important event which is commemorated in the accompanying engraving-nothing less than the first sale of fish in the new market which has been established as a rival ...

... A FLOIVER AMARKET 'FLOWER-SELLING is a very prosaic process in England. There is a severe air of business about even our best nursery-grounds and conservatories. And the people who vend these fairest ...

... MANY changes have taken place both in the external structure and the internal economy of the Bank of England since the day of its first opening as the national establish- ment.. Fo ...

... ITS IN completion of our Bank sketches, we this week fur- nish designs of the Accountants' Bank Note Office, its off-shoot the Bank Note Store Office, and the Weigh- ing Off ...

... THE OLD CLOTHES MARKFT CAMP FIELD, MANCHESTER THE Old Clothes Market, or ' Rag Fair, as it is sol. times called, which is held every Monday and a on Camp Field, in Manchester, is a singularly inte ...

... THE ATE W FRENCH BANK NO TES YHatEN the recent Franco-German War broke out, the Frecicl Government, finding its finances might f'ail, instlituted a r the currency of bank notes, anthorising the Bank t ...

... MONE Y TO LEND MAODERN life involves a highly complicated struggle, in which the proportionof prizes to competitors is ever ?? less, and in which wealth is the most important aid. In this struggle the ...

... GOING A MARYETING WE had barely emerged from the sombre railway station at the Elephant and Castle, and satisfied ourselves as to our where- abouts when we became aware of a man and his wife walking o ...

... TiiOUGH salmon fishing or gudgeon fishing means fishing for salmon or gudgeon, punt fishing obviously does not signify fishing for punts, but, according to common parlance, or the deficiencies of our language, just as we like to view it, fishing frow a punt and for any kind of fish which can be taken by a fisherman, using a punt as the basis of his operations. There is no river in the United ...

... NO THE EASTERN QUESTION-THE STOCK EX- CHANGE, CONSTANTINOPLE TURKISH Stocks have long been the favourite sport of the bulls and bears of the Stock Exchanges of all nations, but the Bourse at Galata ...

... THE fashion of head adornment adopted by ladies has lately undergone considerable modification. False tresses are now worn on a much more limited scale than formerly, the evi ...

... A BANICER'S NOTES I. IT is a common notion, and by no means a false one, that the bankers of the United Kingdom, apart from the legitimate profits of their business, make large gains from sums deposit ...