... Jf f\ beo IvtA? I tn No. 54.-- VOL. V. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1894. sJdE' ...

... . Paris has had an up-to-date sensation in the discussion raised by its Radical member, M. Lockroy, on the state of the French Navy. The service was going to the dogs. That was his impeachment, and his speech was not without power. But the scare wouldn't work any more than the English one, for on Thursday a vote of confidence in the Government was adopted by 356 votes against 166, after the ...

... LAST WEEK'S PARIS. ...

... . VENUS: THE BATH.-- ALBERT MOORE. REPRODUCED PROM THE ORIGINAL, EXHIBITED AT THE GRAFTON GALLERY, DY PERMISSION' OP MR. WILLIAM COLTARD. ...

... . BY BUGLE. An III- Timed Measure. The proposed measure for the prevention of the chase of animals kept in confinement is obviously aimed directly at the Royal Buckhounds. Possibly its framers may resent this suggestion We shall see. This is not the time to deprive an important district of the advantages due to the presence of a rich and popular hunt. So far as I am aware, in England at the ...

... ATKINSON'S WHITE ROSE. A charming Scent.-- The sweetest H.R.H. The Duchess of York. of sweet odours. ATKINSON'S IS THE ONLY GENUINE. Of all Ohenii&ls Perfumers, and Dealers, and of the Manufacturers, 24, Old Pond Street, London. THE LUXURY OF THE AGE. LADIES' I CHILDREN'S SANITARY UNDYED HAND-WOVEN COMBINATIONS, VESTS, SUP-BODICES, U. These goods are woven in Merino, Spun Silk, and Pure ...

... , TWICE a year at least it has got to be done. Every housekeeper knows it. Carpets must be taken up and beaten, floors scrubbed, paint washed, walls whitened, holes and corners over hauled and purified, useless odds and ends turned over to the ragman or the dustman, and the house made clean, neat, and orderly for another six months. Good old custom It defines the difference between the homes ...

... OX AX OSTRICH FARM. Although incubators are used for the hatching of ostriches on the South African farms, the natural mode has not been entirely superseded. A pair are put in a separate enclosure, where the male bird is forced to become a monogamist, and forsake, compulsorily, the creed of his forefathers. The hen lays about twenty eggs, and the period of incubation lasts six weeks. During ...

... CAEMELITA'S LOYERS. I!Y AVERY MACALPINE. A yellow rose fell on the quivering strings of Giuseppe's mandoline, scattering the tinkling melody in a shower of half-notes. Whence the rose came he had not the faintest clue. Showers of roses were unknown in that narrow strip of street called the Gradoni della Madonna. There were plenty of flowers in Naples in the early spring they could he had ...

... P353g52i No. 270. Vol. XXL WEDNESDAY, MARCH 30, 1898. ...

... THE PIED PIPER OF HAMELIN, AT THE COMEDY THEATRE. ...

... Vicar Dear me I 'm afraid you 've* had a bad accident. Are you much hurt Curate I don't think so hut I wish there was a layman here to say a few words for me. ...